don't believe the hype
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betnoir's, because the responses were so interesting:
IMHO the following items just aren't all they're cracked up to be:
1) The 1980s "Batman" movies. I remember the huge fuss when they came out, and while I liked the first one, it didn't strike me as anything that great or innovative.
2) The Da Vinci Code - again, eh. I think most people were so turned on by it because they didn't read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" 10 years ago, but really - the writing and characterization are kinda blah.
3) Ben Affleck, particularly in his "Sexiest Man Alive" judgment a few years ago - huh? This guy is like play-doh, can look "in place" in almost any movie but is never more than background.
4) Gwynneth Paltrow: see 3.
5) Most fast food: why does anyone find McDonalds appetizing? I get a headache just being in the place!
6) Gone With The Wind - so not the Great Southern Epic, and not just for reasons of historical inaccuracy/thinly veiled racism: if it had ended at intermission it could have been ok, but with the rest Scarlett is confirmed as a tedious bitch.
7) Stargate - I like it, I just don't love it. See also: Lost, Sopranos.
8) Prince (both with the Revolution and as The Artist Formerly Known As). Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with his work but I just never saw him as all that great.
9) Titanic (the movie). Never saw, would like to see the bits with the reproduction ship ONLY please, but gawd, please spare me Leonardo Di Caprio!
Though I'm sure there are 10 (or more), I can't come up with them at the moment so I'll finish with an unjustly underrated thing:
10) Pop Will Eat Itself. Intergalactic punk rock hip hop you can dance to, it's criminal that their back catalog is out of print.
What's your own list of overrated things? What about underrated things?
betnoir's, because the responses were so interesting:IMHO the following items just aren't all they're cracked up to be:
1) The 1980s "Batman" movies. I remember the huge fuss when they came out, and while I liked the first one, it didn't strike me as anything that great or innovative.
2) The Da Vinci Code - again, eh. I think most people were so turned on by it because they didn't read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" 10 years ago, but really - the writing and characterization are kinda blah.
3) Ben Affleck, particularly in his "Sexiest Man Alive" judgment a few years ago - huh? This guy is like play-doh, can look "in place" in almost any movie but is never more than background.
4) Gwynneth Paltrow: see 3.
5) Most fast food: why does anyone find McDonalds appetizing? I get a headache just being in the place!
6) Gone With The Wind - so not the Great Southern Epic, and not just for reasons of historical inaccuracy/thinly veiled racism: if it had ended at intermission it could have been ok, but with the rest Scarlett is confirmed as a tedious bitch.
7) Stargate - I like it, I just don't love it. See also: Lost, Sopranos.
8) Prince (both with the Revolution and as The Artist Formerly Known As). Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with his work but I just never saw him as all that great.
9) Titanic (the movie). Never saw, would like to see the bits with the reproduction ship ONLY please, but gawd, please spare me Leonardo Di Caprio!
Though I'm sure there are 10 (or more), I can't come up with them at the moment so I'll finish with an unjustly underrated thing:
10) Pop Will Eat Itself. Intergalactic punk rock hip hop you can dance to, it's criminal that their back catalog is out of print.
What's your own list of overrated things? What about underrated things?
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Date: 2006-06-25 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-25 03:25 pm (UTC)For #1-4, 6-9 ... agreed! Especially #2, which I hear about constantly at work (and have had to catalogue a zillion books "analyzing" the thing) and have absolutely no desire to read. I tell people I read Dave Barry's summary (which is true ***grin***) and that that was enough to make me realize I didn't want to waste several hours of my life on the real book. :p