Anything and everything associated with JRR Tolkien and Dungeons and Dragons.
The only time was ever as bored as I was with these was when I saw Emanuelle. (“That’s it? The flick is OVER?!? NOTHING HAPPENED!!!” )
The new iteration of College Quiz Bowl hosted by that dufus jock and his even dumber jock brother.
Come to think of it, all new iterations of classic game shows, especially Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (none of those dolts has a chance in hell of ever making any real money) and To Tell the Truth (why the hell is Granny sitting off to the side?).
I have tried to enjoy the Marvel/Avengers universe movies. I just can’t get into them. I feel like I am missing out on some pop culture phenomenon. I did enjoy the Spiderman movies that I have seen - didn’t see the Andrew Garfield ones - and the Ant Man movies were fun.
The same for me. In the late 70’s as a teen, I broke free from the shackles of Top-40 radio and discovered album-oriented rock…hard and heavy rock…and took to it like would a hungry cheetah pursuing a lame gazelle covered in steak sauce. Well I’d come to hear about The Greateful Dead and noticed their fans seemed to be pretty people pretty much like me in most ways. Seeing photos of the band in concert, I thought, “Wow, these guys must really crank!”, what with their arsenal of two lead guitarists, bass, and two drummers. Then I heard someone spinning some of their stuff. My first thought was this must be one of their mellow tunes…until the next…the next…the next. I was disappointed at the disconnect of seeing a band equipped to blast us away with a wall of sound, and yet come across ( to me anyway ) so pathetically insipid and laid back.
I really enjoyed Creepshow 1 and 2. They’re staples of horror films, so everyone was excited when the TV show came out.
But its really low quality. Granted there aren’t very many good horror anthology TV shows, but this definitely isn’t one of the better ones. I have no idea why it is 97% on rt
I tried reading it twice. The furthest I got was maybe halfway through.
In my opinion the writing was so bad, amateurish. Seemed as if it was written by a high school senior who was trying so, so hard to WRITE that you could actually see the effort.
I have fond memories of King’s very early works and, other than this attempt, I’ve read nothing of his most recent 15-20 novels. If “11/22/63” were my first SK book, it would have been my last as well.
I can see the excitement of having a Black superhero movie, but the result was just a by-the-numbers film rehashing the same tropes of every other superhero film (and going to preposterous lengths to set it up), especially in the final battle scene. I also have a big problem with the implications of the setup of the society (do you know any modern society that chooses its leader by combat?).
And when T’Challa decides that Killmonger was at least partially right after all, it trashed all the conflict. He only was against it because the plot would collapse if he took the reasonable course.
I agree that nonwhite superheroes are a great idea, but this only showed they could be as cliched and formulaic as any other superhero film. I found Black Lightning infinitely better (partly because Killmonger doesn’t hold a candle to Tobias Whale).
I’m not sure if Aliens 3 was the first time where I thought something would be cool and wasn’t, but it is the most egregious offender. I’ve enjoyed every other movie in the franchise (that I have seen: haven’t seen any AvP films).I mean, it would be been “meh” if it has stood on its own merits, and actual sort of cool if they’d have distilled the best parts into a half an hour show, but it got off on the wrong foot by killing off so many people right off the bat.
I have SiriusXM available in my car, but have never subscribed. A while back they had a promotion where it was free for a week, so I decided to give their Grateful Dead channel a shot. I just about fell asleep behind the wheel listening to it - just endless, pointless noodling.
And on that note I guess I can add SiriusXM as something I thought I’d like but didn’t. When I bought my new vehicle a few years ago it came with something like a three or six month free trial. But to me it was like cable, except on the radio. Hundreds of channels, but just nothing I was particularly interested in listening to for any amount of time.
I kind of appreciate the movies as I watch them, but I feel I need a lot of accompanying cliffnotes to remind me who the hell that was. The pinnacle of these, the critically appraise Avengers: Endgame was “Er, who is that? Oh, they could do that? Why have I wasted time on 20 odd other movies when one of them could just do that? (And I had no idea who the character was, and what film they were from)”
Onto the Disney+ spinoffs? No thanks. Had enough. Sure I’ll watch more films, but full series with all that time gaze fully up their own anus? Not for me".
I’ve always had really good luck with theater movies meeting my expectations. I’ve had awful experiences, sure, but it has always been with movies that I either had no knowledge of beforehand (I went just because others were going and I went along) or I kind of expected to not like it and was justified. And many times I went to a movie not expecting to like it and ended up liking it a lot.
But I never went into a movie theater expecting to have a great time and leaving unsatisfied.
Except once.
The movie Robin Hood: Men in Tights seemed to have the formula for me. It was a Mel Brooks film and I was a huge fan of his previous films (especially History of the World, Part I and Blazing Saddles). I was also a fan of Cary Elwes, particularly due to his role in The Princess Bride. I had watched ads on TV and they were very amusing. So I expected to have a great time.
It was awful. There were a few moments with chuckles, but predictably they were the parts I’d already seen in commercials. The rest of the film was full of really, really bad jokes, awful acting, a predictable story, and so on. To me the most painful part was the end of the film, where Dave Chappelle’s character “Ahchoo” was made the new Sheriff of Nottingham. The characters in the film wondered aloud, “A black sheriff?!” in what was an obvious and corny callback to Blazing Saddles, which made me groan. But the final exclamation point of the film was Chappelle looking at the camera, smirking, and saying “Well, it worked in Blazing Saddles.” The film actually felt the need to explain the joke to the audience. If you have to explain your joke, it’s a bad joke. Just terrible all the way through.
I’ve been disappointed many times when I rented a film, or streamed one, or caught one on broadcast/cable TV, and so on. But generally if I’m going to watch a movie in the theater I am going in with some foreknowledge and I have an idea if I’m going to like it. That was the only time I thought I’d like a film and hated it.
Disenchantment, the Netflix cartoon from Matt Groening. Say what you will about later Simpsons and maybe the last pick-up seasons of Futurama, there wasn’t any question that the freshly idea-laden early offerings were classic. So I figured this would be a knock out of the park.
Eh, no. I kept watching episodes and thinking “Ok, maybe it just needs time to get running” and watching another episode and waiting and then “watching” episodes felt more like “getting through” episodes and I finally gave up. I don’t think I ever got a solid laugh out of it or any interest in the characters.
I am a huge fan of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries. Starting with Waiting for Guffman, then Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind. They seemed to just be getting better and better, and the cast was taking on whatever role was given to them.
So I was thrilled when I heard For Your Consideration was coming out. But it was no where up to par. There were a couple laughs, but clearly missed the mark. I was wondering of O’Hara and Levy were past their prime, but then Schitt’s Creek came along.
Some time later I kind of stumbled on Mascots, and of course had to check it out. This had a few moments, but felt kind like a rehash of Best in Show.
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