Your 'Seinfield Is Unfunny' moment

Yeah, I mean a weeping angel Statue of Liberty?

Really?

Yeah, I prefer what they did in Ghostbusters II.

. . . . ugh, me too.

I mean, I don't inherently hate Moffat, but that was just stupid.

Assault on Precinct 13 the original version was a lot more action packed and less campy the the remake but the gunfights are dated considering how guns really sound in real life.

This is blasphemy for Latin America.

But Dragon Ball Z is just so no interesting anymore. I prefer Superman or Invincible now at days, I can relate more to the main protagonist, while still having the plot of Superpowered alien.

The artwork is still gorgeous, thought, and is a collectors item for my bookcase.

Dragon Ball Abridged is better, for me anyway. I'm not particulary fond of Idiot heroes at my age, and I love TFS for mocking the concept with Goku having brain damage.

DBZ Abridged is pretty much the gold standard at this point when it comes to parody series, surpassing even its predecessor.

The Matrix and the new Superman movies have done in a lot of superhero tropes for me. As Cinema Sins pointed out, in the lobby fight in Reloaded, can any character really die?

"The Chosen One" trope is dead to me. Harry Potter and Star Wars did it best and I think this trope can go on to retirement. It's mutated into lazy writing:

• Why do people trust a child hero? He/She is the chosen one(tm)!

• Why is the little snot so good at martial arts techniques that take years to master? See above!

• Why are there plot holes you can drive a bantha through, plot holes on the hero's side? Becaue screw you the hero is the Chosen One!11!Eleventy!

Everytime I hear Because Destiny Says So I want to scream "How do you know that?!?" at the screen/book/my computer....makes for awkward moments with my roomie...

Naruto did it, and like everything, it turned into a giant mess.

Between Nick overplaying it to no end and people endlessly spewing memes from it, the novelty of the first three Spongebob Squarepants seasons has all but shriveled up to nothing for me.

edited 3rd Apr '15 10:43:03 PM by XJTordecai

@Taira mai

It is little tiring but most YA and Fantasy fiction tend to use it a lot.

I don't watch Spongebob anymore.

Taira - I'll admit I hate The Chosen One too, although I will say there's a few modern versions of it which manage to actually work it half decent. Deus Ex springs to mind because JC Denton is chosen in a way which the conspirators missed. It takes time to justify it and do it quite well - most though don't, and it's just a lame, magical excuse which tires me.

Also, I have to admit I really hate most harem series after Rosario To Vampire which actually manages to give us reason to care for each of the girls in Tsukune's harem, and gives us each reason to support them. I've found its shipping community to be quite polite for that reason - most will usually understand why and won't be too bothered you prefer one pairing over another.

Never liked Sponge Bob even from the beginning, never saw the appeal.

The Main Characters Do Everything: In times of yore when TV was young (like The '50s) this saved money.

If you have a main star, he or she will cost lots of money. Supporting stars, effects, editing etc. Get what's left. That's why many extras simply nod instead of saying "yes doctor" or "Sure I'll do it!", speaking parts pay more.

But frankly it spread like a cancer across all media.

Films I can sorta understand, a AAA action star like Tom Cruise or Robert Downey Jr. costs a lot of money. So having someone like that fix an engine, shoot baddies and make the rousing courtroom speech saves money, I guess.

But that's not the case for all media. Look at Game Of Thrones and A Song Of Ice And Fire, HBO and George R.R. Martin have Loads And Loads Of Characters and keep the audience engaged. Even Star Wars spread out the plot to supporting characters (the origional trilogy, not the mess that was the prequel films).

All too often it's an excuse to have a main character who is The Ace mechanic/engineer/pilot and who is a crack shot with any weapon, the stamina of an olympic athlete and had studied law.

Or the lawyer for some reason is walking into the crime scene and is now the CSI expert.

Or my least favorite, the "super genius" who can fly an F-16, perform open heart surgery and now speaks fluent klingon over the course of an episode. That's just pulling skills out of the character's ass. That character will never be in danger.

I like an ensemble cast because I'm more willing to buy that then say a cast of 3-4 characters who act like they don't need anyone.

I get that sometimes a super talented character can be fun to write on paper but The Main Characters Do Everything has been used so much that it's annoying.

Star Trek got bad at this. Many TV shows are awful with this. It's just silly now.

edited 4th Apr '15 10:40:32 AM by TairaMai

Honestly any story where the whole thing hinges on a characters destiny is just totally bullshit to me. Like, Madoka was a pretty egregious one in this regard because the whole thing turned into some BS about Madoka's "karmatic destiny" or some bullshit like that at the end.

On a totally different note, I've recently kinda realized that I don't like Pokémon/Diablo/Destiny style "get shut for the sake of getting more shit" type games anymore. This realization kinda came in two parts, first when GB A4i OS came out and everyone started playing Pokémon again on their phones. I tried Fire Red again for like 3 days and couldn't stand it. The after that it was Destiny, which I dropped after a week because it lacked the interesting combat (you know, the "Halo sandbox") of Halo and replaced it with mindless grinding. Then again, I also hated the multiplayer so that might have factored in to it too.

I know some people hate the Chosen One concept but I am also beginning to despise the the Unchosen One. I know that you are not bound by fate but sometimes it can get really tiring of the heroes screwing destiny and fate.

They do? I figured Hollywood sci-fi movies couldn't get enough of drones. If nothing else, it gives the hero something threatening yet disposable to fight against. I actually enjoyed how the Captain America and Iron Man movies handled drones. Same thing with Elysium. I want to see more drones in fiction because they're fun to watch, and it's an interesting topic to discuss in fiction. I just love robots in general.

So...Glock makes nice pistols, but I didn't start firing them until I was in my mid-twenties. Good guns, but not as good as they're made out to be. They were quite popular for being easy to manufacture, cheap to buy and easy to modify and carry. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the plain Jane quality of the Glock pistols is precisely what makes them so popular. Not too bad, but sometimes overrated and placed on a pedestal like Kimber and Wilson Combat. Kimber and Wilson Combat are nice as collector's items, but they're overpriced for what they are. A Hi Point or a Rock Island is just fine if you want a 1911 clone for plinking, and honestly the design of the 1911, as a self-loading automatic pistol, is outdated. There are better automatic pistol designs, but it seems like as Americans, we're obligated to like and have one in our collections - and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I couldn't really get into Babylon 5 after having watched it recently. I'll try again, but the show has a stale feeling to it that I can't describe right now. However, I can tell that the show had a bigger impact on future sci-fi military series than audiences and writers may realize, and I can appreciate that.

I tend to have a SINF moment with video games because I wait several months if not years for the price to go down. I didn't start playing Assassin Creed II until recently, and I don't think it's that great. I have Assassin's Creed III, as well, but I haven't tried it.

My reverse SINF moment is with Mass Effect 3. The on-the-rails ending isn't that big of a deal to me. It seems disappointing, but not devastating.

Let's see, what else...Yeah, Piers Anthony hasn't aged well. Damn, talk about not knowing how to write female characters. And the puns. Too many puns. The movie adaptation of Gone With The Wind isn't super good to me.

I love Pride And Prejudice, but I also find it immensely overrated and not Jane Austen's best work by a long stretch. It's one of those books that you're supposed to like, and if you've worked in literature like I have, you'll find plenty of people who will look at you funny if you have less than stellar things to say about it. Perhaps putting it differently, it may not be that the book hasn't aged well, but that the fans haven't aged well.

edited 4th Apr '15 4:11:05 PM by Aprilla

#187: Oh thank you. I thought I was the only person who turned on Bubblestand/Ripped Pants in 1999, said, "THIS! ISN'T! FUNNY!", and never looked back.

I think part of it is that I'm not usually a fan of humor borne of stupidity. I just can't find stupid to be funny about 90% of the time, no matter who it is.

I also have a hard time watching good guy/bad guy fights because I'm always "we all know the good guy is gonna win, can we just get this over with?" T-800/T-1000? OH GEE I WONDER WHO IS GONNA WIN THIS ONE EVEN THOUGH T-1000 IS ANNOYINGLY OP AS FUCK. Ripley/xenomorph? I think I knew who would win that battle before I even started giving a rat's ass about sci-fi movies.

Lucifer's Hammer. I get that it was groundbreaking at the time, but now that its formula has been sucked dry, I'm finding the book sadly lacking. I was never a fan of generic disaster movies in general, but I thought that the grandaddy of them all would have something more to it, like Watchmen in comparison to the entire 90's. Oh well.

I read Watchmen before I read almost any other comic, so Dark Age stuff in comic books is so fucking bad to me. 90s Punisher in particular was so damn bad. Can't remember what the series was, but it was after the Phoenix Saga, when Magneto rips all of the adamantium out of Wolverine, I literally started cracking up. It was so damn over-the-top violent I couldn't suspend my disbelief anymore. I was taken totally out of the story and just rolled my eyes.

I'm with Odd1 and Twentington, Spongebob is one of the worst shows ever.

Now, for one that will really get people mad, I can't stand The Hunger Games. Or the dystopia genre in general. I don't care if it's after the end, surely someone would look in an old textbook, see that utopian governments don't work, and pick one that does. I dunno, maybe it's because I grew up with sci fi and it's ingrained in my head that the future is aliens and lasers, maybe it's because I had to read one every year of middle school, but I just don't get them.

I didn't grow up on anything, and I still hate dystopias with a passion. They're so bleak and boring.

You're not going to make me mad. :) I think you're right. Sorry, Orwell; I'm sure you were a nice guy, but you opened a can of worms that's going to be very difficult to close again. x_x

Let's see...music wise pretty much every overrated rock band of old that you can think of (Beatles, Queen, Rush, Eagles etc.). It just sounds...meh to me and what does not help is a great degree of the older bands have rabid fans that have to constantly tell you how great they are (like any big thing of old really).

Literature wise? I hated a huge chunk of old literature from the Renaissance. Shakesphere never really did it for me and don't get me started on goddamn Faerie Queen or Paradise Falls. Heck I think 1984 was a bit boring to me to be brutally honest. I liked Gulliver's Travels and a few other stories every now and then

edited 27th May '15 10:00:15 PM by Bleddyn

To be honest, I find Pewdiepie a little bit overrated.

Sure, there's a few good things in there (READ: HAPPY WHEELS COMPILATION WHERE HE DOES AN ENDO OVER A BOTTLE RUN), but overall... meh.

Oh good god. I can't stand him or Tobuscus anymore. Atleast big youtubers like Markiplier can be funny sometimes.

The hatedom and the fandom Pewdie has does not help either. You should see youtube videos that so much as mention him or something he played, it's like watching a constant gang war in the comment section.

edited 27th May '15 10:07:25 PM by Bleddyn