Poll: "They just hate it because it's popular."

[The_root_of_all_evil]

You're talking to a guy who thought the first Transformers movie was awesome, and who prefers The Chronicles of Riddick over Pitch Black.

I am, I suppose, easily seduced by shiny graphics. It's a character flaw.

O...K...*twitch* I can *twitch* understand your *twitch* position.

(I'm far too involved in the plot behind things, that's my flaw )

I'd ask for examples, but it's pretty safe to assume that you're right about that.

Never assume, because there's a pithy comment about how it's spelled.

But if you wanted a film that explored new ideas rather than just re-ran the same one, Avatar just stacked another pile of money on Summer Blockbusters being SEX, LIGHTS, VIOLENCE!

Still, I'm shamelessly anticipating the sequel(s). Avatar 2, wooh!

Let me guess...The Tree's not dead, the Humans come back, The General makes a return and it makes some witty pop culture reference...in 3D...on fire...In Space!

I'd just love it if a "thinky" film got as much money as a "no-thinky" film.

 

[SammiYin]

Yes, because I'm sick of hearing about the same thing in the same conversation all over the universe.
Prime examples- football and cars

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

occasionally a few times if i have had people go ON AND ON AND ON about something it has "amplified" my dislike for something, but mostly i try and figure out what it is, game wise or maybe just a simple mechanic in a game, before i really give my full judgement on it.

 

[Grey_Focks]

I won't go that far, but I will say part of the reason why I dislike anime is because of it's fanbase. Not really the same thing as what you mean OP, so I guess my answer is just "no".

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

In the spirit of equality, I like to give things a fair chance before dismissing them. That being said, there is a ton of popular media out there that I personally don't enjoy.

In the case of movies...I've all but given up on them. Nearly every highly recommended movie in the last 10 years has not been to my liking. This includes movies like Lord of the Rings, Inception, Ironman, The Hangover, Wall-E, Almost Famous, etc.

just curious.. what movies do you actually like? if you would, a top 10ish movies and maybe as to why you like them.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

I can't think of anything I've outright HATED because it's popular.

I've had sarcastic skepticism over popular things...such as Fullmetal Alchemist, because most of the praise I heard for it came from SQUEE! GLOMP! BISHIE! fangirls talking about Ed and Roy. Or Shenmue, for how overly praised it was in spite of its clunky mechanics and shitty acting. I had a just cause for feeling how I did, I think, but I'm glad I let it go. FMA and Shenmue really ARE awesome.

I've had my enjoyment somewhat diminished by the ridiculous exposure of some things...such as the Halo games. Halo 2 felt big and awesome because it felt like it was this thing that bridged together the "normies" and the "nerds" without it becoming a massive celebrity-infused ploy. I saw nothing about Halo 2 outside gaming circles, and yet people were skipping school for it when it came out.

Halo 3...had a Mountain Dew flavor. Overboard.

But never outright HATED anything...not that I don't think anyway. I'll have to think harder.

 

[TornadoFive]

I don't hate things purely because they're popular. But that is often the root of the problem.

Example - Justin Bieber

Now, I don't like his music. Not to my tastes. But having said that, I don't mind if YOU like his music. Eveyone has different tastes, that's what makes the world an interesting place.

However, I don't like the guy himself. And I think part of the reason for that is that because he's so popular (unwarrated in my opinion, but that's another story) he attracts a lot of irritating fans. The way they practically worship him really annoys me. And thats part of the reason I don't like him.

I know the same could be said for any well-known artist, but that was the easy example.

 

[cp2u]

I've never hated something strictly because it was popular, but if something is bad AND popular, that means there will be more like it on the way, which makes me hate it more.

 

[elcamino41383]

I have to admit at very first, I started hating NickelBack about the same time they got popular, and that kind of added to it. But after a little time it became because of the fact that they just suck (in my not so humble opinion.) I liked their earlier stuff, but after Silver Side Up they became way too generic. Theory of a Deadman followed the same formula, had a good sound at first, quickly went generic.

The whole "you just hate it because it's popular" is just annoying and I've seen it used far too often on these forums. I don't "hate" Twilight because it's popular. I "hate" it because to me it kind of shits all over the whole mythos of vampires and werewolves (thing I admittedly never cared that much about to begin with.) That and it's fans are generally pretty stupid and annoying. I "hate" Harry Potter (at least the movies) because when I sat down and actually watched the first 4 movies, they bored me to death. I "hate" Call of Duty/Halo/Borderlands/etc because they are first person shooters and I've not been able to really enjoy a FPS since GoldenEye007.

 

[Eisenfaust]

something being popular has caused my attention to be focused on it... at which point i figure out that i do hate it, so popularity has a... transcendental effect, but no, i've never hated anything purely because it's popular

 

[Hoist_that_Rag]

Alright seriously no one listen to this guy he's the king of the cave dwelling reptiles.

Let me just ask you Mr. 1243 forum posts because clearly you know better than all and sundry, what is art? What's that? Seriously? "Rembrandt" who? "Sacred Mirrors" what? Get out of town really? Well Dali, Warhol, Picasso and John Lennon all dabbled in films and even the most stringent of elitist scum can't deny them. Fuck off all of them? At once? On film? Wait and what? You mean that the whole of Citizen Kane is a commercial for peas and that Rashomon was just bacteria from Hiroshima caught in a lens? Fuck I guess you are right.

Sorry mate but you saying that means that the basic, purest concept of what art is must be completely lost on you. Keep looking though seriously, just don't for a minute think you get it because you are so far off. Oh and the only reason you keep seeing average is because that's all you're looking for, I'm guessing it must be so you can spit your popcorn at it constantly as a half-assed weight-loss scheme. Or maybe you just find ALL arthouse & auteur driven cinema to be pretentious crap in which case you're too ignorant to be an elitist and we'll be sending some officials over in the morning to take your gun and badge.

 

[Ren3004]

Well, sort of... Let's say, Twilight. I've never read any of the books, or watched any of the films. It's not marketed towards me, and it just doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy. The reason I want it to be destroyed in a fire is because I have to put up with my female friends going on about how cute Robert Pattinson is. And because when I go to a bookstore I see about 10000 books with covers reminiscent of Twilight that could as well be called "We wrote this in an afternoon and are expecting it to make millions because it has fancy letters." And because they made a freaking TV series that's Twilight in high school. With characters that look the same. And because even freaking ads for an office supplier got a vampire thrown in for no reason during the "Back to school" season.

So yeah, something that I have absolutely no interest in, blown way beyond proportion, to the point where I couldn't go out without getting it shoved in my face can get so annoying that it makes me want to hurt people.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

I always have plenty of reasons to hate what I hate. I don't hate popular, I hate what popular can do to an industry. That's why we get more and more cover based shooters in video games, they make money because people will always buy them and all companies care about is the money. Then they just make a game with similar mechanics. It creates stagnation.

 

[BaconPunch]

Only songs. Name one recent song that evrybody has heard of that isn't about love.

Exactly

 

[Slythernite]

Things that are popular and people I don't like seem to go hand in hand. It's not really that I don't like things that are popular, like music or games, it's that I can't STAND the people around them, so I choose to play or listen to different things.

Take Call of Duty, I don't mind the game so much, but I can't STAND the player-base, so I don't play it. It just happens to be popular. So I don't like something that's popular not because of it's popularity but because some of its attributes, that usually gets misconstrued as not liking it because of its popularity.

However, I also find myself enjoying things that are different, simply because I like new things. Popular things are the kinds of thing I see every day, they get old, I move to something new and generally less popular.

 

[Thaliur]

You're talking to a guy who thought the first Transformers movie was awesome, and who prefers The Chronicles of Riddick over Pitch Black.

I am, I suppose, easily seduced by shiny graphics. It's a character flaw.

I don't know the Chronicles of Riddick, but I have to agree about the first Transformers movie being awesome. I wouldn't call its graphics "shiny" though. Still, the story was way better than any of the recent ones. Then again, maybe I am slightly blinded by nostalgia. Unicron would still eat the Fallen for breakfast. Literally, probably.

Not purely because of the popularity, but as one of the first posters said, the hate can be easily multiplied when it's popular.
Example: I loathe the acting in Big Bang Theory. It is simply beyond me how anyone anywhere could find it funny. Yet people constantly ask me if I'm following the series. I rage, they say I just hate it because it's popular.

I've more or less accepted bad acting as being a stilistic element in US-produced sitcoms. I can't tell the exact purpose, but it seems to be a common element in pretty much all of them, with some that manage to pull themselves slightly above the average US sitcom mud (Frasier, it was actually quite good.).

A British remake of Big Bang Theory might be great, if whatever happened when the US decided to make their own "Coupling" also works in reverse.
Probably wouldn't happen though, the UK has its own (fantastic and mostly original) sitcom concepts, and there's already the IT Crowd for science-related jokes.

 

[Verlander]

No, but somethings popularity generally draws attention from people who immediately question if it deserves such celebration. This high level of critique often shows up the holes in things that don't deserve the respect that they get.

Things that are truly brilliant needn't worry. Like classic films or literature

 

[nuba km]

no, my hatred of call of duty is because it is average most of the time, has some good moments in singleplayer, but a terrible multiplayer a lot of the time and that it is popular BECAUSE of those things. I don't hate legendary, which is a worse game, because I can ignore it (also at least it tried something different) and isn't called the best game ever by people who have nothing to compare it to.