Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Friday the 13th series
Really? I don’t know anyone other than me and my sister who like it.
Fans of “2001: A Space Odyssey” can be fairly annoying, especially in the ‘you don’t get it, so your opinion doesn’t count’ department (I actually get it and still don’t like it).
Actually alot of Stanley Kubrick films tend to have this problem.
I hate you, Larry Borgia. That was the first one that sprang to mind, but you had to get there first, didn’t you?
Oh, sorry, the link should be http://vitaminq.blogspot.com/.
The title of the post, incidentally, is “Beard strokers”…
Fans of these films are only annoying to those who aren’t similar level of fan of the same movie.
But the same can be said about anything at all. I think sports fans are annoyingly rabid, as well as soap opera fans, or teenybopper pop fans, or whatever. It’s nothing new, and it doesn’t matter.
My friend took a couple semesters of film courses at Columbia University in Chicago. She ranted about how all of the film students thought that Mulholland Drive was probably the deepest movie ever made. That’s the mark of a pretentious film student, she said: they just go on and on about how great Mulholland Drive is.
Grease!
Star Trek
Star Wars
Babylon 5
The X-Files
The Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A Clockwork Orange
Napolean Dynamite
This is Spinal Tap
Anime
Have you never WORKED in corporate America?
Having spent a good chunk of time with geeks (can’t live with them, can’t learn to properly use a computer or watch a Star Trek movie without them) and in comic/gaming shops, I’ll have to say the Matrix and Star Wars get my vote for most. annoying fans. ever.
It’s one thing to just rabidly defend your favourite movie as the best thing ever put to film. It’s another to dress up like the characters on a semi-daily basis and live your real life according to Jedi philosophy or debate the deep philosophical merits of a Keanu Reeves (sp?) movie. Ever seen the Triumph video from Conan? The one with the Star Wars fans waiting in line for one of the prequels? Dude dressed up like Vadar. Triumph: Yes, yes… and which one of these buttons (button on Vadar costume) calls your mother to come get you?
That about sums it all up perfectly.
Rocky Horror gets a pass because if you don’t go to the campy re-enactment screenings, the fans aren’t really noticable out in the real world. I have some crazy Pulp Fiction fan friends, but they’re just mildly irritating; not insane. I saw the movie at a midnight screening for the first and only time last summer, and I got really bored and ready to leave about 3/4 the way through. It could’ve been all the fans constantly yammering about how great it was that just lead me to have way too high expectations, though. Still. I don’t know anyone that dresses up like characters from the film.
I haven’t seen about half the movies on that list at all, nor had any traumatic experiences with their fans.
1 Withnail and I
Never seen it.
2 Rocky Horror Picture Show
Like it.
3 The Italian Job (original version)
Never seen it or the remake.
4 The Blues Brothers
Like it.
5 The Big Lebowski
Need to see it.
6 Lord of the Rings
Love 'em!
7 The Shawshank Redemption
Need to see it.
8 Pulp Fiction
Love it!
9 The Sound of Music
Like it.
10 Harold and Maude
Love it!
11 This is Spinal Tap
Really like it.
12 Blue Velvet
Really like it.
13 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Really like it, LOVE Dogma!
14 Life of Brian
Really like it.
15 The Seventh Seal
Really like it.
16 The Godfather
It was OK.
17 Star Wars
Really like the first three, the last two were OK.
18 Wayne’s World
Like it.
19 Taxi Driver
Need to see it.
20 Fight Club
Need to see it.
Coming from a guy who thinks “Tears for Fears” is the best band ever.
I dress up at cons. I love The Big Lebowski. I forgive The Matrix. I <3 Legolas. So maybe I’m not one to be casting stones.
But geez, Office Space fans are the worst. It’s not profound. It’s not very funny. It was tedious the one time I sat through it to see what the fuss was about. It’s a guy film with sophmoric humor. That’s what I try to tell myself. Nevermind that every female I know loves it, too. :smack:
The Nightmare Before Christmas fans are pretty pretentious, too. Not being a fan of Tim Burton, I can do nothing but smile politely when the topic comes up in conversation. I’ll add Big Fish to the list.
I, too, came in here to ask why Star Trek wasn’t on the list. Why does it get a pass?
Because the list is about movies whose fans are more annoying than the movies themselves. And, barring a few exceptions (Wrath of Khan, First Contact) Star Trek movies are idiotic & annoying in themselves without the legions of geeks accompanying them.
I don’t agree. **I like nearly all of the Star Trek movies *** and I’m not a Trekkie, or Trekker, or whatever. But some of the people who adore them - well, talking to them is like talking to sugar-crazed ferrets, sometimes. They’re hyper & might bite you if you do the wrong thing.
*You hear that, world?!
Feel lucky you didn’t go to my high school. Try being on a four-hour bus trip when half the French club is not only demanding to watch A Nightmare Before Christmas there and back, but is also singing along with the characters. I like the movie, but that was awful!
Oh my. :o I might have been singing along on that bus.
Obviously, it’s been bumped off the list by more recent films but, good God, there was a time when Bladerunner fans used to put me right over the edge!
Eh, after six years of separation from that, I don’t have much of a grudge – other than to say that some of them needed voice lessons! 