Films/TV Shows that others love and you hate.

[Sulkdodds]

Scrubs, possibly?

 

[Sparta]

Have you interviewed the Coen brothers and asked them what the point of their movie was?

No i haven't, but if you read any of their interviews in various places around the internet or magazines, you'll find the interviewers talking about how they use various different themes to give their films more depth or make a satire out of it. Take the Big Lebowski. Its a noir film disguised as a stoner comedy. Barton Fink is a satire about Hollywood filmmaking, amongst other things and as for Fargo... well i have no idea what their theme for Fargo was but it still pretty good.

Anyway, when it comes to No Country For Old Men, the themes were man's inherent violent nature and fate. Think about it. Chigurh will stop at nothing to kill Llelwynn because he stole the 2 million dollars. Even if he gives it back, Chigurh is still going to kill him based on principle alone. Not to mention Chigurh just kills anybody he can based on the flip of a coin, implying it isn't him or decides but fate. Then there's Tommy Lee Jones's bit in the film, which is used mainly to establish that mankind hasn't changed and gotten worse, we've just always been violent mother****ers for no apparent reason.

Also, Cormac McCarthy wrote No Country For Old Men along with The Road and Blood Meridian. The Road and Blood Meridian (particularly Blood Meridian) also explore the themes of fate and mans violent nature, so yeah, knowing that and that the film is a very faithful adaptation of the book then its pretty obvious conclusion to make that that was the point of the film. Not necessarily to tell the story of drug money being stolen, and the ensuing chase, but to explore the themes of violence and fate within that story.

I can see how people miss that, considering the vast majority of films don't explore themes. Even if some do, they dont do it with anywhere as near as much subtlety as No Country For Old Men.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Indeed. And anyway, who cares about the auters? The themes of the film exist in the film.

 

[Yorick]

I ****ing hate Blade Runner.

YEAH I SAID IT.

 

[Krynn72]

The show House.

 

[stintage]

Grays Anatomy
I am legend
Family Guy
star wars
And pretty much anything on tv nowdays(with the exception of doctor who)

 

[Smoke]

Friends.

 

[Lucid]

Doctor Who on Sci-Fi, it's so incredibly cheesy.

 

[stemot]

Any american sitcom except Friends and Sienfeld

 

[dfc05]

Napoleon Dynamite

I got bored one night and watched that by myself, and I didn't see anything entertaining about it. I heard that you need to watch it with other people for it to be enjoyable, but I never bothered.

As for No Country for Old Men, I just started reading it (listening to the audiobook actually) and I feel like the themes come out a little clearer in the novel than in the movie.

 

[Gray Fox]

Oh yeah Napoleon Dynamite.

 

[French Ninja]

Oh, I also hate Friends.
And all shows with laughtracks.

 

[Krynn72]

Oh yeah Napoleon Dynamite.

Nobody liked Napoleon Dynamite, so that movie doesnt qualify for this thread.

But I liked it, so shut up. :arms:

 

[Avoidist]

Kill Bill.

 

[Thunderclap]

Seconded, Avoidist. I absolutely despised those films.

 

[Leto]

TV:
Desperate Housewives (ffs it's a soap opera!)
Two and a half men (very meh)
House (I really liked it before, now it's becoming tedious)

Movies:
Catwoman (I wanted to scratch out my eyes)
Enchanted (Sappy as hell)
and I can't think of any others, maybe I blocked them from my memory to avoid the trauma.

 

[Que-Ever]

Nobody liked Napoleon Dynamite, so that movie doesnt qualify for this thread.

But I liked it, so shut up. :arms:

I liked it OvO

 

[VirusType2]

I loved Napoleon Dynamite.

I can't understand why people like American Idol or Lost

American Idol is amateur singing. How is that so popular. EH. can't stand it

And Lost plays out like some Nickelodeon show.