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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Chicken Run. Is this surprised you didnt like it, or surprised it sucked? Because I have a whole load of the latter
Wow. These are three of my favorite shows of all time. To each his own.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.