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

[IndianInlaw]

Gosh, Moonbunny, he wanted to introduce you to your own culture? When he wasn't a part of it?

Did he think your extended Cuban family neglected to do so?  Especially your grandparents WHO CAME FROM CUBA?


Presumptuous idiot.

[kethria]

I hate Seinfeld, Harry Potter, E.T., those dreadfully boring (and NOT scary) SAW movies... ugh!

[Bijou]

I wanted to start a thread about disliking critically-acclaimed entertainment. You know, like a movie, show, book, song that everyone else just raves about, but that you can't stand. So what are yours?

I'll start: Good Will Hunting. It won several Oscars and has a four-star movie rating. Couldn't stand it. Maybe I just need to watch it again, but the one time I did see it years ago, I was so bored I fell asleep halfway through. Minnie Driver was horrible and annoying. The plot and dialogue was jumbled and went nowhere.

Gone With the Wind.   That movie is very boring, to me.

[ccnumber4]

MerryRaven:  see, together we're the perfect C.S. Lewis fan!

[MrsF]

I don't know if these were "critically acclaimed", but in my circle, these were popular among my friends, but made me cringe:

Anything done by Jim Carrey, with the exception for some reason, of "The Truman Show".  I have never liked him, even in his "In Living Color" days.  There's something about him that makes my teeth hurt.  Maybe that's cause I'm grinding them whenever I see him.

This one will probably get me flamed, but here goes:  (cringing now, and in small voice....) Star Wars: Episode One.

I LOVE all the other SW movies, but this one just ticked me off.  JarJar Binks made me want to vomit, and the 11 minute pod race almost put me to sleep.

I wouldn't flame you. Any of the 'new' Star Wars are just a waste of time. It wasn't meant to be.

And I hated Anna Karenina. I just.couldn't.finish.it.

[Clara Bow]

I felt like the first two new "Star Wars" movies were two hour toy commercials. I liked "Revenge of the Sith" though....

[Diane AKA Traska]

The entire original trilogy of Star Wars was a huge toy commercial.  Lucas did something no other filmmaker had done at the time... he traded away film profits in exchange for sole ownership of the merchandising rights. ("Merchandising, merchandising!  Where the real money from the movie is made!" as Yogurt would say).  At the time, merchandising meant lunchboxes and the like, so Fox went "uh, okay dude, go for it."

Also, the book The Princess Bride is tripe.  Take out 90% of the comedy from the movie and insert torture, tedium, and gloom.  (Not Goldman's fault, blame Morgenstern... the man had dozens of pages devoted to packing clothing for a trip.)

Finally, my entry, although I shall be slapped with the mighty trout of "Wha???":  Dr Strangelove.  It just drags on and drags on.  It wastes the talents of every great actor associated with it (George C Scott, I'm looking at you).  Slim Pickins had a more believable character in Blazing Saddles than he did in Strangelove.  It was, on all fronts, the movie with the biggest value to hype gap in the history of films.

[beckygoesape]

Also on my crap list...and my husband shakes his head at me for this...

Lawrence of Arabia
Apocalypse Now

Becky

[skadoo]

Oh, how wonderful to see that I'm not alone. 

Things I hate (in no particular order):

• The Great Gatsby
• Catcher in the Rye
• That Vampire book by Anne Rice, what was that called again?
• Handle's Messiah, I've fallen asleep all three times I went to see this.  Although, the Halelluiah Chorus is good.
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (what dreck! If I believed this book I'd have to be from Pluto or something.)
• Something about Mary
• Cats (I watched a video of the stage play, how the heck did this become a hit on Broadway?)r
• Pearl Harbor (Ben Afflek as leading man?  What a soap opera)
• Brad Pitt (he is NOT handsome)
• Butterfly Kisses (this song makes me want to stick a screwdriver in my ear)
• South Park
• Titanic (and that song made me wanna vomit! at least the ship was cool)
• The legendary adventures of Hercules (although I liked Xena, she kicks butt!)
• Emeril Lagasse (I wish they'd take him off the Food Network)

[Clara Bow]

Oh I cannot deal with Anne Rice...how gloppy can you get?? I like a touch of smut, but she gives me the creeps after a while. I tried so hard to like her books but BLECCCCHHHH!!!

[Rei-chan]

Oh I cannot deal with Anne Rice...how gloppy can you get?? I like a touch of smut, but she gives me the creeps after a while. I tried so hard to like her books but BLECCCCHHHH!!!

As far as Anne Rice goes, I liked the first 3 Vampire Chronicles, but nothing after that.......

Oh, and if you think those are smutty, check out what she wrote as A.N. Roquelaure (sp?)  its basically a rewrite and continuance of Sleeping Beauty from a strange kinda bondage perspective......

[Venus193]

Anne Rice...

I had the pleasure to meet her once; she was very nice and not at all crazy.  I loved The Vampire Lestat, but Queen of the Damned was awful.

She wrote two fabulous historical novels:  The Feast of All Saints and Cry to Heaven.  The first is about the gens de couleur libre of ante-bellum New Orleans and the second is about the castrati singers of 18th-century Italy. 

[Clara Bow]

I tried to read "Cry to Heaven" and frankly got all perved out...I mean, we're talking TWISTED....
Have you seen that she has become a Christian and is renouncing all her old writings and starting on a series of books about the life of Christ? Oh boy....that's going to be real interesting.

[Rei-chan]

Funny thing about good ol' Anne is that she doesn't seem to take criticism by her fans very well.  If you check out the comments and reader reviews section at Amazon for the last VC book (Blood Canticle), she makes a scathing post....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/discussionboard/discussion.html/ref=cm_rdp_st_rd/105-6994280-2654039?ie=UTF8&ASIN=037541200X&store=yourstore&cdThread=Tx2995TQ1YT1YI2&reviewID=R1FLRHCYSK13PB&displayType=ReviewDetail

Personally, the VC stories started to get repetitive in a way after Memnoch the Devil.  I never could get into her other books, although I tried.....Violin was particularly boring IMO.

[Clara Bow]

Wowwee, that was a bit harsh...calling your fans stupid is not a very good idea. Oh well, some people can't take criticism.
And what is this thing with talking about Lestat like he's a real person??