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Old 09-22-2009, 11:51 PM
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Overrated movies/TV shows/books. They loved it, you hated it.

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.
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Old 09-23-2009, 12:25 AM
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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

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Old 09-23-2009, 12:25 AM
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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
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Old 09-23-2009, 01:28 AM
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Rent. I loved it and thought it was absolutely awesome...but a phenomenon that revolutionized American theater? Notsomuch.
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Old 09-23-2009, 01:45 AM
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The blue man group. River dance. Cirque de soleil.
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Old 09-23-2009, 08:39 AM
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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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The blue man group. River dance. Cirque de soleil.
Co-sign to all three.

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Forrest Gump
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey version)
The Polar Express (movie)
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Old 09-23-2009, 10:51 AM
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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.

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Old 09-23-2009, 10:54 AM
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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.
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Old 09-24-2009, 04:19 AM
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I hold a grudge against Forest Gump because I thought Shawshank or Pulp Fiction should have won Best Picture that year.
Agreed totally, Shawshank was robbed.
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Old 09-24-2009, 06:56 AM
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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.
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Old 09-23-2009, 08:39 AM
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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.
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Old 09-23-2009, 08:52 AM
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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.
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Old 09-23-2009, 09:12 AM
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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.
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Old 09-23-2009, 10:08 AM
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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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I've never read the Harry Potter books, but I'm thinking of giving them a read.
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Old 09-23-2009, 10:42 AM
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Not to double post, but I think the new Fame movie is going to be dumb too.
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