Your causal observation on media you are unfamiliar with

Note: No Backhanded Insults, Death Threats, or Bashing

You might know a certain genre/medium from the inside out; after years of getting into of the big names, carefully browsing through the underground shit, knowing your favorite creators inside out, and having a long list of favorites but what do associate with the kinds of media you don't usually indulge in?

edited 22nd Aug '12 12:54:51 AM by eternalNoob

Comic Books: Why is Robin wearing blue in this all of a sudden?

Ballet: "So if Swan Lake is about a princess, why did Matthew Bourne turn them all into dudes?"

Noise Rock from Japan: "*screams like Malcolm Mc Dowell in A Clockwork Orange in the presence of Beethoven's 9th*"

Dubstep: Wub-wub-wub-WUUUUUUUUB-WWWWUUUUBB

My two cents on...

Fifty Shades Of Grey: People. Reading in public.

Gangnam Style: I'm listening to it more than I think I'm supposed to.

edited 22nd Aug '12 1:55:50 AM by Ronskie

Romance novels: I like the part where they rip the bodice.

Black Metal: The lyrics are lost in translation.

Porn: I see naked people. They don't know they're naked.

Pop: Hey, this is actually...pretty catchy. I could see why people get into this.

Rap: Actually sort of fun, when you approach it from the Lonely Island style of comedy.

Romantic Comedy: Why does he still go after her when she punches him in the face?

Lost: What happened to the dinosaurs? (I confused Lost with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, for some reason)

Horror Films: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!1

edited 22nd Aug '12 3:12:59 AM by HouraiRabbit

Comic Books; Alternate realities ahoy!

Horror films; Cheesy schlock, not an indication of quality though.

Lost; This plot has lost me.

Manga/Anime: Man, Japanese parents are way more lenient when it comes to what their kids watch.

• Anime: This is weird. Honestly the only anime that I've seen is the anime that everybody born in the 90s saw (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Pokemon, etc.).
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Some people have interesting taste.
• Star Trek: This bores me.

Harem Genre: This man sure has a lot of strangers taking up residence in his house. For some reason, he's okay with that.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: I'm not getting sucked into that. Not watching it because I may never stop.

Anime: Japan is weird.

Comics: So Spiderman has died like six times? But why?

Real Life: What's that?

Manga: This is so cute! Wait, is that blood? What are they doing? Is this backwards?

Rap/Hip Hop: Some people sure make it rain on many ladies's asses.

Metal (in general): I understand, but why you mad though?

• Mega Man: How old is Mega Man even supposed to be/look anyway?
• Metallica: Fans seem to like to complain about them more than they like to talk about any good stuff by them.
• '80s cartoons: What little I've seen of them really doesn't seem to hold up as much as most people tend to think for the most part.
• Cars 2: It really looks much better than its reputation suggests.
• Cop Rock: I've only seen the first episode, but it really seems much better than its reputation suggests.
• Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagan (howw the hell do you spell all that): Believing in yourself doesn't work that way.
• Revolutionary Girl Utena: My local record store had a whole bunch of soundtracks from the show for sale for some reason (although they were in the used CDs), and I bought one because the cover looked cool. I've never watched the show and know absolutely nothing about it. I do know that this specific soundtrack's name was in French and mentioned the word "revolution" on it, so I expect it to be a dramatization of France's history from 1789 to 1799.
• Highlander: There can only be one, but no, wait, there's apparently many and all of the ones that weren't the first supposedly suck? Way to undermine your own franchise's most memetic quote. Again, haven't seen this movie, but I plan to watch it someday.
• Most anime: How do all you nerds find the time to watch all these shows you constantly talk about? The only anime I'm really familiar with at all is FLCL, and that's mostly because it's only six episodes!
• Theater in general: It seems like trying to get into theater (as in watching a lot of theater, not necessarily being in productions, though that'd be nice) would be a more expensive habit than the most expensive and potent of drugs, seeing as how the prices of tickets to this stuff is rarely cheap.

edited 22nd Aug '12 11:52:01 PM by 0dd1

...Well, backhanded compliments were inevitable anyways.

• Radio Drama: After searching for a few, I realized that it's actually something you can be really creative with, if you try.

Action movies: One guy fighting a lot of guys for the whole movie.
Modern pop music: ...is it supposed to sound all the same?
Musicals: A lot of people sing along with the plot, also they are not very good singers, really.
Opera: Several people sing along with the plot, but everything takes a very long time to happen, the plot is confusing and the songs are all in Italian. Also the singers are very good.
19th century romance novels: THEY ARE ALL CRAZY! ALL OF THEM!

I dunno, most of what could be seen as backhanded compliments here seem more like outright stating opinions

edited 23rd Aug '12 12:17:59 AM by 0dd1

...Good point.

edited 23rd Aug '12 12:33:46 AM by eternalNoob

Some addendum

• Chowder, Regular Show and Adventure Time: I'm beginning to think Cartoon Network is culturing a surrealism revival.
• Lucky Star: I'm not quite sure what I should feel while watching this show.
• First Person Shooters: I've finally started appreciating these when I held and fired a real gun.
• Films based on Video Games: I don't think these will ever work.
• Video Games based on Films: These are slightly more promising. Keyword: SLIGHTLY.
• K-Pop: This stuff is actually very catchy.
• FarmVille: There's Serious Business for this, too? To each his own...

edited 23rd Aug '12 2:41:08 AM by Ronskie

Homestuck: Will pull out an archive binge soon, once I get the time. Looks very interesting, and that army of a fanbase must account for something.

I AM A GOD.

Rap: So people complain about Rebecca Black singing "Friday", but they'll listen to all this other monotone stuff?

My opinion on Anime pre-watching Death Note: It looks respectable, the art style's nice. Not sure whether I could get past the music though.

Post-watching Death Note: I can tolerate the music, but I'm willing to give it a fair shot, I just don't know where to start.

Soaps: Real life involves a small neighbourhood experiencing Murder every few weeks? What's wrong with these people?

Soaps: Two words you need to learn, soapland people: 'conflict resolution'.

I TAKE OFFENSE IN THAT STATEMENT

Anyhow...

Metal: Not deeply entrenched in the metal-verse, but it is pretty fucking rad, save for Nu metal, which is a bit unpleasant to the ears.

edited 24th Aug '12 4:19:57 AM by eternalNoob

As do I.