# Opposite This Time: Am I the only one who DOESN'T like... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511 "2005-03-01T23:39:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/61 "2005-03-03T06:49:33Z")
> [@jinwicked](#): > > I hated _E.T._. My mom took me to see it as a little kid, and I still remember being traumatized by that… thing… as it was dying, and kind of turned solid white, and all the men in the suits and ugh… I don’t understand what people like about that creepy ass movie. That reminds me of when I saw ET. When he died the trauma was too much for about half a dozen of the younger children in the cinema and they all started screaming and crying. Basically nobody heard any of the dialogue from that point onwards. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/62 "2005-03-03T09:05:49Z")
LOTR the book series is utter dreck. Yes, it’s groundbreaking dreck, genre-defining dreck, immensely popular dreck, but that does not change that it is not first and foremost _dreck_. The movies are okay, but I’ve no desire to ever watch any of them again. Classical music is entertaining for about five to ten minutes, and then I go put in my Static-X CD. Radiohead only ever had one good song, and that was “Creep”. I read the first Harry Potter book and I’ve seen bits and pieces of the movies and I think they’re cute and all, but I don’t understand why adults go crazy over them. Anime is a curious genre. No other medium combines the purely sublime with the completely and iredeemably idiotic in quite the same way anime does. Tetsuo’s transformation scene in _Akira_ remains one of the few things that ever made my jaw drop in amazement. I loved Hiyao Miyazaki’s films. But in most everything else the philosophy is shallow, the humor is peurile, and the characters all look the same and couldn’t express any emotion if their little paper lives depended on it. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/63 "2005-03-03T09:18:48Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > That reminds me of when I saw ET. When he died the trauma was too much for about half a dozen of the younger children in the cinema and they all started screaming and crying. Basically nobody heard any of the dialogue from that point onwards. I was only 2 years old when it came out, but according to my mom (who was insane enough evidently to take a 2 year old to a movie to begin with) said that’s pretty much what I did. I don’t remember seeing it in the theatre myself, but I do remember being majorly creeped out by it when I was a little older. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/64 "2005-03-03T10:02:15Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Tetsuo’s transformation scene in _Akira_ remains one of the few things that ever made my jaw drop in amazement. Welp, I must have missed something. I remember seeing that movie and just thinking, “what did I miss? Surely there’s something else to this movie.” I guess I just don’t “get” anime. Two of my best friends are anime nuts, and can get rather engrossed in it. Whatever it is that attracts them to anime, I don’t see at all. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/65 "2005-03-03T10:12:51Z")
No-one’s mentioned U2 yet, so maybe I am… ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/66 "2005-03-03T10:27:07Z")
I’m with you folks on _The Matrix_, _Friends_, and _Seinfeld_. I don’t hang out with rude, arrogant, obnoxious people in real life; why should I waste even half an hour of my time to hang out with the likes of Seinfeld and his buddies when they’re on television. As for _The Matrix_, I actually did watch it a year or so ago and, as I suspected, it really isn’t my kind of movie. Oh, one other thing. Yes, I speak Japanese and like science fiction. I even own a couple of Japanese comic books. I do _not_ however, like anime and I will not translate anything from your favorite one for you. Anime does nothing pleasant to me and some of it creeps me out a bit. I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is. CJ ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/67 "2005-03-03T11:18:54Z")
Pretty much anything directed by **Spielberg** **Television** in general, but particularly **'reality tv’** **Prog Rock** **Grisham** , **Crichton** et al…, **Commercial radio** especially when they call it ‘alternative’. It ain’t. This list could go on for a while, perhaps I had better leave it there. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/68 "2005-03-03T11:57:39Z")
> [@Othersider](#): > > Welp, I must have missed something. I remember seeing that movie and just thinking, “what did I miss? Surely there’s something else to this movie.” > > I guess I just don’t “get” anime. Two of my best friends are anime nuts, and can get rather engrossed in it. Whatever it is that attracts them to anime, I don’t see at all. IMHO, _Akira_ is a pretty good flick, more impressive for the fact it was made pre-CGI (it’s from, what, 1989?). Tetsuo’s transformation is astounding if you keep that in mind. But yeah, it does feel like they left out about 15-20 minutes at the beginning – it’s a wierdly structured movie. And the last ten minutes make no sense whatsoever. There’s some talk about the end of the world, then Akira returns or maybe he was never gone, then the world ends except it doesn’t, Buddhist symbolism ensues, and Akira creates a new universe, and then love saves them all. Or something. I dunno. For good anime, there’s Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. Inuyasha is pretty good, not stellar or anything. And that’s about it. But the title of King of Pretentious Anime belongs rightfully to [Reign: the Conqueror](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=233618). Me and my friend kept watching this show just because we couldn’t believe it was as bad as we remembered, and lo and behold, it would be even worse! ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/69 "2005-03-03T12:12:03Z")
Another vote here for prog-rock. I have yet to sit all the way through “Gone With the Wind”. I have accompanied the wife to the ballet and the thought that I may have to go again keeps me awake at nights. I can’t be doing with japanese food. Not at all. And the DaVinci code is laugh-outloud dreadful. I loathe with a vengance costume dramas on the beeb. Salvador Dali deserves being dug up and having stones thrown at him. “fusion food” can fuck right off too. World music isn’t internationally popular because it sounds like cat-strangling. Hip hop just sounds like an angry man throwing dustbins down concrete stairs. The pop music of the 80’s is being revived. Don’t. Leave it to moulder in it’s putrescence. I heard it all first time round - it was pants then, it’s pants on stilts now. Leonard Cohen needs to be put on prozac and given a good shoeing. ---
**Author:** ![Ithaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ithaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ithaka)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/70 "2005-03-03T15:22:08Z")
> [@owlstretchingtime](#): > > Leonard Cohen needs to be put on prozac and given a good shoeing. Now, I don’t often see eye to eye with you **owl** , but I usually let it slide as you’re an amusing bloke. However, this is fighting talk. Would you care to step outside? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/71 "2005-03-03T15:52:15Z")
**The Breakfast Club** That movie is so totaly contrived and full of shit and it’s just plain bad. The other Brat Pack movies that I absoultly loathe, the one movie on earth that I think all prints should be burned and all people involved in the production of, and distrubution of, should all be tried at the Hauge for crimes against humanity is **St. Elmo’s Fire**. F\*#%! Now I have that god damn song stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/72 "2005-03-03T16:36:34Z")
I don’t dig Homestar Runner either. I get links CHECK THIS OUT OMG IT IS TEH FUNNY!!! and to me, it’s just stupid and pointless. HR somehow thinks that it’s funny to bombard the viewer with the same stupid image repeatedly. Buffy, Angel, or for that matter anything with vampires in it. I liked Blade, because of all the vampire killing, but even that gets boring and bland after a while. Reality TV. Even worse, people who watch Reality TV with slavish soap opera devotion. Comments like, “I hate that guy who never helps the other people nail up sideboard. I hope he doesn’t win the drill set.” Then we get to watch some old guy paint a picture of a Dutch girl on somebody’s wall and trap the room in tacky banality for 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/73 "2005-03-03T17:54:34Z")
> [@Ithaka](#): > > Now, I don’t often see eye to eye with you **owl** , but I usually let it slide as you’re an amusing bloke. > > However, this is fighting talk. > > Would you care to step outside? > :mad: I’ll make it up to you. I’ll tape record my tumble drier - it sounds the same and is as cheerful. ---
**Author:** ![Ithaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ithaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ithaka)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/74 "2005-03-04T09:30:16Z")
> [@owlstretchingtime](#): > > I’ll make it up to you. I’ll tape record my tumble drier - it sounds the same and is as cheerful. Ah, come on, Laughin’ Len’s 70 years old and has just recorded a song about w\*\*king. He can’t be all bad . . . 😃 ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/75 "2005-03-04T10:26:29Z")
Kfc. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/76 "2005-03-04T10:50:30Z")
I also appear to be the only person in this sceptered isle that thinks that Little Britain is a pile of poo. ---
**Author:** ![Ithaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ithaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ithaka)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511/77 "2005-03-04T10:52:55Z")
> [@owlstretchingtime](#): > > I also appear to be the only person in this sceptered isle that thinks that Little Britain is a pile of poo. Well, we’re agreed on that one. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-this-time-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-like/292511.md?page=3)