Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.
Walking dead Lost All Marvel and DC movies
The Princess Bride. Only USians care about that movie, which is absolutely not the most quotable movie (that goes to Commando).
Cowboy Bebop is really… okay? It feels like nothing is happening, although Samurai Champloo is the same but still entertaining enough that I’ve made it halfway through
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
Try Community, it’s like the office but with humour
I have tried to start the office no less than 5 times. I even tried someone’s suggestion of skipping season 1.
I just can’t get into it or find it funny.
Also something about Steve Carrel annoys me the moment I see him. Along with Ben Stiller, who’s not in it but same effect
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.
Mr. Robot. I can’t tell if this is good or terrible.
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.
Isn’t that universally considered garbage? I mean it’s so bad even people who watch it can’t deny
TV. All of it. Films. Most of them.
GoT, Simpsons, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things,
I did like the Game of Thrones novels, but, yeah, the TV series didn’t really hook me.
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.
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.
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
Goodfellas i could do, has been a while though, might have to go for a rewatch.
The departed was stellar, if you can deal with subtitles(or terrible dubbing, if that’s your thing), i would recommend the original movie on which it’s based, Infernal Affairs.
I personally hate gore so I dislike most horror. I do like psychological and eldritch horror.
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.
What made Seinfeld funny was the situations they set up, like the one where Jerry and George pretend to be the people listed on the sign held up by a limo driver in order to get a free ride home from the airport, only to discover that the people they’re impersonating are white supremacists on their way to speak at a rally at Madison Square Garden (for good measure, Kramer and Elaine are at MSG to protest the white supremacists). But watching Curb Your Enthusiasm all these years has made it clear that it was really Larry David that was creating these situations, and his show does it a lot better.
The other thing that made Seinfeld funny was the copious amounts of weed I was smoking at the time. These days, it just isn’t really that funny, and the
soundtrack(I meant laugh track – the soundtrack with the funky bass line was great) just makes it worse. There was never anything funny about Friends. I watched it because I was in love with Courtney Cox.
Seinfeld had much better writing than Friends
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.
It basically pioneered the genre of shallow insecure narcissists clashing with each other and their surroundings
IMHO the real pioneer of this genre was the earlier show Buffalo Bill starring Dabney Coleman. It also happens to be the vehicle that introduced Geena Davis to the world.
I’ve never even heard of that one so I’ll guess it’s not super mainstream. But that’s interesting nonetheless.
It only ran for two seasons and never rated very high. It did get a ton of Emmy nominations, though. Probably just a bit too early for its time – people weren’t ready in 1984 for a thoroughly reprehensible lead character. My favorite scene was one where he hangs a dude out the window of a skyscraper by his feet, but I can’t find a clip of it. Like all '80s sitcoms, the laugh track was atrocious.
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
Basically everything of the last 20 years that wasn’t Edgerunners or Wednesday, so Breaking Bad, GoT, Walking Dead, and so on.
When it comes to sitcoms with laugh tracks, the list of what I like is shorter.
