"Classics" that you were underwhelmed by.
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When I read the name of the book I immediately thought of the Christian metal band.RedEyesBlackGamer said:
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Movie: Inception saw it in the theater and its a great movie but there are defiantly a lot better movies out there.
Book: Haven't really read any books that can be considered classics or instant classics.
Game: I have to say Half Life 2. Feel like its more of an average game than all the hype its been given.
2001: A space odyssey
If I want to watch boring scenes of space for tens of minutes overlaying a boring xenogenesis theory then I'll go look out of my window and think about Scientology. I seriously don't understand why this movie has had so much hype. It's abysmal. I strongly suspect a case of 'I don't want to seem like the only one who doesn't get it'. Primer was almost as bad.
Shogun 2 Total War
I'm a massive Total War fan and I absolutely love the Japanese theme, the graphics, the clans (still annoyed about the removal of Hattori for non-DLC), the RPG elements and the new battles, but why oh why did they code it so that every clan in Japan declares war on the player when the player becomes moderately successful? How am I supposed to beat that? Why don't other clans draw the ire of the Shogunate?
If I want to watch boring scenes of space for tens of minutes overlaying a boring xenogenesis theory then I'll go look out of my window and think about Scientology. I seriously don't understand why this movie has had so much hype. It's abysmal. I strongly suspect a case of 'I don't want to seem like the only one who doesn't get it'. Primer was almost as bad.
Shogun 2 Total War
I'm a massive Total War fan and I absolutely love the Japanese theme, the graphics, the clans (still annoyed about the removal of Hattori for non-DLC), the RPG elements and the new battles, but why oh why did they code it so that every clan in Japan declares war on the player when the player becomes moderately successful? How am I supposed to beat that? Why don't other clans draw the ire of the Shogunate?
Film: The Wizard of Oz.
Admittedly I didn't watch it until I was 17, but it was so LAME. The acting was terrible, the special effects were embarrassing (I was so bored I made a game of how many times I could see the wire holding up the lion's tail) and I was just glad when it ended.
The odd thing is, I love Wicked so much, so I honestly expected to like The Wizard of Oz as well.
Admittedly I didn't watch it until I was 17, but it was so LAME. The acting was terrible, the special effects were embarrassing (I was so bored I made a game of how many times I could see the wire holding up the lion's tail) and I was just glad when it ended.
The odd thing is, I love Wicked so much, so I honestly expected to like The Wizard of Oz as well.
When I saw the name of the topic, the first thing I thought of was Blade Runner. It seemed like barely half a movie with a few scenes, stretched out into 2 hours. I thought there'd be more replicants or something, but there are long stretches where either: hardly anything happens with anyone relevant, a short shootout scenes is slow-mo'd into 30 minutes, or he is just sitting around his apartment. They easily could have done a lot more outside of excessively showcasing the scenery.y1fella said:
Piggybacking on someone else's comment: The Godfather 2. I really liked the first one, but later on I saw the second and thought it was a mish-mash of unrelated stuff that was mostly boring, especially all the courtroom drama crap.
For a video game, I will pick something recent that got a lot of hype: New Super Mario Bros Wii. I almost hated the game because of how lacking it was compared to other 2D mario games, specifically how it was lacking many of the gameplay mechanics they had introduced in Mario 3 and Super Mario World. The hats sucked, you couldn't utilize shells as much as in World, the shell colors meant nothing and no powers for Yoshi, no spin jump, the music was just annoying, and they dumbed down the level design for the multiplayer.
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird. Didn't hate it or anything I just wasn't impressed.
Movie: Avatar. Good, but not in my top 20 or anything. Not even close
Game: Dot Hack series. I really enjoy most RPGs that are traditional turn based or even JRPGs but I traded that game in after about 3 hours. Just didn't impress me and I am still unsure on why there is a following for it.
Music: I know what I like so I am rarely disappointed or underwhelmed on it but I am a huge Tool fan and their last CD was good but I was expecting a masterpiece.
Movie: Avatar. Good, but not in my top 20 or anything. Not even close
Game: Dot Hack series. I really enjoy most RPGs that are traditional turn based or even JRPGs but I traded that game in after about 3 hours. Just didn't impress me and I am still unsure on why there is a following for it.
Music: I know what I like so I am rarely disappointed or underwhelmed on it but I am a huge Tool fan and their last CD was good but I was expecting a masterpiece.
Lol, this is my favorite slasher flick just because it's more imaginative than other movies like it.eggsovereasy said:
The original movie of "Of Mice And Men". I felt like I got a lot more out of the book.
EDIT: Also pretty much most of Ray Bradbury's work, including Fahrenheit 451. I guess it's partly because I just don't agree with his implication that one format of media is inherently superior in all cases, which is more or less what I thought the book was arguing. I mean, he does address that at one point in the book, except it doesn't really fit in with the story.
Certainly anyone reading it on the most literal level- just as a sci-fi adventure book- would be horribly disappointed, because that's not really what it was meant to be. It was apparently meant to be an argument for libraries. Full stop. That's it.
EDIT: Also pretty much most of Ray Bradbury's work, including Fahrenheit 451. I guess it's partly because I just don't agree with his implication that one format of media is inherently superior in all cases, which is more or less what I thought the book was arguing. I mean, he does address that at one point in the book, except it doesn't really fit in with the story.
Certainly anyone reading it on the most literal level- just as a sci-fi adventure book- would be horribly disappointed, because that's not really what it was meant to be. It was apparently meant to be an argument for libraries. Full stop. That's it.
Oh no I got the conversation it just isn't as classic or Dances with Wolves. It follows the same general format just as most movies can be boiled down to a few main plots. This is one thing I hate about when people comment on the movie. No it is not Dances with Smurfs or Pocahontas but it does use the same base of the story. So you are kinda calling it classic by comparing it with Dances with Wolves.y1fella said:
Book: The Great Gatsby
Even with the symbolism explained this is not a timeless classic and I've had to do a term paper on this crap novel.
Film: Eraser Head
I got the symbolism and everything was way out of wack but still underwhelming.
Also: Casablanca
It's just boring
Game: Half Life 2 and Portal
I think I just don't like puzzles and puzzles in a shooter kind of suck to me.
Even with the symbolism explained this is not a timeless classic and I've had to do a term paper on this crap novel.
Film: Eraser Head
I got the symbolism and everything was way out of wack but still underwhelming.
Also: Casablanca
It's just boring
Game: Half Life 2 and Portal
I think I just don't like puzzles and puzzles in a shooter kind of suck to me.
As soon as I saw the title of this thread I thought 'Blade Runner'. I'm glad I'm not alone.y1fella said:
I don't know if it's because I read 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and loved the book so maybe I got thrown off by the difference in storyline or something... but it just seemed like any old weird 80s film that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
For books, I LOATHED Great Expectations. I only finished the book because we had a test over it in high school. I disliked just about everything about it: the writing style, lengthy descriptions of everything, the characters. I was bored the whole time and reading it was a chore, and I normally love to read.
For games, it's Half-Life 2 for me right now. I feel about half way through playing it (I think. I'm on the highway section) and I'm pretty much only playing it to finish it and cross it off my list of games I wanted to play. I'm so confused about what's going on and I don't really care about any of the characters as most of them haven't been on screen long enough to give me a reason to care. I understand the graphics are dated, not an issue. Controls feel a little weird sometimes, but that could be b/c I'm used to other FPS setups. The load times are almost as bad as Oblivion (which says a lot). I'm just meh about it.
For games, it's Half-Life 2 for me right now. I feel about half way through playing it (I think. I'm on the highway section) and I'm pretty much only playing it to finish it and cross it off my list of games I wanted to play. I'm so confused about what's going on and I don't really care about any of the characters as most of them haven't been on screen long enough to give me a reason to care. I understand the graphics are dated, not an issue. Controls feel a little weird sometimes, but that could be b/c I'm used to other FPS setups. The load times are almost as bad as Oblivion (which says a lot). I'm just meh about it.
Austin Powers. All the good and most of the decent jokes have been spoiled a hundred times over by people who think repeating out of context movie jokes makes them funny by proxy, and the rest of the movie is mind-blowingly painful. I actually grimaced a couple of times.