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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: cutout on December 08, 2012, 01:05:08 PM
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In terms of really liking something and quickly being embarrassed by it, Ricky Gervais is the biggest. I remember when the Office UK came out and I was thinking, "This guy is a genius and I'll be liking his work for a very long time." Then everyone got whiplash by how unbearable he actually seemed.
Runners Up:
-The Oatmeal webcomic
-Thought Catalog
-Gawker
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Lenny Kravitz? Really liked the first record, until I heard the second one, and then I hated them both. Almost irrationally.
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Smashing Pumpkins. I was all like "man, this music kicks ass!" Then Billy's vocals came in and I was like "makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop!"
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The shrimp in cream sauce at Noodles on 28th in Manhattan when I had the epiphany that there was mayonnaise in the sauce. I had been eating that dish for years.
The epiphany came when I was chewing a mouthful of it. I almost ran out of the restaurant and spat it it out on the sidewalk.
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Ally McBeal. Dexter (though now I'm back to liking it!). The Bush Administration's Response to 9/11. The Obama Administration's Response to the Bush Administration's Response to 9/11.
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Progressive rock.
When I was a teenager, I was enthralled with it. Now, I can't stand to listen to it.
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Murphy's Law (the band, not the principle), though there were 20 years in between where I didn't listen to them or think about them at all. American Beauty and the work of Sam Mendes in general. More recently, the movie Argo.
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American Beauty is a good one. I loved it at the theater. Then 48hrs later I was surprised to hear myself telling a friend it was hokey simplistic dink of a movie. I'm fickle!
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American Beauty is a good one. I loved it at the theater. Then 48hrs later I was surprised to hear myself telling a friend it was hokey simplistic dink of a movie. I'm fickle!
Me too.
"Up in the Air" I thought was great when I was watching it, but by the time the credits finished I hated it.
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While watching Lost in Translation, I thought it was a quirky, amiable movie. Within 45 minutes of leaving the theater I was thinking, "Wait--actually, that was kind of fucked up." Never saw Sophia Coppola's next movie, the Marie Antoinette one, but the reviews pretty much confirmed my second thoughts--that this is a privileged hip-ironic airhead who really doesn't know much about anything.
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In the theater I thought Batman Dark Knight Rises was great. I just rewatched it at home and thought it stunk.
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In terms of really liking something and quickly being embarrassed by it, Ricky Gervais is the biggest. I remember when the Office UK came out and I was thinking, "This guy is a genius and I'll be liking his work for a very long time." Then everyone got whiplash by how unbearable he actually seemed.
Runners Up:
-The Oatmeal webcomic
-Thought Catalog
-Gawker
These are great choices. For a while I just assumed Ricky Gervais was doing a bit. Nope. And The Oatmeal, ugh.
This happens a lot with music. I remember listening to the first "Clap your hands say yeah" album once and I thought it was great. By the second spin it was making me retch--identifying musical references can be fun but it gets old.
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Mike Myers. I found him pretty charming on a lot of his SNL stuff (Wayne's World, Sprockets, Simon the "drawrings" kid) ... although Linda Richman was an early warning of the Garbage Geyser that his career would eventually become. I liked the first Austin Powers. I think I even kinda liked the first Wayne's World movie.
And then came Shrek. Oh, how I hated Shrek. I like a good animated/kid's movie if it's got some good plotting ... or if it embodies something of the fun/inquisitive side of childhood. But that movie was such a crapfest of quasi-hip wink-wink pop culture allusions ... Grossed me out. And Myer's dumb scottish accent.
... and when I saw the posters for Myer's Cat in the Hat movie, I didn't even want to live in the same universe where such a thing could exist.
A while back, the library had a DVD of So I Married an Axe Murderer available for checkout ... in retrospect, A lot of Myer's strange comedic pathology was evident early on ... the weird need to shoehorn in irrelevant jokes about Canada, hockey, silly UK accents, etcetera ...
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Austin Powers in Goldmember is one of the least essential films ever made.
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I'm surprised no one's mentioned Vice or Huffington Post yet. "Hmm, a new media website... interesting format, some intriguing headlines here... oh, oh wow, this is awful, just awful, no..."
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Jokes about 'binders', circa October 2012, had a pretty quick shelf-life in terms of being funny for me. Literally, 2 or 3 minutes of value. I'm intolerant!
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Jimmy Page, when I found out how massive of a creep he is.
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The Nerdist. Mainly due to the other two.
How Did This Get Made? I think it was the cross-yelling.
Kevin Pollak's Chat Show Within a few viewings I thought it was a decent talk show with interesing character actors/comedians to show run by our generation's Fred Travalena
the original Ricky Gervais Podcast: loved it then hated it within a few episodes
Going back a few years I really liked Sigur Ros when they did "Ageist Bugum" (that's what that's called, right?) but couldn't take anything else they did afterward.
Radiohead- when they put out "Amnesiac"- within 48 hour after hearing it my opinion went from 'this is great' to 'this whole band might be shit'
Judd Apatow.
Inglorious Bastards - loved it seeing it on the big screen, hated it upon rewatching it on dvd. except for Fassbender's scene.
Something I wrote on another thread reminded me...Pegg/Frost. Loved Shaun of the Dead. Then I really HATED Hot Fuzz (apparently the only person on Earth who did) and caused me to re-evaluate SotD as well. Woefully misuses some really talented comedic actors like Dylan Moran and Peter Serafinowicz while pushing Man-child gamer slobs who have relationship issues as heroes. Fuck that and them. I do like Simon Pegg in other things, just never in his partnership with Edgar Wright or Nick Frost.
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More recently, the movie Argo.
Good example.
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Anybody mention Pete Townshend yet?
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AMC's The Killing.
The first couple episodes, I liked the slow, deliberate pacing. I liked the story, and the casting of the victim's family. After I while, I turned and saw that the slow, deliberate pacing was because whoever created the show had no idea where to take or how to get there. And don't even get me started on the detective who, instead of wearing a raincoat in the constant rain, wears a cloth hoodie. What?! Or that the police department of a major city (f*ckin' Seattle!!), when faced with a high publicity murder case with ties to the mayor's office, would keep two and only two cops on the case. One--a lady who was not only supposed to be retired but was involved in a custody dispute with her ex. And the other, a ex-junkie transfer from narcotics who had never worked on a murder case.
Anything else you got, AMC, I aint' buying.
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AMC's The Killing.
The first couple episodes, I liked the slow, deliberate pacing. I liked the story, and the casting of the victim's family. After I while, I turned and saw that the slow, deliberate pacing was because whoever created the show had no idea where to take or how to get there. And don't even get me started on the detective who, instead of wearing a raincoat in the constant rain, wears a cloth hoodie. What?! Or that the police department of a major city (f*ckin' Seattle!!), when faced with a high publicity murder case with ties to the mayor's office, would keep two and only two cops on the case. One--a lady who was not only supposed to be retired but was involved in a custody dispute with her ex. And the other, a ex-junkie transfer from narcotics who had never worked on a murder case.
Anything else you got, AMC, I aint' buying.
Same here. You totally nailed it.
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AMC's The Killing.
After I while, I turned and saw that the slow, deliberate pacing was because whoever created the show had no idea where to take or how to get there.
That's not true. It's an adaptation. Unless they complete rewrote the script of the original series, they knew exactly where they were going. The original was very good, I thought.
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The fastest I've ever flip-flopped in that way was probably with the Tobey Maguire film, Wonder Boys. I absolutely loved it while watching it, immediately emailed two of my long-distance bros that they needed to see it, and then retracted my recommendation 24 hours later. It's been a very long time since I saw it, so I don't recall what I ended up disliking about it... I just remember being very embarrassed I'd raved so much about the thing just a day earlier. I now no longer rate/recommend anything without sleeping on it first.
My wife and I were huge Simpsons fans through the first six seasons. But there was this really terrible episode in Season 7 which broke the spell. It was like smelling salts. We both simultaneously realized that we no longer liked the show (it had already been getting bad- we just hadn't processed it until then), and I don't think either of us has watched a single episode of it since. And whenever I happen to see a clip from a recent show it usually makes my skin crawl so much it colors my memory of the seasons I liked.
Vanilla Ice! I remember my girlfriend and I jamming to Ice Ice Baby in the car and being stoked whenever the video came on. But of course that didn't last long. As a sad postscript, about a year or two after he broke, my brother and I visited my uncle in LA, who was a connected music industry executive at the time. He took us to the offices of all these studios and labels, and people would shower me and my brother in free CDs (with the little notch on the jewel box so you couldn't sell 'em). When were at the SBK Records office, they opened up this cabinet full of every CD in their catalog, and by brother and I both took one of everything but the Vanilla Ice CDs. The ladies who opened the cabinet were hovering and noticed we didn't go for the Ice discs. They both tried enticing us to take them, but we politely refused. They both seemed pretty crestfallen that they couldn't even unload these things for free on a couple of jerk kids from the Midwest.
I agree with lots of things/people mentioned by others in the thread, but those were mostly longer transitions.
Also, I'm two episodes deep in Season 6 of Dexter now, and I'm beginning to wonder if this show has always been bad or has just outstayed its welcome. I remember really enjoying it before, but watching it now almost seems like a chore... I probably should stop I guess.
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Judd Apatow.
Don't see This is 40. Oof.
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Homeland.
Also, sex.
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crestfallen
LOL
I've noticed, for me, with any new, novel form of entertainment (like an internet thing or something British) I'll have a 'honeymoon phase' where I can't get enough of it, but after the initial thrill wears off and I can assess the work on its merit, I usually find it much less interesting and in some cases dislike it. My best explanation for it happens is your brain is confused by something it's never encountered before and takes time sorting it out. The razzle-dazzle effect. I've also noticed that the intensity in which something new hits is paralleled by how fast it falls.
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The term "middlebrow." I loved it when I was applying it to Andrew Lloyd Webber, then I started hating it when it was applied to things I liked, like Slate. So unfair!
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Hey! You just saw me use that word in the "General Movie Thread" didn't you?! That smarts, buffcoat.
I think the fastest I've gone from strongly liking to disliking something is every single time I've heard Tom make fun of something I like.
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Hey! You just saw me use that word in the "General Movie Thread" didn't you?! That smarts, buffcoat.
I think the fastest I've gone from strongly liking to disliking something is every single time I've heard Tom make fun of something I like.
You just *reminded* me of it, Bryan. I saw someone call Slate "middlebrow" on miserable conservative attorney Ann Althouse's site the other day, and I was all like, "Hey, you can't do that!"