For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
Paying a subscription to watch sports.
All new Star Wars movies and tv shows
Disney somehow made me absolutely apathetic to Star Wars, an IP that as a kid I used to go to sleep daydreaming about while listening to the soundtracks. The whole thing just feels stupid af now, and it’s not just because I got older. It used to feel grounded in something, and now it feels unhinged.
Blame Kathleen Kennedy. She took a huge dump all over that and then smeared it around.
She did a fucking awful job. Had no idea what she was playing with or how to play with it.
I’m inclined to think she hated Spielberg and the franchise after working with him for years, and decided to destroy his legacy.
Spielberg
…Y’mean…“Lucas”?
goddammit, I just watched something about Spielberg and had his name in my head…
Heehee I mix them up all the time, too. :P
Andor notwithstanding
Bergdoktor
I have seen so much praise for Kingdom of Heaven and all I did was laugh or yell at it, usually both. It’s so bad. So, so bad.
I’m sorry, you’re telling me they built siege towers in the middle of the desert. Where did they get the wood??? And there’s like 12 of them? And you aimed a Ballista and that took down every single one of them in one swoop? ALSO YOU ARE A SMITH APPRENTICE BUT YOU KNOW SIEGE TACTICS? AND YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT DESERT IRRIGATION WHEN YOU ARE FROM FUCKING ENGLAND? AND
I’m yelling again
And that’s not to mention how deeply historically inaccurate it is at moments, like even besides all the general Hollywood of it all. Like sure they get some moments right but generally, holy shit it’s bad lol
Though I will say watching Will Turner learn sword fighting from Qui-Gon only to be interrupted by Jaime Lannister was pretty funny
I’ve seen it noted by better critics than me that when people criticize movies by fixating on hyper-specific inaccuracies or contradictions (the Cinema Sins method) they’re usually expressing the fact that there were deeper underlying flaws in the movie itself that meant it failed to give them a reason to overlook those hyper-specific complaints.
After all, if the things you’ve listed here were reason enough to hate a film, on their own, you’re basically just saying that you shouldn’t watch movies. If you know enough about where and when a movie is set, you’re guaranteed to be able to find those kinds of inaccuracies in any movie you watch, with very few exceptions.
The real problem here, I suspect, is that Kingdom of Heaven, as released is a bad movie. The director’s cut, on the other hand, is incredible. Ridley envisioned this as a sprawling Lawrence of Arabia style historical epic, and that’s the film he made. That film was then butchered to fit what the studio thought would make a good theatrical release.
The director’s cut will not, to the best of my recollection, solve any of your specific complaints, but it is a far, far better movie.
Of course, it is possible that the version you saw was the director’s cut, in which case I’m very sorry, movies set in any version of the real world just might not be for you.
I watched the Director’s cut. It is a ridiculous movie lol
Sorry but the Hollywoodisms and bad history aside, it is also just orientalist as all hell and I will hold the movie’s pretense of being a historical movie against it when it is so deeply revisionist
A movie I did really enjoy was Waterloo for example. There are plenty of movies where I can forgive some artistic license. Hell, I like Chernobyl even though yes, that is also revisionist, but I understand the choices that were made. For Kingdom of Heaven though, it’s clear Ridley Scott did what he is known for: putting a hatchet to real stories and chopping them down until there’s nothing left.
See, those are all really interesting and meaningful criticisms, and for the life of me I cannot understand why you didn’t lead with that instead of trying to nitpick how they got access to wood in a region known as the fertile crescent :-P
I’m a pedant! I’ll admit it!
Fair. If we’re being pedantic though, come on dude, they had wood in Jerusalem. Like, a lot of it. There are contemporaneous depictions of siege towers being used in the first siege of Jerusalem.
That’s fair!
Disturbed’s cover of “Sound of Silence.” I like the original Simon & Garfunkel, or at least the more upbeat version of it. And I like Disturbed (see below). But this cover absolutely blows.
Yes, I know the lead singer is a grade A shitbag. I liked the band long before I knew anything about any of it and have since stopped listening to them.
If I may add their cover of Land of Confusion by Genesis to the list. It was disappointing.
God thank you. I fucking despise that cover. It’s honestly such a dumb fucking take on that song.
Succession for me. I couldn’t stand it. The acting always felt way too self-conscious, like “look at me acting my ass off” instead of anything natural. The dialogue and humor felt really try-hard too, and I hated the cinematography, especially all those weird close-up shots.
My aunt Gisela promised to bring me into touch with my father. In reality, she simply darkened the room and, with a lowered voice, gave a bad imitation of my deceased dad. That’s one medium I could do without.
Funny and original comment. Nicely done
I am trying to watch “The Wire” (on ep. 10) because it is one the highest rated show on imdb, but it doesn’t click in me. It is high quality product. Acting, music, camera work are all good. But is just boring for me, and I force myself to do it.
Same was with The Sopranos btw.
P. S. Ricky Gervais is funniest comedian for me. I watched his Life’s Too Short, After Life and I like it a lot. For me it’s very funny and bravely. Never watched British The office, may be shouldn’t, thanks.
Agree, I actually think he is a fantastic actor and that’s missed in the role, don’t confuse the role with the actor and the tone of UK black comedy. Yes he roasts but it’s in a highlight kind of way and tends to be pointed at mocking privilege and arrogance. I’d suggest trying his other stuff like afterlife.
The wire’s magic is that every character seems real, more like the show is a documentary rather than a TV show. And it carries all the way through, the quality never ends. You have to accept that you are watching a slow burn documentary, else you won’t get it.
Only When I got to season 3 did I understand why people rave about it. Each season is like an onion layer.
I think it takes a different approach mentally to enjoy it. Especially compared to anything modern. I’m working through it slowly myself and just finished season 3. I watch it with friends tho which maybe makes it easier to watch.
All that said, if it’s not clicking after 10 hours, could be best to put it down. You can always try again later.
If the actual premise of the show isn’t interesting, then it may not matter how quality it is.
Hmm. I don’t know how I would feel if a person told me they found the premise of The Wire uninteresting… it’s a deep look at poverty, political corruption, black American life in inner city Baltimore, commentary on police and our justice system etc etc etc… there’s a lot to chew on, unless you came from the same background as the characters idk how a person could find the premise boring intellectually, and even then I’d still be surprised. The pacing however… yeah season one is slow
While I personally liked the show, it is heavy. Not everyone likes watching shows about serious topics.
You’re the first person I’ve ever seen that made it that far into The Wire and didn’t like it. Are you American? If not, I think that maybe makes more sense. For Americans, it’s just such a great representation of so many things that every city experiences. And the fact that you see the same story from so many different perspectives is just SO compelling. I think it should be watched/taught in high schools because of how many perspectives it gives on the plights of society in American cities.
The US version of The Office, LOL.
Watched 8 episodes and would rather watch paint dry for the rest of my life than watching the rest of the series.
Your mom’s OnlyFans page.
Letterkenny. Absolutely zero laughs out of me and something about it just induces a headache. I wanted to like it, gave the entire first season a watch, but my god it was painful.
I’m just here to see if anyone has any wrong opinions about something I love.
For me it’s Friends. I don’t get all the hype about it until today. I tried watching a few episodes but it was nothing special. It was just a sitcom, nothimg special about it.
Same here. Personally I thought the British comedy Coupling was so much better done.
I haven’t seen a full episode but Big Train seems like it had some legs, and was right around The Office timeframe.
My favorite scene with a VERY young Simon Pegg: https://youtu.be/VKH9ECC_Qa4?is=sntN4AxaEXgPHFsg
The US Coupling could have been the new Friends, but they bungled it just as bad as That 80s Show.
Except the last season. That was bad.
No Geoff. No show.
It was special because “everyone” watched it. The meh or bad parts were whatever, while the exciting or good parts were something you could talk with all your friends about at school. This made the good parts uniquely good.
So unless you happened to both be alive and watch it when it ran, it just won’t be amazing.
Alternately, you were “the kind of person who didn’t watch Friends”, which still made it a cultural touchstone.
I have friends who are into jam bands and I’m glad they go to live music shows. However, I’m the type of person that likes movies that are a tight 90 minutes long, and one of my favorite songs of all time is less than 2 minutes long. My time is worth money, treat it like it is. I don’t need to listen to a 15 minute guitar solo.
I’m lead tou nderstand that drugs are often involved in developing appreciation for jam bands.
Are you currently on drugs? No disrespect if you are, but it took me awhile to unpack that sentence.
“I’m going to need you to write a concise sentence before I let you go.”–Cop about to perform the Strunk & White sobriety test
Sadly, no, stone cold sober.
the Strunk & White sobriety test
got me good
is there an AP style variant?
I’d imagine a devilishly complicated citation of a book by a married couple two-generations into hyphenated last names about their ancestors published by their parents’ eponymous publishing house.
Harry Potter, even ignoring how much of a piece of shit the author is the books just aren’t particularly well thought out.
