Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.
The office. Just don’t get what’s funny or good about it. I tried giving it an honest chance about 6 episodes and didn’t laugh once. 0/5
That show is mostly about cheesy drama and cringe. Don’t get me wrong, I watched all of it, but I never would have watched it if my roommates didn’t.
But there are really funny parts, but those honestly end up being inside jokes, meaning you have to get to know the characters.
I was the same way with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I had the TV on in the background and it was on FX, just programming, and the episode where Dee and Dennis get addicted to crack to get on welfare was on.
Until then, I hated that show and couldn’t get the hype.
(on a side note, that show went to shit by season 7… so it goes)
But I digress: once you learn the characters (and starting at season 1 is rough because the characters aren’t really developed yet) the Office becomes much more entertaining.
Also something about Steve Carrel annoys me the moment I see him. Along with Ben Stiller, who’s not in it but same effect
Mr. Robot. I can’t tell if this is good or terrible.
TV. All of it. Films. Most of them.
GoT, Simpsons, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things,
Breaking Bad. I didn’t start it until maybe S4 or early in S5 so I marathoned everything and it got really cyclical really fast. Jesse does something stupid, they scream fight saying they don’t need each other, goes separate ways he fucks up more then they realize they need each other and get back to cooking then Jesse does something stupid…plus Walt says he needs just a little more money then suddenly it’s gone so he starts over again…
Basically any kind of “reality TV”.
The Walking Dead. You may now proceed with my execution.
Ex-wife and I were really into it for several years, then overnight, we just didn’t give a shit anymore.
I personally hate gore so I dislike most horror. I do like psychological and eldritch horror.
Basically everything of the last 20 years that wasn’t Edgerunners or Wednesday, so Breaking Bad, GoT, Walking Dead, and so on.
The godfather.
Tried multiple times, couldn’t get in to it.
I don’t like mafia stories in general so that probably goes a long way to explaining it.
Fervent organisational/inherited loyalty doesn’t make sense to me ,so anything based upon that ruins my immersion.
To be clear, I understand that it’s a thing and why it happens, it’s just so ridiculous as a concept I can’t usually suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy the media.
Goodfellas, I could get through, godfather was a bridge too far.
Agreed, godfather is the reason I started saying I don’t like mob movies but that turned out not true . Goodfellas, casino, the departed. Must just be the godfather that’s bad
Just an FYI, the trilogy is the story of how much of a mistake the grandfather made. It takes three generations for them to be able to get back out of the crime business, and get back to legitimate businesses. By the end of part 3 Micheal Corleone isn’t a happy guy. He managed to legitimize the businesses, and lost his entire family in the process.
It sounds like an interesting story
The actual story was never the issue, what i saw of the acting, directing and production values was good as well
Fervent organisational/inherited loyalty doesn’t make sense to me ,so anything based upon that ruins my immersion.
Movies are just stories, you don’t have to ideologically agree with the existence of familial organized crime in order to enjoy a story about it.
And we’re not even talking about scifi here. The Godfather is almost historical fiction. It’s based on things that exist(ed) in real life, there’s no need to suspend disbelief.
Not trying to be argumentative, I just cannot understand this viewpoint. How can you be “immersed” in literally any story about anything if you think like this?
It’s not really about a conflict of ideology, as i said, i do understand it’s a thing, i even understand why it’s a thing (to an extent).
It’s also not about it being fictional, i have the same issue with it in real life, it just doesn’t tend to be so concentrated in my day to day life.
Closest example i can think of is that it’s like watching media that heavily features something in which you are an expert, but does so in such a way as to be noticeably bullshit.
It’s jarring enough to take you out of the flow of the movie/show.
If you’ve any experience with programming, it’s things like this
Or like being a huge sports fan, but the media you are watching clearly doesn’t understand the rules of the sport it’s depicting.
Suspension of disbelief wasn’t quite the correct phrase (that’s on me), it’s more like a cognitive stutter.
Somebody doing something because of inherited loyalty or “for the family” without any supporting reasoning feels like watching someone firing 50 rounds with a 6 chamber revolver ( apologies if that’s the wrong terminology, I’m not a gun person ).
is it critical to the story that this details is right ? not necessarily, but if it happens constantly throughout the story it can ruin the enjoyment (for some people at least).
I want to be clear that I’m not claiming to be an expert in loyalty or anything, it’s just far enough away from my expectations that it’s jarring, it’s almost certainly some weird hypersensitivity of mine.
When it comes to sitcoms with laugh tracks, the list of what I like is shorter.
Buffy.
Please don’t tell me to try either the episode where no-one speaks, or the episode that’s a musical. Many different friends have tried to persuade me Buffy is good by showing me an episode and it’s always one of those two.
Okay I actually have trouble with the concept someone showed you the musical episode as an intro. What makes that good is the contrast between the several seasons of regular show and that episode. It’d be like showing off a restaurant entirely with the lemon sorbet.
Friends: a celebration of hedonism and shallowness.
Seinfeld: basically the same.
Seinfeld I thought had a lot of clever and funny parts. Even though I like Jerry less and less as the years go on, there were so many great supporting characters.
Friends though, any time that show is playing I feel like intelligence is being sucked from my brain. And not in a “so stupid it’s funny” way, it’s just empty and stupid.
I hated Seinfeld when it aired but I’ve mostly come around to it. It basically pioneered the genre of shallow insecure narcissists clashing with each other and their surroundings, at least on a big mainstream level. At the time I think it was kind of an anomaly when many sitcoms weren’t like that at all. It’s basically, what if instead of having one occasionally neurotic character, all of them were neurotic all of the time?
It has inspirated truckloads of later shows. Some of them took the concept much further and made the characters far more passive-aggressive or even outright hostile to each other (Strangers with Candy, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). And I would mostly say they are funnier for it.
Jerry Seinfeld himself is a piece of shit genocide promoter though, so I wouldn’t advocate watching his show unless it’s free.
Seinfeld had much better writing than Friends
I liked friends when i was a kid/teen. Bit re-watching it as an adult, not so much. Everyone but joey and chandler annoy me now
Any show with a laugh track I can’t stand.
Star Wars. I watched the middle three way back when. Didn’t care enough to watch the others.
I don’t care for most of the Star Trek movies
Which ones are the middle three?
The ones that came out first. A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back. I forget the name of the second one.
Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of The Jedi
Getting to the point where I don’t hear the laugh track anymore is a major feat, and a show has to be very funny for me to want to try to get to that point.
Frasier or IT Crowd, for example, are a couple that come to mind.
I find the laugh track insulting. The laugh usually starts before the punchline so I really don’t hear the joke.
It’s not universally praised, but I think the overall sentiment for the Battalestar Galactica reboot is very positive. Even as a huge sci-fi guy and knowing the post 9/11 context of the show airing, never have I ever gone from all-in to hate watch so fast with a show. It has some fantastic stuff, maybe even, debatably, some of the best sci-fi/drama moments of all time. But it utterly and completely fails to deliver on its own premise in such a fantastic and increasingly absurd way as it goes on that I only finished it out of sheer morbid curiosity of how bad it could get.
I both love and hate the BSG reboot. I found myself skipping through most of the Baltar scenes. There was also so much shaky cam and TV drama. But the look and feel and military stuff was fantastic.
I liked that first/early episode. Something about 33 minutes until the bad guys catch up to them. However the rest of the show was just watching everyone keep secrets from each other so the story could happen. A lot like Lost. Not my thing.
Definitely falls into the debate of most epic sci-fi moments. From what (little) I understand, 33 was the realization of Ron Moore’s original vision for how dire voyager was supposed to be before they TNGd it.
The mini series is phenomenal, the last season is… something. If I recall, didn’t they rush things because of the writers guild strike?
Saw a quote from GRRM on wikipedia under critiques specifically about being a crappy way to end a story, semi ironic to me considering GOT (yeah, know he didn’t write the ending) ended so poorly I’ve never done a rematch. I’d probably rewatch the first few seasons of bsg though.
