Overhyped: matrix

Yes, Yes, Yes.

Add to that:
Beowulf (the animated one w/ Angelina)
300
Ghost
I love you Man
Matrix (all 3 of them)

I'll probably think of more later...

Seriously? Are you saying that just to get a rise outta people or did you really think it sucked? What kind of movies (aside from documentaries about black holes) do you like?

LOL

FWIW, I thought LOTR sucked, too. Just not my type of movie.

Fugg you...ya hairy fuuted bastid!!!

...I liked that movie...and 300..Beowulf not so much

And here we have the challenge of this type of thread. A movie/book/show can be really good and that doesn't mean I'll like it.

"I hated it" =/= "it sucked."

But "I thought it sucked" could = "I hated it"

I've never bothered to watch any of the LOTR films, so I'll withhold comment there.

Overrated movies: ET, Die Hard/Die Harder/etc, any and all Rocky movies after the first one, and that simply horrific remake of the Bad News Bears with Billy Bob Thornton.

Severely overrated TV: Friends, Seinfeld, ER, Law & Order (all flavors), CSI (all flavors), NYPD Blue, Two and a Half Men, and any cooking show with Sandra Lee.

lol I'll take that to mean that you liked it.:)

I totally forgot about the Matrix. I was totally lost in that movie. Another bad one that was totally overrated.

Huh? You're kidding, right? Why would I post my opinion just to get a rise out of someone? So, everyone else can post their opinions, but when I post mine, I'm doing it just to get a rise from someone??? Seriously? No, I REALLY didn't like it!

And to be quite honest with you, epchick, your last comment/question was incredibly rude!

dude, CHILL OUT. I was being sarcastic, I could careless whether you really liked the movie or not. And I thought my last comment was funny...to each their own, I guess.

HEY NOW...YOU TALKIN' FILTH FLARIN' FILTH ABOUT LAW AND ORDER AND 2 MEN AND KNUCKKLEHEAD!!!

Thats some mighty fine TV watchin' now you just watch your language!!!!!!

co-friggity sign. 2.5 Men goes in, you will not talk ill of it.

Christopher Meloni and Marishka Hargitay both get it too. L&O does not disappoint.

Juno.

Worst movie I have ever sat through. If I ever see Ellen Page in person, it will be very hard for me to not slap her.

A lot of the vampire shit that's been coming out is kind of overrated.

Windows 7 commercial cuz you know it wont wrk til u get a service patch

LMAO right! and im SO glad i held out and didnt buy a PC with Vista OS. i really think i wanna go Mac now.

and i really had to count backwards: 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95. maybe NT was after 2000.

Question DS: what warrants a renaming of a Windows OS? Sure updates are made to technology all the time - but theyre numbered (like AOL did - 2.5, 3, etc. they made to 9.0 before it got ridic and unnecessary). what changes so much, aside from the format/layout (like XP and Vista look and kinda work different), to completely rename it and sell it on new computers?

is it purely $$?

funny that you ask but quite simply Win 7 is the 7th OS.

Win 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista and now 7.

NT and 2000 were running off of XP's architecture.

Come to the Mac side of the Force.

well i figured it was the 7th OS. apparently im too young to remember 3.1 (i wouldve been 11 when Win95 came out, plus my elementary schools used Macs then, Apple 2e - why do i remember that?) and blanked on ME altogether.

i hate that the nomenclature is inconsistent. as is Windows general awesomeness. i just saw that new slim macbook in person today and was in love. (the owner came back from the bathroom and slid the laptop from between her folded NYTimes!)

i was impressed, especially since my 10-lb, 2004 POS Compaq is the equivalent to a hooptie on Pimp My Ride. buttons falling off (who needs a Q anyway?), print wearing off, spacebar sticking, painter's tape on the side, noisy fan, dust permanently in crevices... it just looks ancient. and obviously a hot mess.

ETA: you no answer my question. why come out with a new OS? especially when the time between XP -> Vista -> 7 is so short?

well come to mac where everything is named after predatory cats!



beginning Hijack here:

ETA This Morning: Why come out with new OSes? Well that depends on who you talk to.

Some say that Microsoft never really got XP right although XP is the one OS (as well as NT) that most businesses still use because of the stability.

Most did not adapt to Vista because of the incompatibility with drivers in some PC manufacturers which was way worse than it was when XP first came out.

Then there is the Linux issue which I cannot claim to fully understand albeit to say when you have an open source and FREE OS (as well as Ubuntu and other) that a few have adapted to, to get their PC running in any way they see fit.

Then of course there is the Mac issue. Me personally, I am in the camp that says the Microsoft made a good attempt to rip off the Mac OS and did a 1/2 @ssed job at doing so.

One good guess at the reason why Microsoft came out with Windows 7 is they want an OS that is stable and one they may hopefully won't have to patch so much (altho people have already found ways to break it HA!) as well as compete with Apple and to really make up for the failure that was Vista. It's one thing when consumers buy it but when businesses refuse to let go of a nearly 10 year old OS means that you effed up you bottom line.

Keep in mind however, the biggest difference between a Mac and Windows machine where the OS is concerned is that Apple uses pretty much the same parts for their machines across the board with fewer exceptions then Microsoft.

Meaning in short, on the MS end of things you can take 3 different brands (HP, Acer and Dell for instance) and they all have the similar specs but you will find differences in how they perform (remember this is the short version and I don't want to make it too confusing) whereas 2 macbooks with the same factory specs are the same macbooks until you do aftermarket upgrades.

Microsoft is picky about what they give their blessings to certifying particular PC parts,which has caused issues with their OS and machines being wonky,Apple just builds it all themselves w/o the hassle of 3rd party manufacturers (ltho there is a case pending: Apple sues Psystar) and thus they are capable of producing more stable machines.


if you have any further questions PM me.


/end of hijack...we now return you to your previous thread w/o further interruptions.

I agree that Law&Order is overrated. Also "the omg" train-wreck vh1 type crap. Oh, and "grey's anotomy" or "house" I actually heard this conversation the otehr day:

(scrubs was on in the background)
first friend: that was so inaccurate
second friend: well, it's not like it was house
first friend: that's true

Yeah, "House" is pretty good, but um...I would never look to that show for any actual medical knowledge. It's tv, just make it up.

and "L.A. Law" ran circles around "law and order" and it's re-runs could beat the new l&o svu or whatever.

Agreed totally, Shawshank was robbed.

I can't stand American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, that whole genre of shows. Or the competition dating shows - Bachelor, Bachelorette, etc. Really, pretty much any of reality shows that the whole premise is eliminating people for whatever purpose, through whatever method, to get to a winner. They all annoy me, whether they're about singing or dating or cooking or whatthehelleverstupidthing.

Stopped watching Grey's Anatomy a few seasons ago. The characters all get on my nerves.

Liked the original Matrix movie, fell asleep during the second, never bothered to watch the third.

Just don't get the appeal of the American Pie movies.

Read the Twilight books at the insistence of a teenage relative. I wasn't impressed (the last one especially is AWFUL). The movies look horrible.

if I ever meet you I will let you have a Final Destination moment and push you in front of a bus for that filth.
:)


Did anyone say that CSI was over rated? No? I say it then.

Real Sex is over rated. You don't get to see any really real sex and the sex that you do see turns the stomach.

Now having real sex, well...

Very true. But not all answers have been qualified that way.

Well taken. ;)

I'll admit it -- I'm an extreme Tolkien geek and have been since junior high. I've read Lord of the Rings at least once every couple of years, well over 20 times now. Regularly re-read The Silmarillion and The Hobbit, too. I have multiple copies of The Lord of the Rings, including this one:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/03...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I've taught classes and led discussion groups on LotR. This full-sized movie poster is framed and hanging in my office:

http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgfp1061...ing-poster.jpg

I have the director's cuts of all the movies. While there were places where I had to deal with the movies departing from the books, I thought P Jackson did an awesome job of adapting the books.

So yeah, I liked them. :D

Ditto.

Now, my question is, how many of your students took the short cut and just watched the movies instead of reading ?

Missing the Tom Bombadill part is usually key, HA!

Ah, Tom Bombadil. I did miss him in the movie, but I understand why he was left out.

I couldn't tell you about any students. The discussion groups have always involved reading the books a few chapters at a time and discussing them. The classes have been one time things I was asked to do on specific occasions, not ongoing classes, like a class I've done on finding God in LotR, Narnia and Harry Potter. Those classes have tended to have people who'd read all the books, read some of the books or never read the books. (But I hope they wanted to read the books afterward.)

**sorry for the ongoing hijack!!*

What got me into LotR was of course The Hobbit cartoon from back in the 70s and then reading it in elementary school. I would up reading the trilogy 2x (recreationally) back in the 90s and then when I heard the movie was coming I read it again between Fellowship and the Two Towers. I tried to get into The Silmarillion but I think by that point, I had enough. If George hadn't mangled the Star Wars Trilogy with the prequels, they would still be my top fave but I think LotR with the turnaround time and the extended edits that was fleshed out pushed it up! Also, I can't wait for the Hobbit.

Any reservations about del Toro directing?

neverending Story! OVER RATED!

Not really, at least not so far.

WHAT!?!?! How is it overrated?! I will say the 2nd one is pushing it, but not the first one.

nope...didn't like it...sorry! :)

I could only imagine the reaction when you read/typed that.

Lol, I wasn't expecting anyone to say that. That was like my favorite movie when I was younger.

I tried to watch it but just couldn't make it all the way through.

ehhh...I have to admit that I was like that too sometime in the recent past (i can't remember the last time i saw it...lol). The same thing goes for Labyrinth. I loved it when I was younger and I rented it last month and couldn't watch it all the way through.

I guess those are those type of movies that are good when you're younger but not so much when you're older.

And there it is, when I think of one of those movies I think of the other and that's what happened...

I snoozed through those movies.

Ok....

Overhyped Food/ Restaurants/ Clothing stores

... they loved it, you hated it? :cool:

ETA: I LOVELOVELOVE the awesomeness that is the McGriddle. smacketh downs will be laid if anyone speaks ill, becauase i dont know anyone who likes it.

come on! pancake, egg, meat, baked-in syrup. its all there wrapped in paper, just for me.

Smack me down. I love maple syrup. I hate maple-flavored anything.

Like American Apparel and Hollister? and Juicy Couture?

Network TV. Between the "reality shows" and the other silly shows currently running, I'll stick to cable.

Ceasar Milan. I guess I'm not getting it somehow, because I've yet to know someone who has followed his instructions and whose dog miraculously became well behaved.

Ha...ha...@ the 1st comment. I set myself up for that one.

McGriddles suck

When I watched Labyrinth I kept thinking "I actually LIKED this movie, wtf was I thinking" I guess I just chalked it up to youth. lol


Overhyped Restaurants:

Fuddruckers
Cheesecake Factory
PF Changs
Sam's (it's a local chinese restaurant that everyone swears by, I think it's awful)
Whataburger

Clothing Stores:
AE
Hollister
A&F
Old Navy
Gap

If its the same thing I'm thinking of, I do like the McGriddle sans the egg though, i'm not a big huevo fan lmao.