# Movies/TV shows you were suprised you didn't like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2007, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290 "2007-04-23T10:25:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/21 "2007-04-23T18:42:37Z")
**South Park** Seems like I would like that sort of humour, but it just seems stupid and forced. **Angel** Never really struck a chord with me. Probably because of Angel, I got so sick of the Buffy/Angel unrequited love story in Buffy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/22 "2007-04-23T18:47:29Z")
**Six Feet Under** should have been right up my alley. It wasn’t. Even after six or seven episodes, I couldn’t care about anyone involved. I tried out **Twin Peaks** years after it was aired, and I liked it, but not as much as I thought I would. ---
**Author:** ![lovelybean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lovelybean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelybean)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/23 "2007-04-23T18:49:02Z")
Can’t stand MASH. It’s been running daily for seventy million years now, so other people must find it entertaining, but I cringe every time I hear that music start. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/24 "2007-04-23T18:49:33Z")
I am a longtime science fiction fan. I tried really, really hard to love **Firefly** , but repeated viewings have left me with the opinion that it’s OK, but not super-great. I’ve been told so often (by people whose views I respect) that it’s one of the very best SF series ever on television that it is frustrating and a bit embarrassing not to love this show. But love it I don’t, and not for lack of trying. ---
**Author:** ![gatorman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@gatorman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/25 "2007-04-23T19:22:40Z")
Babylon 5, Stargate and Stargate: Atlantis I’m a big sci-fi fan but something about these shows that seem to cross the “mega-nerd” line. I love the movie Stargate and _most_ of the new BSG episodes, tho! ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/26 "2007-04-23T19:47:03Z")
I can’t say I was terribly surprised, because Masterpiece Theatre can sure muck stuff up, but the adaptation of **Bleak House** is, well, bleak. The novel is not one of Dickens’ lighter efforts, but at least is has movement, humor, and style. The adaptation has none of these. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/27 "2007-04-24T01:00:26Z")
**Lost** - I like supernatural themes. I liked Matthew Fox, Emilie de Ravin and Jorge Garcia in other shows. Josh Holloway is hot… But the show does nothing for me. I watched the first couple episodes before dismissing it, but then I heard a ton of praise for it all through the first season. So I watched the first six episodes over the summer, thinking that I might not have given it a fair shake. I disliked it just as much the second time around. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/28 "2007-04-24T01:59:54Z")
**Firefly**. I loved **Buffy** and **Angel** and bought Firefly S1 without ever having watched an episode. I couldn’t get past the premiere. **Arrested Development** - Saw the first 2 episodes and didn’t connect with it. in fact, I’d have to say it was arrested development. \*\* Veronica Mars\*\* - I thought I’d like the show and watched most of the first season. But I couldn’t get past Veronica’s insolence towards authority figures. \*\*Pride & Prejudice \*\* (movie with Keira Knightley) - It paled in comparison to A&E’s version. ---
**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/29 "2007-04-24T02:00:46Z")
Chicken Run. Is this surprised you didnt like it, or surprised it sucked? Because I have a whole load of the latter ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/30 "2007-04-24T02:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] **Firefly**. I loved **Buffy** and **Angel** and bought Firefly S1 without ever having watched an episode. I couldn’t get past the premiere. **Arrested Development** - Saw the first 2 episodes and didn’t connect with it. in fact, I’d have to say it was arrested development. \*\* Veronica Mars\*\* - I thought I’d like the show and watched most of the first season. But I couldn’t get past Veronica’s insolence towards authority figures. [/QUOTE] Wow. These are three of my favorite shows of all time. To each his own. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/31 "2007-04-24T02:50:18Z")
After movies like **Le Grand Bleu** , **La Femme Nikita** and **Leon** , Luc Besson went on to attach him names to some seriously disappointing films. Movies of his I was really expecting more from: **The Messenger** (Dustin Hoffmann was the only bright spot) **The Dancer** - Interesting idea but went nowhere and achieved nothing. **Wasabi** - Good Og, what a piece of crap. **Taxi** - Some great action scenes, but zero story. A movie to watch with one finger on fast forward. **Yamakasi** - see **Taxi** **Taxi 2** - Don’t bother. I knew better than to waste my time on #3 and 4. **Danny the Dog** - Better than the others, but a film like this with Bob Hoskins, Morgan Freeman and Jet Li is like getting Einstein and Hawking to help you with your physics term paper and then only turning in a B- effort. By this point, however, I had come to equate Besson with “nice house, but nobody’s home” and wasn’t as let down. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/32 "2007-04-24T03:23:58Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] After movies like **Le Grand Bleu** , **La Femme Nikita** and **Leon** , Luc Besson went on to attach him names to some seriously disappointing films. [/QUOTE] You definitely need to see District B13, one of his more recent action movies based around parkour, a combination of martial arts, gymnastics, and extreme sports. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/33 "2007-04-24T03:37:54Z")
I like westerns, **Tombstone** is one of my favorite movies, and the shows put on my the premium channels that don’t have to worry about the FCC tend to be far better than what’s on network TV. But the one episode of **Deadwood** that I watched was the longest hour of my life. I’ve heard people say that you have to watch 5 or 6 episodes to really get into it, but I refuse to test that theory. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/34 "2007-04-24T06:04:31Z")
9 1/2 Weeks. I thought it would be sexy. Instead it was like a music video extolling the virtues of sex under exotic lighting conditions. ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/35 "2007-04-24T06:28:59Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] I never got into **Angel** , even though I liked **Buffy**. [/QUOTE] Funny, I really liked **Angel** but never could get into **Buffy**. The new BBC **Robin Hood**. Its right up my alley, just the type of thing I would really like, but alas, it’s just so mediocre, I’ve stopped trying to like it. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/36 "2007-04-24T11:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] … **madmonk** - have you given **The Office** a second chance? I couldn’t stand it when I first saw it - basically seeing these American dorks trying to recreate what the UK cast had so brilliantly done. But I skipped the first season and a half, gave myself a little buffer, and was able to really start enjoying the US version. [/QUOTE] I’ve down loaded a couple episodes off Itunes, but I can’t get into the soap opera love story and the Michael character really pushes a button that makes me want to leave the room. My wife loves it, so it might be that I’ve had bosses a little too like Michael for comfort. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/37 "2007-04-24T12:44:01Z")
The X-Files. I thought it would be like the Twilight Zone, so I was disappointed when I realized that the same characters would be in every show. Then I remembered that I had liked the Friday the Thirteenth series, so I tried again, but no. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/38 "2007-04-24T12:58:31Z")
What I initially heard about _The Triplets of Belleville_ sounded promising, but when I actually saw it I damn near fell asleep in the first half-hour, and probably (time sort of blurs together) **did** fall asleep at some point. A familiar chord in the initial buzz I heard about _Pan’s Labyrinth_ set off my Spidey Sense, and avoided it. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/39 "2007-04-24T14:01:09Z")
The news. I really thought I would enjoy it, but every night the storylines are just so _depressing_. I woulda said something else but everyone pretty much said all of mine. Charmed, Stargate, the new BSG… ---
**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290/40 "2007-04-24T17:03:33Z")
_The Hound of the Baskervilles_ (2002) I was very excited about the film. Planned for weeks in advance; arranged a big\* Sherlock party with like-minded friends. Read all about how great Roxburgh was going to be. It stank. Roxburgh was unbelievably insipid as Holmes. We ended up throwing popcorn at the TV every time he came onscreen. \*well, five of us. Sherlock Holmes freaks are hard to find in my neck of the woods. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-you-were-suprised-you-didnt-like/401290.md?page=3)