Films/TV you are meant to like, but don't
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I'm sure it's been done before, but hey.
Are there any films or TV series that you have been told are excellent, but that you just can't bear?
Not talking about mass market stuff that you are far too clever to like, I'm talking about critically acclaimed material. Not after a thread where everyone shows how refined they are by rubbishing Mrs Brown's Boys etc.
I'll start.
TV: Breaking Bad.
I admit I only got through the first series, but I'm informed if I didn't like that I wouldn't like the rest. I found everyone involved so unlikeable and the pace so glacial it was a struggle to get that far.
TV: Fawlty Towers
I was a big Monty Python fan growing up, and could never fathom why John Cleese left to do a fairly ordinary sitcom.
Film: Goodfellas
Meant to be amazing. I thought it was a low rent Godfather in which there was far, far to much dialogue. Most of the scenes involving the main characters seemed to involve them saying the same thing back and forth to each other repeatedly ('You going out? Yeah I'm going out! why you going out? I wanna go out' etc. ). By the end I was finding this utterly hilarious for the wrong reasons.
Film: Citizen Kane
Looks good but utterly emotionally involving. When the big reveal happens right at the end I was like "oh, ok".
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Are there any films or TV series that you have been told are excellent, but that you just can't bear?
Not talking about mass market stuff that you are far too clever to like, I'm talking about critically acclaimed material. Not after a thread where everyone shows how refined they are by rubbishing Mrs Brown's Boys etc.
I'll start.
TV: Breaking Bad.
I admit I only got through the first series, but I'm informed if I didn't like that I wouldn't like the rest. I found everyone involved so unlikeable and the pace so glacial it was a struggle to get that far.
TV: Fawlty Towers
I was a big Monty Python fan growing up, and could never fathom why John Cleese left to do a fairly ordinary sitcom.
Film: Goodfellas
Meant to be amazing. I thought it was a low rent Godfather in which there was far, far to much dialogue. Most of the scenes involving the main characters seemed to involve them saying the same thing back and forth to each other repeatedly ('You going out? Yeah I'm going out! why you going out? I wanna go out' etc. ). By the end I was finding this utterly hilarious for the wrong reasons.
Film: Citizen Kane
Looks good but utterly emotionally involving. When the big reveal happens right at the end I was like "oh, ok".
Next...
If you don't like any of the first 3 of the 4 you have listed you are either hard to please or have extremely eclectic taste in TV / movies!
Breaking bad is one of the all time greatest TV shows, fawlty towers a triumph in British comedy and goodfellas is one of THE best gangster movies ever (all in my opinion).
Maybe you just have a short attention span and need to spend longer investing into the characters?
Breaking bad is one of the all time greatest TV shows, fawlty towers a triumph in British comedy and goodfellas is one of THE best gangster movies ever (all in my opinion).
Maybe you just have a short attention span and need to spend longer investing into the characters?
I started watching Breaking Bad, years after everyone else, when the then-new TV channel "Spike" started showing it from the start. I lost interest after about three episodes, maybe it would be worth another go. I suspect part of it was scheduling - I was recording it, maybe it was on at the same time as something else, or maybe it was erratic and didn't do series link and I just lost my place with it. Doubt it will be on again, and I'm probably not interested enough to pay for it.
I think early seasons of breaking bad suffered from the writers strike, as they are very patchy and inconsistent. The series does get much better though and is worth battling theough series 1 & 2.
I can't watch Fawlty Towers, as its too cringeworthy. It's very funny, but I always find myself getting angry as Basil makes stupid mistake after stupid mistake. I hate watching other farces too for the same reason.
Goodfellas is the best Mafia movie of all time, none of that honour crap, its all about making as much money as possible without getting caught, even if that involves getting rid of friends who might become liabilities.
I can't watch Fawlty Towers, as its too cringeworthy. It's very funny, but I always find myself getting angry as Basil makes stupid mistake after stupid mistake. I hate watching other farces too for the same reason.
Goodfellas is the best Mafia movie of all time, none of that honour crap, its all about making as much money as possible without getting caught, even if that involves getting rid of friends who might become liabilities.
The Office was awful. After watching it, I was left with the mental image of a group of media people meeting at the Groucho club & deciding to make a ‘comedy’ which sneered at and patronised ordinary people with their dull jobs and ordinary lives.
Star Wars. I will never understand why so many apparently intelligent people appear to take a series of third-rate kids movies seriously. It’s baffling.
Star Wars. I will never understand why so many apparently intelligent people appear to take a series of third-rate kids movies seriously. It’s baffling.
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