Cultural Amnesty Thread.

[brucespanner]

Along the same lines as the thread on the dark side.

 

What Music, Film, Television, Books and so forth do you cringe at when people say it's great?

 

Dark Side of the Moon.

I think it's one of the most overrated albums ever made. The band, to me, seem like cunts, I just don't get it! I've listened to it a fair few times, me old man is a fan, and it just seems like twaddle and noodling for personal gratification.

 

The Soprano's.

I watched the first few seasons and like it, to a degree, but thought it became very tired and went over the same ground quite a lot.

 

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

They've released the same album consistently over the past ten years.

 

Lord of the Rings.

Just Dwarf's wandering around for nine fucking hours whilst things explode.

 

There's probably plenty more that'll come to me as the thread develops, but I'll leave it to you to jog my memory.

[Anubis]

The Davinci Code.

 

One dimensional characters and direlogue.

[VladimirIlyich]

I don't get why people like The Sons of Anarchy,it looks ridiculous to me.

[Anny Road]

Jimi Hendrix. Irritating noise.

Bowie. Whining homosexual from mars.

[brucespanner]

The Davinci Code.

 

One dimensional characters and direlogue.

 

I was going to put that down on my list but I thought it was an easy target. The story is shocking, and stolen, there is no character development, the dialogue is stodgy at best and it's sold a fuck load!

 

I just don't get it, am I missing something?

[brucespanner]

Jimi Hendrix. Irritating noise.

Bowie. Whining homosexual from mars.

 

I never got Bowie either. He always stuck me as an opportunist and a chancer, not the great renaissance man he positioned himself as.

[Lee909]

This thread makes me angry

[Bobby Hundreds]

Friends - The fact it is so monumentally popular proves the fact that the vast majority of humanity really is thick as pig shit and we are being dragged into the future by the select few. Same goes for big brother and reality TV and celebrity worship for all those that love it, I hate you, I hate you so bad.

 

Look at the music charts..... I hate you, you make this world fucking awful.

 

ahhhhhh

[Jairzinho]

Bob Dylan.

[Trumo]

Lost In Translation. The way people go on about it is as if it's landmark cinema for the 21st century. Nothing fucking happens for two hours.

 

There is another MASSIVE one that would certainly qualify for amnesty in my view, but I very much doubt that certain forumites would be prepared to let it go.

[brucespanner]

Bob Dylan.

 

Can I ask why?

 

Dylan's my hero but I hear it all the time that people don't like him.

[Jairzinho]

Can I ask why?

 

Dylan's my hero but I hear it all the time that people don't like him.

 

He just sounds shit.

 

Like a poor man's Sixto Rodriguez.

[brucespanner]

He just sounds shit.

 

Like a poor man's Sixto Rodriguez.

 

Fair do's.

 

I think Rodriguez is mythologised more than listened to nowadays though, talented nonetheless.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Nirvana.

 

I've never say this in a none amnesty thread as I know I'd get negged to fuck.

They totally passed me by as a youth and when I try and listen as an adult I just think it's generic angsty nonsense.

 

I used to be a bit of a "goth/rocker" whatever it was back in the day and had to pretend to like them so the pasty faced grundgies wouldn't disown me but I never really got it.

[Jairzinho]

Fair do's.

 

I think Rodriguez is mythologised more than listened to nowadays though, talented nonetheless.

 

I must stress I'm no fan of Sixto either.

 

I can appreciate what both have done away from music, or rather, through it. But ultimately as an auditory experience its just not for me.

[Jairzinho]

Nirvana.

 

I've never say this in a none amnesty thread as I know I'd get negged to fuck.

They totally passed me by as a youth and when I try and listen as an adult I just think it's generic angsty nonsense.

 

I used to be a bit of a "goth/rocker" whatever it was back in the day and had to pretend to like them so the pasty faced grundgies wouldn't disown me but I never really got it.

 

Excellent one this.

 

Spent a year liking them when I must have been about 14. It was just the done thing. We smoked weed and listened to Nirvana. Because we were cool.

 

Never had a really shit haircut thankfully.

[Sugar Ape]

I fucking hate top gear and I think all the Rocky films are shit. * awaits explosion *

[brucespanner]

I fucking hate top gear and I think all the Rocky films are shit. * awaits explosion *

 

I'm with you Rape, apart from the first one which I thought was decent at best.

[PestiRed]

Everything Paul McCartney has ever done since the Beatles split up

 

Citizen Kane - possibly it was ground-breaking at the time but now it's shit & no-one cares what Rosebud was. Anyway Gone with the Wind was made earlier & it's better

 

Modern jazz - if it's about the notes that they don't play, then why don't they shut the fuck up

 

Blade Runner - sorry, don't get it & don't believe it's that deep unless you're stoned. Oh & throw 2001: A Space Odyssey into the same category

 

The Scream by Munch - over-rated cartoon

 

Gregorian chanting - learn an instrument

 

Romeo & Juliet - Two 13 year olds think they're the only people who've ever been in love and top themselves in a teenage tantrum. Darwinism in action

[Johnny Cougar]

Phil Collins. Everything he has ever thought, said or done has been shit. SHIT.

Alan Carr. Just fucking die.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Oooh some real controversy here.

[Pony Princess]

I'm so mad about some of the stuff in this thread but I know I can't neg. Ffffuuuuuuuuccckkkk!

[moof]

I'm so mad about some of the stuff in this thread but I know I can't neg. Ffffuuuuuuuuccckkkk!

 

This.

[Red Phoenix]

Lord of the Rings.

Just Dwarf's wandering around for nine fucking hours whilst things explode.

 

The Silmarillion is his best work, think it's several times better than the LOTR, and there's no Hobbits either. It's easily the most epic thing I've ever read, and I've no clue at all why it's hardly ever mentioned. If they made a film of that they'd have a serious job on their hands.

 

I'm going for a genre : Steampunk. Have got no clue at all what the point in it is, it does my head in. Cyberpunk = yes. Steampunk = no.

[Tom R]

Amnesty my arse. I'm on a neg mission here.