Poll: "They just hate it because it's popular."
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In a way. When I saw Avatar, I thought it was an okay movie. 'Seen better, and 'seen worse.
Then everyone in the fucking world hyped it up as one of the best movies, and slowly I begun hating that movie, because I felt it got a fanbase that it didn't deserve.
Then everyone in the fucking world hyped it up as one of the best movies, and slowly I begun hating that movie, because I felt it got a fanbase that it didn't deserve.
Eh, no. I don't like alot of popular stuff, but that's because it's not to my tastes rather than because it's popular. I keep getting called a hipster because the most mainstream band I listen to is Tool, even though I really don't give a shit how popular something is, just how good it is.
Right there. Twilight. That's a perfect example of a bad, overrated series. The prose is awkward, the plot is trite, and the characters intended to be the most sympathetic tend to end up being the least likable.Brian Hendershot said:
As for Avatar, I'm guessing it'd cause more controversy to say that it wasn't actually bad than to say that you hate it. Sure, the story was formulaic; somewhere between The Word For World Is Forest and "Call Me Joe." Yes, its main selling point was all the Wayne Barlowe art. But it entertained me, at least as much as movies ever do.
Well it's not game related... unless you include the F1 games but I have a real love/hate thing going on with Sebastian Vettel and I'm getting really sick to death of him winning all the Grandprix's too. All of my friends think he's awesome.
Hmm... perhaps it's more of a love thing than I thought...
Hmm... perhaps it's more of a love thing than I thought...
I'm not ashamed to say that I've hated something because it was popular. For example, without having played it, I hated Halo. In my youth (haha, that's funny to say) I was obsessed with Sony and their Playstation consoles (still am) and believed that they were the ultimate gaming device. Then came the Xbox, a Playstation clone. Completely worthless in my opinion. But it sold like hotcakes. Why? HALO. In fact, I still hold true to the idea that the only reason Microsoft is able to compete in the console market is because they had Halo on their side to get the ball rolling (although, I think that with less venom attached to it than before). So I hated Halo, basically because it was popular. Never gave it a chance (nor the Xbox) and decided to write them off, purely because every other person around me was going "HUR! Xbox is da BOMB! Halo is da BOMB!".
Since then, I have played a game from the Halo series (Halo 3 to be exact), and found my opinion unchanged. I mean, I don't hate Halo like I did back then, but I still don't find it to be a game that would make me buy an Xbox. But good for those who enjoy it. There's enough room in the gaming industry for all of us.
Anyway, it happens. Sometimes things are popular, so they become annoying. Think of Twilight. If it wasn't so popular, it wouldn't be so painful. Most of the people who hate Twilight haven't seen the movies, or even read the books. They just hate it because they're sick of all the "Team Edward/ Team Jacob" hurrah. But, as someone who has read all the books and seen the movies, it's worth the hate. I promise.
Since then, I have played a game from the Halo series (Halo 3 to be exact), and found my opinion unchanged. I mean, I don't hate Halo like I did back then, but I still don't find it to be a game that would make me buy an Xbox. But good for those who enjoy it. There's enough room in the gaming industry for all of us.
Anyway, it happens. Sometimes things are popular, so they become annoying. Think of Twilight. If it wasn't so popular, it wouldn't be so painful. Most of the people who hate Twilight haven't seen the movies, or even read the books. They just hate it because they're sick of all the "Team Edward/ Team Jacob" hurrah. But, as someone who has read all the books and seen the movies, it's worth the hate. I promise.
For me, it was the Beatles. I got so fed up of everyone I knew going on about how they were the best band in existence and responsible for everything good to do with music, so I ended up hating them. It's not that I actually dislike them as a band, I just find that they're very overrated, and that led me to form a more negative opinion than I otherwise would have done.
I have no doubt that people don't enjoy the Call of Duty games. The thing is, they end up completely despising it because it's popular, just like with everything that's popular.
I hate Twilight because it's popular. But you don't see my hating a movie like Dear John because it's not popular.
Sure, I don't like the movie, but I don't hate it because I believe it gets the proper amount of recognition it deserves.
I hate Twilight because it's popular. But you don't see my hating a movie like Dear John because it's not popular.
Sure, I don't like the movie, but I don't hate it because I believe it gets the proper amount of recognition it deserves.
But you hate it because it is popular. Had you only heard of it in passing, you would have most likely disregarded it as something you were uninterested in. But because of the amount of love it gets from the fans of the series, the reaction from you is to over analyze the series and start to hate it. You hate it because of the attention it gets.Farseer Lolotea said:
kinda... but I usually have other reasons to back it up.
take Inception for example. now I didn't HATE this movie, I just hated how everyone REACTED to it. all of the wannabe film-snobs were happily tounging the movie's balls, saying how "original" (it wasn't) and "deep" (it wasn't) it was. I didn't care about any of the characters (except for Michael Caine, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Arthur, they were kinda cool), I saw the "twist" coming a MILE away, the whole thing was just too overcomplicated, etc. It could have been a MUCH better movie if it focused less on being clever and more on being a movie. now there ARE some legitimately clever things about it (the "BUAAAAMMMM" music is the song they wake up to slowed down, the first letters of the main characters' names spells out DREAMS, etc.), but I thought it was just okay. not amazing, not terrible, just alright.
and yet, this perfectly adequate movie gets praised as the most amazing thing ever, and anyone who doesn't think so just "didn't get it".
THAT'S what pissed me off.
or Justin Bieber, as another example. his music is TERRIBLE. he is a spoiled BRAT. people have said this about him (he pissed off EVERYONE on the set of CSI, he was almost kicked off of an airplane for acting like a spoiled child, he donates NOTHING to Japan, and is still praised as this talented little angel, etc.). It's just annoying to me that standards of what is "good" have fallen so low nowadays.
so yeah, I've hated things for being popular, but I would hate them even if they weren't popular, so I feel it's not as much a dipshit-hipster-Hot Topic move on my part.
take Inception for example. now I didn't HATE this movie, I just hated how everyone REACTED to it. all of the wannabe film-snobs were happily tounging the movie's balls, saying how "original" (it wasn't) and "deep" (it wasn't) it was. I didn't care about any of the characters (except for Michael Caine, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Arthur, they were kinda cool), I saw the "twist" coming a MILE away, the whole thing was just too overcomplicated, etc. It could have been a MUCH better movie if it focused less on being clever and more on being a movie. now there ARE some legitimately clever things about it (the "BUAAAAMMMM" music is the song they wake up to slowed down, the first letters of the main characters' names spells out DREAMS, etc.), but I thought it was just okay. not amazing, not terrible, just alright.
and yet, this perfectly adequate movie gets praised as the most amazing thing ever, and anyone who doesn't think so just "didn't get it".
THAT'S what pissed me off.
or Justin Bieber, as another example. his music is TERRIBLE. he is a spoiled BRAT. people have said this about him (he pissed off EVERYONE on the set of CSI, he was almost kicked off of an airplane for acting like a spoiled child, he donates NOTHING to Japan, and is still praised as this talented little angel, etc.). It's just annoying to me that standards of what is "good" have fallen so low nowadays.
so yeah, I've hated things for being popular, but I would hate them even if they weren't popular, so I feel it's not as much a dipshit-hipster-Hot Topic move on my part.
There are plenty that do. It's far more common, though, for people to like something more because it isn't popular. It makes them feel like part of an exclusive club, or like they've found a secret diamond mine that everyone else missed. And then, when that thing becomes popular, they find reasons to abandon it or bash it as being "not the same."Zhukov said:
As for me, I haven't found myself hating something for becoming popular. I have, however, hated the fact that some things are popular. Not hating the thing, per se, but lamenting the fact that people love it so much that we're inevitably going to get buried in it for the next twenty years. Case in point: reality TV. I hate how popular it is, because plenty of great show ideas are tossed aside because they're more expensive than (and thus not as profitable as) yet another reality show.
But I think that's different from the thing you're asking.
BZZZT! Wrong. Again: I dislike Twilight on its own...shall we say, merits. Its popularity merely mystifies me.Tdc2182 said:
That's not the same as hating it because it's popular, or even because it's overrated. If the series were a running joke like (for example) the Maradonia books, my opinion of it wouldn't be any higher. I poke fun at bad books in general.
I won't hate something just for being popular, what I mean is that if something I find genuinely bad, is popular the popularity will make me hate it more, because I feel that it doesn't deserve the popularity. If a bad thing is unpopular I won't feel as much hatered towards it as it is getting what it deserves. I like good things that are popular or unpopular, but the popularity of bad things is what gets me.
Even if I dislike something I don't usually hate it. I need a reason to hate it.
For example, I dislike Twlight because it's an author insert fanfic with lousy writing, I hate it because of the messages it's sending.
Better example maybe. I don't enjoy Half-Life because the gameplay bores me, but I don't hate it.
For example, I dislike Twlight because it's an author insert fanfic with lousy writing, I hate it because of the messages it's sending.
Better example maybe. I don't enjoy Half-Life because the gameplay bores me, but I don't hate it.
I've seen that a lot with music. They only like band's old stuff, or the garage bands, or the bands that have a different sound then your average.
My thing usually was unwillingness to try new things. I used to only listen to rock and metal. Mainstream and otherwise but I never wanted to try rap because it was different from what I was used to, now I'm practically doubling the number of songs in my ipod.
My thing usually was unwillingness to try new things. I used to only listen to rock and metal. Mainstream and otherwise but I never wanted to try rap because it was different from what I was used to, now I'm practically doubling the number of songs in my ipod.