A supposedly great thing that I'll never watch again- Great media that left you cold

nevin · Dec 8, 2020

Zardnaar said:
There's a few things I've actively been avoiding watching for no real reason.

The movie Titanic. Never seen it, don't want to, doesn't really interest me.

Anime also seem some don't get it doesn't interest me.

funny I've still not watched Titanic. I know how it ends and I just have no desire to watch a slow motion train wreck.

innerdude · Apr 2, 2021

ModestModernist said:
I think I'm alone on this one but I find Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy unwatchable.

No, not alone. I wouldn't quite peg it as unwatchable, but despite acknowledging that they are all well-crafted films, I have little to no desire to revisit them.

Batman Begins can still suck me in, just because the first 40 minutes of the origin story is so well crafted. And it's not like if someone wanted to watch Dark Night or Dark Night Rises that I'd flat out refuse, but if I never viewed any of the 3 films again I wouldn't consider it a loss.

GreyLord · Apr 3, 2021

nevin said:
Battle Star Galactica. I watched the whole thing because I saw the original and wanted to see how they ended it. but I watched the entire thing wondering why they didn't just blow up their engines and kill everyone. Nothing good happened in that entire series. It was the most depressing thing I've ever watched.

Very late response here (as in...5 months later or more).

I can't judge it, as I've never been able to get through it.

I've started the first season at least 3 or 4 times and always get sooooo bored by the middle of it I just never get any further.

Another one people have constantly said was the most awesome series was Babylon 5. I cannot see what everyone sees about it. It's just cringeworthy. It just wants me want to cringe when watching it. I buckled down and watched it and kept waiting for it to "get good."

The first season was just an introduction and it would get good with season 2 they said. I watched season 2...it didn't get any better. They said it was going to blast my socks off with season 3...I think I cringed even more with season 3 than with season 2. Season 4 had everything paid off and all that you waited for finally came about. I was still waiting.

I just don't get the craze that people have for Babylon 5. Some episodes are watcheable...but there's a lot of cringe worthy stuff in there, or at least things that make me cringe watching them.

payn · Apr 3, 2021

I like Nolan films a lot the first time through. Then, after each subsequent viewing I like them less and less.

Umbran · Apr 3, 2021

GreyLord said:
Another one people have constantly said was the most awesome series was Babylon 5. I cannot see what everyone sees about it. It's just cringeworthy.

So, you keep using the words, "cringe" and "cringeworthy". That's like saying it is "bad", which is fine, you get to have that opinion. But it doesn't tell anyone what it was about it you didn't like.

Battlestar Galactica, I'll agree with you on. That series is unrelentingly grim. The main characters never get any successes. They are all carrying sidearms, and every episode I am left wondering why they don't just blow their own heads off.

And the half-cylon baby whose blood cures cancer? That was just too nonsensical for me to continue past.

DrunkonDuty · Apr 3, 2021

I enjoyed the first 2 seasons of BSG. I think if you stop watching there you'd have a reasonably enjoyable experience. YMMV.

I would like to second Patrick Rothvuss and Brandon Sanderson as overrated.

I read the 1st chapter of Name of the Wind and it was just a big pile of boring while the main character looks on smugly. And I gather the self-insert marty stu just gets worse and worse as the thing continues. no thanks.

I agree with Mercurius that Sanderson does good world creation but dull characters. Not awful. Just not good. Average.

Oh and I like Big Bang Theory. Yes it is guilty of casting beautiful women as love interests for decidedly average looking men. (as mentioned above.) But so is 90% of film and TV.

Zardnaar · Apr 3, 2021

I liked BSG more on rewatch. Yeah it's fairly grim.

I love B5 but its effects haven't aged well.

GreyLord · Apr 3, 2021

Umbran said:
So, you keep using the words, "cringe" and "cringeworthy". That's like saying it is "bad", which is fine, you get to have that opinion. But it doesn't tell anyone what it was about it you didn't like.

Battlestar Galactica, I'll agree with you on. That series is unrelentingly grim. The main characters never get any successes. They are all carrying sidearms, and every episode I am left wondering why they don't just blow their own heads off.

And the half-cylon baby whose blood cures cancer? That was just too nonsensical for me to continue past.

It's like saying it's bad, but there are other things that just make me shake my head. Too many to get into, and almost all of them spoilers...but...for example...

You have this guy (Mordon) that has Shadows escorting him all the time. There are at least three of them surrounding him at all times. So...then we see him go through crowded markets with people all around him...and you go...just how are those three large spiderlike Shadows avoiding everyone that easily???

There are multiple jokes regarding Mimbari and Centauri anatomy that are simply tossed in as jokes...and not very good jokes at that. Jokes that just make you embarrassed you are hearing them

Massive overacting on the parts of characters at times. Over the top acting. Franklin and Garibaldi were okay, but Delenn, Lyta, G'Kar and even Londo sometimes went far overboard where you were left wondering how far they were going to go in their acting

Marcus Cole is an extreme Mary Sue. A prime example...War without end has him and Ivanova discovered...except he just happens to decide to hide at that exact moment so they don't see him and he can ambush the guards. His reasoning is that it would be the worst thing that could happen at that moment so he just felt it would...so he hid. It's absolutely ludicrous how far they go with him...for me at least...others probably love him to death.

The jokes...did I mention the jokes. The Humor just did not do it for me. That's probably what I mean most when I say cringe worthy. I couldn't stand the humor. Most of the jokes really were bad...to me. Others' probably liked them.

I know many Babylon 5 fans will say this is not so, but it seems obvious to me that Sinclair was originally supposed to be the star and fill the shoes that Sheridan does. After the actor left the show it was rewritten with Sheridan in mind, and then with War without end they backfilled and retroactively created a story to make sense with what they had already done. The did a good job of melding it (and those two episodes are probably two of the better episodes, but they need to lay off the humor of Zathras) and making it all seem seamless, but even the initials they use...J.S., makes it the least inventive character replacement...or obvious that they originally wanted J.S. (you can pick which one) as the star.

Too much religion or religious reference in my Sci Fi. I know many like it that way, but it was so heavy handed at times that it made me cringe.

There's a lot more, but that's a small set of things that I could bring to mind.

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, and this may include BSG as well, something occurred to me that hasn't occurred to me before.

It may be more me than anything else. Though there are times I don't mind the religious overtones in a movie or show (the original Star Wars Trilogy comes to mind which has some Zen and Buddhist ideas) a lot of the shows that I don't really enjoy as many times do have religious overtones in them. Perhaps that's the biggest thing now that I think about it. That could apply to many other shows and movies beyond B5 of BSG now that I'm actually looking at those shows and one of the items that I'm not really into within them.

TheSword · Apr 3, 2021

Well there’s nothing like a thread about taking a crap on things people like to bring out the best in us

billd91 · Apr 3, 2021

The jokes...did I mention the jokes. The Humor just did not do it for me. That's probably what I mean most when I say cringe worthy. I couldn't stand the humor. Most of the jokes really were bad...to me. Others' probably liked them.

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