Any film by Michelangelo Antonioni. They all seem to be regarded as classics but they're actually vacuous and crushingly dull.
"Classics" that you were underwhelmed by.
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I've never liked them either but when you say it people look at you like you just said you eat babies and then try to explain why you don't have a choice but to like them.Novs said:
OT: Really I can't say I've ever viewed anything as being a classic second-hand. Other peoples opinions aren't MY opinions. I don't think I've ever been so underwhelmed by a thing and cared.
Something that people seem to be eternally underwhelmed by, and shouldn't be, is Shakespeare. School ruins some of the most amazing work produced by a person in the past thousand years.
EDIT: Halo and all other "Halo +1"'s, as well as Gears of War. Multiplayer can be fun but any contact with the single player stuff just disgusts me.
dont get me wrong I dont dislike S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (its not like..in my oh so smug and supiror opnion which goes against popular veiw which makes it better..I mean some people act like their opnion is fact because they dare insult somthing popular)y1fella said:
I can see why its considered good and even ground breaking, I just couldnt get into it mainly because of the way the story was presented and the gameplay, I have alot of trouble reading big chunks of text in video games (not in real life however) it was the same with the witcher (not so much text as....wait...what am I doing here again?)
similar thing with AVATAR I dont think its a bad movie...by all logic I should really really like it but I dont because both sides are dicks and I dont like being told how much I suck compared to blue cat people
Movie: Casablanca. I don't know why I didn't like it, just not my thing I guess.
Game: The entire Legend of Zelda series. All the games bored the crap out of me.
Book: Carrie. I found it very meh
Music: Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon. I love Pink Floyd but this was just over-rated.
Game: The entire Legend of Zelda series. All the games bored the crap out of me.
Book: Carrie. I found it very meh
Music: Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon. I love Pink Floyd but this was just over-rated.
Portal I guess. Had been told it was the most fun I'd have with my computer but I can safely say that didn't occur.
I never understood why Deus Ex was so awesome as people said. Maybe i was really young at the time (my brother started playing it, and i tried it out, too. Didn't like it much).
Haven't tried playing it again, though. Maybe i ought to give it one more chance.
Haven't tried playing it again, though. Maybe i ought to give it one more chance.
I heard so much about Blade Runner and then I watched it: things happened for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I think my favorite bit was when the main antoginist stripped to his undercrackers and ran around like a lunatic and screaming. No doubt some arts-fartsy person will tell me this symbolises Mankind's false exterior of civilisation over its raw primal self but I say no: its just some idiot running about in his pants.
The Picture of Dorian Gray. No drama, no action, just a list of things that Dorian Gray owns. I think a movie came out at some point, because for a while I saw a lot of people reading it. Not sure if they liked it, but still, I felt duped on their behalf.
People have mentioned Lord of The Rings. All I remember from that trilogy was that there was a lot of singing, which I skipped.
Strangely enough, I don't think I've been let down by "classic" games. Perhaps because I don't consider many games to be classics. "Classic" games are at most 20 or so years old, and for me, "classic" means at least 50, preferably over a century. Generally, classics must transcend (e.g.) the boundaries of time and place; teach you about cultures and lives different from your own.
(That's a lot of scare quotes. My bad.)
People have mentioned Lord of The Rings. All I remember from that trilogy was that there was a lot of singing, which I skipped.
Strangely enough, I don't think I've been let down by "classic" games. Perhaps because I don't consider many games to be classics. "Classic" games are at most 20 or so years old, and for me, "classic" means at least 50, preferably over a century. Generally, classics must transcend (e.g.) the boundaries of time and place; teach you about cultures and lives different from your own.
(That's a lot of scare quotes. My bad.)
The Omen and Damien: Omen II. I was told horror and I was given little but that's probably because people must have been scared easier back then.
Can't think of games, mainly because if a game wasn't that good I wont remember it unless someone brings it up
. Audiosurf maybe? It's alright but I guess it's because I'm not that into music
Can't think of games, mainly because if a game wasn't that good I wont remember it unless someone brings it up
. Audiosurf maybe? It's alright but I guess it's because I'm not that into music
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Also, most of Stanley Kubrick's films. I watched "Barry Lyndon" again the other day. 2 hours 57 minutes to really say nothing, but in a very picturesque way. Ooh, candles!
Music-wise, Coldplay and the Beatles leave me pretty cold. I can't stand Handel, either.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
It really got quite tiresome aboout the first twenty minutes and didn't get better. Maybe it's because Hunter S. Thompson doesn't hold the same place in the Australian conciousness as he does in the US, but simply did not give a damn. The premise for the movies seems great, Depp's performance was Thompson was fantastic, but I simply did not give a damn about what was happening in the movie or whatever message it was trying to send.
They really needed to cut out about 45 minutes and pace it better. If the point of the movie was for me to experience the confusion and disorientation associated with a week-long drug binge, I guess maybe it succeeded. IN the respect of storytelling or presenting an entertaining experience for the viewer, it failed dismally.
I'm not sure why people are so fond of it.
It really got quite tiresome aboout the first twenty minutes and didn't get better. Maybe it's because Hunter S. Thompson doesn't hold the same place in the Australian conciousness as he does in the US, but simply did not give a damn. The premise for the movies seems great, Depp's performance was Thompson was fantastic, but I simply did not give a damn about what was happening in the movie or whatever message it was trying to send.
They really needed to cut out about 45 minutes and pace it better. If the point of the movie was for me to experience the confusion and disorientation associated with a week-long drug binge, I guess maybe it succeeded. IN the respect of storytelling or presenting an entertaining experience for the viewer, it failed dismally.
I'm not sure why people are so fond of it.
I know where talking about films but for me the most underwhelming "Classic" was the book "The Great Gatsby" to be honest I thought Scott Pilgrim had a better love story, not to mention ninjas. (Well one is a half-ninja)
Book - (Thus Far) Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A bit too slow for the amount of patience I have. So it's more a personal thing and I really do want to read it, but I can't bring myself to.
Half-Life 2 Episode 1 - Maybe it's because I get stuck a lot. Maybe because it's ageing. Maybe it's because I haven't played the first one. It doesn't matter too much because I just can't bring myself to finish it, having started it about a year ago and only just now meeting Father Grigori.
Half-Life 2 Episode 1 - Maybe it's because I get stuck a lot. Maybe because it's ageing. Maybe it's because I haven't played the first one. It doesn't matter too much because I just can't bring myself to finish it, having started it about a year ago and only just now meeting Father Grigori.
Some people might hate me for this, but... I never cared much for the "Rocky Horror Picture Show".
I'm sorry, but... I just don't get the appeal of it. I get that it's a spoof of "Frankenstein", but that's just it.
(Ducks into bomb shelter, blocks the entrance with riot shields and sets up a paintball gun)
I'm sorry, but... I just don't get the appeal of it. I get that it's a spoof of "Frankenstein", but that's just it.
(Ducks into bomb shelter, blocks the entrance with riot shields and sets up a paintball gun)
See I loved that film, it's all about building tension and creating an atmosphere i think. I love Sergio Leone's films if I'm honest, they're better than most westerns I've seen before or since, with a few exceptions. But hey that's just me-Drifter- said:
Pulp fiction never really did it for me I'm afraid. John Travolta and Samuel Jackson are pretty funny, in it, but that's about it. I wouldn't go as far as to say I didn't like the film, but I expected so much more of it. It's just an OK movie.
*brain explodes*ArBeater said:
I don't expect it to change everyone's life... but wow... not liking it is something I can't even fathom.
For me, I would say any movie by Tim Burton... really, his movies just don't do it for me.
As someone who loves Rocky Horror, I do think it has a limited appeal. It think it depends on your age when you see it, what kind of background you have and other social/personal factors as to whether it will click with you.CrazyGirl17 said:
It's a bad movie. It's trashy and cheap and the music isn't all that clever.
But something about who I am appreciates it, and I can watch it endlessly. I saw a stage production a few years back and thought it was equally fantastic.
But don't let anyone make you feel bad for hating it. I know fans of most anything will get upset if you trash their thing (see: music arguments, console wars, etc.) but Rocky Horror fans are even more fanatical in that respect.