100% on the bacon thing. I NEVER got why there was so much stuff in the late 00s and 10s about bacon being the "best food ever." Was this some type of consumer psyop to increase sales of real bacon or something (sort of like a secret Got Milk campaign)? I only like turkey bacon myself.
I could see people not liking A Christmas Story since it got way overexposed and overly "consoomer" in the past decade, similar to The Office or Friends. I would especially hate it if I was forced to watch it every year. My own family mostly popped in It's a Wonderful Life every single year...which I found HORRIBLY boring <_< Really sad considering it was among the "top movies of all time" for my family member who has since passed. I may watch it again someday to see if I feel differently about it.
On that note, Citizen Kane. Greatest film of all time...okay?
I hated that movie since I saw it in the mid-2000s LONG before it got overexposed or was trendy to do so, I just never liked it.
My mom isn't big on Citizen Kane either(and she prefers the original Godfather novel to the movie) and I too always hated It's a Wonderful Life, I always found parodies and homages to it to be more enjoyable(like that recent slasher movie "It's a Wonderful Knife").
My dad hates A Christmas Story because my mom puts it on EVERY YEAR
I hated that movie since I saw it in the mid-2000s LONG before it got overexposed or was trendy to do so, I just never liked it.
My mom isn't big on Citizen Kane either(and she prefers the original Godfather novel to the movie) and I too always hated It's a Wonderful Life, I always found parodies and homages to it to be more enjoyable(like that recent slasher movie "It's a Wonderful Knife").
My dad hates A Christmas Story because my mom puts it on EVERY YEAR
I think that qualifies as torture under the Geneva convention LOL
Also HATE The Sixth Sense and never got why people gushed so much over it and Unbreakable or Signs(or hell pretty much anything Shyamalan related until people turned against him)I saw the big twist coming from light years away and Bruce Willis seemed to be in paycheck mode the whole time, Signs had one of the stupidest most nonsensical twist endings of all time(Nostalgia Critic was 100% right about that piece of shit movie)with the most unnatural sounding dialogue for kids in fictional media history(seriously no kid talks like that in real life, they sounded totally robotic)and Unbreakable was so pretentious and up it's own ass I couldn't stand it(and the sequels weren't much better).
Also can't stand the first Blair Witch movie or the 2016 one but I do like Book of Shadows(the fact that it didn't give me a headache from watching it like the other two did certainly helped)I think the first movie was only a hit cause of that whole "was it real or not?" gimmick, once you get past that it's a pretty weak movie and if it came out today I doubt it would've been a critical or commercial hit, there's a reason why it took so long for found-footage to become a trend. Speaking of which I HATE the Paranormal Activity series with a passion(not overly fond of Conjuring or Insidious film series either, former had too many stupid spin-offs and the latter is just forgettable).
Also HATE the Ring and Grudge remakes, for me they represent everything wrong with horror films in the 2000s.
My dad hates A Christmas Story because my mom puts it on EVERY YEAR
I think that qualifies as torture under the Geneva convention LOL
Also HATE The Sixth Sense and never got why people gushed so much over it and Unbreakable or Signs(or hell pretty much anything Shyamalan related until people turned against him)I saw the big twist coming from light years away and Bruce Willis seemed to be in paycheck mode the whole time, Signs had one of the stupidest most nonsensical twist endings of all time(Nostalgia Critic was 100% right about that piece of shit movie)with the most unnatural sounding dialogue for kids in fictional media history(seriously no kid talks like that in real life, they sounded totally robotic)and Unbreakable was so pretentious and up it's own ass I couldn't stand it(and the sequels weren't much better).
Also can't stand the first Blair Witch movie or the 2016 one but I do like Book of Shadows(the fact that it didn't give me a headache from watching it like the other two did certainly helped)I think the first movie was only a hit cause of that whole "was it real or not?" gimmick, once you get past that it's a pretty weak movie and if it came out today I doubt it would've been a critical or commercial hit, there's a reason why it took so long for found-footage to become a trend. Speaking of which I HATE the Paranormal Activity series with a passion(not overly fond of Conjuring or Insidious film series either, former had too many stupid spin-offs and the latter is just forgettable).
Also HATE the Ring and Grudge remakes, for me they represent everything wrong with horror films in the 2000s.
If I remember correctly, the original Blair Witch was among the first movies to go "all in" with internet hype culture? Like using the real life internet to make people think the movie was actually a true story?
More stuff that comes to mind-Blu-Ray and 4K, sorry but I don't get the hype, DVD is more then good enough for me, I only get Blu-Ray if the disc has exclusive special features like deleted scenes or the unrated/directors cut version of a film and I see 4K as a big waste of money.
Also I don't feel the need to play current video games on PC(I basically only play sixth-gen PC ports for the most part), I don't care how much better they look I ain't spending thousands of dollars on a graphics card/upgrade to my PC when it's much cheaper for me to play on console(plus a lot of PC ports now come with that godawful Denuvo DRM and I don't want that shit ANYWHERE on my PC).
Speaking of video games i truly don't get how Tetris winds up on so many "best games" lists, it's an average puzzle game at best. Also don't get how Gordon Freeman ends up on so many "Best character" lists, I like the Half Life series(though i'm kinda eh on the first one) but come on.
Also far as game shows go I never got the popularity of Deal or No Deal, it's just a shitty guessing game with no skill involved whatsoever.
There's also a lot of popularity reality shows that i'm either indifferent to(Survivor) or despise(any of that Real Housewives shit and other shows in that vein).
Also not feeling the hype on the original Doom game, didn't grow up with it so there's no real nostalgia there, for me it didn't get good until Doom 3.
Yeah I know SOME people get really into their "all games on PC" culture, and for sure it is convenient but...I just don't like playing most games squinting at a screen crammed in a computer desk chair using a mouse and keyboard. I play almost everything on consoles. I would say the only games I probably prefer on PC are "point and click" ones.
I think that qualifies as torture under the Geneva convention LOL
Also HATE The Sixth Sense and never got why people gushed so much over it and Unbreakable or Signs(or hell pretty much anything Shyamalan related until people turned against him)I saw the big twist coming from light years away and Bruce Willis seemed to be in paycheck mode the whole time, Signs had one of the stupidest most nonsensical twist endings of all time(Nostalgia Critic was 100% right about that piece of shit movie)with the most unnatural sounding dialogue for kids in fictional media history(seriously no kid talks like that in real life, they sounded totally robotic)and Unbreakable was so pretentious and up it's own ass I couldn't stand it(and the sequels weren't much better).
Also can't stand the first Blair Witch movie or the 2016 one but I do like Book of Shadows(the fact that it didn't give me a headache from watching it like the other two did certainly helped)I think the first movie was only a hit cause of that whole "was it real or not?" gimmick, once you get past that it's a pretty weak movie and if it came out today I doubt it would've been a critical or commercial hit, there's a reason why it took so long for found-footage to become a trend. Speaking of which I HATE the Paranormal Activity series with a passion(not overly fond of Conjuring or Insidious film series either, former had too many stupid spin-offs and the latter is just forgettable).
Also HATE the Ring and Grudge remakes, for me they represent everything wrong with horror films in the 2000s.
If I remember correctly, the original Blair Witch was among the first movies to go "all in" with internet hype culture? Like using the real life internet to make people think the movie was actually a true story?
Yeah it was the first movie to really do that, sure other films before it had tie-in movie websites but nothing like this.
My partner dislikes the second Devil May Cry game so much that he recommends skipping it if you pay through the series.
I think DMC2 is actually a decent game, problem is it didn't originally start out as a DMC game, it was some other unrelated action-adventure title Capcom was working on and after the first game turned out to be an unexpected hit Capcom essentially had the original game they were working on turned into a DMC sequel which explains why the environments feel so empty-because they were meant for a totally different game and weren't designed with DMC's combat in mind.
My partner dislikes the second Devil May Cry game so much that he recommends skipping it if you pay through the series.
I think DMC2 is actually a decent game, problem is it didn't originally start out as a DMC game, it was some other unrelated action-adventure title Capcom was working on and after the first game turned out to be an unexpected hit Capcom essentially had the original game they were working on turned into a DMC sequel which explains why the environments feel so empty-because they were meant for a totally different game and weren't designed with DMC's combat in mind.
I'm STILL trying to just GET through the original DMC myself. It's just weird and hard playing a beat em' game on a Resident Evil template IMO. My partner likes the 3rd DMC game and beyond, himself.
Liked The Batman (2022) but couldn't love it or get super obsessed with it the way some people in my life did. Maybe if I give it a rewatch, I might end up feeling differently but as it stands, it's mostly just "good" to me.
A bit late into the thread, but I never got into Bluey. Yes, I know that I have it set to my username, but I just did that to claim the name before someone else did.
A bit late into the thread, but I never got into Bluey. Yes, I know that I have it set to my username, but I just did that to claim the name before someone else did.
I did not care for Zootopia, it's one of Disney's weaker movies in my opinion.
I thought the movie was pretty good, but I think the original premise (which I refer to as the “Tame Collar Cut”, despite it being an entirely different movie (making this something of a misnomer) would have been a lot better.
A bit late into the thread, but I never got into Bluey. Yes, I know that I have it set to my username, but I just did that to claim the name before someone else did.
I typically like and sometimes even love Bluey but the way people treat it like it's some sort of new family TV masterpiece....no, it's not. I think it's well-crafted and sincere, but the way people analyze every single minute aspect of it (and I stand by that the Bluey fandom is the 2020s equivalent of the 2010s My Little Pony G4 fandom), like no. Sometimes an apple on screen is just an apple, and it's not symbolic of the "fertile fruit of seeds indicating Chili's equally future fertility" or something like that.
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