Overrated movies/TV shows/books. They loved it, you hated it.

cheerfulgreek · #1 09-22-2009, 11:51 PM

Harry Potter-sucked
District 9-sucked royally
Batman-sucked
Twilight-just another "teenybopper" movie..

eta: GI Joe and the 2nd Transformers were horrible. I forgot about those.

KSUViolet06 · #2 09-23-2009, 12:25 AM

Oh man:

Twilight
Anything super hero oriented (Batman/Superman/etc)
Grey's Anatomy
Star Wars
Star Trek
Pirates of the Carribean
Any and ALL soap operas
American Idol
Survivor
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
The Notebook
Sleepless in Seattle
American Pie movies

moe.ron · #3 09-23-2009, 12:25 AM

I don't think GI Joe and Transfomer 2 were ever rated high. Most people accept it as brainless fun movie with girls in tights and explosions everywhere.

As for Twilight, agree, sucks major ass.

District 9 and Batman

christiangirl · #4 09-23-2009, 01:28 AM

Rent. I loved it and thought it was absolutely awesome...but a phenomenon that revolutionized American theater? Notsomuch.

Xidelt · #5 09-23-2009, 01:45 AM

The blue man group. River dance. Cirque de soleil.

MysticCat · #6 09-23-2009, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Harry Potter-sucked

Books or movies? If the latter, you get a pass (especially after the last movie). If the former, I seriously wonder about you.

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Originally Posted by Xidelt

The blue man group. River dance. Cirque de soleil.

Co-sign to all three.

Add:

Forrest Gump
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey version)
The Polar Express (movie)

SydneyK · #7 09-23-2009, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Xidelt

The blue man group.

Seriously? I really enjoyed the Blue Man Group show I went to. Then again, I also liked District 9, Harry Potter (the books, anyway), Star Wars, Top Gun and Survivor, all of which have made the "hated it" list.

I really wanted to like A Confederacy of Dunces, but just couldn't get into it for some reason. I wouldn't say I hated it, but I felt like it was overrated. I recently read The Appeal, and wish I could get back the time I invested in reading it, so I'm feeling like John Grisham is currently overrated as well. Based on the reviews I've read/heard about Dan Brown's new book, I'm afraid I'm going to feel like that was overrated, too. Can't comment on that one until I finish, though.

kiteflyersmom · #8 09-23-2009, 08:52 AM

I don't go to the movies very much, but I do read quite a bit.

I thought that My Sister's Keeper was a great book, and the mediocrity of the movie appalled me.

I even find Cameron Diaz annoying after seeing that movie.

summer_gphib · #9 09-23-2009, 09:12 AM

So You Think You Can Dance?
Dancing With The Stars
Moulin Rouge

I'm usually not into anything that is terribly popular-- but saying that I do love Twilight (especially the books!) and SURVIVOR. (I almost skipped my wedding shower to watch it the first season!

) I've never read the Harry Potter books, but I'm thinking of giving them a read.

lovespink88 · #10 09-23-2009, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Books or movies? If the latter, you get a pass (especially after the last movie).

Agreed. I'm not done with them all (stupid school getting in the way of my reading...) but I think they're AMAZING! But yes the movies are just...meh.

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Originally Posted by summer_gphib

I've never read the Harry Potter books, but I'm thinking of giving them a read.

DO IT!

cheerfulgreek · #11 09-23-2009, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Oh man:

Twilight
Anything super hero oriented (Batman/Superman/etc)
Grey's Anatomy
Star Wars
Star Trek
Pirates of the Carribean
Any and ALL soap operas
American Idol
Survivor
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman

Sleepless in Seattle
American Pie movies

I knew I was missing a lot. What I bolded in black, I agree with, all of those suck. Oh, and anything "reality show" sucks so bad. I hate reality shows, and now it seems like every channel has a reality show. Top Gun was o.k. kinda cheesy, though. I love all Star Wars movies, and everything Star Trek, though. You didn't like Sleepless in Seattle? I loved that movie.

I don't really like the Superhero movies either. I just didn't bold that one, because some are not really that bad, I mean at least not like Batman. I hated that dumb movie.

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Originally Posted by moe.ron

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As for Twilight, agree, sucks major ass.

District 9 and Batman

lol Agreed!

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Books or movies? If the latter, you get a pass (especially after the last movie). If the former, I seriously wonder about you.

Co-sign to all three.

Add:

Forrest Gump

MysticCat you didn't like Forrest Gump? Well, then again, you don't like soup, so you're not normal...lol (I'm kidding)

I don't like anything Harry Potter. I watched the 1st movie with my friend and she knew I hated it, so she told me that I would like the book. She was like "Oh, you've got to read the book, it's so good." It sucked. I read the 1st 20 pages, thought it was dumb and boring so I put under my bed. That was about 4 or 5 years ago. It's still there. Oh, and all the dumb names. Dingledork, Mingledorf the wizard, (whatever their names are) etc. Oh, and the part when they were flying around on brooms...dumb...dumb...dumb.

I forgot about the dumb Harry Potter events they have at bookstores when another dumb book is about to be released at midnight. I'll ask "why all the costumes, what's going on?" and they say, "You didn't know? Everyone is waiting for their Harry Potter book." I'll be the only one there without a "Harry Potter" costume. So dumb.

cheerfulgreek · #12 09-23-2009, 10:42 AM

Not to double post, but I think the new Fame movie is going to be dumb too.

KSigkid · #13 09-23-2009, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

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Forrest Gump

I hold a grudge against Forest Gump because I thought Shawshank or Pulp Fiction should have won Best Picture that year.

cheerfulgreek · #14 09-23-2009, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by KSigkid

I hold a grudge against Forest Gump because I thought Shawshank should have won Best Picture that year.

o.k. is there anything you and I can agree on? I didn't like that movie either.

MysticCat · #15 09-23-2009, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

MysticCat you didn't like Forrest Gump? Well, then again, you don't like soup, so you're not normal...lol (I'm kidding)

Forrest Gump was predictable, saccharine and manipulative. ("Now, we're going to make you feel ____.") And no way was it best movie of that year.

And as for me not being normal for not liking soup, your comments on the Harry Potter books (sorry -- JK Rowling has the best knack for naming characters since Dickins) establish that you have forfeited any right to criticise what others consider "dumb." So there.