I hated that song/movie/show/book that everyone else loves!

[MerryRaven]

ccnumber4:

Also, I am currently reading C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters" which came highly recommended and I am finding it quite boring.  Makes me feel a bit dim, as it always seemed to me that truly "intellectual" people like this book.  

It is a religious allegory written from a particular Anglican point of view and I don't believe is 'intellectual' at all.  You either enjoy that sort of thing or you do not.  It is a bit dated also for most audiences today.  

I enjoyed it but I think you have to enjoy theology in kind of an abstract way.  I am also old and was raised in that kind religious environment so there is a nostalga factor at play for me.

  

[MerryRaven]

T'Mar of Vulcan

But the movie I HATE with a passion that everyone else loves and adores? MOULIN ROUGE. Oh my word. That is two hours of my life I'm never getting back. Anachronistic, oversentimental RUBBISH. Yuk! I love Ewan McGregor, and yes he can sing fine, but what was he thinking, being in that nonsense? It's like a school pantomime with a million-dollar budget. People say it's romantic. No, no, Pretty Woman is romantic. This is just silly. It's so sad and tragic? No, the only thing sad and tragic is that I wasted two hours watching it!

I agree.  Horrible.  I was glad I had never paid to see it at a theater.  My foster daughter bought it and it was on all the time when she was here.  When she moved I urged her to take it with her.

[MerryRaven]

ginlyn

I also cant stand Oprah or her over-rated book club! I tried to read a couple of the books featured on there but....not. All. of. them. sucked.

It seemed like all the books were about disfunctional families/disfunctional sex. 

[Cyndi]

Yeah, I admit it was sad when GINO tried to nudge some of the dead babies.

OT: I thought of you when I stumbled onto Godzilla, Mothra and Battra today in one of the later movies .

Aw! That's in the Heisei era and HeiseiGoji is "my" Godzilla. lol But you know, if GINO hadn't sucked then there wouldn't be any more Godzilla movies! They made more to show America how it's done ^_^. The scariest looking version of Godzilla EVER is the suit for GMK(Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack). He is UGLY on screen, but the action figures are so ugly they're cute *snickers* I want one!

[MerryRaven]

Okay I have tried to watch the following and they have failed to keep my interest:

Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy
I assume I occupy the wrong demographic.  

I tried watching Desperate Housewives and thinking "Gee this show should be over pretty soon."  It was 15 minutes into the show.  

I don't like 24.  I didn't love Raymond.  I don't like King of Queens and the other cookie cutter sitcoms.  

I can't read Danelle Steele.  They only John Grisham book I got through was the Firm and that was by leafing through great chunks of it.  I don't like books by James Patterson.

I hate all the cutsy Chick Lit books that have been produced.  

I hate Janet Evanovitch.  I don't think she can actually write.  

I hate the newest Elizabeth George novel, I hated the last Elizabeth George novel and I hated the newest Stephen King.  I can't even remember the titles.  

I hate badly written Christian novels.  I don't mind that they have a Christian message as much as I mind how poorly plotted and written so many of them are.  Even Christians should have the benefit of decent literature.

I hate country music and stock car racing, bowling, and the whole Tour de France thing.  Who cares.

I hate shows such as Entertainment Tonight that fail as news, gossip, and celebrity hype.

I hate Funniest Home Videos.  None of them are funny at all.

Oh gee, I could go on and on.

[FoxPaws]

That. Iguana. Is. Not. Godzilla. Godzilla does not run around buildings, HE PLOWS THE **** THROUGH THEM! Godzilla does not run away from helicopters. HE BLASTS THEM OUT OF THE ******* SKY! Godzilla can not be killed by a couple of missiles. HE CAN REGENERATE HIS WOUNDS INSTANTLY!

The movie was fun as a monster movie, but not as a Godzilla movie. On the Godzilla board I go to, they call that creature GINO(Godzilla In Name Only) or "Zilla". I even wrote a fanfic where Shezilla beats Zilla up because he annoyed me so much.

But if he squashed and smashed everything in the first one, there'd be nothing left to destroy in the sequel.   

On a semi-related note: One thing I did like about the Scream sequels is that the guy who kept getting attacked (David Arquette?) sustained permanant scarring/damage/disability that carried over into the next installment. According to Hollywood, everybody has self healing wounds and I thought it was great that they spoofed that.

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

... there are some that I just can NOT stand!
Gone with the Wind.  Fell alseep.
Most of the classics (Casablanca, Citizen Kane, etc).  Boooriing

I didn't mind Gone with the Wind, but as an article I read years ago for Philosphy (Aesthetics) said, it's really just an overblown Mills & Boon (romance novel). It's good and all, but it goes on... and on... and on... and you wonder why someone doesn't just KILL Scarlett to shut her up!

Hated Casablanca. It was not only boring, but none of the actors seemed like they were in love with anyone. It was more like a stage play where the actors had forgotten their lines and ad-libbed. (I know I'm going to get flamed for that one, but why people love it so much is beyond me.)

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

From KewpieDoll72:
I know there is a place in literary hell reserved just for me because I thought One Of The Greatest Books Of All Time was a total snore, but honestly, it sucked.

I feel this way about many so-called "great works". I honestly think that people only tout them so they can be seen as "intellectual". Frankly, I don't care if (general) you think I'm a total Philistine; I'm not going to read cr*p just because it's supposed to be "great literature". Some "great literature" that I think sucks:

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence. Now there's a book filled with unredeemable, boring, bored characters. Not to mention a bored audience. 

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Yikes. I wasn't even halfway through that book and I was wishing the guy would hurry up and die already so the torture (mine!) could be over.

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton should really be called, "Cry, the Bored Sh*tless Audience". Yes, it's an anti-apartheid novel ("Amandla" and all that) but it's BORING. It's sooooo boring. The guy didn't even use proper inverted commas (quotation marks) - he just indented all the speech. I know it's because he wanted to get a kind of 'Biblical' feel, but it doesn't work. I've never seen the old black and white version with Sidney Poitier, but not even James Earl Jones and Richard Harris could make the modern version un-boring. When the reader has to be TOLD what is going on in a novel, that is NOT a good sign. The nature of forgiveness, yadda. Yeah, whatever. At least let JEJ threaten someone in Darth Vader's voice or something!!

OTOH, I do like a lot of stuff that so-called intellectuals sneer at: Pretty Woman, Desperate Housewives, Dirty Dancing, Titanic, Speed, etc. I should start a thread about that. In fact, I will.

[ccnumber4]

Hi, Merry.  I understood the book completely and do enjoy the genre usually.  I simply did not like this particular book.  The only other CS Lewis I have read is "Till We Have Faces" and I did enjoy that one, for the most part. 

[Brentwood]

It reminds me of this country song called "Maybe it was Memphis". The singer is telling her man she "Read about you in a Faulkner novel, saw you once in a Williams play". I thought to myself "Good God girl, RUN!! At best he's a drunk!!" Learn your authors before you start framing your life on one!!

Well, at least Maybe It Was Memphis was only a summer fling.

[Brentwood]

That song "Butterfly Kisses." If I watch one more father-daughter dance to it at a wedding I'm going to puke.

If it makes you feel better, that's definitely not a song that "everyone else" loves.

[beckygoesape]

On my...uh crap...list.

Titanic
Sitcoms featuring dopey lead males (Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Improvement)
Survivor
American Idol
Celine Dion
Davinci Code
Medical dramas that stopped being about medicine (ER, Grey's Anatomy)
Super Nanny
I Love Lucy (OK, I don't hate it, but it makes me nervous every time I watch it.)
The View (Way before Rosie was on...back when Debbie Matenopoulous sp? was supposed to be representing my generation.  What a twit.)
The Phantom of the Opera


Becky

[Brentwood]

After listening to the sound system at the pharmacy today, I have to add another that I've forgotten. I cannot stand the Dave Matthews Band.

[MerryRaven]

ccnumber4
I didn't mean to imply you couldn't understand it.  Just that it was not intellectual or to everybody's taste. I didn't get or enjoy "Until we have faces'.  Just not my cup of tea.

[TZ]

I HATE Texas Hold 'Em.  I don't want to learn it, I don't want to play it, and I don't want to watch it on T.V.  BF has been watching it a lot lately, and I tolerate it only because he watches Bridezillas with me.  However, it really makes me want to gouge my eyes out.  When the commentators start talking about how the players are "real athletes," I get offended on behalf of real athletes everywhere.