Great masterpieces... that suck!

[RatRace123]

There are plenty of works that are considered to be "masterpieces" or "classics", be they: Book, Film, Painting, Album, Game... whatever.

So what are some of these so called "masterpieces" that you personally don't care much for.
And when I ask this, I'm not looking for a recent, popular thing like Avatar or Harry Potter, I'm looking for older things, like Citizen Kane or Catcher in the Rye

Which brings me to my point, I hated Catcher in they Rye. I found Holden to be too whiny and annoying.
I also loathed Henry David Thoreau's Walden, largely for the same reasons. It's basically Thoreau's journal that he kept while being a hermit, and all he ever does is whine too.
Incidently, I had to read both of these in High School, so perhaps the bitterness I felt while analyzing them has influenced my opinions, but I also had to read The Grapes of Wrath and I heartily enjoyed that.

 

[Romblen]

The Great Gatsby(just dry)
Alice in Wonderland(Random and not in the funny kind of way)
Romeo and Juliet(I don't care if it's Shakespeare, this play is terrible)
The Scarlet Letter(Dry, and the author spends way to much time over explaining everything)
The Secret Garden(It's just plain bad. Just so bad in every possible way.)
Hills Like White Elephants(The author doesn't explain enough)

 

[zehydra]

Lol I don't think people actually consider Walden to be a masterpiece, just a fun way to torture high school students.

 

[Drakmeire]

Anything by Pink Floyd, the later work of the Beatles, and Radiohead. I know they are geniuses but I think as musicians they fail and produced some truly unlistenable music even if it was deep, meaningful and experimental.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Wow, ninja'd. I dislike the Great Gatsby and The Scarlet Letter as well. I'm not a big Tale of Two Cities fan either.

 

[x0ny]

"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. Had to read it for an English Literature course back when I was 16. I loved Oliver Twist though.

I had lots of trouble getting into Lord of the Rings, I never managed to read the 3rd book because I was so bored with the first two. I forced myself to read them because everyone around me was saying how good these books were, but they just weren't for me.

 

[Arsen]

I fell asleep three times trying to read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Yeah, you heard me. Dry prose, bad storyteller, and was just...boring.

 

[Arsen]

Anything by Pink Floyd, the later work of the Beatles, and Radiohead. I know they are geniuses but I think as musicians they fail and produced some truly unlistenable music even if it was deep, meaningful and experimental.

I have to second Radiohead. Very commercialized "rock music" in the form of something trying to be artistic, but fails due to having a windbag vagina with a body attached to it that just so happens to be able to sing. Paranoid Android is laughable as to how they try to make it come off like a rock masterpiece. I blame the shallow nerds and their "intellectualism" air of a superiority complex who deem them a worthy act of the 1990's. So many other bands stand out above them.

 

[Snarky Username]

One recent one that I read for school was Macbeth. Honestly, I think that if it were a movie today, it would just be categorized as another meaningless action flick.

 

[archvile93]

bioshock, I know it has great atmosphere, but how does that excuse absolutely horrid and broken gameplay? I played through that game twice to make sure I just wasn't missing something, but just never saw it. I'm not a fan of TF2 due to all the hard countering, at least until the new weapons came out, which I'm still bitter about since I'm not allowed to use them without getting incredibly lucky or buying them which is a bigger rip off the MW2 map packs.

 

[zehydra]

Anything by Pink Floyd, the later work of the Beatles, and Radiohead. I know they are geniuses but I think as musicians they fail and produced some truly unlistenable music even if it was deep, meaningful and experimental.

but... but... The Dark Side of the Moon!

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

Well I'm a hardcore fantasy nerd, and I detest Lord of the Rings, and the more recent Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, both series started out well with The Hobbit and A Game of Thrones, but I was never able to finish any of the other books in the series'

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

The Scarlet Letter(Dry, and the author spends way to much time over explaining everything)

If only Dimmesdale would have pulled out! That book would have been so much shorter.

Page 1:"Hester gets burned on the stake for adultery, the townsfolk think Dimmesdale was possessed by the devil who made him have sex with Hester."
The end.

 

[Snarky Username]

bioshock, I know it has great atmosphere, but how does that excuse absolutely horrid and broken gameplay? I played through that game twice to make sure I just wasn't missing something, but just never saw it. I'm not a fan of TF2 due to all the hard countering, at least until the new weapons came out, which I'm still bitter about since I'm not allowed to use them without getting incredibly lucky or buying them which is a bigger rip off the MW2 map packs.

Out of curiosity, how was the gameplay broken for you? I also thought Bioshock had a few issues, but gameplay was never one of them for me.

 

[Romblen]

The Scarlet Letter(Dry, and the author spends way to much time over explaining everything)

If only Dimmesdale would have pulled out! That book would have been so much shorter.

Page 1:"Hester gets burned on the stake for adultery, the townsfolk think Dimmesdale was possessed by the devil who made him have sex with Hester."
The end.

Now that would have been a masterpiece.

 

[Dwarfman]

Anything by Pink Floyd, the later work of the Beatles, and Radiohead. I know they are geniuses but I think as musicians they fail and produced some truly unlistenable music even if it was deep, meaningful and experimental.

but... but... The Dark Side of the Moon!

And The Wall, Sergant Pepper's and The White Album as well! Ah well I suppose everyone has different tastes.

 

[Arsen]

Well I'm a hardcore fantasy nerd, and I detest Lord of the Rings, and the more recent Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, both series started out well with The Hobbit and A Game of Thrones, but I was never able to finish any of the other books in the series'

I'm just curious, but what would you otherwise consider over these two? The reason I got into these was for the realism factor, which is exactly why I thought The Dark Tower series was a masterpiece. The perfect blend of realism and the fantastic.

 

[skitzo van]

Romeo and Juliet. I'm just mostly pissed people regard it as a "supposed to read story" when it originated as a play. Its also quite sad half of the text had to be translated to make sense in this time.

 

[FallenTraveler]

hmm. I suppose I would have to say Call of Duty, or at least the more recent entries. I guess I just don't get it?

Other than that. I love RPG's, and I wanted to love Dragon Age, but I didn't. I saw the brilliance in KOTOR but couldnt quite jump in. You know, BioWare in general I just can't get into. :/ the sad part is I REALLY want to.

Actually, sci fi in general. Cannot get immersed in most sci fi, Star Wars had slow pacing, uninteresting locations, the fucking bears who saved the galaxy. I like some parts, but the series just DOES NOT hold my interest. Although I LOVED the star wars battlefront games.