Yes, I know, no one understands why rap is so popular.

This is more for things that are absolute staples (not Britney, per se) of our society that seems like every, and I mean everyone, seems to like, but you just don't get it.

Scarface: I don't like this movie. Everyone tells me they think it is the greatest ever. Who doesn't know who Tony Montana is?

I think it is too long. It needs to be edited down. The story doesn't move fast enough for me, the acting isn't that great IMO, and I can't find myself empathizing, or admiring Tony.

The Deer Hunter: Once again, I find this movie way way way to long. It poorly juxtaposed. Weren't they at a party scene, friendly, then fighting, the Robert DeNiro is playing Russian Roulette. What was going on this movie? From the first half, this movie is a total mess. The party scene reminded me too much of a beer commercial. The bottles of beer were placed in the most bizarre places. I watched just about half of this movie before I decided I had enough. Mind you that if some of the details are wrong, I have not seen this movie for a while.

The Doors: I don't think that Jim Morrison deserves the credit for being a good singer as much as he does. All the songs are basically two-chord wonders, causing them to be monotonous.

So, list it and explain to the world why you don't like it, because few people will ever understand.

midnight cowboy

Everything ive ever read by Dan Brown.

Re: the Deer Hunter

It is very long, but I think you need that long hour and a half to make you know and understand how close the characters are. Then, that first Roulette scene is so intense. The first time I saw it I thought "god this is some long useless stuff" and then when I saw that first roulette scene, I got it.

Isn’t every one left unimpressed by what they have read of Dan Brown? The Da Vinci code seamed to be a very poorly written book with one great strength very short chapters each ended on a cliff hanger maybe you didn’t enjoy the prose or the characters or the theme but the cliff hangers was just interesting enough that you were prepared to read the next chapter after all it would only be ten pages.

Good call on Scareface it appeals to young men with fantasies of being gangsters but it’s a long movie with no characters that are in the least bit sympathetic. I find my self repulsed by Tony Montana and just not caring what happens to him.

Crash - THE most overrated film ever.

Similarly Babel for the same reason.

Why? Because nothing happens, the characters are paper thin and no one learns anything about anything. Whats worse is the idiots who watch them thinking they are edgy and clever when they are nothing of the sort.

Citizen Kane. I dont know what anyone likes about this movie at all. I havent seen the film since 2001 though, i didnt hate the film, i nothinged the film which imo is even worse.

The Lord of the Rings films. Probably just the specific genre, but aside from the huge set piece battle scenes i cant see the appeal at all. For further reasons see Clerks 2 because Kevin Smith said it perfectly, its just 12 hours of boring walking. By the way, see the website How It Should Have Ended for how the entire storyline could have been completed in 20 minutes.

Elvis Presley. Im a Beatles fan fwiw.

And you havent even started to talk about Angels and Demons, if i could kill on human without punishment it might just be him.

I never read the book. In fact everyone I ever met that read the book told me it wasn't that good. One comedian put it: "People buy the Da Vinci Code so they can put it on their end table, like see, I read too." I think it is a book that every bought, although they never read a book in their life.

Oh, and I hate hate hate hate hate hate cliff-hangers in a book. Nothing irritates me more than reading a book where every chapter ends on a cliff-hanger. This techinique is also used by Terry Brooks. I got so sick of the cliff hangers I ripped his book in half. If you ask me it shows a lack of confidence in the writer's own ability. Just tell me the friggin story.

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Harry [censored] Potter. But good on her for ripping off LOTR and making $1 billion.

When I was younger I used to hate everything. Now I find something good in almost everyone and everything that I see. Despite being able to deconstruct anything and point out why it's terrible, I just don't anymore. I concentrate on the good.

I'm a lot happier than I used to be.

Every fantasy book these days rips off of LOTR, just like he ripped off of a lot of older myths. There's Beowulf in LOTR, and probably more of that than there is LOTR in Harry Potter. The only common theme is magic. Other than that I see little to no similarities.

Please do not destroy the mood of the thread please!

I get your philosophy.... actually, moods are good for us. Being aware of the bad makes the good that much brighter. I can't like every thing and I won't even try.

Agree on Scarface and think it's tremendously overrated on almost every score. Further, that it's the beginning of the end for Pacino, who starts out as a cartoon in that picture and continues to be one forever after.

Another huge movie favorite I don't love is Sin City. I thought it was stupid and exploitive and infantile.

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the more boring movies I've ever seen, though parts are great.

Star Wars and Lord of the Rings: struck me as visually interesting movies that are for the most part average at best and have severe pacing problems.

Firmly convinced that the first Godfather and the first in the Alien series are by far superior to the sequels. And I mean not just a little.

Almost all reality shows: do not want

Re: non-entertainment stuff:

I don't like many gas guzzling cars. I'm driving a decent car these days, but to tell you the truth I'd be happier with one that cost half as much or less and didn't eat so much premium gas.

Not a fan of junk food.

Don't like tattoos at all. On women, anyway. If you're a guy I don't care what you do too much, but I gotta wonder how smart somebody is who gets ones that show up on job interviews. That last actually goes for the women as well.

Personal perversity: I'm one of those guys who actually LIKES vegetables, as long as they're not boiled into a mush or something. Salads too -- I like the cold, refreshing crunch and variety of textures. I wouldn't mind eating one every day, honest, even as a meal.

Greatful Dead

Jimmy Buffet

The Eagles

The Da Vinci Code: Neat Idea ... weak writing (and terrible ending).

Ok, ... The Princess Bride. I get it, but it doesn't make me laugh.

"Friends"

I never understood drinking. It makes me sick to my stomach and gives me headaches in the morning. I never feel good while I'm drinking, so I don't get it.

I used to hate inked and pierced chicks, then i moved to Manchester, started hanging out in the rock scene and started to dig it more.

I forgot to put it in my earlier post, but Disney. Every single schmaltzy tired old BS part of the entire Disney empire. There is a quote i really like from Mr and Mrs Smith - "Happy endings are just stories that havent finished yet".

Pulp Fiction: A nasty and cynical view of human behavior. It would be OK if the movie had more wit, but it seems like a dumb shock film to me.

Oceans 11,12: Uber personalities just don't cut it. I don't care how powerful and cool your all start lineup is, the point of a movie is entertainment or storytelling, and your celebrity jerk-a-thon is just annoying

napolean dynamite

racist ban, plz

This is a good example for me too. Forgot how much I hated this when I saw it.

Agree 100% on Alien v Alien 2.

~ Rick

The Matrix: Every liked it because it was an action flick with a "complicated" story line.

Yes, it had fifteen minutes at the start, and fifteen minutes at the end. But what about the two hours in the middle that was "here is the story." Okay, tell me once, review once and only once, please. But no, they review, review, retell, restate ad infinitum. Ugh. The movie could have been 45 minutes and been the masterpiece it supposedly was.

I also blame this movie for the cheapening and over-use of CGI, using as a crutch to awe without telling stories. This movie ruined movies for a full decade.

Most people I've spoken to or have seen talking on these forums found the movie a lot better the second time around. I thought it was much better the second time. At first it was hard for me to identify with this unwashed, unappealing hick with a dismal personality who often basically acted like a dick a lot of the time. The second go-through surprised me. I found it easier to empathize with him even though he WAS in many ways offputting and unlikeable. Harder to do, up front.

You must be under 40. Movies like "The Matrix" left everyone I know around my age cold (disclaimer: I only know about seven people around my age). Totally forgettable and meaningless.

OTOH "Fight Club" doesn't usually connect to people like me (because I'm 53 BTY) but I could see there was something there (revolt against the nanny state?; revolt against the emasculation of men by today's society?) That one I'll see again.

~ Rick