As someone with fairly plebeian tastes, I’m blind to all but the most egregious examples, e.g. Britney Spears, but seeing Sandler and Kutcher mentioned almost made my head explode, especially together and with no mention of anything or anyone else.
Again, no offense intended to Kythereia.
As a sci-fi fan, I’d have to go with Dune.
I’ve read this book twice, the first time expecting to love it, since most everyone else I knew who read sci-fi did.
The second time was to figure out why I didn’t catch onto whatever those people were talking about.
My opinion of it is about what several people say about Lord of the Rings, good story, but way too long winded. If you have 200 pages worth of story, don’t put it in 500 pages of novel.
Best not say that out loud in Dallas or Austin. The real shame is that he had sobered up and was just starting to make his best music when he died. There’s really no telling how good he could have been. I don’t see how you can listen to the emotion in Little Wing or Lenny and not be impressed by his talent.
Permission to send this to Stephen King?
Bill Murray. I like him; I like many of the movies he’s in. But has he ever done a role that can’t be described with the words “ironic detachment” or “deadpan delivery”?
In defense of the 60s: much of the stuff from the 60s is in the category of Groundbreaking, but not necessarily Good. So from a distance of 40 years you miss the Groundbreaking part. See: Easy Rider, 2001.
Folks in Dallas or Austin or any other place can continue to like Vaughan’s music and to be impressed by his talent. It’s just that I’m not terribly impressed by it. Yes, he was certainly skilled, but I don’t find him to be any better than any other well-known guitarist. Just my opinion, that’s all–and I’ll keep my mouth shut if I ever visit Texas.
Hmm…, I didn’t mean it as snarky as it looks now.
What I was trying to say thru the lines is this, Just because someone doesn’t like the same thing that an apparant majority appears to doesn’t mean that that same someone doesn’t like any of the individuals who do like that thing.
So, it’s not crapping on anyone’s tastes, simply a statement that they don’t agree.
For instance, I like Star Trek. The entire franchise. Even the bad stuff. Now, when someone comes in a Star Trek fan thread and starts to trash it, I invite them to leave. Why trash on a party of like minded people? But, for the several who posted in this thread about their not liking it , I see it as a personal statement of their particlar tastes. No problems. While the first scenario (applied to anything, btw, not just Trek) is indeed rude, the second isn’t. Because we were all invited to share, the snark quotient doesn’t exist for this thread.
Damn, that’s a lot of words.
I can’t get into 24. Everyone around me is just sure that it’s exactly the type of show form me, but it just kind of sits there and says, “So…, um…, what’s up?”
Me too. I just listened to “Are You Experienced” and I wonder what I was thinking when I liked it, when it came out. He isn’t fast even, just noisy. So he makes funny noises with the guitar. Cool, but someone should have unplugged his amp and forced him to learn how to really play.
I like the Simpsons, but I don’t understand the appeal of Futurama. Nothing in any of the episodes I’ve ever seen is either funny, satirical, or insightful.
Oh, and opera. Long periods of incidental music, about worthy of your standard soundtrack recording, punctuated with a good song or two every few hours. And on stage it is the unwatchable singing the unintelligible performing the unspeakable.
Mr. Clue, your agonizer, Please.
Clue. Clue. What is clue?
Gorgeous? Yuck. And I’ll throw in Sarah Jessica Parker. Ugly on a stick. Can’t act either.
:eek:
Wasn’t Voyager enough!?
I find that simulpost ironically funny.
Seconded.
Square Pegs was kinda cute – in an 80s sorta way – but she never was.
Star Wars
The Beatles
Radiohead
Bjork
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
Myst
Warcraft
Counter-Strike
Halo (single player mode)
Street Fighter II/Alpha/etc.
As an anime fan by proxy of my friends, I don’t really get their extended obsessions. I mean, sure, on first view it’s pretty cool, and you drool over your favorite characters, but after the initial rush is gone I look at it and think, that’s it? It’s kind of painful to admit that a lot of anime is just as boring and repetitive as American TV, but since Japanese pop culture is a new thing to me, I can still find it amusing more often.
(My current least favorite anime character - Vash from Trigun. I don’t get how everybody and their brother thinks he’s some sort of Christ figure. No, you get to be a Christ figure by actually saving people by some sort of meaningful sacrifice, not letting them die in horribly stupid ways because you’re too much of a wuss to kill. :mad: )
Marlon Brando–I don’t get it, really.
From The Wild One
Cop: What are you rebelling against, kid?
Brando: What’ve you got?
Cop: WHAM!
"AC-TING!
“Genius!”
I may be setting myself up for a stoning here since no one else has mentioned him, but I’m going to have to add Bruce Springsteen to this list. He’s called “The Boss” because…? I just don’t get it.