Movies and tv shows that everyone thinks are great and you don't really know why

deadybai

Im not talking about them being really bad but they arent really as good as everyone makes them out to be.

Anyone else sick to death of hearing Anchorman jokes that you thought weren't that funny in the first place? Why does everyone think that film is so brilliant?

James Bond is another one. The new films are decent enough but before Casino Royal they were basically all the same premise. Why does everyone think they are excellent?



My list of films and tv shows that everyone thinks are great and I don't really no why would be;

Anchorman, James Bond, Harry Potter, South Park, Hardy Bucks, Super Troopers (one good scene rest was fairly poor),Family Guy, Dodgeball, The Big Bang Theory (although I think that is sh!te)

Anything else?

eviltwin

Love/Hate and Breaking Bad. Tried to get into them but never took to them.

solomafioso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY0Qjx5K53o

Don Kedick

I agree Love/Hate was awful muck.

Ava_e

Scarface, its a good film but it's one that dull people reel off as an abosulte classic.

The movie poster is the kind of thing you see framed in a footballers bedroom, above his bed.

Say hello to my little friend. No thanks

Chunners

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, The mighty boosh, big brother, I'm a celebrity get me out of here, ALL The Godfather movies...the list of mindless drivel is endless

WoollyRedHat

Star Wars... Meh.

Don Kedick

The Godfather was boring, that's parts 1-3.

Generic Dreadhead

The Godfather, I was bored as **** about halfway through, couldn't stomach any more, as Peter said in Family Guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsemHatx-o

iDave

Cant say Anchorman enough times

Dark Phoenix

modern family, how I met your mother.

Soaps, I just don't get it at all.

crappy rom com films that seem to be released several times a year and are aimed at women and have predictable characters and plots.

yeppydeppy

24 - the acting was poor and the plot holes left me annoyed. I got through series 1 and could only manage 2 or 3 episodes of series 2 and that was enough for me - thanks.

Duggy747

People who foam at the mouth if you have any criticism towards Christopher Nolan's movies.

You might still like the movie but complaints will be seeing as Nolan-hating / nitpicking.


Also, Seth Rogen and those whole "bromance" comedies that were all the rage a few years ago.

Oh look, there's another scene of Rogen talking about weed.............hilarious...........

smash

Ava_e wrote: »

Scarface, its a good film but it's one that dull people reel off as an abosulte classic.

I find that most classics are crap. Bad acting, bad effects... bad hair!

The Floyd p

The Big Bang Theory has to be the most soul crushing show ever. The uninspired jokes and wooden delivery, and a laugh track that is like a bullet to the head.

Boskowski

Anchorman. A lot of the Will Ferrell stuff. Hangover. Basically most of those American teenie highschool college 'we're going to get a bit wasted and that makes us soooo funny and outrageous' "comedies". Yawn. You want to have the mind of a ten year old to find those funny.

Leslie91

Anchorman.

Complete horse.

smash

The Floyd p wrote: »

The Big Bang Theory has to be the most soul crushing show ever. The uninspired jokes and wooden delivery, and a laugh track that is like a bullet in the head.

Plenty of Big Bang Theory videos minus the canned laughter on youtube. Very hard to find the joke without being told when it's supposed to be funny.

keano_afc

Friends - complete absence of jokes.
Doctor Who - utter tosh.

xabi

Breaking Bad, Lord of the rings, The Wire, Mary Poppins.

Ave Sodalis

Chunners wrote: »

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Movie sent you to sleep quicker than any lullaby but from what I've heard, it's an insult to the book which is meant to be brilliant

deadybai wrote: »

Harry Potter

Ah now! Can you really not understand why Harry Potter is so popular?

xabi wrote: »

Lord of the rings

Don Kedick

Jaws was awful.

Buona Fortuna

eviltwin wrote: »

Love/Hate and Breaking Bad. Tried to get into them but never took to them.

Love/Hate - never watched. Now with all the post show hype maybe I should

Breaking Bad was such a good idea after S1 it was just, I dunno Batman does drugs. What unusual scrape will our two "heroes" get in and then get out of this week. Meh

force eleven

Bosco. I never understood how they could open the magic door and suddenly be in Dublin Zoo...

eviltwin

Anything with Adam Sandler, I don't get why he is so popular. Ditto Tom Cruise and Will Ferrell. Elf is up there as a lot of people's favourite Christmas movies but I hate it mainly because of Ferrell.

Dark Phoenix

Lost - what s f**king stupid show and what a cop out of an ending. I couldnt believe people managed to care for that long.

deadybai

I can understand why people think The Godfather and Breaking bad are boring but they are actually masterpieces and deserve all the praise they can get :pac:

Custardpi

Downton Abbey. All my family are mad about it but I've always found it mind-numbingly dull. Modern Family is another one. Sofía Vergara is hot so that's some compensation but the dialogue & acting of many of the characters is toe curlingly bad.

elefant

This thread has me shaking me head.

deadybai

sup_dude wrote: »

Movie sent you to sleep quicker than any lullaby but from what I've heard, it's an insult to the book which is meant to be brilliant




Ah now! Can you really not understand why Harry Potter is so popular?

Biggest load of crap. I dont get it. 'Alakazam I made a spell, Im so cool' :pac:

Ave Sodalis

deadybai wrote: »

Biggest load of crap. I dont get it. 'Alakazam I made a spell, Im so cool' :pac:

JK Rowling didn't just make a few books that made it into movies. She made an entire new world in such a way that it's completely believeable. The movies do fail to quite capture that but none the less, they're great movies of which the theme tunes still sends chills down my spine...

RandomName2

Friends. I just don't get it. Sat through two whole episodes just to make sure. It just wasn't funny... at all.

Most disappointing movies:
Shutter Island
A Serious Man
There Will Be Blood

They are so deeply flawed imo.

Mal-Adjusted

In some cases, I think it's just good things that are overhyped. Iv'e never seen Breaking Bad but look at something like Love/Hate. I think it's good, but the amount of bull$h!t that goes with it is staggering, acting as if it's reinvented television. Every monday, the red-tops have it plastered all over the front page. The Daily Edge have pages upon pages devoted to it within hours of it airing. Give it a bloody rest.

Dr. Who is an odd one. It started out quite good but now..I think Capaldi is the only part of the show that isn't crap, mainly because the writing is so poor.

Regarding the big-bang thing, while i wouldn't consider myself a fan of it, i do appreciate that sit-coms with canned laughter do have a completely different delivery system for jokes. so when you remove that component, you change the whole scene so it's a bit unfair to judge.

Now that i'm done quasi-defending shows, Fcuk Homeland! You're show centers around a hateful, whiny, crazy person!

Also, any film about one or more forty year old man-children. Oh look, we're a group of successful, rich white men (with maybe a fat guy and a black guy) who act like immature assholes, laugh, damn you! I'm mainly looking at you Hangover, as well as anything Adam Sandler made ever.

edit: actually, if anyone has seen the honest trailer for Grown Ups, they'll know what I mean

begrandx

Love/hate and the movie Closer. Pure sh**e!!

MarkY91

any tarantino movie. theyre weird and boring. cant stand his work

Custardpi

eviltwin wrote: »

Anything with Adam Sandler, I don't get why he is so popular.

Have to say, I have a sneaking regard for Mr Sandler's work. Sure most of his films are awful, but there's a refreshing honesty to their awfulness. He's pretty much admitted in interviews that several of them were basically excuses to take a long holiday & get paid handsomely for it. If people are still going to see such transparently produced bilge then that's probably money that they would have otherwise spent on even more stupid or even dangerous things. By parting idiots from their money Sandler can be regarded as performing a public service of sorts. Plus, every once in a blue moon he does actually produce a movie that's pretty good. Punch Drunk Love for instance.

eviltwin

The Wire

LisaLee

Napoleon Dynamite and There's Something about Mary. I just didn't find either of them funny..

KERSPLAT!

The Zohan movie, can't even remember the name I was told its hilarious... I obviously don't get jokes!

Edit: Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, again, I just font get what was good about it. I thought it was awful!

cloud493

Love/hate, breaking bad, game of thrones, orange is the new black,

ednwireland

pulp fiction don't get it at all or kill bill actually don't see the quentin tarantino thing.
thought homeland was a steaming pile after 2 episodes. Same
with lost.

RonanP77

Anchorman, actually most things with Vince Vaughan or Will Ferrell.
Blazing Saddles.
The Simpson.
Friends - after season 2.
Mrs Browns Boys.
Clerks - the first one.
Scrubs.

Chunners

sup_dude wrote: »

JK Rowling didn't just make a few books that made it into movies. She made an entire new world in such a way that it's completely believeable. The movies do fail to quite capture that but none the less, they're great movies of which the theme tunes still sends chills down my spine...

No sweetheart Terry Pratchett made a world that is totally believable (even if it is a disc that rests on four elephants that stand on a turtle that swims through space), JK Rowling on the other hand made one dimensional characters with no redeeming features who could pass everything off as "It needs no explanation, sure it's magic"

KERSPLAT!

cloud493 wrote: »

Love/hate, breaking bad, game of thrones, orange is the new black,

Aw no GoT is awesome!! I didn't think BB was great, Sopranos was much much better. Not a fan of Orange is the New Black

Jaysus, I'm hard to please!

GLaDOS

sup_dude wrote: »

Ah now! Can you really not understand why Harry Potter is so popular?

I loved the books as a kid but I honestly thought the films were pretty bad.

Billy86

Ghostbusters and a lot of similar 80s films. Don't get me wrong, it's a decent and fun film, but if it was brought out today (with updated effects, etc) it would get lukewarm critical and commercial receptions in my opinion. A lot of those films have massive plotholes and hammy acting that today would be picked apart endlessly by critics and online.

And it's not an issue about 'modern' Sci Fi being in its infancy back then (at least relatively speaking) since Bladerunner and Brazil are arguably the two best Sci Fi films ever made, or that general style of acting at the time since Bob Hoskins and Robert De Niro for example are great in Brazil.

On the flipside if The Last Action Hero had come out in 2003 instead of 1993 it would have dien much, much better.

fxotoole

Twilight, Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings

elefant

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I loved the books as a kid but I honestly thought the films were pretty bad.

Same. Can't stand the films. Supporting cast are always excellent, main characters are consistently poor.

KERSPLAT!

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Aw no GoT is awesome!! I didn't think BB was great, Sopranos was much much better. Not a fan of Orange is the New Black

Jaysus, I'm hard to please!

I'd love to be able to watch it GoT properly but it's so violent that I'm too on edge waiting for something horrible to happen to enjoy it.

I loved Lost, loved the Harry Potter books (movies less so), enjoyed Breaking Bad and Hannibal. Never got the whole Star Wars thing though, find those movies really tedious.

Chunners

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Aw no GoT is awesome!! I didn't think BB was great, Sopranos was much much better. Not a fan of Orange is the New Black

Jaysus, I'm hard to please!

Game of Thrones sucked big time, tried watching it but really it seemed to me to be something trying to thinly veil softcore porn with a flimsy storyline. If you took all the tit shots out of the first few episodes it would never have gained the following it did. Sure even now people say they watch it for the story but the truth is they mostly only watch it for the next nipple shot

Dr. Lollington

The Hangover - Just awful