…but ‘Eye’s Wide Shut’ was about the worst movie I have ever seen.
I’m not a huge fan of hers either, but I think I can explain the appeal. She’s quirky and fun, and while attractive, she’s still attainable/real. This is opposed to most TV/movie stars who are an entire echelon up from the attractiveness of most people and seem kind of fantastic/unreal as a result.
As for my list of stuff that it’s sacrilegious not to like:
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[li]Breaking Bad. It’s just grim. I’ve watched up through the episode with the neglected kid, and just had to stop.[/li][li]Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm/Arrested Development type humor. Too cringey and full of assholes.[/li][li]NFL football. It’s just… too homogenous, too commercial, and the way they handled the whole player CTE suit turned me right off.[/li][/ul]
Tell Me Why…?
Speaking of Good Omens …
It’s crap. I’ve read it twice.
One thing I noticed that for the first half of the book the chapters alternated in quality. There were somewhat different characters/story arcs in the odd/even chapters so I figured one wrote the bad chapters and the other wrote the really bad chapters. Then after a while it switched parity. It seems Wikipedia confirms the authors switched up a bit on who was doing what story arc.
And then we get to Gaiman. Really bad author. Uses very predictable plot elements and basic characterizations. It’s like reading an 18th century teenagers idea of a fantasy novel.
(As to Pratchett: some really good stuff, some “meh” stuff, and a lot of crappy witches/wizards stuff. I don’t count the Librarian as a wizard for obvious reasons.)
Am I the only Doper who can’t stand Pink Floyd?
Beer.
Coffee.
Jazz.
Can’t stand any of ‘em.
I have always considered myself a music fan and I try to open my mind to all genres but I have to cast another vote for jazz. I have honestly tried to develop a taste for it but to no avail. There are some jazz-_____ hybrids that I can get into at times. It’s always a matter of the closer it is to _____ and the farther from jazz, the better I like it. There’s a local show that plays on Sunday nights on the public radio station that is pretty heavy on jazz “fusion” of the 70s and 80s and sometimes I can get into it. Jazz/rock, jazz/funk, jazz/blues, etc.
When they get closer to trad jazz or really out there “jazz theory” stuff it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.
No. But my list also includes Hendrix, Deep Purple, Sabbath, Zepplin, Moody Blues, and just about any other late 60s-early 70s “classic rock.” It’s boring and unimaginative.
Here’s a bit of sacrilege that’s of a positive nature.
I like Mostly Harmless. It’s not the dreck that most Douglas Adams fans make it out to be.
The Dave Matthews Band. (I concur with the person who mentioned this back on page 1.) He is insanely popular, approaching cult status, among many people for many years now (including a niece who’s traveled far and wide to see him at least a half-dozen times), but his music does nothing for me. I liked one of his songs, “Where Are You Going,” and I bought the CD. The rest of it was boring and uninspired.
I also don’t like the current crop of action/adventure movies (Avengers, et cetera). My tastes in movies are eclectic and I enjoy a good mindless action flick, but these films sacrifice character and plot development for long, dull CGI action sequences. And I don’t like the fact that you had to have seen 20 other movies to comprehend whatever “plot” exists.
Led Zeppelin (I like a few of their songs, but not Stairway so much), Neil Young,
Non-music: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (fell asleep twice before I finally made it to the end on the third try), and pretty much all of the MPFC skits. I do really like Life Of Brian, though.
I’m heartened by the Dylan disdain in this thread. I thought I was the only one. A few years ago I expressed dislike of Dylan on the SDMB, and was surprised at the depth of hostility in response. You’ve perfectly captured how he sounds to me.
The radio show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me“. The sound of Peter Sagal’s smarmy, unctuous, look-at-me voice, and his punchline pauses, and his predictable humor, would make me rip that radio out of the dashboard and throw it out the window. Fortunately, I can just turn it off. Thank god.
This is one I don’t get. I am 40. I was there for the original run of the show. I remember kids and teachers obsessed with it when I was in high school. I mostly ended up watching the last few seasons because a GF at the time was really into it. IMHO (and there is a lot of similar opinion on blogs and other places out there, especially concerning the humor and relationships), even the good things about it did not age well. Yeah, I liked Anniston when I was 16 and she always looked liked they iced down her nipples. I liked Kudrow. Cox was always too bony for me. Anyway, teenage boy opinions from 20-25 years ago.
What I don’t get is all the 20-25 year-old acquaintances I have who can quote every line of this show. Sure, I watched plenty of shows that were around when I was a baby (Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, The Jeffersons, etc) but I never got obsessed with any.
OK, so Sugar Hill Gang’s best known work is pretty much a whole song of boasting of sexual prowess, about going to the motel/hotel with a chick, “if your girl starts acting up, then you take her friend,” etc.
Other early stuff like The Furious Five had a lot of drug, violence, sex (It wasn’t exactly glorifying it but NEITHER is most modern material), and plenty of lines that would be considered homophobic and sexist in modern context.
There is NOTHING “modern” about violence, misogyny, and drugs in rap music. Always there AND there has ALWAYS (including in 2019, of course) been rap music without it and focuses on other topics. I would argue (and I am correct) that in modern times, with the type of access we have to music in the digital age, there is much MORE rap music now that covers a variety of topics and it is all highly accessible. There are multiple “alternative rap” and/or indy rap genres and sub-genres that have been prominent for 20-25 years. Commercial rap goes through cycles. Any argument that “modern rap music” is more violent or sexist is completely disingenuous and is a tired “argument” that has been around at least 25 years. Just as people have been saying rap is a “fad” for 40 years.
I’m indifferent personally, but for a lot of people this would NOT help. As an example, my ex-GF loved Dave Matthews Band radio songs and CDs. They were her favorite, had favorite songs, songs that were about me, etc. We just had to go see them in concert at a stadium. She hated it and made my life unbearable for 3 hours. She didn’t know why they jammed and played instruments and did extended solos, instead of just playing her favorite songs about having sex. I’m sure there are plenty of people who like (or hate) some Dead songs but would not be impressed by their musicianship on display in some hours long jam session.
But then you get funny shit like :
*Have you ever went over a friends house to eat
And the food just ain’t no good?
I mean the macaroni’s soggy, the peas are mushed
And the chicken tastes like wood
So you try to play it off like you think you can
By saying that you’re full
And then your friend says, “mama, he’s just being polite
He ain’t finished, uh-uh, that’s bull!”
*
So, maybe 5% sex boasting, but in a humorous manner. I mean Lois lane? :eek:
No hatred of women, no slapping them around, no calling them bitches or ho’s. No violence, no serious profanity (“damn”) , etc.
Disneyland/World. Happiest place on earth my A S S
I hated zelda and mario and pretty much nintendo its self in the 80s and 90s
in fact I sold my nes and bought a sega master system then a sega genesis Only reason I owned a snes was for sim city and the rpgs on it
I’m sure there are a lot. I only knew a small handful of Floyd fans growing up; most people I know don’t really dig them. I have a respect for them, but I can’t quite ever get in the mood for their moody brand of music. I used to just plain hate them, but then I heard a Sound Opinions episode about 20 years back that went over their music and history, and I came out of it understanding their music a bit more and having respect for it, even though it leaves me kinda cold.