Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.
I personally hate gore so I dislike most horror. I do like psychological and eldritch horror.
Most of them.
When it comes to sitcoms with laugh tracks, the list of what I like is shorter.
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.
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.
Buffy.
Please don’t tell me to try either the episode where no-one speaks, or the episode that’s a musical. Many different friends have tried to persuade me Buffy is good by showing me an episode and it’s always one of those two.
Okay I actually have trouble with the concept someone showed you the musical episode as an intro. What makes that good is the contrast between the several seasons of regular show and that episode. It’d be like showing off a restaurant entirely with the lemon sorbet.
Any show with a laugh track I can’t stand.
Star Wars. I watched the middle three way back when. Didn’t care enough to watch the others.
I don’t care for most of the Star Trek movies
Which ones are the middle three?
Getting to the point where I don’t hear the laugh track anymore is a major feat, and a show has to be very funny for me to want to try to get to that point.
Frasier or IT Crowd, for example, are a couple that come to mind.
It’s not universally praised, but I think the overall sentiment for the Battalestar Galactica reboot is very positive. Even as a huge sci-fi guy and knowing the post 9/11 context of the show airing, never have I ever gone from all-in to hate watch so fast with a show. It has some fantastic stuff, maybe even, debatably, some of the best sci-fi/drama moments of all time. But it utterly and completely fails to deliver on its own premise in such a fantastic and increasingly absurd way as it goes on that I only finished it out of sheer morbid curiosity of how bad it could get.
I liked that first/early episode. Something about 33 minutes until the bad guys catch up to them. However the rest of the show was just watching everyone keep secrets from each other so the story could happen. A lot like Lost. Not my thing.
The mini series is phenomenal, the last season is… something. If I recall, didn’t they rush things because of the writers guild strike?
Saw a quote from GRRM on wikipedia under critiques specifically about being a crappy way to end a story, semi ironic to me considering GOT (yeah, know he didn’t write the ending) ended so poorly I’ve never done a rematch. I’d probably rewatch the first few seasons of bsg though.
Beverley hills show in my youth
That was just pure bullshit
I felt that the whole Clampett/Drysdale saga rang true.
The Office 90210 Friends
Friends has always been so bad.
Friends: a celebration of hedonism and shallowness.
Seinfeld: basically the same.
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.
Seinfeld had much better writing than Friends
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
I won’t talk about TV shows, as I grew up without a TV, and only now I’m catching up. I’m currently at the stage where I’m enjoying Eureka…
However, movies is another world. I really don’t care for edgy action. Never really liked Transformers, Bad Boys, or The Fast and the Furious. Even though the last few FF movies went the way of Sharknado: purposefully made so bad that they are actually fun to watch when drunk. I’m sure there are other movies or movie series like that, but I don’t even care remembering them anymore.
The good place, solid 6/10. Don’t hate it, just don’t care for it, I even rewatched it to see if I was missing something. It felt lazy af at the end.
These be fighting words good sir…
BORTLES!!!
Any and all dating shows or shows that play on the wider population’s interest in intimacy, innuendo and relationships: Love Island, Naked and Afraid, Big Brother, The Bachelor, Temptation Island, Love is Blind… You get the idea. And as for those few that happen to be somewhat genuine, for instance those that focus on marginalized people (on the spectrum, LGBTQI): I don’t need to be reminded of the reality that already plagues me.
The Rings of Power’s Galadriel and evil Sauron are hot af but the show itself… I find myself looking at my phone after a few minutes of trying to endure it. I only force myself through it for my love of Tolkien’s works.
I just never learned to like Family Guy. Team Groening all the way!
Titanic. But I’m sure it’s a good movie or whatever. My first encounter with it just sadly coincided with one of my most traumatic relationships ever, so it’s unfortunately tainted for me.
I only force myself through it for my love of Tolkien’s works.
That show has no love for Tolkien’s works, though.
Yeah, that’s why it’s my love. ✌️
reality tv is what people watch, and ruins good shows, because they dont fund them as much.
No wonder I find myself pulled towards indie creators instead!
The Wire.
Really wanted to like it, but I didn’t watch it when it came out, and I just didn’t find it as “groundbreaking” as the masses felt it was. Didn’t even really find it that interesting/entertaining.
The wire is the only show that after seeing it, I decided to rewatch it immediately afterwards.
Marvel / superhero movies. I just have no interest in it as a genre.
Mcu build up to endgame was pretty peak, iron man movies are really entertaining and hold up so well, pretty much all of them do from then, post endgame is where it lost direction. Agents of shield was hella entertaining too, rewatched it recently.
mcu slop, from what ive seen, thier shows and movies are just promoting the next show or movie, nothing more. MCU works better as standalone series/ movies, with occasional crossovers. by why crossover every single release. x-men spinoffs prior to disneys buyout were better than what mcu has put out.
I was a teen during the peak avengers era and loved them then. Nowadays there’s maybe 1 superhero movie every 2-3 years that I actually watch and enjoy. It’s amazing how quickly the genre has gone the way of the western.
