Entertainment things you HATE

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WISHIMAY

Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:25 AM

The favorite novel thing leads me to wander what your LEAST favorite books, songs, TV, movies are.

My mother tried to get me to read The Good Earth and Grapes of Wrath and I hated them both. A Chinese guy who works his whole life to make it and get land and his kids just go and throw it all away?? Where's that get fun??

I hit the umpteenth page of Grapes of Wrath where they talked about how dry and dusty is was for page after page after page and JUST COULD'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! We GET IT. It was dry and dusty and horrible...And mind you, I used to read grandpa's Zane Grey novels when I was at their house because they didn't like the TV on, so I can read ANYTHING

Songs I can't stand: Lou Cristie's "Lightning is striking me again"
Black Eyed Peas "My Humps" and Kesha's "Timber".
Just about any song that repeats itself too much makes me want to have a stroke. I don't know what it is about the first one, but it really does actually HURT my brain. Maybe it's the same frequency as nails on a chalkboard, I dunno.... I actually like pretty much all styles of music in general though.

Worst movies ever? I know we did the movies you hate thing a while back btw. Who can find that stuff though??

Highlander 2, Tale of Desperaux, Deuce Bigalow 2, Grease.

I actually liked Cutthroat Island and The Postman and those are on a lot of people's hate list.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:41 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

I actually liked Cutthroat Island and The Postman and those are on a lot of people's hate list.

I own both and like 'em a lot.
I read The Hobbit and enjoyed it immensely. But I only made it through half of The Two Towers before I gave up. I mean, they walk through a FIELD and we have to hear the history of every battle ever fought there? It's a FIELD. They're passing THROUGH it. That's all.

I hate "Another Way To Die", Justin Bieber and most rap, Highlander 2, Matrix: Revulsions, & American Hot Wax are my most hated movies, Superboy was some pretty terrible TV...

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:03 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

I read The Hobbit and enjoyed it immensely. But I only made it through half of The Two Towers before I gave up. I mean, they walk through a FIELD and we have to hear the history of every battle ever fought there? It's a FIELD. They're passing THROUGH it. That's all.

I was about to make a very similar post. I read thru LOTR once in college. Tried to read it again later, and bogged down in a very similar place: halfway thru The Two Towers. Put it down and walked away and never went back.

And it's worth mentioning that while Dune is one of everybody's faves, including mine, the sequels start out BAD and get worse. I got through a couple of them, and then skimmed bits of a couple of the others, but no way.

Movies, TV, music, other entertainment, Oy!. There's so much of it that's terrible, the list would take forever.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:33 AM

I've been lucky with books, only read one that I absolutely hated- The Yearling. UGhhh.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:

Worst movies ever? I know we did the movies you hate thing a while back btw. Who can find that stuff though??

Highlander 2, Tale of Desperaux, Deuce Bigalow 2, Grease.

In Talk Story, I started a thread about movies which surprised you, for good or bad. In keeping w/ the theme of this thread, I'll stick to the bad ones, and which I had hoped for better, Buddha only knows why.

Save for Happy Gilmore, most any Adam Sandler movie.

Grease has, and always will annoy the hell out of me ( 30+ year olds playing the role of HS kids ) ,but it's too entrenched in the society now. I can ignore it, but I have to recognize that some folks just dig it. At least Rocky Horror , though still not really my thing, has merit. Grease is just horrid.

WISHIMAY

Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:23 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

I read The Hobbit and enjoyed it immensely. But I only made it through half of The Two Towers before I gave up. I mean, they walk through a FIELD and we have to hear the history of every battle ever fought there? It's a FIELD. They're passing THROUGH it. That's all.

I guess that's where not having the greatest attention span came in handy, I just skipped ahead. I do that with TV all the time, I'll just watch the last fifteen minutes because they do a recap in a lot of them most of the way through and I just play at guessing at the rest of the story. Drives my OCD hubby nuts though

I'll do that the other way too, watch ten minutes and guess the plotline. I even do that with books when the filler takes over the plot and there's too much blah blah blah.

Wow, I really do have a low thresh hold for boring now that I say it

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:50 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Rocky Horror , though still not really my thing, has merit.

You're just a sweet transvestite...

AURAPTOR

Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Rocky Horror , though still not really my thing, has merit.
You're just a sweet transvestite...

Sorry, try again. This has been debunked. Once again, you are demonstrably in error, and ensconced in the endless anti-whom-you-hate bullshit. Feel free to go on, and prove yourself more the idiot than you have already (Heh, if that's even possible at this point).
You proved me right here.
Thanks.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:03 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Sorry, try again.

You're just a sweet transvestite...

OONJERAH

Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:09 AM

Before everyone's time:
You Send Me, Sam Cooke & Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Brian Hyland

OK, I did see Reefer Madness, so dumb, it's classic; I barely remember it.
...........

I happily missed some of the reputed worst, Howard the Duck, Battlefield Earth.

Yeah, Catwoman was bad, but not bad enough for my worst list. I was able to
watch the whole thing.

I seriously hated Dangerous Liaisons. Maybe it was well done, but the subject
is too offensive, as it was intended.

Everyone else liked it, Puss in Boots but I only endured it cause my brother
took me to it on my birthday & he enjoyed it. Couldn't tell him it sucked.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Sorry, try again.
You're just a sweet transvestite...

Sorry, try again. This has been debunked. Once again, you are demonstrably in error, and ensconced in the endless anti-whom-you-hate bullshit. Feel free to go on, and prove yourself more the idiot than you have already (Heh, if that's even possible at this point).
You proved me right here.
Thanks.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
I actually liked Cutthroat Island and The Postman and those are on a lot of people's hate list.

I liked The Postman as well as Waterworld. Rewatch them both regularly.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:52 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

I liked The Postman

Now I *must* hate it. My DVD will be destroyed and tossed. I cannot think for myself, only react negatively to those whom I oppose politically.

Nah, it's a good movie.

Look! Over your heads! Too late; the lesson here is wasted on you.

KPO

Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:34 AM

TV: Any soap opera, HIMYM
Music: I don't know, I'm not subjected to bad music much. I have an aggressive dislike for a Scottish band called Biffy Cliro, who everyone else seems to like.
Books: Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Hated that seagull.
Movies: I'll agree with Grease. Bridget Jones Diary. Existenz. Cache - despite the presence of Juliette Binoche.

It's not personal. It's just war.

WISHIMAY

Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by kpo:
TV: Any soap opera, HIMYM

I'll see you soap operas, and raise you Nascar. I'm not a big fan of sports on TV, but Nascar puts me in a coma. The only way "drive fast turn left, drive fast turn left" is fun is if I'M DOING IT.

And HIMYM isn't HALF as mediocre as "Rules of Engagement" At least HIMYM is oddball at times, RoE writers had to have their fun chip removed as a condition for working there. It's about NOTHING. Seasons and seasons of monotone blah blah blahhhhhhhh. It's what they play in mental facilities to numb patients. It HAS to be!

WISHIMAY

Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Sam Cooke

Really???

I Luuuuv Sam Cooke. Anything he sang makes me wanna slow dance. Does it have a personal negative connotation beyond the repetitiveness? I grant the lyrics are slightly open ended and illogical, but I thought he was saying that "you send me into a daydreaming state of mind that makes me think about marrying you and taking you home" but wow is there worse lyrics out there...

OONJERAH

Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:47 AM

Sam Cooke was a fine singer.

"Yooooooooou Send Me" had only 3 words ... crazy-boring after
you hear it once.

And it was a huge hit, impossible to avoid it.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
almost any James Bond film

Oh I hope you don't lump Timothy Dalton's two (The Living Daylights/Licence To Kill) in there...

OONJERAH

Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:08 AM

^^ @Brenda
Except for the movies, that's right on. Too much an action fan me. Will accept stupidity
in exchange for decent action.

Sports -- Yaawwwn.
However, I am hoping to catch the Preakness this weekend, & cheer for the Cinderella horse.

I've seen almost 0 Reality TV, and already, I hate it.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:

My mother tried to get me to read The Good Earth and Grapes of Wrath and I hated them both. A Chinese guy who works his whole life to make it and get land and his kids just go and throw it all away?? Where's that get fun??

Loved the films, but I've never read the books.

Worst movies ever? I know we did the movies you hate thing a while back btw. Who can find that stuff though??

Quote:
Highlander 2, Tale of Desperaux, Deuce Bigalow 2, Grease.

I love Grease but Grease 2 sucks. I have to think about this.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Battlefield Earth

OOh yeah. bad

Escape from Absolom
Indecent Proposal
Anything with Madonna (except Desperately Seeking Susan which I loved)

GEEZER

Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:54 PM

My main HATES are on TV.

Reality competition shows - especially the backstabby, catty, mean-spirited ones. Biggest Loser was tolerable, since people were actually progressing towards a worthwhile goal, but Survivor?

Cooking competitions - Iron Chefs was Okay, but the new gimmicky stuff with baskets of stupid ingredients and the same scheming and backstabbing as reality shows - not for me.

Anything with Gordon Ramsay.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:47 PM

Awesome post Wish ;)

I'll do my best to offer my opinion about your opinion, but I'll skip over whatever I've not seen/read/heard without even bothering to listen because this is about crap you HATE and that's pretty much exactly the opposite of a ringing endorsement :)

1. Grapes of Wrath. Don't know why, but I never watched the movie growing up even though I do remember it being on cable when I was really little. I just hated the name. Never was forced to read the book in high school. Know nothing about it except that some people love it and some people, hate it.

2. I'm trying to think if there are any songs I actually and truly hate these days. I've actually "forgiven" a lot of songs for their atrocity and can tune them out as if the radio wasn't even on.

Wow.... Seriously.... I've sat a minute here and tried to even remembe........ NEVERMIND.... I got it.....

WORST SONG EVER: REO Speedwagon's Keep on Loving You. Most pathetic damn thing I ever heard.

3. Worst movie is pretty hard for me too. I LOVE movies that are so bad that they're good. I have plenty of movies on my hard drive that other people would probably give me shit about wasting 1.5 hours of their life by showing it to them.

I got it...

As much as I love John Carpenter's movies, even though he is so arrogant to put "John Carpenter's" before every movie title he makes...... This movie here is the worst movie I've ever seen.

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

I seriously LOVE camp. Leprechaun in the Hood is one of my absolute favorite bad movies. This movie is just plain awful and a complete waste of time.

Another two runners up are Wes Craven's They

and....... OH SHIT! I got the PERFECT MOVIE to hate!!!!

The Never Ending Story III. Period.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

CHRISISALL

Friday, May 16, 2014 5:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I liked "The Living Daylights". Not too keen on "Licence to Kill" though. And I like the first Bond movie that Pierce Brosnon did.

Like Meatloaf said, two out of three ain't bad.

OONJERAH

Friday, May 16, 2014 5:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Escape from Absolom
Indecent Proposal
Anything with Madonna (except Desperately Seeking Susan which I loved)

Madonna was in A League of Their Own, yes, with Gina Davis & Tom Hanks; it's great!

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, May 16, 2014 6:06 AM

Not sure if this fits in the category of this thread.
I have been reading through the Jack Reacher series (Lee Child) and Mitch Rapp (Vince Flynn) and keep getting bothered by the timeline errors. Both series keep having U.S. Presidents elected in years which are even but not divisible by 4. For me these things obliterate the suspension of disbelief. Does anybody know if the literary world uses this as code for something, if this is intentional for some reason?
I'm talking about the fictional timeline, not the publishing dates.

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, May 16, 2014 6:40 AM

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Madonna was in A League of Their Own with Gina Davis & Tom Hanks; it's great!

Yep ... great movie.

And ... I don't "hate" any movie or tv show, because I wouldn't have watched them long enough to hate them. This thread is very revealing. Some people here hate ... Grease?? ... Sports?? ... WTF??

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, May 16, 2014 6:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Quote:
Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Escape from Absolom
Indecent Proposal
Anything with Madonna (except Desperately Seeking Susan which I loved)

Madonna was in A League of Their Own, yes, with Gina Davis & Tom Hanks; it's great!

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

Yep, I admit you are right. I think she did okay playing bit characters but sucked in the lead and when she got creative control.

I give you Body of Evidence.

I generally am able to avoid stinkers, but a friend of mine used to get free tickets, so I got to watch a lot of crap in the 90's. Now I just say 'no'

SIGNYM

Friday, May 16, 2014 12:54 PM

I know this is a little offtrack but worst movie I've seen ever..

The Room... Written by! Produced by! Directed by! Starring! Tommy Wiseau. Friends at work LOVE this movie because of the depth of its awfulness ... the script (WHAT script? They made it up as they went along), the acting, the dialogue, the production values... wow. SO impressive, but not on a good way. The friend loaned it to me, but I scanned forward a lot.

Female Trouble. John Waters. Stuck in the middle of a row full of crazed movie-goers. There are some movies that are a waste of time, and others I actively regret having seen, and this is one of active regret.

Killer Tomatoes. Borderline between awful and funny.

Princess Bride. One of hubby's favorites, and one of the few movies we disagree on. I know a lot of guys love this movie, but the lead character's perpetual smirk (which he used to great effect in Twister and X-Files) drove me up a wall. Also, the princess' extreme passivity... yoiks

A great movie, but one that I regret seeing- Brazil. Jonathan Pryce, Robert deNiro, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins.

A few good surprises: Mona Lisa with Bob Hoskins, My Dinner with Andre (getting thru the first 20 minutes was awful), Breaking Away.

Breaking Away (yes that is Dennis Quaid, very young)

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, May 16, 2014 1:14 PM

Why do you regret Brazil?

SIGNYM

Friday, May 16, 2014 1:25 PM

There many horrific scenes from the movie that stuck with me many years later...

"I had a complication of my complication"

Torture by electric drill

Driving thru a wasted jungle, with decorate billboards by the side of the road to take the place of the landscape beyond.

It was a great movie, and made its points brilliantly. Perhaps a little too brilliantly.

WISHIMAY

Friday, May 16, 2014 7:31 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Princess Bride. (which he used to great effect in Twister and X-Files)

Breaking Away (yes that is Dennis Quaid, very young)

Wait, Cary Elwes was in Xfiles?? Oh, that's after I stopped watching when it became more about bureaucracy and less about fun conspiracies. And I think everyone likes that movie because it had a sexy couple, pirates, and fun one liners, not because the characters were perfect people. It's also a good example for kids to show them that sometimes they may think they might not like a book or movie, but to keep an open mind, because you never know...

I can't tell you how many times hubbs and I have used the line "NEVER MESS WITH A SICILLIAN WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE!" when we serve each other drinks

P.S. Luuuv Dennis Quaid!

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Friday, May 16, 2014 11:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:

I hit the umpteenth page of Grapes of Wrath where they talked about how dry and dusty is was for page after page after page and JUST COULD'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! We GET IT. It was dry and dusty and horrible..

I will stick up, briefly, for Grapes of Wrath. The novel, not the film. It is a novel driven by its politics-- in terms of influence it's right up there with Uncle Tom's Cabin. And Steinbeck does an amazing job of manipulating his readers' emotions (and isn't that what any novelist's job is?)-- if you're not radicalized by the end, there's something wrong with you.

But I get your point-- in college, I had a prof who loved, and assigned, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the book that the film Apocalypse Now is based on. About 300 pages of a trip up an African river, thru the jungles, while nothing happens. And then about 10 pages of resolution-- the guy they were looking for had "gone native", and was either dead or they killed him. SO boring I had managed to forget the entire thing. And the prof argued that the boredom was the whole point.

SIGNYM

Friday, May 16, 2014 11:15 PM

Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, May 16, 2014 11:16 PM

I didn't see the movie till I was at least 26. It was probably 4 or more years after I read Brave New World and 1984. It scared me. [Brazil]

How old were you when you saw it sigs?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, May 16, 2014 11:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

Seriously, no love for Cary Elwes, Sigs?

Have you never seen "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", some of the most entertaining episodes of "Psyche" ever made... or even better, the very little known "Comic Book Villians" also starring a bunch of aging people who starred in every teen movie in the mid-to-late 90's and were still kinda cool in 2002.

Seriously Sigs.....

If nothing else, you gotta see this movie.

In a role very unlike anything I've ever seen him do, Cary is only a supporting character, but he's the guy I related the most too. This movie was Cary Elwes' "Number 23".

It's too bad nobody else noticed since nobody else ever saw it.

Seriously, I'm the only person who's ever seen this great movie.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

WISHIMAY

Saturday, May 17, 2014 12:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
[ SO boring I had managed to forget the entire thing. And the prof argued that the boredom was the whole point.

I get enough boredom IRL, I guess. Entertainment is supposed to be an escape only lightly marred by morality.

Maybe I'll try the movie when I get to the end of my Netflix list this summer...

And yes I like Cary Six, but I can see why others might not. I see a wry smile, not so much a smirk, but I can see both ways. Some have said he was too good looking, like a Ken Doll, and I feel that way about a lot of female actresses...

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Sunday, May 18, 2014 2:58 AM

A little something for Cary Elwes fans:

Cradle Will Rock,

a mostly true story, the film by Tim Robbins. Cary plays John Houseman, at the time a chubby closeted homosexual who was producing a play for the Federal Theatre Project with Orson Welles. The government sent the U S Army to shut it down, because it was so radical. So they paraded up the street to a vacant theatre and did a performance on the bare stage, with the actors singing from the audience. (And all that much of the story is absolutely TRUE.)

Cary looks entirely different, but gives a brilliant performance. And the film is an " all-star" deal, LOTS of great actors in excellent performances in all the roles.

One of the great moments of 20th century theatre history, and one of my lifetime Top 20, maybe Top 10, films.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Sunday, May 18, 2014 3:06 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

And Miracle Max and Valerie... "Have fun stormin' the castle..." "You think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle."

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, May 18, 2014 4:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There many horrific scenes from the movie that stuck with me many years later...

"I had a complication of my complication"

Torture by electric drill

Driving thru a wasted jungle, with decorate billboards by the side of the road to take the place of the landscape beyond.

It was a great movie, and made its points brilliantly. Perhaps a little too brilliantly.

Oh yeah, its a very disturbing movie. Partilarly the ending.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, May 18, 2014 4:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

And Miracle Max and Valerie... "Have fun stormin' the castle..." "You think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle."

So many great quotes from that movie. It's a favourite in our household.

The supporting characters are all sensational, and the two leads are sweet and funny, particularly cary elwes.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, May 18, 2014 4:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

And Miracle Max and Valerie... "Have fun stormin' the castle..." "You think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle."

So many great quotes from that movie. It's a favourite in our household.

The supporting characters are all sensational, and the two leads are sweet and funny, particularly cary elwes.

OONJERAH

Sunday, May 18, 2014 11:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Sports -- Yaawwwn.
However, I am hoping to catch the Preakness this weekend ...

California Chrome wins Preakness = 2 legs on the the Triple Crown.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

All I suggest is a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 19, 2014 9:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
And yes I like Cary Six, but I can see why others might not. I see a wry smile, not so much a smirk, but I can see both ways. Some have said he was too good looking, like a Ken Doll, and I feel that way about a lot of female actresses...

He still has it now Wish, and I seriously doubt anyone would blame it on his Ken-Doll looks...

Maybe Husky Ken that shops at Barbie's Big and Tall.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

OONJERAH

Saturday, May 24, 2014 12:38 PM

The music that plays when they put me on hold ... forever.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...
Lighten up, Oonj.

WISHIMAY

Saturday, May 24, 2014 6:28 PM

I heard a wonderful story on NPR about a guy who spent ten years trying to track down a piece of music from his insurance people and why he liked it so much. I'll save you the whole story, but it's actually on youtube. An HOUR of it

Oh and here's some vaguely interesting hold music/chatter, while I was looking for the other one...

NIKI2

Saturday, May 24, 2014 7:37 PM

Interesting. I hated Grapes and the others like it, and not only read LOTR several times, I re-read Fellowship MANY times, even one Summer aloud to my best friend while we lazed at the local reservoir. All a matter of taste.

And "ditto" in spades what NewOld said about Dune, which I ADORED, but gave up after slogging through the first half of the third follow-up, only having gotten that far by sheer determination and a prayer it would be better than the second.

I'm with Brenda about "anything by Ernest Hemmingway"--ESPECIALLY "Lord of the Flies"! Why do they DO that to young children??? With her, too, about the TV genres she listed…have never seen more than fifteen minutes of any reality show except "Project Runway" which, I freely admit, hooked me perversely for a couple of seasons.

Magons and I are in perfect agreement about Grease and Grease 2. Totally corny, a guilty pleasure.

Along with Wish, I adore Princess Bride and quote from it frequently, as I see others here do as well. I mark that partly down to having instantly developed a mad crush on both Elwes and Patinkin, and following both for years after. Elwes still pops up all over the place; makes me feel old every time I see how he looks now. But thank you, NewOld; I saw and deeply appreciated Cradle long, long ago, didn't remember it was Elwes, will have to dig it up again.

But to list the movies, TV, music I hated MOST would take thinking, there's so many. One thing comes to mind: Psych. I tried to watch it, having respected Dule Hill for his work on West Wing; it was so awful it was embarrassing and I just had to be happy for him that he's earning a steady paycheck and try to forget it…and STILL it went on for years ("is still going on?"). Vague memories of laughing at Waterworld… Oh, and I wouldn't be caught dead watching anything with Mel Gibson; his adoration of maximum violence and gore makes me wonder about his mental health (well, I don't actually wonder, that would take a minute, and given his other "mental-health" indicator (Scientology), obviously be futile…).

As to books I hated, I can say one thing: Vampires! There may be good books out there, but I'm not interested, so when two of my most trusted authors climbed on the bandwagon with stand-alone books to make a quick buck off the "fashion", I was shocked and angry. One of them being David Webber (many, MANY thanx to Frem, we have his every book and they are the ONLY books I don't put up on Paperback Swap when we finish them!).

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, October 13, 2022 5:07 PM

I dislike most mainstream entertainment,

I really disliked 'reality tv' when it came out, now I just mostly ignore it or manage to avoid it all

tired of the superhero Superman, Fantastic4, Aquapants, Spiderman thing now

but of late anything with that whole Antifa, pro-islamic, gay homosexual lesbian, BLM, pro BLM that constantly wants to take a crap on traditional US values messages.

The Grapes of Wrath and Good Earth are good books, if Wishiway had listened to her mother when growing up maybe she would not be so crazy.
But then again didn't a writer once say All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy and No man does, and that is his. Not that I would place much value in the Homosexual writings of an Anglo-Irish Pervert who had perverted predatory 'affairs' with a boy? Alfred Douglas the son of the founder of the rules of modern Boxing.

Music? I hate most music on the radio but much of it, almost the same shit no matter where you go in the world, the pop rock stuff does have form or chords or basic composition or some kind of harmony, so I guess it is 'musical' but Rap is Low IQ moronic noise filled with dumb hate that rhymes, 'mumble rap' is just brainless and the industry overall it is very plastic auto these days with very few people playing their own instrument.

Tale of Desperaux a kids toon animation with mice, didnt watch

Highlander a tv show and movie, seen some not sure which eps or movies but a franchise where immortals chopped each others heads off but at least the men were still men and not pushing some monkey pox message.

Deuce Bigalow too dumb degenerate probably wouldn't even have watched it in my teenage years

Grease dumb but better than Steven Spielbergs West Side Story 2021 ... oh! criticism of Spielberg ...HOW DARE YOU !

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Killer Tomatoes. Borderline between awful and funny.

a fine line between 'So bad its good' genre of movie

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 13, 2022 5:30 PM

I just found out that Wishy likes The Postman.

Finally found that one thing we have in common.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:20 AM

Yellowstone's Piper Perabo and Lainey Wilson address rumors show is ending amid Kevin Costner drama

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11813453/Yellowstones-Pi
per-Perabo-Lainey-Wilson-address-rumors-ending-amid-Kevin-Costner-drama.html

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 11:09 AM

Kevin Costner is the real deal. One of the greats.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 11:46 AM

Oh... And Funko Pops suck.

Looks like the millennial, Democrat adult man-babies ran out of money in Biden*'s America because they're going to throw $30 Million worth of them in a landfill.

Fuckin' broke nerds.

That's not very climate friendly, is it?

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JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, April 10, 2023 4:08 PM

Maybe putting Gay Black Jiahdi Tranny islamic Mexico Muzzie Lesbians in everything, some call it woke but I refuse to use that word its like regressive zombie politics trying to virtue signal.

Before you watch a movie or show check out rumble or bitchute and AwakenwithJp or CriticalDrinker or MarkDice just to see how stupid the tv show / film could possibly be and if its worth it

Back the the original post I could probably watch Tale of Desperaux without hating it, seems like a very well animated Mouse type movie with a lotf of kids drama happening, I would only watch it once, movie Grease is kind of dumb if you've watched those classic Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Rita Hayworth era dance scenes, 'Grease' will be dumb if you keep watching it.

For some strange reason perverted tinsel town Hollyweird is remaking it

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, April 10, 2023 10:58 PM

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Maybe putting Gay Black Jiahdi Tranny islamic Mexico Muzzie Lesbians in everything, some call it woke but I refuse to use that word its like regressive zombie politics trying to virtue signal.

Before you watch a movie or show check out rumble or bitchute and AwakenwithJp or CriticalDrinker or MarkDice just to see how stupid the tv show / film could possibly be and if its worth it

Back the the original post I could probably watch Tale of Desperaux without hating it, seems like a very well animated Mouse type movie with a lotf of kids drama happening, I would only watch it once, movie Grease is kind of dumb if you've watched those classic Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Rita Hayworth era dance scenes, 'Grease' will be dumb if you keep watching it.

For some strange reason perverted tinsel town Hollyweird is remaking it

I'd add a guy called Disparu to your go-to list too.

You'd never get me to sit down and watch a single second of Velma, but I watched every 20 to 30 minute breakdown video he did for each episode and found them highly enjoyable.

I also liked his breakdown on the first two episodes of Milf Manor and wished he did more of them, but I think that show was just so absolutely abhorrent to him that he couldn't find the will to watch episode 3.

I love Critical Drinker, but I'd only recommend watching his videos on something you know you would never want to actually watch too. He's very spoiler heavy, so if you see him making a video on something you think you might actually want to watch, check out the title of his video before watching it. He's usually pretty good about giving a thumbs up or thumbs down right in the video title, so if you respect his opinion on things and he liked the movie/tv show in the title of the video, you should probably just watch it first and then go back to see what his thoughts on it were after you've seen it.

Awaken with JP is awesome. I can take or leave Mark Dice and put him on the same level of Ben Shapiro. It's not that I don't agree with either of them more often than not, but both of their personalities just kind of rub me the wrong way and I don't think they're the type of people that I'd enjoy hanging out with in real life.

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BRENDA

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3:11 AM

I love Kevin Costner and I tried to watch "Yellowstone" but gave up part way through season 1. I had the discs out from my local library. >>shudder<< That show is soooo soapy it made me want to take a shower after tempting to watch it. I mean I thought I had suds all over me.

And I tell you this I hate, HATE soap operas with a passion. I will not watch any of them.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 9:21 AM

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I love Kevin Costner and I tried to watch "Yellowstone" but gave up part way through season 1. I had the discs out from my local library. >>shudder<< That show is soooo soapy it made me want to take a shower after tempting to watch it. I mean I thought I had suds all over me.

And I tell you this I hate, HATE soap operas with a passion. I will not watch any of them.

Wow. Really?

I've had a few people tell me it was really good. But soaps are just awful. I remember my grandma watched them all the time when I was a kid and I couldn't even be in the room while they were on.

Did you like Tin Cup? I loved Tin Cup.

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BRENDA

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I love Kevin Costner and I tried to watch "Yellowstone" but gave up part way through season 1. I had the discs out from my local library. >>shudder<< That show is soooo soapy it made me want to take a shower after tempting to watch it. I mean I thought I had suds all over me.

And I tell you this I hate, HATE soap operas with a passion. I will not watch any of them.

Wow. Really?

I've had a few people tell me it was really good. But soaps are just awful. I remember my grandma watched them all the time when I was a kid and I couldn't even be in the room while they were on.

Did you like Tin Cup? I loved Tin Cup.

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Yes. I love it is set in Montana but it feels and is written like all the soap operas my mom used to watch. So just no.

Had to edit myself here. Made a mistake on the state it is set in. I said Wyoming but it is set in Montana.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 12:05 PM

Yeah. You know what? I think my aunt said it was really good.

I don't think there are too many movies or shows that we like that would overlap.

Even though I got her the cheap cable internet she had to get Discovery+ for her food shows and reality TV like the fat sisters and the one about the little people. There's no way I could watch any of that.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 11:02 PM

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Yeah. You know what? I think my aunt said it was really good.

I don't think there are too many movies or shows that we like that would overlap.

Even though I got her the cheap cable internet she had to get Discovery+ for her food shows and reality TV like the fat sisters and the one about the little people. There's no way I could watch any of that.

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I confessed one time in the garden thread that I watch "My 600lb Life" on YouTube but I can't tell you why. But I only do it on YouTube.

And I have never seen an episode of "Survivor" anywhere just because I think it is so rigged it's not funny.

Yeah, "Yellowstone" is in my opinion not one of Kevin Costner's better ideas for a job.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 3:55 AM

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I confessed one time in the garden thread that I watch "My 600lb Life" on YouTube but I can't tell you why. But I only do it on YouTube.

We are all allowed our own guilty pleasures.

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And I have never seen an episode of "Survivor" anywhere just because I think it is so rigged it's not funny.

My uncle got me into that show during the 2nd season and we watched the 3rd season together too. We both kind of lost interest after the 4th season started though.

Me and a few friends watched "The Real World" on MTV when it first came out too. That was the granddaddy of all "Reality" TV. Pretty groundbreaking at the time back before everybody else was doing it.

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Yeah, "Yellowstone" is in my opinion not one of Kevin Costner's better ideas for a job.

Shame. I watch so little TV these days I probably wasn't ever going to get around to watching it anyhow, but probably no chance I ever would after your review.

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BRENDA

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 5:43 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I confessed one time in the garden thread that I watch "My 600lb Life" on YouTube but I can't tell you why. But I only do it on YouTube.

We are all allowed our own guilty pleasures.

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And I have never seen an episode of "Survivor" anywhere just because I think it is so rigged it's not funny.

My uncle got me into that show during the 2nd season and we watched the 3rd season together too. We both kind of lost interest after the 4th season started though.

Me and a few friends watched "The Real World" on MTV when it first came out too. That was the granddaddy of all "Reality" TV. Pretty groundbreaking at the time back before everybody else was doing it.

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Yeah, "Yellowstone" is in my opinion not one of Kevin Costner's better ideas for a job.

Shame. I watch so little TV these days I probably wasn't ever going to get around to watching it anyhow, but probably no chance I ever would after your review.

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Exactly.

Never ever seen an episode of "Survivor" and never ever will.

I probably heard of "The Real World" but I don't remember it as I didn't watch MTV back in the day.

Sorry. There has been a couple of prequels to it done. One is called 1883? I think. I was maybe going to watch it only cause Tim McGraw is in it playing Kevin Costner's great granddaddy or something like that. I can't stand McGraw's wife Faith and so the only thing attracting me is Tim. I do so love that man.

Then there is the other one titled "1923" which stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford as Kevin Costner's characters parents. If I can find them at my library, I might check those out as I am hopeful they won't be as soapy.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, August 3, 2023 6:40 AM

the constant transexual islamic SJW homosexual Black-White-Yellow-Brown lesbian diversity nonsense forced into movies

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, August 3, 2023 9:11 AM

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the constant transexual islamic SJW homosexual Black-White-Yellow-Brown lesbian diversity nonsense forced into movies

Movies?

Holy crap... Let's talk commercials.

I haven't watched commercials for about 15 years since I cut the cord, but try getting through a 30 minute TV show on any network that doesn't have a commercial with a dufus white Dad, a smart black mom and a brown and asian kid in 2023.

And I'm only slightly exaggerating on that. Slightly.

I don't think "shorts" can be embedded here, so quote my post to get the link and watch Chris Rock making jokes about how there are no white couples in commercials anymore and there aren't no black couples either.

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