Originally Posted by Easy 6:
I missed out on Breaking Bad, just never made time for it for whatever reason
Highly entertaining show. I certainly understand it's appeal and ranking in modern television lore but I've never considered it one of my favorite shows ever. Maybe sneaking into my top 10.
Originally Posted by scho63:
Several times I wanted to binge The Wire and some time constraints prevented it.
I need to revisit this.
Never heard a single person do anything other than rave about it.
You gotta pay attention, so watch it with no distractions. I know that can be said about many shows. But The Wire doesn't have main characters. Technically, the main character is the city of Baltimore, but it all ties together so perfectly. You'll have 10+ characters that are your favorite by the time it's all over. [Reply]
Originally Posted by blake5676:
Highly entertaining show. I certainly understand it's appeal and ranking in modern television lore but I've never considered it one of my favorite shows ever. Maybe sneaking into my top 10.
You gotta pay attention, so watch it with no distractions. I know that can be said about many shows. But The Wire doesn't have main characters. Technically, the main character is the city of Baltimore, but it all ties together so perfectly. You'll have 10+ characters that are your favorite by the time it's all over.
The Wire is a tough one. I tried a couple times to get into it only to lose interest.
Finally made it through the first 4-5 episodes and man it's awesome. [Reply]
Originally Posted by notorious:
The Wire is a tough one. I tried a couple times to get into it only to lose interest.
Finally made it through the first 4-5 episodes and man it's awesome.
I didn't stop but I definitely remember having to force myself to stick with it for a few episodes. Glad I did!
Honestly, that is not uncommon anyway. I actually did stop watching Game of Thrones after four episodes or so. I only picked it back up because people raved about it. Glad I went back to that one too.
Originally Posted by blake5676:
Highly entertaining show. I certainly understand it's appeal and ranking in modern television lore but I've never considered it one of my favorite shows ever. Maybe sneaking into my top 10.
My son keeps pushing me to watch it On Demand, but its so old I highly doubt AMC even carries it anymore... heard a lot of great things about it from him and numerous other people [Reply]
Lord of the Rings series.
All Marvel movies except for Iron man.
Top Gun.
Meatballs.
Stripes.
Cheers.
Miami Vice.
Law and Order.
Any "Chicago" TV drama crap (Chicago hope, Chicago PD, Chicago fire. Probably the most popular and most garbage/cheesy fifteen minutes of TV I tried to watch in a long time. After a few minutes I thought it was a parody show like Reno 911.)
Pretty sure there's plenty more. I think for me, if something is mainstream and popular, I just have an aversion to it. Like, I'll never be able to match the fanboyism already out there so I for too reject it.
Same with bands. I dated a Girl into the Grateful Dead who wanted me to go to a dead show with her and I was like "nope."
Thankfully, I came around on Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Love both. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigBeauford:
Fuck it I'll say it:
Harry Potter Movies > Star Wars Movies
:-)
Oh, mylanta, just no. i tried to watch one of the HP movies; no idea which atrocity i was forced to watch, one of the first three I think, but dear god, I'd rather watch the SW prequel movies before ever subjecting myself to another HP movie. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96: :-)
Oh, mylanta, just no. i tried to watch one of the HP movies; no idea which atrocity i was forced to watch, one of the first three I think, but dear god, I'd rather watch the SW prequel movies before ever subjecting myself to another HP movie.
Yeah, I went ahead and finally read the books so my daughter and I could talk about them.
I didn't hate them (the first 2 were pretty juvenile and man the last one was just BAD. Mediocre writing and just awful storytelling; really a poor effort by Rawling).
But while the books are plenty tolerable, those movies are BAD. Just the way they're shot is awful. They tray to create this sort of faux ominous feel through weird color palates and camera movements.
Those are one of the few movies I've ever hated not for WHAT they showed but HOW they showed it. Make those movies without trying to use shooting technique to cheat your way to some sort of foreboding quirkyness (which basically exists in the story anyway) and they might be pretty decent.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, I went ahead and finally read the books so my daughter and I could talk about them.
I didn't hate them (the first 2 were pretty juvenile and man the last one was just BAD. Mediocre writing and just awful storytelling; really a poor effort by Rawling).
But while the books are plenty tolerable, those movies are BAD. Just the way they're shot is awful. They tray to create this sort of faux ominous feel through weird color palates and camera movements.
Those are one of the few movies I've ever hated not for WHAT they showed but HOW they showed it. Make those movies without trying to use shooting technique to cheat your way to some sort of foreboding quirkyness (which basically exists in the story anyway) and they might be pretty decent.
But those movies are baaaaaaaaaad.
Have you watched Hunger Games?
I've seen about 4 seconds of HP and will fully cosign your "they're shitty" position, but Hunger Games is super bad. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Have you watched Hunger Games?
I've seen about 4 seconds of HP and will fully cosign your "they're shitty" position, but Hunger Games is super bad.
I've never watched Hunger Games, but at one point I stumbled across a movie where some guys who fake the Hangover cast stumble into a Hunger Games fake. It was one of those movies that was so bad that it was good. Various movie and TV franchises battled to the death. I was rooting strongly for the porn team to win, which isn't shown in the trailer because they were always topless.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, I went ahead and finally read the books so my daughter and I could talk about them.
I didn't hate them (the first 2 were pretty juvenile and man the last one was just BAD. Mediocre writing and just awful storytelling; really a poor effort by Rawling).
But while the books are plenty tolerable, those movies are BAD. Just the way they're shot is awful. They tray to create this sort of faux ominous feel through weird color palates and camera movements.
Those are one of the few movies I've ever hated not for WHAT they showed but HOW they showed it. Make those movies without trying to use shooting technique to cheat your way to some sort of foreboding quirkyness (which basically exists in the story anyway) and they might be pretty decent.
But those movies are baaaaaaaaaad.
Yah. We're probably in the minority about HP movies, judging from how many people I know that just rave about them, but I just couldn't stand them. [Reply]
