Movies & TV Shows You Just Don't Get

I’ll nominate The Godfather I and II. Saw parts of it. Nothing. Didn’t get it at all. Francis Ford Coppala is a genius and this was, supposedly, his masterpiece but I just didn’t get it. I didn’t watch much. Maybe I didn’t give it a chance.

As for TC Shows, I swear to God, I’ve watched a few Seinfelds and didn’t laugh once. I tried to laugh. I wanted to laugh. Everyone else loves it. I found it boring. A show about nothing, you can say that again!

I don’t get threads about nothing. Oh wait…

Agree. I never saw the attraction.

You probably should have titled the thread “Quality Movies…” Because I don’t get why anybody would be caught up in the time suck that is Keeping Up With the Kardashians and similar “reality” shows.

Other TV shows on my list:

Girls
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Glee

Movies:

Avatar
Twilight (and its successors)
Titanic (spoiler alert - the boat sank)
Thelma and Louise (and any other Ridley Scott movie)

“Twilight (and its successors)”
So much for quality. :wink:

For me, it is The Office.

And Will Farrell movies.

And Nicholas Cage in general.

Yup, The Office and Seinfeld. Saw an episode of each, really thought it was a waste of time.

Did like the first few seasons of both Breaking Bad & Glee, though.

I actually liked the first season of Glee as well. It was after that that is just jumped the shark. It reminds me of an interview I once saw with Hayden Panettiere where she she said that soooo many people come up to her and say, “The first season of Heroes was so good.” dot dot dot

@skieurope OMG Avatar! True story…everyone and their brother was raving (RAVING!) about Avatar! 3, 4, 5 times they’d seen it…couldn’t get enough! A “must see” on the big screen…in 3D…you’ll go nuts it’s SOOOOOOO amazing!! These are my highly intellectual friends I’m talking about here.

Long story short (not likely!), literally it’s going to come out on video the very next day, and it is only playing on one screen, 50 miles from home, in 3D (exactly as I had been instructed to see this “must see” out of this world masterpiece) - so I get it together, I won’t lie, I was a bit excited to FINALLY have the time to go (it had been a very busy season at work)…and as I’m driving the 50 miles, it starts raining, and then raining harder, and then POURING! Pounding rain so loud I couldn’t hear my music…and I’m inching up the freeway (only 10 of the 50 miles to go…almost there) - and I make it! And I am now really pumped to see this movie (I like 3D), I mean I’d driven 50 miles in the pounding rain to get there! And I settle in. And…and…and…what? WHAT??? Each and every time I thought it was over, it seemed to start again…WHAT??? The lousiest…what was that 7, 8, 19 hours long??? I honestly thought my “highly intellectual friends” had lost their minds.

The best part of the movie was that the rain storm was over as I drove home!

OK I’ll bite. Just don’t get most of the reality tv shows, especially ones like the Kardashians. Just seems to be an opportunity for people to oogle them, which is kinda creepy.

Any movie or TV show that features human on human violence. I won’t watch it and don’t understand why anybody would.

Kevin Costner in anything. He can’t act.

“As Good As It Gets.” Everybody raved about that movie. My friends and I lasted about ten minutes before we walked out of the theater.

“Me Before You”

I hated very single thing about the movie (and book -I read it as a summer beach read book for a book club, and hated it, then hated it yet again when the book club went to see the movie).

And I am a person who can find something to enjoy about almost any movie.

La La Land. Overhyped.

Silence of the Lambs. Cannot.Stand.This.Movie. How big was that basement, anyway?

@skieurope You didn’t like Gladiator, American Gangster, Black Hawk Down, or The Martian? Those are all Ridley Scott films I enjoyed.

agree- do not get violent movies. At.all.

The Big Bang Theory.

The Office. I just do not understand why people find it funny. shrug

A few years back there was a movie called “The Artist” that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. I went to see it after it won because I had seen, and really liked, many of the other nominees for that year. To this day when I think about this movie, the phrase “Seriously?” screams in my head.

The movie “Adaptation”.

For about a decade, my damning review on Netflix was rated as the “most helpful”. I count that as one of the best public goods I’ve done for humanity, excoriating that stinker of a movie.

“Meta” my butt…

Some stupid movie in Tokyo with Scarlett Johannsen and Bill Murray…is that his name? It was ridiculous.
I hated “Sideways”.

Lost in Translation

I don’t think Modern Family is funny.