<p>And add me to the growing number who found The History Boys unlikeable.</p>
<p>American Beauty- midlife crisis, cold marriage, daughter with sexy friends, and dad, just not coping, through in some latent tendancies, some odd children and you have life in SF!!!</p>
<p>Kevin Spacey, perfect in the role</p>
<p>Great Gatsby, people who took themselves way to seriously who had little redeeming qualities except good taste in clothes</p>
<p>I don’t get Paris Hilton.</p>
<p>maury povitz and his guests, ewwww…i watch it once a year, and egad, i don’t get why those people share their lives and would do anything for 15 minutes no matter how humiliating</p>
<p>Seinfeld would be the one thing I don’t get. It’s just not THAT funny to me.
I actually loved History Boys. Such perfect students, such imperfect teachers…:)</p>
<p>the will farrell video clip with the little girl as a landlord collecting rent. just didn’t get it.</p>
<p>2001
Ive only seen it twice once when I was 11 and once when I was 21- but- what is the deal with the apes and the monolith- was that supposed to be the key?</p>
<p>I also didnt get Forest Gump- In fact I hated it and only sat through it because my H was enjoying himself-
I am so picky about movies- I didn’t like 6th sense either because as soon as he had dinner with his wife I knew what the “suprise” ending was.
comedies I have much lower standards for- they just have to make me laugh
:D</p>
<p>I don’t get reality tv shows either- my husband watches this “cops” show and it just seems ?</p>
<p>I didn’t get “Borat.” I tried, but it didn’t do anything for me.</p>
<p>History Boys worked wonderfully as a play, but not as well as a film. I’m guessing that none of you who dislike it saw the play. It’s a fabulous story which revolves around two different teaching styles, and certainly reflects an amazing group of students and a group of interesting, but flawed, teachers. The dialogue is beautiful and the performances were excellent. I enjoyed the film, but probably because I loved the play (which set records on Broadway for the number of Tonys it won).</p>
<p>Things I don’t ‘get’: Jerry Springer, Montell, Maury, all the “Judge” shows, Larry King, Everybody Loves Raymond, Brad and Angelina.</p>
<p>Although I agree with not ‘getting’ Faulkner (I do not understand him OR the reason that he’s considered a great writer), I DO get Seinfeld (the episodes are funny to me, no matter how many times I see them) and American Beauty (CGM explained it pretty well, and yes, Kevin Spacey is perfection).</p>
<p>“American Beauty” and “Lost in Translation”</p>
<p>emeraldkity4: wow, nice one on 6th sense! I though dinner odd but didn’t put it together</p>
<p>American Beauty and Lost In Translation definitely! I felt like I needed a translator for LIT. Really interesting thread. I love Faulkner, always have always will. Can’t imagine anyone not getting him. I guess that’s what makes the world go round.</p>
<p>I “got” American Beauty, but thought it was dumb. Main character gets to be a three dimensional human being, everyone else is a cardboard cutout. Wife is at first given a chance to be real and sympathetic (heartbreaking scene where she sets up the open house and no one comes) but we are told not to really care about her in scene with Spacey where there’s a chance they can reconnect, but then she worries about the wine spilling–stupid shallow woman! No wonder her husband lusts after his daughter’s friend (yucchhh!!!)</p>
<p>I absolutely adore Moby Dick (wrote my masters’ thesis on it). I think you are right, Weenie–it is a book about whale hunting. Ahab’s downfall is making things mean more than they really do–the whale really was just a whale, but because he assigns malevolent intent to it, he causes ultimately the death of many innocent people. And I think that interpretation (which not everyone shares) can be useful in understanding many other contemporary situations…</p>
<p>I don’t get the popularity of Mafia movies and shows–Godfather, Sopranos, etc. I’m definitely missing something.</p>
<p>I’m with all of the American Beauty folks - I guess I “got it” - but YUCK!!!
Having 2 teenaged daughters probably affected my opinion but it totally grossed me out.
I didn’t really get “Sideways” - it did not do anything for me.
And though it’s very popular…“Desperate Housewives” .
I never used to get Bob Dylan - until my youngest D became a huge fan and I’ve been forced to listen to every recording multiple times. Now I am a convert : )</p>
<p>I don’t really get Desperate Housewives, either. I generally love cultish TV shows, and my wife watches it whenever she can, but I’m not engaged at all.</p>
<p>I never got My Dinner With Andre. Tons of my friends love love love it. I’ve tried to watch it four times and never stayed awake for the whole thing. </p>
<p>I completely didn’t get why anyone liked the movie of The Princess Diaries. (And I’m a huge Julie Andrews fan. I sort of didn’t get 10, because I didn’t believe that Dudley Moore would find Bo Derek more attractive than Julie Andrews. There’s nothing wrong with Anne Hathaway, either.) Somewhere I have a four-page screed about it that I wrote to my daughter at camp, and that she passed around her bunk, making me weirdly legendary with her camp friends. I am fully prepared to defend the proposition that it’s one of the worst movies of all time.</p>
<p>I don’t get Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, or any of the current crop of Swedish singer-songwriters pretending they can write lyrics in English. I also don’t get most heavy metal (post Led Zeppelin - AC/DC), and I especially don’t get Scandinavian heavy metal. (Maybe I don’t get Scandinavia. But I still love Ingmar Bergman. And Ingrid Bergman. And Liv Ullman.)</p>
<p>Then there’s a whole bunch of stuff I get but don’t like. Different category.</p>
<p>I was going to say My Dinner with Andre too! Just didn’t get it; thought
Andre was the biggest bore! I think I embarrassed my college friends my rolling my eyes too loudly throughout it.</p>
<p>An update–I guess I did “get” American Beauty" but I just didn’t get it!!</p>
<p>Funny how you like/get Seinfeld or you don’t. I would come home from work, having been very taxed mentally, and laugh out loud at Seinfeld because I didn’t have to think, because it was silly. I didn’t always get the point, but it made me laugh. I guess I could relate to some of the “topics.” I did meet people like the “soup” nazi." And the whole muffin top thing, I used to wonder why I couldn’t just get a muffin top! I found it intriuging that one could get a whole 30 minutes out of the most mundane or “nothing” topics. And to this day, I can remember the episode where Jerry could not remember the girlfriend’s name that rhymed with a body part. And I can remember to body part; what WAS her name, anyway?</p>
<p>The movie “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”</p>
<p>I think Ellen Burstyn received a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the lead character.</p>
<p>I never did “get it.”</p>
<p>I second: American Beauty and Seinfeld.</p>
<p>I demur: Joyce, Faulkner, Melville. I love their sentences, sound, cadences.</p>
<p>I adore poetry. Probably my favorite thing. Am a poet and spend my life teaching the nature of metaphor to literalists (literature and mythology – hence my name). Mathmom and astrophysicsmom: my dream job would be to teach humanities at MIT. After reading Richard Feynman’s books I know my efforts wouldn’t be much appreciated, but maybe your creative mathy thinking style would rub off on me a bit. </p>
<p>Einstein had both science and metaphor to think thought experiments that created relativity theory.</p>
<p>“An update–I guess I did “get” American Beauty” but I just didn’t get it!!"</p>
<p>I’m with you sunnyflorida!!!</p>
<p>I also have to agree with ebeeee and sax–I did not get “Lost in Translation.” It’s funny because both of those movies came highly recommended by my son. Different strokes, I guess!</p>
<p>sunnyflorida: answer: Dolores :)</p>
<p>Seinfeld cracks me up</p>
<p>Lost in Translation was a gno movie. When it was over we just all looked at each other and burst out laughing. The dinner conversation was basically “what the…?”</p>