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

RandomName2 · 12-11-2014 04:31PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:32PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:33PM

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

MarkY91 · 12-11-2014 04:33PM

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

Custardpi · 12-11-2014 04:33PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:35PM

The Wire

LisaLee · 12-11-2014 04:38PM

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

KERSPLAT! · 12-11-2014 04:39PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:43PM

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

ednwireland · 12-11-2014 04:43PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:44PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:45PM

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! · 12-11-2014 04:45PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:45PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:45PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:47PM

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

elefant · 12-11-2014 04:47PM

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.

12-11-2014 04:52PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:52PM

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 · 12-11-2014 04:56PM

The Hangover - Just awful

Crimson King · 12-11-2014 04:57PM

Pretty Woman.

Horrible, cheesy acting with a very suspect moral message.

Sir Gallagher · 12-11-2014 04:57PM

Barney the Dinosaur, where do i start...completely unrealistic portrayal of dinosaurs. One dimensional main character, plot-holes you could fit a Brachiosaurus' arse into. Contrived storylines. Dated set design. Hammy acting.

Sheep Lover · 12-11-2014 05:00PM

Family Guy and South Park.

Neither funny in the slightest, throwing curse words and shouting into a show does not make it funny, see Mrs Browns Boys...

Generic Dreadhead · 12-11-2014 05:01PM

fxotoole wrote: »

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

Does any self respecting adult think Twilight was good

Chunners wrote: »

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

Not really, most of the women in it are not all that attractive, there's maybe like 3.
Noone is watching 40 hours of television of a few shots of nipples.

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Family Guy and South Park.

Neither funny in the slightest, throwing curse words and shouting into a show does not make it funny, see Mrs Browns Boys...

Those 2 do not even exist in the same universe as Mrs Browns Boys.

castletownman · 12-11-2014 05:05PM

I detest Bradley Cooper. I think he's a terrible actor who speaks too fast, acts poorly and generally lessens a film with his presence. I went in to American Hustle and Silver Lining's Playbook expecting two films worthy of their various Oscar nominations/accolades, but found myself shaking my head in disguist after about ten minutes when I saw that prick hamming his way through another role (didn't like either film as a result of him).

Genuinely think he only gets roles based on his looks. Sure the other main cast members of the Hangover trilogy haven't really seen their careers take off (Galfinakais besides perhaps) so he should be suffering from the same afflicition

catallus · 12-11-2014 05:06PM

Chunners wrote: »

Game of Thrones......only watch it for the next nipple shot

What's your problem with nipples, exactly?!

_asdfghjkl_ · 12-11-2014 05:06PM

+1 for GoT. Way too complicated and difficult to follow, new characters and locations are never explained. Too much like homework having to google 10 yokes after every episode

Sheep Lover · 12-11-2014 05:08PM

Cormac... wrote: »

Those 2 do not even exist in the same universe as Mrs Browns Boys.

They do, shocking stuff altogether.

And this coming from someone who likes dirty, crass, black humor. Still not funny for me though.

Ave Sodalis · 12-11-2014 05:09PM

sup_dude wrote: »

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

ScienceNerd wrote: »

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

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...

Chunners wrote: »

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"

Meh, that's a matter of opinion. I wouldn't consider Terry Pratchett to be one of my all time favourites and although I've nothing particularly against his work, I would pick up JK Rowling or JRR Tolkien before hime.

KERSPLAT! · 12-11-2014 05:11PM

_asdfghjkl_ wrote: »

+1 for GoT. Way too complicated and difficult to follow, new characters and locations are never explained. Too much like homework having to google 10 yokes after every episode

That's one of the reasons I like it. Nothing worse than a film or TV series that spoon feeds the audience. Anyone see Gotham, absolutely shocking first episode.

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

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