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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So instead of telling me how everything popular that the masses like is shit, how about you tell me what cult/niche things you don't like? From film, music or anything else you can think of that really grinds your gears and rankles you at the sight of it
I've never understood the appeal of Princess Bride. I've watched it a couple of times and I just don't find it funny.
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The Big Lebowski is my favourite film ever so I'm capable of "getting" the Coen Brother's humour. I just don't understand why Fargo is so popular.
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partly because of the song, and the guitar playing on it. great stuff.
the whole film amuses me though
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and I can't explain WHY it's so funny.
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was get run over by that train."
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if sh'ed seen you she'd have died of shame!
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Lee Evans
Ahmed The Dead Terrorist
The Mighty Boosh
The Office
Gavin & Stacey
Arctic Monkeys
Strangely, these are accepted by most. But if I dare say that I don't like Slayer, I usually have to run!
Although there are no words to describe how much I hate Something About Mary & War Of The Worlds (Tom Cruise remake). Piles of unmitigated shite.
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but they are awesome.
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it'll be good for you
although I seem to recall something ridiculous like a honeymoon getting in the way...
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I prefer the cook islands to Stevenage.
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- Brit Gangster/Grime Films, such as "Love, Honor & Obay", "Nil By Mouth", "Sexy Beast" and "Final Cut"... basicly, anything with Ray Winstone in.... his new one, 44" Chest is good.
- Robin Williams films
- Frankferters and Fake Cheese
- Will Smith movies and music
- The Offspring and Semisonic
- Cooking shows, I can watch them all day long.
- 'casual' games, such as Rockband.
- Ricky Gervais
(, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 12:28, Reply)
I could watch cookery shows all day too. great stuff.
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=(
Cooking shows though - oh baby. Even though I am the worst cook on earth I can tell you a lot about cooking just from TV. Saturday Kitchen is the ultimate hangover show.
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well done for fooling the world into thinking that the ""being a complete cock" thing is an act.
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also, the idea that in the last episode you can feel sorry for or actually like David Brent is pathetic. The character is pure evil, just because he's too thick to realise it doesn't make it any less obvious.
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is as much as he tries - the rest of his "career" or "act" is basically David Brent-lite.
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a dumb, annoying tosser
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Steve Coogan is also Alan Partridge, but this does not impair my enjoyment of AP.
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I concur. I really like the film Stardust and considered the only thing wrong with it to be the presence of Ricky Gervais. I then realised that he was only in it to be deprived of the ability to speak and then annoy someone so much that he's stabbed. How splendid.
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love the film (and the book) but he spoils it by being himself
his demise is truly justified, and I wish the same would happen in real life
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I would probably get no work done for the rest of the day and would be stricken with bile induced indigestion, then pick a fight with a stranger on the way home.
I am going to think happy thoughts for the rest of the day and avoid potential incarceration.
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However a random few....
Woody Allen films
Leaving Las Vegas
Red fucking Dwarf
Mighty Boosh
T Rex, Roxy Music, Bowie, Iggy Pop's entire solo career, Bowie, 8 million others.....
Self consciously 'cult' US shows such as 6 Feet Under, My Name is Earl, ER, CSI etc etc etc. They make them specifically to be 'cult', and have done ever since Twin Peaks.
Terry 'smug in-joke' Pratchett
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Star Trek
Dr Who
Damien Hirst and his fucking ilk
Donnie Darko
I dislike intensely things that try deliberately to be 'a bit weird' or 'cult' - they inevitably come across as trying too hard. One step up from Colin Hunt from IT with his Simpson's socks and Star Trek tie.
Going for a sandwich - more from me shortly....
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you are raging against things that aren't there. Other than Mighty Boosh, and alright I'll give you Bowie too, actually Damien Hirst too now, but not when he started as an artist, none of those things are "trying to be cult" ER had eleven (or was it twelve) series and was really well written, Terry Pratchett has never had a "smug in-joke" his writing has been consistent since he started writing, in fact if anything he's got better.
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not entirely sure why, but not for cult reasons
I totally agree with Al on Terry Pratchett, except that he has definitely got better. The first couple of books pale almost into insignificance against some of the more recent, although his 3rd one was absolutely excellent too.
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about the fantasy genre, surely?
And as for those 'cult US shows' - invariably hour long episodes on at 9 or 10pm, 'challenging' subject matter, spasticated camera angles, ham-fisted plot twists....'24', The Wire, Lost.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
It's a list of things I hate that apparently I shouldn't.
But I fucking well do and that's an end to it.
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in the first book
the subsequent ones have brought in some very good characters and some excellent plots wrapped up in very enjoyable writing.
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I maintain that Discworld as a very concept is itself a smug fantasy-genre in-joke - and therefore Al is what is commonly termed 'completely fucking wrong'.
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and even if it is, it doesn't alter the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed reading every single Discworld book, finding them intelligent and witty with all the hallmarks of a well written novel.
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'Terry Pratchett has never had a "smug in-joke" his writing' is patently untrue though. The Colour of Magic was chock-full of Tolkein gags etc. He may have abandoned this later on but sure as shit he's made in-jokes and plenty of 'em. Just not for me, I'm afraid, much as my countless books on ancient mythology etc are similarly not for most other folks...
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anything you particularly recommend?
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Have you read Unseen Academicals?! I threw it down less than thirty pages in to it. Poorly written bollocks. A real shame, he's finally lost it.
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this is B3tas own rage-a-holic. He's got to the stage where if he was actually faced with any of these things he wouldn't be able to remember why he doesn't like them, he'd just make a weird gurgling noise in his throat and flap his arms around like a happy sealion.
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she was shit and it spoilt the whole thing.
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Napoleon Dynamite
Little Britain
Katharine Tate
and prolly other stuff that's just not funny, at all.
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Completely bores the pants off me.
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but they are an invaluable tool to help one try to understand the Japanese psyche - if you watch even just a few of them (I'm no buff and agree most are terrible) it's plain to see that they are obsessed with mutations and nature rising up against man - from Godzilla to the more mental modern films.
Being the only people on earth to have been nuked has really fucked them up. Like them or not those films are a fascinating anthropological insight into a (so far) unique national phenomenon.
God I'm a pompous ass sometimes, sorry.
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And it's my right as a hooman bean to assert my dislike for them, anthropological merit or not.
Godzilla films, however, are hilarious and can therefore be spared my jerkily-animated-it-all-looks-the-fucking-same-and-the-dubbing-is-bloody-awful-too wrath.
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I don't even 'like' them myself - I just see them as a window into the minds of a fucked-up nation and, as such, rather interesting. I do love the old Godzilla films though - the one with Jet Jaguar (I think it's Godzilla vs Megalon) is utterly brilliant.
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My sister tried to get me to listen to some of their bilge. I lasted about 20 seconds before it became apparent it was the same standard indie dross that every other shit indie band peddles these days. Now it just sits as a single, infuriating entry on my music library because I can't remember where I downloaded it to in the first place. GRR.
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...other than Lock, Stock - WTF?
Jason Statham
Vinnie Jones
Paul Gascgoine
Antique programmes on TV
Edited, with apologies.
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Do you understand the question?
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Clerks... I like Mallrats much much more! I was not allowed to have this opinion around some of my friends so I kept quiet and said it was AMAZING... now I care less about what people think of me and I have to say its alright... its not great, its not pants.
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it's like me and Scarface, I just feel it's gone past the point where I could ever sit and enjoy it because everyone else has gone on so much.
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Although I think Carlitos Way is a more enjoyable film. Scarface is a little over the top.
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Scarface is very OTT but I still enjoy it. I just can't watch it that much... its a once a year film like The Hurricane, Sleepers and Casino.
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I do like Scarface. I watched it with my granddad (he loves all Al Pacino films) and I really enjoyed it. If you ever feel like giving it a whirl I'll happily lend you the dvd! :D
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Oh dear. Well maybe give it a go sometime. Don't tell anyone you're going to watch it though! Its deffo a Sunday film... follow it with something light and funny though! :D
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as in, totally cannot stand, Curb Your Enthusiasm.
To the point that I have to leave the room if it comes on. Larry David is the unfunniest man since Ricky Gervais smeared his fucking smug face all over the world.
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Freeform 'challenging' jazz (loads of jazz is brilliant but that atonal honking bollocks is awful)
Ken Loach and other depressing UK 'realistic' drama
Trainspotting
Alan Bennett
Most poetry
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Watched one episode and thought, "meh". Similarly with Six Feet Under. And I don't think I got more than 5 minutes into season 1 episode 1 of The Office before leaping across the room to turn it off before I clawed out my eyes.
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but Gavin and Stacey seems to be universally beloved, and I can't work out why. It's drivel.
And Rocky Horror Picture Show a bit. I like the film, and theme nights centred around it are always fun, but I don't get the utter awe that it inspires in people
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ANY kind of imagination, sense of self-expression or awareness of anything other than their generic Nike/Sainsburys/Cinema/9-5/Big Brother/Eastenders sheepy way of life, and the opportunity to see a bit of leg or do something 'WACKY!' ("Ooh, I'm mad I am...") is a sheer fucking pant-wetting experience for them. The cunts.
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1) it's a musical
2) it involves 'audience participation' - a phrase to turn my blood to ice if ever there was one
3) there's a whole excruciating 'culture' surrounding it, where people go and see it 8 million times and try to outdo each other in pathetic costumes
Utterly fucking bent.
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I always got the impression it would make me curl up with cringeingness
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Then mince about the cinema singing, bending and more than likely, exchanging.
A fiend of my wife is a bender, and his partner will, probably on demand, get into his frank'n'furter outfit and mince about the fucking place by way of spontaneous entertainment.
By all means do that kind of thing, but do it in the privacy of your own dungeon. It is not funny, ironic OR entertaining. As you said, i would want to curl up and die with fucking embarrassment even being in th esame building as these 'outgoing' party animals.
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Todays 'Indie' music. Any band, you choose, it doesn't matter. From the Kaiser Chiefs to fucking Snow Patrol, every one a pile of jangly pish that is neither entertaining nor exciting.
Little Britain (easy target i suppose) - seriously though, at what point did they think they were funny? The first time they drooled out the catchphrases, or the millionth time? The only thing more annoying, were the utter CUNTS who enjoyed it, or even worse than them, were the cunts who would watch it but not really enjoy it, but it gave them a leg up on whatever pathetic social ladder they inhabited.
Travelling, i think i've said this before, but I seriously cannot understand why folk want to basically rough it for a few years. A few weeks tops, but seriously, having the squirts on every continent does NOT appeal to me. The thing is though, they love it, wax lyrical about all the crazy night up drinking cheap, weak beer, hooting with a bunch of other one dimensional braying cunts.
Batman film, wif that cunt what died in it. Seriously, what a piss weak film. Goodies and baddies with a big budget. Pure and utter wank.
Giving to charity. No thanks, i'll pass. I'm far too cynical to think that my £10 or whatever would make it to Sudan...possibly about 20p of it would. These charity cunts don't work for nothing you know. That is not to say i wouldn't want to help my fellow man, i do have SOME compassion. I just prefer to do it in a much more direct way.
I said i wasn't gonna do this, but i felt compelled. i will have to offer something up on the other 'positive' thread and balance out the bile.
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I was made to feel like a social fucking leper over the holidays after they started on it at my place at Xmas. Hell, i even set the thing up for them. Then let them get on with it....but their ire rose and the drink got consumed and they went from cajoling me into it doing to simply dismissing my presence.
Stupid fucking 'nine to five' CUNTS.
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