As a huge Whedon fan of Buffy and Firefly, I SHOULD love Dollhouse but it's not very good. The show really hinges on Eliza Dushku actually acting and she's a horrible actress. It's one thing to have to play one character well but she has to play a different character every episode and she doesn't even come close to pulling it off.
As a huge Nolan fan and loving space and science, I SHOULD love Interstellar but I didn't care for it at all as a whole. There's some really great scenes but the movie falls apart on a couple plot points. I did recall hearing/reading that Interstellar was originally a Spielberg project so I guess that makes sense as to why it just doesn't work.
There's only one really bad piece of media that I can think of that should've been great but was just plain horrible, truly truly bad. I think Zack Synder is a good director; Watchmen is my favorite comic book movie, Man of Steel is my favorite Superman movie, I even like Sucker Punch. But the following movie is possibly the worst movie ever made, it's so bad that my friends and I have discussed just how bad this movie is for hours upon hours. I guess in the end it has provided entertainment in how bad it is...
JUMBO PALACE said:
Batman vs Superman. I literally turned to my girlfriend halfway through to say "I hate this" only for her to breathe a sigh of relief that she wouldn't have to pretend to have enjoyed it for my sake.
And no, before the obligatory defense squad shows up, I'm not interested in debating its merits.
Anyone that legitimately likes BvS should be considered clinically insane
Anyway, I saw BvS on the Thursday night before such word got out because I wanted to go in without any biases really. I still remember rolling my eyes at the opening lines of this turd sandwich. Then, the scenes of Batman in Metropolis during the end of Man of Steel were solid thinking it could turn around. But everything after that pure irredeemable garbage. I even remember thinking during Batman's parents' deaths why do they keep highlighting that his mom is named Martha, no mention of Thomas whatsoever, it felt so odd. Then, "the scene" happened and I wanted to punch whoever wrote that tripe. BvS is leagues worse than probably any Michael Bay shit show as they at least follow a remnant of internal logic.
bartholen said:
Muse is my favorite band of all time, and the album Origin of Symmetry has some of their biggest classics like New born or Plug in Baby. But most of the album is spent on endless, meandering, slogging, noodling prog... I don't even know what to call them. They're too heavy to be ballads, but don't rock enough to be called songs. Let's just call them Ljubljana for absolutely no reason. The Ljubljana take up what feels like most of the album, and the vocals are so distorted and filtered that they become completely incomprehensible, and Matt Bellamy spams his falsetto like there's no tomorrow. It's like listening to a buzzsaw for 40 minutes. Just no.
Muse is my 2nd favorite modern band after the classic rock era but their albums after Resistance are pretty shitty IMO. Thus, I SHOULD like them but they suck. In my Muse playlist, the only song from the last 2 albums that makes the cut is Mercy. Origin of Symmetry has 8 songs on my playlist which is 2nd highest with the 1st album having the most songs. I can definitely see Matt's vocals becoming annoying during several songs, he just goes on and on at times. Absolution is the one album that I think I dislike the most out the albums that I do like, the songs don't have enough variance in sound for me and sorta bleed into each other.
Silentpony said:
Most TV shows. The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Modern Family, Community, and Big Bang Theory. I've watched multiple episodes of all and can't for the life of me find the appeal. Not one character acts or talks how a real person does, not one situations is believable let alone funny, and not once have I felt anything approaching passion in any of the acting.
It all seems so dry, so stiff. Like who actually thinks these shows accurately reflect life, or that any character is worth emulating?!
I'm routinely told that I'm just like Jay Pritchett from Modern Family and Pierce Hawthorne from Community and I'm not at all old either. Arrested Development is a prime example of a hilarious show that's nothing like real life. Whereas Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm are hilarious because they are like real life. Most of the shows you mention lean heavily into the 1st category. Even then there's some great characters in there like April Ludgate from Parks and Rec reminds me very much of one of my friends.
