Batman and the losers who support him. Boring, unrealistic character with no depth. As for the losers who defend him, even a prepared Batman couldn’t get you people a date.
Michael Jackson - marginally talented popster who now molests children. Thriller didn’t change music, the video did and we are all so much better of for that :rolleyes:
Bono - This pretentious dwarf has got to go. I lived across the street from his high school math teacher who put it best when he said “he’s lucky he made it in music”. Met him twice and he isn’t leading us into space but he can lead numerous UN delegations.
SNL - Never, ever, ever funny.
The Blues Brothers - see above.
Animal House - This is the peak of American comedy? Cliched, marginally funny wankfest.
Brett Favre - My God is he overrated! Hasn’t won a big game in years and I am sick to @($)@&U%R death hearing about what a “hero” he is just because he went back to his job after his father died.
The Daily show - Should be weekly.
Jimmy Page - Jack Johnson will gut you in the afterlife.
If you’re talking about me, I think I misread the thread title. I actually like Nirvana and I even kinda like Weezer, but I do think they’re seriously overrated.
Laurel & Hardy, along with Morecambe and Wise as someone else mentioned, I could never see the appeal. The same with Some Mothers do 'ave em, a 70s British sitcom - classic they say. Fucking shite I say.
I never got Seinfeld either. I watched a couple episodes and thought it was marginally better than the average sit-com. The praise it got baffled me.
Originally I didn’t much care for Family Guy, but now I find it far more appealing than The Simpsons. The Simpsons is a pale shadow of what it should be. What it should be is Family Guy. I’m not just pulling that out of my ass - a couple years ago I attended a talk by one of the writers of The Simpsons. Someone asked, “What direction would you take the show if you didn’t have to worry about censors or being canceled or anything?” His two word response was, “Family Guy”.
Pro sports are almost coma-inducing boring. Especially golf, basketball, and baseball. Why people watch these things for fun is something I don’t think I shall ever understand.
I boycott movies for little or no reason sometimes. I just take “agin” them. All of the Indiana Jones movies are no gos for me and although I liked Kill Bill 1, I refuse to watch Kill Bill 2.
West Side Story is a classic though I think.
M. Night Shyamalan- Watching this guy’s movies is like watching a crappy hack magician. We all know how it’s going to end, and we are no longer surprised. Signs and The Village were terrible. Two of the worst movies I have paid to see. Signs has the worst ending ever. How do you figure aliens would travel lightyears to a planet whose most abundant resource is poisonous to them? Hand down, the dumbest idea ever. Not only is it dumb, it is insulting. He is an awful writer and an even worse actor.
Wes Anderson- I can no longer pretend to like this guy anymore. His movies are boring and implausible. The Life Aquatic was way too long and not nearly funny enough. I spent most of the time what is wrong with Owen Wilson’s nose and why he felt the need to use the worst accent I have ever heard. Wes Anderson might be the most overrated director working today.
P.T. Anderson- Another pretentious ass with the last name Anderson. Magnolia is a terrible movie. Without Aimee Mann’s music, this movie would be worthless. Punch Drunk Love sucks bigtime, and Boogie Nights is way too long. Anderson forgets that its more important to actually tell a story than to just be weird and quirky.
Spike Lee and Woody Allen- As if anyone really needs and explaination. Most of their movies are mediocre. Summer of Sam might be one of worst movies I have seen in a theatre (which says a lot because I paid to see Mission to Mars, XxX, and Scary Movie 3).
Kevin Smith- His last few movies have been terrible. His career is finished. He shoud find a new job and take his pal Ben Affleck with him. He’s the only guy who can make both George Carlin and Chris Rock unfunny in the same movie.
I would also like to add the following movies:
Donnie Darko- worst movie ever
Team America:World Police- Predictable and lame.
Shakespeare In Love- In no way should this ever have won best picture
A.I.- Absolutely awful movie.
Lost In Translation- Way overrated
Waking Life- horrible movie
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- too long , too fake, too boring
Gladiator- I hate Russell Crowe and the movie is too predictable
Ghost World- Boring
O Brother, Where Art Thou?-- Easily the worst Coen Brothers’ film
Passion of the Christ- AKA- The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre. How can a two-hour beating be considered a great movie?
Castaway- This movie is garbage
Contact- Far too long, sappy, and inconsistent
Eyes Wide Shut- I kinda liked this movie but I recognize that it is really nothing more than pretentious soft-core porn.
Garden State- This is, at best, an average movie. The best thing this movie has going for it is that Natalie Portman is so beautiful.
Harlan Ellison. 30 years ago I thought his stuff was, I dunno, important or subversive or too truthful for the squares in business suits, man. Looking back on it now, it hasn’t aged well or appealed to me as an adult. I have no gag reflex and I must hurl.
Seconded. Wes Anderson’s movies are starting to grate on me. Same sense of humor and the same cast barely adds up to a different movie. It’s time to let Owen Wilson and Bill Murray go and do something with someone else.
As for P.T. Anderson, you nailed it in one. The dude lets the quirky get in the way of the story. He needs to be stopped.
If you like your favorite book, you obviously can’t read.
Your favorite movie is partially responsible for the decline of Western civilization.
No one likes your favorite band except losers and pedophiles.
Your favorite actors and artsists themselves should be shot on general principals.
No offense to the OP, who I can only assume had good intentions, but I really hate threads like this (even if I’ve agreed with many of the sentiments given). It’s just rude, really.
Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy just isn’t that good, folks. At best, it’s okay. I bought all five (?) books bound together into a giant tome for about $5, and can’t be bothered to read the others after I finished HGTTG.
The Catcher in the Rye is awful, awful, awful. What a crumby book.
Pulp Fiction is not a good movie. I don’t like the characters, I don’t care about what they’re doing, it’s just not good. I had to see it a second time because I had completely erased the first viewing from my memory. The second time wasn’t any better. When the most memorable scene I take away is some French girl wanting a pot belly, it’s not a good sign.
Snickers. If, after two viewings of Pulp Fiction, the most memorable scene you take with you is Fabienne and her pot-belly fetish, I agree – that’s not a good sign. You had Vincent, Jules, Butch, Winston Wolf, Mia, Marsellius, headless Marvin, Zed, the Gimp, Brett and you remember Fabienne? Willingly? The blueberry pancake eating Mongoloid who gives oral pleasure? She fucking couldn’t even remember to get the watch off the little kangaroo!
Oh, I wouldn’t say willingly, Askia. See, about a year after the first viewing, my husband bought the soundtrack. Which is excellent - Tarantino can choose music. I didn’t remember any of the dialog or scenes portrayed thereon; all I remembered was the stupid pot belly. And I thought to myself, “that scene couldn’t actually have been in the movie, could it have? Nah, must be misremembering.”
Mr. Snicks forced me to watch it again, on the theory that it’s a good movie. And I discovered I wasn’t misremembering - that dreck actually was in the movie. And I still didn’t care for it. So now I never have to see it again, which works fine for me.
Oh, yeah - I’m no fan of Rush, either. All their songs sound the same.
I honestly don’t understand this. It would be rude if I came into a fan thread and voiced my negative opinion, but what exactly is wrong with a thread dedicated to griping about popular culture? If we were fancy they would call this ‘critical re-examination’. Ironically you are doing the exact thing that I presume that you find rude. That is pissing on other people’s enjoyment of a thread devoted to a topic in which they are interested.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I hate to be a threadcrapper, but I just wasn’t sure if it was possible to do so in a thread that’s already about crapping all over things. I’ll leave you all to your unbridled negativity.
Quite possibly. I’ve never been able to decide whether his unique way of talking was an affectation or a speech impediment. I grew up in the same part of Pennsylvania he did, and the people in that area do not sound like him, including the ones who are his age.
I see no problem with this thread. People are venting in a safe space about ovies and books that they hate that other people love. Everybody needs a venting place.
Sacred cows need to be gored. Fruitbat’s lack of love for Pterry doesn’t affect my enjoyment in the slightest, and my extremely high esteem for Fruitbat has not diminished. It’s OK for people not to like the same things. Why people can’t grasp this principle is beyond me.
For me, it’s Robert Jordan. My bf loves his books, but to me they are warmed-over 3rd-rate sword and sorcery hackwork.
