"Classics" that you were underwhelmed by.

[Continuity]

Subject is in the title but I got to say I watched blade runner and........
It was either really boring or I'm really stupid. And I don't think I'm particularly stupid because I have read the entire wheel of time series thus far and you need allot of patience to keep reading book 10.
that aside I don't understand the whole stigma around the movie. I walked in expecting a slow burn but talk about no burn. Instead of you know investigating and stuff he just roams around getting in arguments about philosophy with the replicant girl before very suddenly everyone starts very suddenly getting in gun fights. and then at the end it just ends. I mean the bad guy dies suddenly no kind of personal goal is achieved and the movies over. I walked in with the highest expectations yeah but I still never once enjoyed, was intrigued, liked the characters or anything that would typically constitutes a good movie.
I'm not saying it's a bad movie so don't get angry but I seriously didn't get it.
anyway what classics were you less then fond of.

Movies likes this you have to take in context... it hadn't been done before and that is why its special, it was ground breaking.
Its like Farcry, a pretty mediocre game but with ground breaking graphics at the time, go back and play it now and you'll wonder what all the fuss was about.

 

[Raistlinhawke]

Good lordie, film buff culture is loaded with overrated tripe. Most of it, for my taste, stems from the French New Wave movement. Jean Luc-Goddard has one of the most overrated oeuvres of all time. Either him or David Mamet.

For games, definitely Super Mario Sunshine and Resident Evil 4. The former is a sub-standard follow-up to one of the most universally beloved games of all time with trite little non-innovations and a color scheme so bright it gives you glaucoma. The latter for taking the 'Resident Evil' franchise out of survival horror and into a lukewarm action horror. A fantastically paced game, but the controls didn't make enough of a transition out of the blocky tank scheme they had going in games previous.

 

[haruvister]

Any film by Michelangelo Antonioni. They all seem to be regarded as classics but they're actually vacuous and crushingly dull.

 

[manythings]

Music- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, and the Beatles in general are pretty underwhelming.

I've never liked them either but when you say it people look at you like you just said you eat babies and then try to explain why you don't have a choice but to like them.

OT: Really I can't say I've ever viewed anything as being a classic second-hand. Other peoples opinions aren't MY opinions. I don't think I've ever been so underwhelmed by a thing and cared.

Something that people seem to be eternally underwhelmed by, and shouldn't be, is Shakespeare. School ruins some of the most amazing work produced by a person in the past thousand years.

EDIT: Halo and all other "Halo +1"'s, as well as Gears of War. Multiplayer can be fun but any contact with the single player stuff just disgusts me.

 

[awesomeClaw]

The exorcist. It just didn´t scare me.

 

[Vault101]

Subject is in the title but I got to say I watched blade runner and........
It was either really boring or I'm really stupid. And I don't think I'm particularly stupid because I have read the entire wheel of time series thus far and you need allot of patience to keep reading book 10.
that aside I don't understand the whole stigma around the movie. I walked in expecting a slow burn but talk about no burn. Instead of you know investigating and stuff he just roams around getting in arguments about philosophy with the replicant girl before very suddenly everyone starts very suddenly getting in gun fights. and then at the end it just ends. I mean the bad guy dies suddenly no kind of personal goal is achieved and the movies over. I walked in with the highest expectations yeah but I still never once enjoyed, was intrigued, liked the characters or anything that would typically constitutes a good movie.
I'm not saying it's a bad movie so don't get angry but I seriously didn't get it.
anyway what classics were you less then fond of.

yeah I also didnt "get" bladerunner I dont think its bad but...wheres the brilliance? instead its more just an hour or so of weirdness in fact I can bearley remember remembering what the hell was going on

but that said after a bit of thinking I guess perhaps the "themes" and/or Ideas of Philip K. Dick (and I guess you could say its an early example of cyberpunk in film) were more groundbreaking back then (the visual style certainly is/was theres no denying that)

so mabye it was so underwhelming because to us its really nothing all that new (except you know...weirdness)

eather way its not hard to see why it didnt do so well at the time

I guess for me S.T.A.L.K.E.R. there are actually alot of good things aboutt he game but really its just not very engaging

Yeah I guess what you say makes sense but still I wish i liked blade runner more than I did. And I like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and for that matter a lot of other Russian games. But hey it's all just opinion right?

dont get me wrong I dont dislike S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (its not like..in my oh so smug and supiror opnion which goes against popular veiw which makes it better..I mean some people act like their opnion is fact because they dare insult somthing popular)

I can see why its considered good and even ground breaking, I just couldnt get into it mainly because of the way the story was presented and the gameplay, I have alot of trouble reading big chunks of text in video games (not in real life however) it was the same with the witcher (not so much text as....wait...what am I doing here again?)

similar thing with AVATAR I dont think its a bad movie...by all logic I should really really like it but I dont because both sides are dicks and I dont like being told how much I suck compared to blue cat people

 

[cormacdffy]

Movie: Casablanca. I don't know why I didn't like it, just not my thing I guess.

Game: The entire Legend of Zelda series. All the games bored the crap out of me.

Book: Carrie. I found it very meh

Music: Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon. I love Pink Floyd but this was just over-rated.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Portal I guess. Had been told it was the most fun I'd have with my computer but I can safely say that didn't occur.

 

[Owlslayer]

I never understood why Deus Ex was so awesome as people said. Maybe i was really young at the time (my brother started playing it, and i tried it out, too. Didn't like it much).
Haven't tried playing it again, though. Maybe i ought to give it one more chance.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

I heard so much about Blade Runner and then I watched it: things happened for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I think my favorite bit was when the main antoginist stripped to his undercrackers and ran around like a lunatic and screaming. No doubt some arts-fartsy person will tell me this symbolises Mankind's false exterior of civilisation over its raw primal self but I say no: its just some idiot running about in his pants.

 

[loodmoney]

The Picture of Dorian Gray. No drama, no action, just a list of things that Dorian Gray owns. I think a movie came out at some point, because for a while I saw a lot of people reading it. Not sure if they liked it, but still, I felt duped on their behalf.

People have mentioned Lord of The Rings. All I remember from that trilogy was that there was a lot of singing, which I skipped.

Strangely enough, I don't think I've been let down by "classic" games. Perhaps because I don't consider many games to be classics. "Classic" games are at most 20 or so years old, and for me, "classic" means at least 50, preferably over a century. Generally, classics must transcend (e.g.) the boundaries of time and place; teach you about cultures and lives different from your own.

(That's a lot of scare quotes. My bad.)

 

[pejhmon]

The Omen and Damien: Omen II. I was told horror and I was given little but that's probably because people must have been scared easier back then.

Can't think of games, mainly because if a game wasn't that good I wont remember it unless someone brings it up . Audiosurf maybe? It's alright but I guess it's because I'm not that into music

 

[Alphavillain]

The exorcist. It just didn´t scare me.

This.

Also, most of Stanley Kubrick's films. I watched "Barry Lyndon" again the other day. 2 hours 57 minutes to really say nothing, but in a very picturesque way. Ooh, candles!

Music-wise, Coldplay and the Beatles leave me pretty cold. I can't stand Handel, either.

 

[Kermi]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

It really got quite tiresome aboout the first twenty minutes and didn't get better. Maybe it's because Hunter S. Thompson doesn't hold the same place in the Australian conciousness as he does in the US, but simply did not give a damn. The premise for the movies seems great, Depp's performance was Thompson was fantastic, but I simply did not give a damn about what was happening in the movie or whatever message it was trying to send.

They really needed to cut out about 45 minutes and pace it better. If the point of the movie was for me to experience the confusion and disorientation associated with a week-long drug binge, I guess maybe it succeeded. IN the respect of storytelling or presenting an entertaining experience for the viewer, it failed dismally.

I'm not sure why people are so fond of it.

 

[Revolutionary]

I know where talking about films but for me the most underwhelming "Classic" was the book "The Great Gatsby" to be honest I thought Scott Pilgrim had a better love story, not to mention ninjas. (Well one is a half-ninja)

 

[Brownie101]

Book - (Thus Far) Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A bit too slow for the amount of patience I have. So it's more a personal thing and I really do want to read it, but I can't bring myself to.

Half-Life 2 Episode 1 - Maybe it's because I get stuck a lot. Maybe because it's ageing. Maybe it's because I haven't played the first one. It doesn't matter too much because I just can't bring myself to finish it, having started it about a year ago and only just now meeting Father Grigori.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Some people might hate me for this, but... I never cared much for the "Rocky Horror Picture Show".

I'm sorry, but... I just don't get the appeal of it. I get that it's a spoof of "Frankenstein", but that's just it.

(Ducks into bomb shelter, blocks the entrance with riot shields and sets up a paintball gun)