Critically Acclaimed stuff you don't 'get'

[nadesico33]

Out of all things, that bloody band, Nirvana.

I get people all over the place throughout the years telling me what amazing musicians these guys are and how their music is full of soul, how they revolutionised rock music and all that kind of bull. I've listened to Nirvana time and time again to see if I think any differently than before and my opinion of them has not changed. They are just not growing on me whatsoever. Their music is downright boring and they suck.

I'll chuck The Beatles and Coldplay in the same pit as I've got similar opinions of them.

Thank you thank you thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Every time I've seriously asked people to explain why Nirvana was good, they give always give me something along the lines "They were so different from everything else at the time." Yeah, that says why people found them interesting, not why they were "good". Aside from the song used in the opening scene of Shoot 'Em Up, I don't like any of their music either.

thank you in my opinion Bioshock is the best shooter of the current console generation because it's not a dumbed down over hyped multiplayer space marine mess with muddy graphics. it felt more like a game that was thought up around the Deus Ex System Shock time of intelligent shooters before the genre simply preyed on every ones instinct to kill. so yeah I think most current shooter aren't even worth looking at other than the occasional exception like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the Half-Life series... though Metro 2033 sparked my interest I have yet to try it...

Its a little janky in the shooting department, but the narrative for Metro 2033 is good. Very dark and bleak, but also well executed despite its flaws.

 

[The Rookie Gamer]

MW2, Avatar, Twilight, and Lady Gaga.

 

[Sacman]

I stay away from current FPS games, like the Halo games, MW2, and other games like that. If something is that overhyped, I'm put off from getting it.

thank you in my opinion Bioshock is the best shooter of the current console generation because it's not a dumbed down over hyped multiplayer space marine mess with muddy graphics. it felt more like a game that was thought up around the Deus Ex System Shock time of intelligent shooters before the genre simply preyed on every ones instinct to kill. so yeah I think most current shooter aren't even worth looking at other than the occasional exception like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the Half-Life series... though Metro 2033 sparked my interest I have yet to try it...

let's see here:
Heavy Rain
One Piece
Twilight(books and movies)
Lady Gaga
Ninja Gaiden(I liked the original one on the Nes but once team Ninja started it just went bad)
and finally peeps

PEEPS! They're the bestest!

Sometimes, I randomly buy a game that looks interesting without really knowing it's hyped up or good or ''what all the cool kids play''. An example would be HL2. I got it because the Orange Box was on sale and I figured, why not?

yeah I've done that before I bought Halo for the PC when I first got into gaming not knowing it was hyped for the Xbox release, even without the hype I didn't like it. did u like Half Life 2? I think it's great and one of the few exceptions to modern shooter with having a well written story and cast and being able to balance story telling and gameplay without feeling forced. also being able to break up the action fluently with puzzles and I guess what you can call cut scenes. by the way what is your avatar from it looks familiar?

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

The film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

The novel was an excellent story of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. The film was a bowdlerized piece of crap that changed what was a thought-provoking and partially moving story into nothing more than incompetent family-friendly nonsense. Why it is considered a classic film and a supposedly excellent adaptation of the novel is beyond my comprehension.

 

[Bored otter]

Trying to step on as many toes as possible. GTA IV. I liked san andreas and the previous ones.

And all the press loved number four. But i played it and i still don't like it. Don't get why i have to be an annoying balkan figure. Why can't i create my own character.
Didn't realy like the story either, it had some nice story lines. But most of it was just boring.

 

[Danzaivar]

big ass post

That's my point! I don't know of anyone else who didn't love the game, but I got bored and stopped playing 4 hours in. The bit with Scarecrow was kinda cool, and striking from the shadows was pretty awesome, but it just felt kinda 'meh' to me. I probably just missed how combat works or something, cos all I did was press 'hit' when I could and 'counter' when I was about to be hit, I swear there are moves I just haven't figured out...

 

[AndyVale]

I don't get why people love Halo.

Me neither. It wasn't bad but it wasn't "reason to buy an XBox" worthy.

 

[AndyVale]

Turn Of The Screw

I read it at Uni and detested it. Never has 70 pages taken me the same time as a 400 page book. So slow and clunky without ever going anywhere. Everything was so ambiguous and people were saying "yeah but it can be interpreted so many different ways." I can wipe my arse 200 different ways with the same piece of toilet roll, doesn't make it good. A blank piece of paper can be looked at many different ways, it's not clever. He's just spent 70 pages letting you fill in all the blanks. Don't get me wrong, I like a story that has an open ended element but not the whole sodding book. That's just lazy and suggests you don't have the confidence to actually tell a story (which I'm sure isn't true, but this book did anger me.) Also, the language was too full of itself.

 

[Fiskmasen]

Shawshank Redemption. I've seen it... shit, at least 15 times. All of my friends rave about the film but I just never got into it. The only good thing to come out of this movie is Frank Darabonts "exclusive rights" to GOOD Stephen King adaptations (see The Green Mile [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/] and The Mist [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/]). Morgan Freeman's good in it though - but then again, name a movie that Morgan Freeman isn't good in.

 

[cyber_andyy]

Apple.
Ipods.
Facebook.
IPhones.
Anime/manga.
jap pop culture obsession.

This all I can think of now.

 

[Nemu]

Moby Dick. Awful, AWFUL book.

Avatar, I just have no interest in it, does that count?

And a lot of popular music, like Flaming Lips (tho they're old and getting popular late in their existence), Animal Collective I agree is a band I don't "get", actually...come to think of it, any band that Spin magazine has a hard-on for I don't get. WTF HAPPENED to that mag...?

 

[ben---neb]

Moby Dick. Awful, AWFUL book.

Avatar, I just have no interest in it, does that count?

And a lot of popular music, like Flaming Lips (tho they're old and getting popular late in their existence), Animal Collective I agree is a band I don't "get", actually...come to think of it, any band that Spin magazine has a hard-on for I don't get. WTF HAPPENED to that mag...?

Look mate, this is getting ridiclous. I'm Spartacus! Got that?

I hate Bioshock, really couldn't get into it, also anything by Dickens is just too 'wordy' and this is from someone who has read War and Peace.

 

[JimJamJahar]

I don't get why everyone worships Half-Life 2. It's an okay game, but it's not super-amazing! Someone explain this to me

 

[FlameUnquenchable]

Oh yah, I forgot to mention, Romeo and Juliet. Possibly the most overblown tragedy that Shakespeare has, and I absolutely hate it.

Anna Karenina sp? - I tried to read this book, couldn't make it past chapter 3. Absolutely boring.

Its a Wonderful Life - Always voted up in the top echelon of movies, I found it ok, but nothing that was particularly good. Maybe it was groundbreaking in its day...not sure.

Apocalypse Now - I read Heart of Darkness, loved it, then watched this movie, and I was like...what? Its close but not good enough for the praise it gets.

Huckleberry Finn - Kid on a raft...got it, move along. Yah yah there's deeper issues about the south and prejudice and blah blah, but I can't get into it because its booooring.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - I guess I just don't like James Joyce. The book wasn't profound, and nothing in it made me have some great revelation. Just boring.

 

[FlameUnquenchable]

Moby Dick. Awful, AWFUL book.

Trying to grind through the last half of it...its pretty atrocious.

 

[FlameUnquenchable]

Serenity is the one that astounds me the most. I saw that film twice with two different groups of people, and our consensus was that the movie sucked. I logged into Rottentomatoes, only to find that Serenity had an 81% approval rating. We just couldn't fathom out why it was so great. Granted we hadn't seen the tv show Firefly first (only one of our number had ever seen the show), but even if we excused all the stuff we weren't familiar with (like characters and setting), the dialogue and action was some of the cheesiest stuff we had ever seen. When I say cheesy, I mean cheesy in an annoying way - not cheesy in a kooky, self-aware kind of way.

I think Serenity was supposed to appeal to the fan base that loved Firefly, of which I gladly join, but the movie left something to be desired. Same characters, same ship, same universe...but it wasn't the same somehow. I loved the Firefly series though.

 

[tehweave]

Spider-man 2. I thought that movie was really dumb. I mean, I think spiderman is dumb in general, but I enjoyed the first one. The second one was funny and bad. The third one.... oh goodness. Lets just say I'm happy Sam went back to horror with dmth. VERY. HAPPY.

SAME.

I don't understand why the Academy awards picks certain movies each year... They never pick action films, comedies, horror films, or any real GOOD movie that came out each year. This years pick was a war film about a bomb diffuser diffusing bombs. Last year was about an indian man on Who Wants to be a Millionaire having flashbacks to his life before this moment.

Not once will you ever see The Hangover or Prince of Persia or Drag Me To Hell on any of those lists despite all three (I'm assuming with PoP, it's not out yet) probably being more interesting and better than anything the academy gives recognition to.