Your 'Seinfield Is Unfunny' moment

Nu Metal: Linkin Park, Evanescence (yes I'm counting them)...it was kinda fun and I was in Florida when LimpBizkit was popular...now it's an old shame for me. I admit I have an ex-gf who was a MASSIVE Amy Lee fan, but as I listen to her music...it's just too Emo Teen. And Linkin Park/Limp Biscuit now? Deader Than Disco. With Heavy Metal, it was Metallica's attack on Napster and their slump post Load. It all started to sound the same. For that matter a lot of Goth and Metal bands now sound like garage bands I've booed off the stage in high school.

It's a shame because some of the music from my college years and before I joined the Army was kinda nice, but now that I'm older and everyone tired the Darker and Edgier approach, I find myself not listening to that much Heavy Metal or Goth bands anymore.

edited 10th Jul '13 1:07:49 PM by TairaMai

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

@Cata (Post #6): Man, I thought I was the only one crazy enough to think Link's Awakening might actually be better than Ocarina of Time. :O

The 3D games are great for their dark moments, but sometimes I just want to play the wacky and surreal 2D ones like that which actually feel like a kid's game, you know? Or so it feels now looking at my childhood...

Anyways, is this for old stuff in particular?

Well, it's been going on for a long time now, so... The Big Bang Theory is one for me which my dad is obsessed with and I really hate it. Just wanted to let that off my chest.

All I see in it is a bunch of nerds trying to have sex half of the time, that's all it is! Ugh, it's too much for me. >_<

"Hell exists not to punish sinners, but to ensure that nobody sins in the first place." - Eikishiki Yamaxanadu (Touhou)

It's not a sign of getting old.

All to often, pop culture is about the "now", what's hip, what's hot and what cool in the minds of the public.

And then it gets run into the ground or the novelty has worn off.

There was a lot of transformation and TG fiction that for me was kinda cool. In early 90's no one was really writing this kind of fiction. There were a few werewolf books out, and some others but then I found the internets....

And now it's everywhere. And has become So Okay, It's Average. Everyone wants to be Darker and Edgier, everyone wants to write an X-men ripoff, or Harry Potter or (yuck!) Twilight....

There are a few stories that are all about the wonder of transformation without the wangst and trying to make another Bella Swan.

edited 9th May '14 4:10:24 PM by TairaMai

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Star Trek The Next Generation.

The original is fun to watch in a not very serious way, plus the characters are really good and react well to each other.

TNG just seems a bit bland to me. None of the characters (minus Picard and Data) are that interesting. The effects are really dated, but not in a cool way and many episodes are paced too slowly.

edited 9th May '14 8:37:05 PM by BaconManiac5000

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Geordie isn't interesting? Worf isn't interesting? I can understand why not everybody would like Riker and Beverly the way I do.

The most dated effects are in the first couple of seasons (LED countdown clock? really?) and the lattermost seasons (the baby thing the Enterprise made in Emergence is pretty terrible). Their most common effects hold up pretty well, I think. It's just when they had to stretch themselves, and a lot of that is probably getting touched up in the Remastered, since it'll largely be video effects.

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Worf could be more interesting, but every time he's on screen, he gets denied by Picard.

Although, he is the only one who regularly has disagreements with people........

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Seinfeld itself. /thread

Clerks is one for me. I gave up on it 30 minutes in, because it felt like nothing at all was happening. Just some losers sitting around, having meaningless conversations about stupid shit nobody cares about.

"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. The song is terribly written. The horribly overused girl/world rhyme in the FIRST LINE? Check. Rhyming with Itself, not once but twice? Check. A reference to the nonexistant "South Detroit"? Check. (Just to be clear, guys — did you mean "Downriver", like Taylor and Wyandotte and the like, or Windsor?)

Also some Queen songs. "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions" show up at everything sports related, and everything period, so much that even a sports non-fan such as I can tell you every word just from having heard the song in commercials and such. And they're not even interesting to listen to: "We Will Rock You" has no melody and just the stomp-stomp-clap beat, and "We Are the Champions" is way too slow and somber for its subject matter.

Even the generic good guy fighting bad guy dynamic was this to me for so long. We already know who's gonna win; why bother with the buildup when we know how this is gonna turn out? Then I had a bunch of people tell me "it's the stuff leading up that counts most." What finally made it click for me? Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I wanted to see how this unlikely grouping would triumph.

This is almost sacrilegious for Latin Americans, but I just don't get Mafalda. I mean, I apreciate its cultural influence and the way it basically brought the Hispanic comic strip world to life, but to me it just seems preachy, and I usually pass with titles that lacks subtlety.

To be honest, that is kind of the point of the movie, the meandering conversations about nothing. It's basically the concept of Seinfeld taken to its logical conclusion (but, then, you don't like Seinfeld, so I suppose that doesn't help). There are some running plot threads, but mostly the same kinds you might find in real life, so to speak, aside from one near the end that...well, it's interesting, to say the least.

It's really more of a character-driven thing than a plot-driven thing.

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The original Super Mario Bros and 2J are almost quaint compared to what the series became in the SNES era. Or 3 for that matter. Or even 2USA.

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I loved Power Rangers for a few months to a year. Then I tuned into part two or three of the Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers arc, and was treated to the recap "The Rangers were turned into children too young to fight, so aliens came to Earth to fill in for them!" and the Special Edition Title "Go-Go Alien Rangers!"

My reaction was ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻ THIS IS STUPID!

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Star Trek Voyager: All the signs were there.

• Plot point that went nowhere.

• Technobabble taking over the dialoge

• Characters reduced to stereotypes

• Will they get home? No! Failure Is the Only Option.

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Kes was underdeveloped and her species poorly thought out. Seven of Nine was teh awesome, but again underdeveloped and a victim of the sexism at Paramount. The Doctor has potential only because Robert Picardo is a good actor.

Unlike Deep Space Nine or TNG, many Voyager eps and the seasons 1 & 2 are cringeworthy...

Enterprise was the nail in the coffin of pre 2009 Trek...

edited 10th May '14 9:21:47 AM by TairaMai

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TNG and DS9 are mostly cringeworthy in the first two seasons too.

Kes was probably a bigger victim of sexism. She got cast because she was a nursing mother at her audition, and the producers were disappointed her breast size had gone down again by the time they started shooting. That's probably why they didn't do anything with her, and then blamed the character for "not working".

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Personally, I think the biggest problem with Voyager was Neelix.

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• Lord of the Rings: I had to watch the movies at 8x speed to tolerate them at all. Every fantasy cliché imaginable stemmed from it, so it's a class-F5 Cliché Storm now.
• Pokémon Red/Blue: Aside from the horrible balancing and ugly sprites, the later games just did so much better. That said, I stil like to play with my beloved Missingno.

"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer

CGI...just CGI...

Yeah, I was the weird little fan girl gushing over the dino in Jurassic Park and The T-1000 and Babylon Five. Then the Star Wars prequels happened.

So many movies and TV shows are all "look at the pretty effects" and the writing sucks.

I hated Cloverfield because the movie seemed to be built around the gimmick of "guess what the monster looks like!"

The monster we saw in sneek peeks...the monster that looked worse than fan art. For a blockbuster, Clovie looks like a rejected Deviant Art scribble...

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I have to agree, even dated effects that are practical elicit one of two feelings from me.

1) "I wonder how they did that."
2) "Look at all the work that went into doing that!"

With dated CGI, on the other hand, I just think "Wow, that looks old."

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For me, it's not so much dated CGI as it is bad CGI that gets my goat. Even dated CGI could look good if the animators know their limits and know what they're doing. (Early Pixar is a prime example of this, "Tin Toy" aside.) Bad CGI, however, is always bad. And it creeps me the hell out. Even decent CGI that has clear problems bugs the hell out of me—I can't watch a lot of early Jimmy Neutron episodes anymore, since I'm hyper-aware now of how people's hair is all a solid, unmoving object, how people in the background are very clearly on an unending cycle, how crowd shots always seem very empty, the animation being a bit janky in general at times, the lighting being ever-so-slightly off in crucial scenes...you get the picture.

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I watched the original Star Wars Trilogy recently having no previous experience with the franchise outside of Popculture Osmosis.

It's Okay.

I'm having to learn to pay the price

Pippi, why are you the Devil?

I remember telling someone in high school I didn't like the Foo Fighters because they sounded like every other alt-rock band on the radio. He told me it was the other way around. (I'm still not into them, but I can see how influential they are.)

Also, this isn't Seinfeld Is Unfunny as much as Hype Backlash, but here's one that just happened this week, so it's the first thing that came to mind:

I feel the same way about Peep Show. I'm trying to like it because I hear it's one of the best britcoms ever - like, visibly straining myself - but nothing yet. I'll give it a few more chances, though.

edited 11th May '14 9:54:02 AM by Wheezy

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TheBlairWitchProject, it was So Okay, It's Average when I saw it with my Daddy. I wondered why he wasn't scared like I was...

Then it dawned on me. My Daddy grew up in the age before cell phones, in rural Colorado. So getting lost in the woods was old hat. And really, Grandma told better ghost stories than the plot of Blair Witch. The film is really about three kids who got lost and it's a play on every desperate situation. There was a lot of sizzle but the steak of the plot...isn't enough for it to hold up.

Don't tell Hollywood. "Found footage" is now almost a trope in and of itself. "Let's make it look like the camera is shaking!" Please don't I just had some popcorn and a large drink I would like to keep it down...

edited 11th May '14 10:28:09 AM by TairaMai

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

The Beatles, for me. They're so overplayed and their influence is evident in every single rock act after them, so they're mostly dull to me.

"Did you expect somebody else?"

*unfathomable rage*

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I could say the same about Bob Dylan - I hold no love for him at all.

"Did you expect somebody else?"