No_Remainders said:
I've got something I hate that people seem to love!
Inception. I have many reasons for this.
- Leonardo DiCaprio is, and always has been, an utter tool. He has never made a good movie, in my opinion. Titanic was boring and long-winded, Shutter Island was basically "They woke up and it was a dream", Catch Me If You Can was a jumbled mess, and the only good thing about The Departed was "Shipping Up To Boston" by Dropkick Murphys.
- The ending which EVERYONE knows by now, was entirely unnecessary. I'm sorry, but why couldn't they have wrapped it up instead of trying to be all deep and give the plot a few extra possibilities? It was just a terrible idea that was SOOOOO cliché.
- The movie idea in general was so iffy. Stealing/planting ideas from/into people's dreams? Seriously? No. Just plain ridiculous.
Oh, if you say "Oh, you obviously just didn't understand it hurr hurr derp!", no, fuck off, I understood perfectly what was going on, it was just overrated SHIT.
I'm going to bring up an issue with your second two points there, because while you're entitled to your opinion on Leonardo di Caprio's acting ability, and I agree to an extent, the ending to Inception was there to keep the film in people's minds, it wasn't a few extra possibilities, it was a black and white "The world is/isn't a dream" left ambiguous to stick in your mind. People have just blown it out of proportion by overthinking it.
Secondly, many other movies/books/comics/games can be called "Just plain ridiculous" if the idea is taken down to the core elements: Batman is a guy in a costume beating people up, Lord of the Rings is people getting in trouble while trying to break a ring, Shadow of the Colossus is a guy killing big things.
All of them when taken at face value are just plain ridiculous, but that doesn't stop the rest of the pieces from being good.
I respect your opinions here, and I'm not saying they're wrong, because they're opinions, I'm just asking you look at things a on little bigger scale or from a different perspective and reconsider.
OT: Actually, nearly all of the things on your list there, OP, I've given their chance, and have disliked. I didn't think Episode III was that bad, but was dragged down by what was set out previously in the prior two films. I don't like Ke$ha and Kanye because I don't like the way their music sounds. I read all of the Twilight books and loathed them not just because they got vampires terribly wrong, or the bad writing, or the implausible plot and one dimensional characters, or the fandom. I hated it because of all those things combined (excluding the fandom) are what make a bad book. I disliked the second two Matrix films because they were pretty poorly made. I can't say I hate all boybands, but a fair few of them simply aren't my kind of thing.
I can't pass judgement on Dick Grayson Batman, or Smallville because I never really paid much attention to them.
I don't judge you for having those opinions, that's what you think, and so be it, feel free to like and dislike what you want.
Personally, right now I can't think of much that I like that most don't except being a sucker for RomComs, enjoying Glee and not minding Halo much.