# Things I still don't get ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925 "2011-01-17T09:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/21 "2011-01-18T04:01:22Z")
REM Cold Play Sex and the City Lost I could go on and on and on… ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/22 "2011-01-18T04:09:06Z")
The fascination with vampires as sex objects - to the point of making successful movies and tv shows again and again. When will this fascination die out? You can add werewolves to this as well. A fictional story? Fine. Obsession? Don’t get it, especially by such a large number of people. Avatar gushing. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/23 "2011-01-18T04:10:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Why anybody thinks _The Big Lebowski_ is worth watching. This is what I was coming in to post. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/24 "2011-01-18T04:51:46Z")
2001: A Space Odyssey. I’ve tried but I just don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/25 "2011-01-18T04:52:22Z")
Forgot this until I posted in the Cormac Mccarty thread In No Country for old Men (the book) there are two or three instances where there is a mention of two (I think) guys in a black dodge charger (I think). I could not figure out why this was in the book, who these guys were, and what their connection to the story was. I’ve talked to other folks who have asked the same question, so it just isn’t me. And I went back into the book to re-read those sections to see if I missed anything, and I still didn’t see it. Can anyone help? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/26 "2011-01-18T05:01:21Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’ve tried but I just don’t get it. Good call. I don’t get ANY Stanley Kubrick films. Overrated, interminably slow, pretentious nonsense. If anyone else attempted to make a movie like he did they’d be laughed out of Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/27 "2011-01-18T05:06:58Z")
> [@Hades](#): > > I can’t tell if you’re really a Buffy fan or just doing a spot-on parody. I’m a huge fan. I just couldn’t help but poke fun at some of our proselytizers. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/28 "2011-01-18T05:13:07Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’ve tried but I just don’t get it. If anyone really wants to try, [this](http://www.kubrick2001.com/) may help you to understand. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/29 "2011-01-18T05:16:16Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > I’m a huge fan. I just couldn’t help but poke fun at some of our proselytizers. I’m a fan too, for what it’s worth. You nailed the impersonation. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/30 "2011-01-18T05:22:22Z")
In the book _Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man: A Memoir_, were the cops and narcotics agents, and cab drivers giving him rides and not needing payment, and all of that real, or delusions? ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/31 "2011-01-18T05:23:32Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Look at all movies before Citizen Kane. Look at all movies after. Not only is it a masterpiece it was revolutionary. I had to have this explained to me as well. Citizen Kane was the first movie to look like a modern movie, as opposed to a stage play being caught on camera. What I don’t get is **Twilight**. Why the heck is it so popular? Every female vampire fan I know _hates_ those pansy Twilight vampires. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/32 "2011-01-18T05:48:01Z")
> [@fuzzypickles](#): > > What I don’t get is **Twilight**. Why the heck is it so popular? Every female vampire fan I know _hates_ those pansy Twilight vampires. [Why Twilight is so popular](http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight). ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/33 "2011-01-18T06:38:55Z")
> [@Claude\_Remains](#): > > If anyone really wants to try, [this](http://www.kubrick2001.com/) may help you to understand. Is that a parody?\* I could only make it about halfway through the third part. If it’s not a parody, thanks for the link - but I still don’t get it. [sup](\*because if it is it’s spot on)[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/34 "2011-01-18T10:25:08Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > I’m a huge fan. I just couldn’t help but poke fun at some of our proselytizers. So you are being ironic but at the same time saying something you actually mean? Cafe society is a complicated place sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/35 "2011-01-18T10:59:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Good call. I don’t get ANY Stanley Kubrick films. Overrated, interminably slow, pretentious nonsense. If anyone else attempted to make a movie like he did they’d be laughed out of Hollywood. Wasn’t he out of Hollywood anyway? I think he made his films in England, including Full Metal Jacket for some odd reason. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/36 "2011-01-18T11:05:22Z")
Ok. Back to “things I still don’t get”… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/37 "2011-01-18T11:10:25Z")
> [@fuzzypickles](#): > > I had to have this explained to me as well. Citizen Kane was the first movie to look like a modern movie, as opposed to a stage play being caught on camera. No, that was _Birth of a Nation_. I don’t understand the genius of Frank Zappa. He wrote some clever lyrics and a lot of atonal bullshit. Why the love? Excuse me, why the _acclaim_? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/38 "2011-01-18T11:36:07Z")
Being obsessed- not just interested, but almost _devoted_ to obscure bands that have never released a CD, never been on the radio (not even a uni station or a Government funded/Community radio station that’s- in some cases legally- obliged to play a certain quota of “local” music), and don’t tour that widely. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/39 "2011-01-18T12:54:58Z")
I don’t get sports fans. The team from your town won? That’s nice. You had nothing to do with it, no one on the team know you from a pothole, so why are you so invested in the outcome? (I can understand gambling, but not the blind boosterism/worship of fans.) ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/40 "2011-01-18T13:51:10Z")
Radiohead. Nothing wrong with it, but I fail to see what’s so special about them. The attaction of wearing skin tight jeans that still sag in the ass (I’m looking at you, youth of today) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925.md?page=3)