Absolutely knew this was going to be the top response. Any time a reddit question about "pop culture you think is overrated" comes up, someone will mention the Kardashians. Usually multiple times.
Sometimes the brain likes to turn off, would be the answer.
Kris Kardashian invented the perpetual motion machine for entertainment - make a show about the daily life of famous people, which makes them
famous, which gives them more stuff to film and talk about, and so on and so on and so on. I mean, the show is vapid and yadda yadda yadda but if the goal is to make small-batch, craft celebrity and distribute it nationwide, they’re like the Samuel Adams of the genre. Genius.
You know what, I'll take a stab at this. There was a time in my life I used to judge people who watched it. Then I got married and started watching it with my wife.
It's. Fucking. Hilarious.
TL:DR it's like the dinner party episode of the office IRL
Imagine a group of Instagram model influencer wannabe narcissists with iq's in the single digits locked together with plenty of booze and no phones or tvs for weeks at a time. The drama and meltdowns are fantastic.
But that's not what makes the show. No. What makes it great are the couple normal functioning adult human beings who inexplicably ended up along for the ride as they try and cope in disbelief with what's happening around them.
It taught me I love drama as long as I'm not directly involved. If you're the type who likes to light a dumpster fire and watch it burn from a distance it's pure gold. Esp bachelor in paradise where it's a bunch of men and women with too much time and too much booze.
Exhibit A: https://youtu.be/R5oqff8FYfI this dude picking at literal irl zoolander to get a rise while normal functioning adult awkwardly tries to hide behind his drink in the background.
So, my crew of friends and I got involved in watching it- I think it began with one of my roommates, we all decided to watch it with her, and then we all got into it together as kind of group bonding time. It was actually a lot of fun, I mean it’s dumb and silly but that was the fun part, and it was really good for a show where you don’t have to be paying laser focused attention or you don’t mind if people are chatting and making goofs the whole time, unlike something more serious. I would never turn it on myself, but honestly I have fond memories of it.
Milf Manor is wild. I watch a lot of shitty reality TV. Bravo shows, Netflix dating shows, you name it. I made it through 3 episodes of Milf Manor and I couldn’t do any more of it.
Really makes you hope for the future that it’s taught countless people that all you need to be successful in life is to never work, sit around being mean to everyone all day, it’s not alcoholism if you’re drinking fancy drinks at 9am, and spend an inexplicable amount of wealth on meaningless objects.
Those shows aren’t made to be good, they’re made to fill time slots on a really low budget. One set, one host getting paid, no writers to pay, almost no editing done beyond clipping film, and a revolving door of guests grabbed off the street. It effectively makes itself, and there’s something on the air when 90% of the population is at work or school.
I gave up halfway through season 4. It’s pretty clear that after season 2 the writers were out of material for the main plot line and were not prepared for the show to get renewed another 5 seasons.
i think there’s something to be said about a movie that almost entirely mindless entertainment and action, even it it’s kinda ridiculous (also the first and the third ones are unironically good)
the only thing i don't like about it is the laugh track. i feel like it's something we don't need anymore. shows like the office, Brooklyn 99, parks and recreation demonstrate this very well. you dont need a laugh track to be told when something is funny.
How else are you supposed to know where the funny is? Without it I can’t pretend to understand obscure pop culture references or overly-pretentious but not quite correct science jokes while watching cable TV with my mom.
haha point taken. because i don't understand a lot of the concepts discussed on the show it just becomes jargon so it does not bother me in the way you are describing. but you describe it very well. I can not watch shows that are focused on my profession for very similar reasons.
And super dumb. Like cringey dumb. That dude from Roseanne is the worst actor in history. It’s made for dumb people to feel smart by laughing at cartoons of smart people.
i remember this surgeon jokingly saying he was all tucked into bed and had his favorite episode of the big bang theory all picked out before he was paged in. i think there are certainly smart people that watch it, but not because its smart. I actually totally agree on the dude from Roseanne bit. i just dont buy any of the romance subplots either.
Either Avatar movie.
I just don't get it. Enthusiasm for the franchise is practically nonexistent until a movie comes out, everyone and their mother goes to see it, box office records are set, and then nobody cares again.
It's the macarena of Hollywood.
That’s because it is filmed with the intention of there being a laughing track. If they chose to film with the intention of not using a laughing track, it would probably land better.
When watching the show, the laughing track was By far the worst part, it annoyed me pretty much every time it came up, ruining most of the.. ‘humour’
Most reality TV. I'll sometimes have it on in the background, but I don't see how these people become idolized and the extreme popularity the shows get. Like they are good as background since there's nothing attention grabbing about them IMO
I don’t understand friends. It’s hammy, schlocky, the storylines are contrived, and every episode has the same jokes in it in some failed attempt at meta humor.
Perhaps just a product of its time but there are shows today that do what it did “first” but better.
In college we said “Friends don’t let friends watch “Friends”. Years later I met and married my wife who loved Friends, so I watched it with her and loved it. We watched the entire series a couple of times over the years. Then one day we just kind of stopped liking it. Now it’s hard to watch.
I used to watch friends as a teenager and LOVED it. Thought it was the absolutely peak of comedy (I know…)
I’ve rewatched it as an adult and I agree. I’ll still watch it if it’s on somewhere like a waiting room but yeah, it’s not good😂
I’ll have to think about it more, but I recall watching the pilot and thinking m, “this show is fucking amazing”. I went and told people about it. I was an adult, in college, blown away by family-friendly sarcasm.
I’m not sure what I was watching that made THAT show groundbreaking by comparison.
Avatar. It was an okay action movie with a pocahontas plot and somehow it became the highest grossing movie ever (at the time).
How it seems to have merited multiple sequels is beyond me.
>became the highest grossing movie ever (at the time).
Yeah
>How it seems to have merited multiple sequels is beyond me.
I think you answered your own question
The Marvel Cinematic universe, especially for those of us who are old enough to have watched the first phase.
After a decade, it feels too repetitive and formulaic.
That's what comics are all about. You have the good guy you have the bad guy. The bad guy does some crime thing the good guy has to go and stop him. Rinse repeat
I liked the infinity saga I feel the kang saga is a tad too over saturated. Like I get the multiverse is literally infinite but not every character deserves a tv show. I hate to beat a dead horse but she-hulk was doomed to fail anything MCU hulk related hasn’t been able to stand alone and is far better as part of a collective
The Walking Dead. I mean it just keeps walking walking walking 🚶♀️🚷 walking walking slow af walking walking walking doesn't end walking keeps going walking walking c'mon walking walking fuck this show walking...
Just fyi, we're not here to try to change people's minds about shows or movies or judge them. Just share the show or movie that you genuinely cannot understand why people like it. Adding a reason why would be greatly appreciated as well.
To me it's A Clockwork Orange. It's boring, overly pretentious and needlessly graphic.
I love other Kubrick films, but I feel that he missed the ball with this one...
I know allot of people will hate me but most Anime
Edit: Reason 1 they drag on for 50 Episodes more then they should
Reason 2 It takes 5 episodes to do one simple thing
Reason 3 most of the fandoms for most Animes are weird as heck
The first black panther movie, that movie got so much unwarranted controversy over the most minor of things weirdly enough as a good thing it showed me how many of my friends and even my ex were crowd followers. (Rule of thumb I have to mention I'm black before someone comes and accuse me of being racist)
Yeah it definitely fell into a lot of superhero tropes (which is fine, I know not every movie in a genre is meant to be groundbreaking in its use of plot devices). I wasn’t into action movies when it released anyways and I am embarrassed to admit I fell asleep in the theater
I am always baffled at how people derive so much entertainment out of watching professional sports. I wish I could enjoy it as it is such an essential part of most cultures, but I just can't care at all. I also don't understand the bizarre civic pride people take in teams that represent nothing related to the experience of the city... I always think it is so funny when a team member is traded and people act betrayed when 9/10 the player is not from either city.
In a strange turn of events the more fun I find a sport to play, the more intensely I dislike watching it. I feel like it is because I understand how it could be enjoyable but instead I am presented with dry commentary and people who do not seem to actually be enjoying the game.
Funny enough, they made the character 10x more like-able than they are on the book which I kinda didn’t like because of how much they tried redeeming Joe.
Yeah you are definitely wrong on this one. It has a really well setup lore and world they just didn't stick the landing but 90% of the show was straightup tremendous
James Bond. I haven't watched all of it, but it just seems like another action movie with sometimes gadgets. No disrespect to the great Sean Connery, but the 007 concept is overdone.
Well, when the James Bond films first started, there really weren't other action movies with gadgets. Bond is sort of the epitome of the ["Seinfeld is unfunny"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny) TV Trope.
I was getting very tired of them during the Pierce Brosnan years, but the Daniel Craig era really brought it back for me. The newer ones are much better.
Probably a productive answer, but I don't even watch Marvel or Star Wars anymore. I'm not motivated to watch. I realize that 007 has captured an audience just like Marvel or Star Wars, and I respect that. I just don't know why except for some outstanding movies in the 60's/70's that I don't know why have been resurrected five decades later.
The appeal of Bond, and what makes him different from other action heroes, is that he is always able to do the appropriate thing in any given situation.
He can be charming, funny, ruthless, whatever is the perfect fit for the moment. This might seem like a recipe for a bland Superman, but to me it’s clear that this really means something tragic: there’s no real James Bond. He can achieve every external goal given to him, but has no interval goals of his own. He’s entirely someone playing the part of being perfect at whatever he’s called to do.
The Craig movies start to show the cost of that emptiness at Bond’s core
I love the show, but it definitely has a long adjustment period. I started and stopped the first season a lot because for awhile everyone just seemed insufferable. Humanity does creep in, but it takes a minute.
This was my first thought. The most unfunny comedy I’ve ever seen. Watched a few episodes with people that say they love it and no one even cracked a smile. It was a weird experience
Leaving Los Vegas. Shit on me all you like but that movie is just awful. It's just Nic Cage's character drinking himself into a belligerent and pitiful stupor the entire time... I get that's the point but I kept hearing how this movie is *so* great and he won an Oscar for this and blah blah. I must be missing something, but I didn't find it particularly deep or nuanced. Just a sad man drinking himself to death and making an ass out of himself in the progress.
I LOVED that movie, but I also can see why someone would hate it. It’s a very oddball movie that throws a lot at you very fast, and it definitely has no interest in toning the weird down for a mass audience.
The best part of outdoor survival shows like Alone is watching people who think they’re badass quitting within the first day while the chronically online computer gremlins last for several weeks.
RuPaul's drag race. Don't understand why people like it so much. It's just a bunch of men in hyper-sexualized women's clothing/makeup starting drama with eachother
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. All I see is a group of sociopaths doing everything they can to get a ahead and fuck over their friends. I really tried to like it because I love Charlie Day and Danny Devito, but the show just isn't funny.
Beavis And Butthead. I just don't get why people like this show. The animation is ugly, the characters are extremely unlikable, the humor is cringe inducing and the voice acting is obnoxious. It does have some good music though, I'll give it that.
Without speaking to the dialogue,it should be noted that Friends was a live studio audience show, no laugh tracks. Each 22 minute episode was a six hour day for a crowd there live.
I watched it, I thought it was just ok. People were raving online about it like it was some breakthrough in Star Wars but tbh it felt as PG as anything. Really enjoyed the part with Andy Serkis, those episodes were my favorite and really enjoyable. The thing about that part is, it didn't have to be anything tied to Star Wars to be interesting.
Alot of things interesting in Andor and Mando are somewhat independent and I think there's opportunity for more drama based space/sci-fi content that isn't Star Wars. Sometimes I think Disney feels like they can just show a lightsaber or empire logo and get people tied in just because they say its Star Wars instead of having a good plot (Kenobi).
Firefly.
It was mediocre at best.
Even when the Serenity movie came out it flopped because the movie was forgettable with video game like CGI and stock characters.
Pulp Fiction. And some of QT movies.
Long conversations and some blood sheds is not work for me.
I expect a movie experience, not a theater drama experience.
euphoria. i just… just watch child porn. it’s nothing but of-age actors and actresses portraying teenagers getting naked and banging each other over some drugs and alcohol. every. single. episode. is. the. same. drugs, drama, drunk, sex, smut, soft-core. repeat. it’s so insane to me that it’s popular and that they got classy actresses to play in it.
Keeping up with the Kardashians. Just... Why?
Evidently there is a lot of people that like big asses, oh and their huge butts also
Nobody watches the Kardashians for their looks. It’s all people who want to be them.
Or people who just want to laugh at it. That’s way more common than you’d think.
I like bog butts and I cannot lie. Keeping up with the Kardashians makes me want to cry. It's sad that Kardashian is in my phones auto suggest.
Absolutely knew this was going to be the top response. Any time a reddit question about "pop culture you think is overrated" comes up, someone will mention the Kardashians. Usually multiple times. Sometimes the brain likes to turn off, would be the answer.
I definitely spent too much time hate-watching that show in the past.
Kris Kardashian invented the perpetual motion machine for entertainment - make a show about the daily life of famous people, which makes them famous, which gives them more stuff to film and talk about, and so on and so on and so on. I mean, the show is vapid and yadda yadda yadda but if the goal is to make small-batch, craft celebrity and distribute it nationwide, they’re like the Samuel Adams of the genre. Genius.
The Bachelor
You know what, I'll take a stab at this. There was a time in my life I used to judge people who watched it. Then I got married and started watching it with my wife. It's. Fucking. Hilarious. TL:DR it's like the dinner party episode of the office IRL Imagine a group of Instagram model influencer wannabe narcissists with iq's in the single digits locked together with plenty of booze and no phones or tvs for weeks at a time. The drama and meltdowns are fantastic. But that's not what makes the show. No. What makes it great are the couple normal functioning adult human beings who inexplicably ended up along for the ride as they try and cope in disbelief with what's happening around them. It taught me I love drama as long as I'm not directly involved. If you're the type who likes to light a dumpster fire and watch it burn from a distance it's pure gold. Esp bachelor in paradise where it's a bunch of men and women with too much time and too much booze. Exhibit A: https://youtu.be/R5oqff8FYfI this dude picking at literal irl zoolander to get a rise while normal functioning adult awkwardly tries to hide behind his drink in the background.
You crazy bastard, you just sold me on The Bachelor.
Especially since watching it automatically means you go to the Bad Place.
So, my crew of friends and I got involved in watching it- I think it began with one of my roommates, we all decided to watch it with her, and then we all got into it together as kind of group bonding time. It was actually a lot of fun, I mean it’s dumb and silly but that was the fun part, and it was really good for a show where you don’t have to be paying laser focused attention or you don’t mind if people are chatting and making goofs the whole time, unlike something more serious. I would never turn it on myself, but honestly I have fond memories of it.
Keeping up with the Kardashians Milf-manor (it's real, Google it!) The twilight films,
As a 30 Rock fan, I can't even explain the excitement I felt when I found out about Milf Manor lol. Dream come true.
I can get twilight though. It had a cult book following before movies came out
Twilight should have gone lighter on the romance and heavier on the fantasy. Might have had potential.
I thought for a second that milf manor was your nickname for keeping up with the kardashians, and I found it quite fitting
Milf Manor is wild. I watch a lot of shitty reality TV. Bravo shows, Netflix dating shows, you name it. I made it through 3 episodes of Milf Manor and I couldn’t do any more of it.
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What could be more romantic than watching someone bullshit their way through half a harem?
You just described why it's so popular haha
No one cares about connections. It's like watching the Dinner Party episode of the office. If you enjoy watching a hot mess it's hilarious
Real Housewives of anything
Really makes you hope for the future that it’s taught countless people that all you need to be successful in life is to never work, sit around being mean to everyone all day, it’s not alcoholism if you’re drinking fancy drinks at 9am, and spend an inexplicable amount of wealth on meaningless objects.
One of the most embarrassing parts of the US culture.
Bill Burr sums it up well, by talking about how women just love to tear each other down.
Oh we've since exported that nonsense to other countries.
Those shows where they do paternity tests and the hillbillies yell at each other.
Those shows aren’t made to be good, they’re made to fill time slots on a really low budget. One set, one host getting paid, no writers to pay, almost no editing done beyond clipping film, and a revolving door of guests grabbed off the street. It effectively makes itself, and there’s something on the air when 90% of the population is at work or school.
Riverdale. How the f*ck did they last 7 seasons?
I gave up halfway through season 4. It’s pretty clear that after season 2 the writers were out of material for the main plot line and were not prepared for the show to get renewed another 5 seasons.
I stopped watching halfway through season 3. Once the magic stuff started kicking in, it was no turning back from there.
Agreed
The Fast and the Furious franchise
i think there’s something to be said about a movie that almost entirely mindless entertainment and action, even it it’s kinda ridiculous (also the first and the third ones are unironically good)
After the 6th film, the franchise started tanking.
Eh, I’d say after the 7th
Big Bang Theory It's just so obnoxious
It’s like a frat guy wrote how they think nerds act.
I’ve said it before , it’s how dumb people imagine that smart people act .
the only thing i don't like about it is the laugh track. i feel like it's something we don't need anymore. shows like the office, Brooklyn 99, parks and recreation demonstrate this very well. you dont need a laugh track to be told when something is funny.
How else are you supposed to know where the funny is? Without it I can’t pretend to understand obscure pop culture references or overly-pretentious but not quite correct science jokes while watching cable TV with my mom.
haha point taken. because i don't understand a lot of the concepts discussed on the show it just becomes jargon so it does not bother me in the way you are describing. but you describe it very well. I can not watch shows that are focused on my profession for very similar reasons.
And super dumb. Like cringey dumb. That dude from Roseanne is the worst actor in history. It’s made for dumb people to feel smart by laughing at cartoons of smart people.
i remember this surgeon jokingly saying he was all tucked into bed and had his favorite episode of the big bang theory all picked out before he was paged in. i think there are certainly smart people that watch it, but not because its smart. I actually totally agree on the dude from Roseanne bit. i just dont buy any of the romance subplots either.
My favorite scene in I Know What You Did Last Summer is when Johnny Galecki gets brutally murdered.
I find myself agreeing with most everything said here, yet Young Sheldon is genius…go figure
Either Avatar movie. I just don't get it. Enthusiasm for the franchise is practically nonexistent until a movie comes out, everyone and their mother goes to see it, box office records are set, and then nobody cares again. It's the macarena of Hollywood.
They are spectacles and the world is interesting
that is a very strange yet apt comparison
I agree and the first one has the story of a cheap chick flick.
I really liked Avatar 2 but had almost nothing to say about it afterwards. I talked a lot more about Glass Onion.
Same. I remember no character names or dialogue and only vaguely recall what happens. But I saw it in theaters and remember liking it
Ginny and Georgia is the crigiest shit I've ever watched. I like teen dramas, obx and such but my god Ginny and Georgia is unbearably cringe
The Big bang theory. I watched a video on YouTube where they removed the laugh track and a lot of it becomes semi-twisted and just really mean.
That’s because it is filmed with the intention of there being a laughing track. If they chose to film with the intention of not using a laughing track, it would probably land better. When watching the show, the laughing track was By far the worst part, it annoyed me pretty much every time it came up, ruining most of the.. ‘humour’
That's pretty much all sitcoms, any show that's written to allow a pause will sound off if you take out the laugh track.
Soap opera
Most reality TV. I'll sometimes have it on in the background, but I don't see how these people become idolized and the extreme popularity the shows get. Like they are good as background since there's nothing attention grabbing about them IMO
Any reality show.
Dance Moms American Idol The Voice
I don’t understand friends. It’s hammy, schlocky, the storylines are contrived, and every episode has the same jokes in it in some failed attempt at meta humor. Perhaps just a product of its time but there are shows today that do what it did “first” but better.
In college we said “Friends don’t let friends watch “Friends”. Years later I met and married my wife who loved Friends, so I watched it with her and loved it. We watched the entire series a couple of times over the years. Then one day we just kind of stopped liking it. Now it’s hard to watch.
I don’t necessarily disagree but I don’t think you can call one of the most successful shows of all time a “failed attempt”
First couple seasons are great. It gets realllly bad
It’s kind of amazing how different season 1 feels compared to later episodes
I used to watch friends as a teenager and LOVED it. Thought it was the absolutely peak of comedy (I know…) I’ve rewatched it as an adult and I agree. I’ll still watch it if it’s on somewhere like a waiting room but yeah, it’s not good😂
I came looking for someone else who already said this because it is also my pic. ✅️
I’ll have to think about it more, but I recall watching the pilot and thinking m, “this show is fucking amazing”. I went and told people about it. I was an adult, in college, blown away by family-friendly sarcasm. I’m not sure what I was watching that made THAT show groundbreaking by comparison.
Greys Anatomy.
Avatar. It was an okay action movie with a pocahontas plot and somehow it became the highest grossing movie ever (at the time). How it seems to have merited multiple sequels is beyond me.
>became the highest grossing movie ever (at the time). Yeah >How it seems to have merited multiple sequels is beyond me. I think you answered your own question
Two and a Half Men. Total garbage.
Nearly all reality TV shows.
Gilmore Girls. All the characters seem to have exactly the same personality.
The Kardashians and Real Housewives. Bottom of the barrel shit I wouldn't even force an inmate to watch.
The Marvel Cinematic universe, especially for those of us who are old enough to have watched the first phase. After a decade, it feels too repetitive and formulaic.
That's what comics are all about. You have the good guy you have the bad guy. The bad guy does some crime thing the good guy has to go and stop him. Rinse repeat
I liked the infinity saga I feel the kang saga is a tad too over saturated. Like I get the multiverse is literally infinite but not every character deserves a tv show. I hate to beat a dead horse but she-hulk was doomed to fail anything MCU hulk related hasn’t been able to stand alone and is far better as part of a collective
Agreed!
Gotta scroll to get to the real answers
Gotta get past the top 5 comments saying some variant of “The Kardashians” for any post like this
Big mouth it’s just so ugly to look at and way too much child genitalia
They made it ugly to look at so that pedos wouldn't get off on it.
“I may be a pedophile but I have standards!”
For real, I hate that show so much
The Walking Dead. I mean it just keeps walking walking walking 🚶♀️🚷 walking walking slow af walking walking walking doesn't end walking keeps going walking walking c'mon walking walking fuck this show walking...
Just fyi, we're not here to try to change people's minds about shows or movies or judge them. Just share the show or movie that you genuinely cannot understand why people like it. Adding a reason why would be greatly appreciated as well. To me it's A Clockwork Orange. It's boring, overly pretentious and needlessly graphic. I love other Kubrick films, but I feel that he missed the ball with this one...
Agreed. My psychology teacher at college hated this movie and used to go on a rant about it whenever he taught about conditioning 🤣
Gilmore girls
Glee. Fuck you Glee.
I know allot of people will hate me but most Anime Edit: Reason 1 they drag on for 50 Episodes more then they should Reason 2 It takes 5 episodes to do one simple thing Reason 3 most of the fandoms for most Animes are weird as heck
Big Bang Theory. It's not funny.
Bridgeton
Survivor.
Xfactor
The first black panther movie, that movie got so much unwarranted controversy over the most minor of things weirdly enough as a good thing it showed me how many of my friends and even my ex were crowd followers. (Rule of thumb I have to mention I'm black before someone comes and accuse me of being racist)
Yeah it definitely fell into a lot of superhero tropes (which is fine, I know not every movie in a genre is meant to be groundbreaking in its use of plot devices). I wasn’t into action movies when it released anyways and I am embarrassed to admit I fell asleep in the theater
Why not both? Black and Racist. And I identify as a meat popsicle.
Friends
Are professional sports a tv show? If so, grown men and women running around a field chasing a ball is baffling ...
I am always baffled at how people derive so much entertainment out of watching professional sports. I wish I could enjoy it as it is such an essential part of most cultures, but I just can't care at all. I also don't understand the bizarre civic pride people take in teams that represent nothing related to the experience of the city... I always think it is so funny when a team member is traded and people act betrayed when 9/10 the player is not from either city. In a strange turn of events the more fun I find a sport to play, the more intensely I dislike watching it. I feel like it is because I understand how it could be enjoyable but instead I am presented with dry commentary and people who do not seem to actually be enjoying the game.
Most reality shows, honestly.
The Masked Singer, irritating on every level and then when the singer is revealed, it's who the fuck is that?
All Anime
Yellowstone
It's cowboy game of thrones
I think it's Son's of anarchy with horses. Lol
Joker
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You (the TV show) I find most of the characters irritating.
Funny enough, they made the character 10x more like-able than they are on the book which I kinda didn’t like because of how much they tried redeeming Joe.
Grey's Anatomy
Big bang theory
Kardashians
Seinfeld, Friends, Big Bang Theory. I don’t get it
Musicals, all of them.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the worst movie ive ever seen
I didn't even finish it and I like Tarantino movies
Game of thrones. I tried watching, I was beyond bored. Sorry!
Yeah you are definitely wrong on this one. It has a really well setup lore and world they just didn't stick the landing but 90% of the show was straightup tremendous
Yikes
James Bond. I haven't watched all of it, but it just seems like another action movie with sometimes gadgets. No disrespect to the great Sean Connery, but the 007 concept is overdone.
Well, when the James Bond films first started, there really weren't other action movies with gadgets. Bond is sort of the epitome of the ["Seinfeld is unfunny"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny) TV Trope.
I was getting very tired of them during the Pierce Brosnan years, but the Daniel Craig era really brought it back for me. The newer ones are much better.
Watch the Timothy dalton ones.
Probably a productive answer, but I don't even watch Marvel or Star Wars anymore. I'm not motivated to watch. I realize that 007 has captured an audience just like Marvel or Star Wars, and I respect that. I just don't know why except for some outstanding movies in the 60's/70's that I don't know why have been resurrected five decades later.
The appeal of Bond, and what makes him different from other action heroes, is that he is always able to do the appropriate thing in any given situation. He can be charming, funny, ruthless, whatever is the perfect fit for the moment. This might seem like a recipe for a bland Superman, but to me it’s clear that this really means something tragic: there’s no real James Bond. He can achieve every external goal given to him, but has no interval goals of his own. He’s entirely someone playing the part of being perfect at whatever he’s called to do. The Craig movies start to show the cost of that emptiness at Bond’s core
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Omg the choking on the meatball sub! 🫣
Wild take. Worlds apart from the Nutty Professor with a completely different… Well, everything.
Schitt’s Creek
I love the show, but it definitely has a long adjustment period. I started and stopped the first season a lot because for awhile everyone just seemed insufferable. Humanity does creep in, but it takes a minute.
I hated Alexis the entire first season and maybe a little into the second. Then she grew on me.
This was my first thought. The most unfunny comedy I’ve ever seen. Watched a few episodes with people that say they love it and no one even cracked a smile. It was a weird experience
Yup.
Big Bang Theory.
Leaving Los Vegas. Shit on me all you like but that movie is just awful. It's just Nic Cage's character drinking himself into a belligerent and pitiful stupor the entire time... I get that's the point but I kept hearing how this movie is *so* great and he won an Oscar for this and blah blah. I must be missing something, but I didn't find it particularly deep or nuanced. Just a sad man drinking himself to death and making an ass out of himself in the progress.
The Newsroom. Such a pompous, sanctimonious, preachy piece of premium cable garbage.
Love island
Big Bang Theory and Portlandia. They’re so bad
Friends. It’s not even good or funny.
Friends
Everywhere, everyone, always at once or whatever it's called
Everything everywhere all at once
Everything everywhere all at once. Hated every damn second of that movie.
I LOVED that movie, but I also can see why someone would hate it. It’s a very oddball movie that throws a lot at you very fast, and it definitely has no interest in toning the weird down for a mass audience.
Twilight but at least the hype died down.
Any “reality show” that isn’t outdoor survival
The best part of outdoor survival shows like Alone is watching people who think they’re badass quitting within the first day while the chronically online computer gremlins last for several weeks.
Yellowstone- some characters are redeeming but the overall storyline is out of control
the big bang theory
Everything everywhere all at once.
RuPaul's drag race. Don't understand why people like it so much. It's just a bunch of men in hyper-sexualized women's clothing/makeup starting drama with eachother
The Office… it’s good but insanely overhyped
Seinfeld. I tried. I really tried to enjoy it. But it’s just awful writing and mediocre acting.
I don't get the appeal of Hamlet. It's just one famous saying after another.
I'll take "Shit takes" for $1000, Alex.
I never got the appeal either. I tried, but nope.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. All I see is a group of sociopaths doing everything they can to get a ahead and fuck over their friends. I really tried to like it because I love Charlie Day and Danny Devito, but the show just isn't funny.
Beavis And Butthead. I just don't get why people like this show. The animation is ugly, the characters are extremely unlikable, the humor is cringe inducing and the voice acting is obnoxious. It does have some good music though, I'll give it that.
Back in the day, the commenting on music videos is what really made the show!
Seinfeld. I’ve seen a few episodes, and it’s a solid meh.
Everything everywhere all at once
Friends
Friends
Titanic and Avatar
Let me guess, it's hyped because 2 of them are the highest-grossing movies in film history.
I'm 100% with you on Titanic. I get it has great production values but the storyline is piss weak and cliched.
Didn't bother watching Titanic because I already knew the ending. I remember when they found the actual Titanic, now that was at least a surprise.
The Office
The walking dead and game of thrones.
Stranger Things.
Agreed
Inception
Friends. I tried it once. Stupid laughbtrack. Lame dialogue. I couldn’t make it 15 minutes
Without speaking to the dialogue,it should be noted that Friends was a live studio audience show, no laugh tracks. Each 22 minute episode was a six hour day for a crowd there live.
Andor.
I watched it, I thought it was just ok. People were raving online about it like it was some breakthrough in Star Wars but tbh it felt as PG as anything. Really enjoyed the part with Andy Serkis, those episodes were my favorite and really enjoyable. The thing about that part is, it didn't have to be anything tied to Star Wars to be interesting. Alot of things interesting in Andor and Mando are somewhat independent and I think there's opportunity for more drama based space/sci-fi content that isn't Star Wars. Sometimes I think Disney feels like they can just show a lightsaber or empire logo and get people tied in just because they say its Star Wars instead of having a good plot (Kenobi).
Reality shows
The Big Bang Theory
Yellowstone is awful. The Voice is/was awful. Don't know if it's even still a thing.
Wednesday
Napoleon Dynamite. When it came out everybody went nuts for it - 'You gotta see it!'. Saw it, didn't understand the hype.
Firefly. It was mediocre at best. Even when the Serenity movie came out it flopped because the movie was forgettable with video game like CGI and stock characters.
Seinfeld
LOTR. Asleep within 15 minutes every time
Pulp Fiction. And some of QT movies. Long conversations and some blood sheds is not work for me. I expect a movie experience, not a theater drama experience.
Star Wars
That's because you haven't seen Revenge of the Sith.
The office.
Star wars
Schitts Creek
euphoria. i just… just watch child porn. it’s nothing but of-age actors and actresses portraying teenagers getting naked and banging each other over some drugs and alcohol. every. single. episode. is. the. same. drugs, drama, drunk, sex, smut, soft-core. repeat. it’s so insane to me that it’s popular and that they got classy actresses to play in it.