JCC Critically acclaimed media you dislike

Anything by Claude Monet. Not worthy of being reprinted on a greeting card.

 

I tried watching Goodfellas a couple times and never made it that far. I think the cinematography is among the reasons it didn't work for me; it's very of its time, even though it's meant to be a period piece.

 

I wasn't going to take this topic seriously but @JoinTheSchwarz's completely original list reminded me of how much I despised The Deer Hunter when I watched it recently while sick with COVID. The opening is too long, the characters we're supposed to find sympathetic are drunken *******s who beat their partners and each other, but worst of all is its horribly racist depiction of Vietnamese as little more than savages. All the atrocities on screen are the work of the Vietnamese resistance, and the film seems to be saying the big mistake the US made was trying to help those ungrateful people in the first place. People are rightfully trashing GWTW, but this film that came out four decades later is just as bad.

 

If we're talking art, I'd argue anything you'd find in the MoMa that is less than 50 years old.

 

was there a little over a month ago and i thought the current ed ruscha exhibit was really cool and interesting. not sure what other stuff they have that's less than 50 years old, the pollocks and rothkos that people usually like to complain about are all older than that now.

 

Doctor ****ing Who.

 

I'm talking about contemporary "art" that involves really no talent. Like a blank white canvas with a big orange dot in the middle.

 

How DARE you, sir!

 

Does MoMA have that?

 

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Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture is a blight. I know half a dozen people who have FLW homes here, but I've never met anyone who thought they were pleasant to live in.

 

Frank Lloyd Blight was right there

 

I haven't been there in years, but I do remember what was considered art that just had me smh.

 

The Matrix was all style, no substance. A style I didn't like, and when they tried to give it substance, they got it laughably wrong. Human beings as batteries is an unutterably ridiculous idea; people absorb far more energy than they produce. Just so unbelievably dumb.

 

I wouldn't say I necessarily "dislike" it, but: Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

 

The idea of being lost in a virtual reality set-up within something called The Matrix was more entertaining when Tom Baker did it in 1976.

 

Every painting must be photorealistic!

 

Along those lines: E.T. is incredibly overrated.

 

Shazam!

Couldn't relate with any single one of the characters; or really cared about them.

 

It's not his fault people try to live in his avant-garde sculptures.

 

You ever read Elaine May's quote about it?

 

I've never liked Elizabeth Taylor in anything.

 

The Power of the Dog
Life of Pi

 

I just looked that up; a great quip.