Overrated movies/TV shows/books. They loved it, you hated it. - Page 5

DSTRen13 · #61 09-24-2009, 06:56 AM

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.

DaemonSeid · #62 09-24-2009, 08:14 AM

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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.

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...

MysticCat · #63 09-24-2009, 09:22 AM

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

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

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

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:

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

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.

DaemonSeid · #64 09-24-2009, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

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:

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

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.

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!

MysticCat · #65 09-24-2009, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

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.)

DaemonSeid · #66 09-24-2009, 10:26 AM

**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?

DaemonSeid · #67 09-24-2009, 10:29 AM

neverending Story! OVER RATED!

MysticCat · #68 09-24-2009, 10:37 AM

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Any reservations about del Toro directing?

Not really, at least not so far.

epchick · #69 09-24-2009, 12:30 PM

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neverending Story! OVER RATED!

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

DaemonSeid · #70 09-24-2009, 12:31 PM

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

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

epchick · #71 09-24-2009, 12:37 PM

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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.

MysticCat · #72 09-24-2009, 12:40 PM

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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.

epchick · #73 09-24-2009, 12:45 PM

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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.

DaemonSeid · #74 09-24-2009, 01:04 PM

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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

tld221 · #75 09-24-2009, 01:35 PM

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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...

... they loved it, you hated it?

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.