Stuff You Find Over-rated

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Parkour and freeclimbing.

God, my brother tried that once. Went out with a friend who was a 'expert' in free running, because he had been in some Youtube clip or something. The dude took him too a spot he trained at, did a jump off a ledge, rolled, and whatever. Had my brother do the same thing, but no one had checked the ground around them, brother jumped, landed, boom! Exposed metal pipe to the ankle. Hand to have an ambulance come for him, stitches, tetanus shots, the works.
All because the trainer hadn't fully checked the entire area.

Absolute mess of people, those freeclimbers.

I had an idiot slam into me. I saw a leaping person towards me all of a sudden while alone in my apartment's back alley and my reflexes kicked in. So I basically gave a defensive shoulder charge and ended up knocking him to the ground. He looked like he was running right at me, all of a sudden appearing from the above neighboring balcony divider thing. I was planning to kick the shit out of him on the ground only to realise I wasn't being mugged, they were just being retards.

Then they had the gall to blame it on me. Frankly, looking and acting like a crazy methhead spoiling for an easy wallet, don't blame people for thinking you're a crazy methhead looking for an easy wallet. What the hell am I supposed to think when listening to music some fuckwit suddenly *runs and leaps at you*? And worse of all, barring the physical injury suffered... the guilt of lashing out in a moment of fear.

Fuckers should have the courtesy to pull that shit in an industrial wasteland and kill themselves there. Not over people's private property and certainly not anywhere you might end up bowling over some pensioners.

The biggest detracting argument for universal healthcare is people like that. The thing that strikes me the most is the blatant disrespect and conceited disposition involved that people seem to think they have licence to do this shit where people live. Apparently explaining to your kids how mummy got 7 stitches because some fuckwit knocked her over is just something people have to live with.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Quentin Tarantino in general.

I enjoy a couple of his movies (haven't seen Jackie Brown or Hateful Eight): Django certainly while watching it and Reservoir Dogs is alright. But the rest of his filmography is just... why? Why is this touted as some high art? Take Kill Bill vol 1: insufferably indulgent in its love for trashy kung fu movies, replete with cardboard cutout characters, morals on the level of a fucking Saturday morning cartoon, overlong etc. The second part is boring as shit with characters talking, talking and then fucking talking some more.

Pulp Fiction is brilliantly structured in its storytelling, but so much of that movie is just blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah am I boring you yet? blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah too fucking bad blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and so on. There's some funny moments and good dialogue, but so much of it is just total fluff, and cutting it out would make no difference.

Inglourious Basterds I found borderline unbearable. More bla bla bla talking, rampant tonal inconsistency (what kind of movie am I watching again? Comedy? Drama? Thriller? Tragedy? Revenge fantasy?), a bad guy so over the top omniscient he comes off as lazily written and corny, more drawn out scenes etc.

But the worst is Death Proof. Take everything I said about every movie previous, and add loathsomely unlikable characters to boot, and you have complete garbage.

 

[sageoftruth]

70 channels? 70?? Damn, I remember as a kid when our 4 main channels increased to 5. Oh dear, can't tell if that's age or poor living. Maybe both.

Anyway, Dr who. Can't seem to get into the flippant form of sci-fi. I prefer it deeply philosophical, mind-bending and sometimes even horrific. But not wise-cracking, hot-lady-sidekicking daytime TV for the kiddos/teens/hardcore fans sci-fi that makes me facepalm every few seconds.

Bond films. Only made slightly bearable with Daniel Craig, but I get people like routine in their entertainment, it's just not for me.

Friday 13th movies. I guess similar to bond films, people like their routines and hate lustful teens or something? They're not horror, just boring murder porn. Nightmare on elm Street afforded some semblance of creativity at least in its' idea.

Straw Wars. It was meant to say Star Wars, but auto-correct insisted on Straw Wars. Who am I to defy such wise benevolence?

Comic super heroes. Especially superman, he is like a personified American flag. Although Alan Moore seems ok.

Anime

Religion

Patriotism

Homeopathy

Sobriety

Happiness

Your kids. Yes, yours. Not mine, they don't exist but if they do I'll probably change my mind.

Warm weather

Unregulated free market

Games journalism

Lots of undecided cans of worms, bad worms, get back in these bigger cans, nasty worms. Ho boy.

Youtube personalities.

Sweets, Candy, chocolate, all that jazz.

Overly long internet posts to avoid doing something productive that may have far outstayed its' welcome and is demoralising with an ever-growing self doubt that slowly crushes the soul as the finish line moves farther away like some horrendous stretching nightmare corridor.

All of these may change by next week though, I can never tell. All in moderation, none to put too much stock upon.

I'm gonna second "your kids". It's so true. As a species we seem to be programmed to overrate our kids, and it's so annoying to everyone else.

 

[Jute88]

Zootopia - not my thing

Frozen - not my thing, would've liked it a bit more without the villain

Game of Thrones - The show is not as good as the books and the directors aren't good enough to change it into a tv-format

Star Wars A New Hope - It just feels, so, clumsy. There are some okay parts, but the dialogue is very bland. On the technical side (sound, music, special effects etc.) it's pretty good, but definitely no masterpiece.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - I honestly don't know why, but I feel it's the least entertaining of the Indiana Jones trilogy. It's not that funny, action is okay, characters are meh, music and special effects are good but Temple of Doom and the Last Crusade are miles better that RotLA.

Marvel-movies - I've watched 6 of them, and they felt just average to me. Maybe I'm just not the target audience.

Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa) - I admit, it's been a while since I saw it, but I didn't like it at all. But I do like Rashomon. And what little I've seen of Ran.

Firefly - The show was just too short for me to get interested in it. Had it run atleast 2 or 3 seasons, maybe? Or atleast a WHOLE season.

The New Star Trek Movies - They're just poorly made movies to me. That's it. Too many plot holes, dumb characters, and the worst: they don't feel like Star Trek.

 

[Guffe]

Social Media - Its creepy and it needs to stop. Pick one site to belong to and that's it. You don't need 7+ social media accounts to post under, especially if you're gonna complain about a lack of privacy and hacked content getting leaked.

This was a good one
Hadn't tought about this as an answer!
I myself have Facebook and that's it, my friends though.... yeah, what you said

 

[Baffle]

Museums. It's just a load of old tat.

 

[CaitSeith]

I find overrated the use of "overrated" in discussions.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Other folks have already picked up on Firefly and Tarantino, so I'll just let those stand.

Dark Souls. Or as I like to call it, "Masochism Simulator". It's not hard; it's bad. The sensation I get after finally grinding my way through one of the ridiculous encounters isn't "accomplishment", so much as it's how I'd feel after finally ending a half-hour session of whacking myself in the gonads with a mallet.

A man after my own heart. After playing an hour of DS3, the impression I was left with was "Monster Hunter made by douchebags."

And my own addition: Bethesda's versions of Elder Scrolls and Fallout. As bug ridden world simulators, they're okay except for the plethora of bugs, but I'm never felt like I needed or even wanted to follow the story.

 

[Hawki]

And my own addition: Bethesda's versions of Elder Scrolls

...as opposed to a non-Bethesda Elder Scrolls? 0_0

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

And my own addition: Bethesda's versions of Elder Scrolls

...as opposed to a non-Bethesda Elder Scrolls? 0_0

Hedging my bets. They might have Obsidian make an Elder Scrolls game some day.

 

[Jute88]

Frozen - not my thing, would've liked it a bit more without the villain

I would have liked it more in 2D.

Ditto, I just find 2D animation superior.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - I honestly don't know why, but I feel it's the least entertaining of the Indiana Jones trilogy. It's not that funny, action is okay, characters are meh, music and special effects are good but Temple of Doom and the Last Crusade are miles better that RotLA.

I think the weak one (of the trilogy) is Last Crusade. It feels like a rehash of Raiders, with a kind of boring plot that jumps from place to place and has a lot of chase scenes. At least Temple of Doom and Crystal Skull didn't focus on the Abrahamic religions again.

Temple of Doom is my favourite IJ-movie as well. But in the Last Crusade they improve a lot of things when compared to RotLA. Humor is better, action is more entertainig and the chemistry between Ford and Connery is fun to watch. Though granted, even as a kid I was kinda puzzled with the ending. So, Indiana's dad is immortal now? I know there's a book that explains it better and the reason why the knight looked so old.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (the ones by Douglas Adams). I struggle to remember anything from them beyond what happens in the first, mainly because I enjoyed the film way more and thus remember more of it. I remember it becoming completely incomprehensible with multiple realities, time travel(...?) and multiple versions of the characters walking around, but the main reason I've practically forgotten it is that after the first book it became impossible to care about any of the characters. The books just started to feel hateful and mean spirited.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

The Killing Joke
Zootopia*
Transmetropolitan (currently, I think it might click later)
Pulp Fiction

I personally don't like the word "overrated", it feels a bit of a high-horse term for me, but the things in this list (which I recognize as important, well-made, relative bookmarks in their mediums' histories) were hyped to the moon and back for me and I went into them with totally wrong expectations.

That's probably my fault more than anything, but if people had merely said these things were good instead of suggesting I'd reach a higher plain of existence by checking them out, I might've liked them a lot more.
I recently had this problem with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I love it now but it took a season and a three-quarters of the second (for Jojo fans, the D'arby gambling battle, that was the moment) that I really "got it".

I know that kind of seems unfair "why would you check it out if we don't tell you it's worth checking out" but that's just how I am, I guess.

*Zootoptia gets a bit of a pass because everybody talking about it was pretty up front about what it was, my expectations matched the delivery but it's just not my bag. "Can everybody just get along?" Good message, delivered well through a cute, well-made movie that people of any age can enjoy, great, seriously.
Chill though, I don't love it as much as you.

 

[Nazulu]

Holy Hell! A thread with someone mentioning over-rated in title that didn't have all these sensitive pansy's mentioning how they got triggered by the word. It's a fucking miracle! Well I think I see one using that over-used joke, but we've finally grown!

Anyway, Seinfield. I never found it funny. I never heard someone mention something funny from it. I never found Jerry Seinfield funny just doing stand up on his own. The show just seems to be just over-reacting and situational humour entirely, but whatever.