the fastest you've ever gone from strongly liking to disliking something

[cutout]

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

[dave from knoxville]

Lenny Kravitz? Really liked the first record, until I heard the second one, and then I hated them both. Almost irrationally.

[BadGuyZero]

Smashing Pumpkins. I was all like "man, this music kicks ass!" Then Billy's vocals came in and I was like "makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop!"

[JonFromMaplewood]

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.

[Mr. Spacely]

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.

[nec13]

Progressive rock.

When I was a teenager, I was enthralled with it. Now, I can't stand to listen to it.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

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.

[cutout]

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!

[not that clay]

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.

[cavorting with nudists]

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.

[dontuknowimloko?]

In the theater I thought Batman Dark Knight Rises was great. I just rewatched it at home and thought it stunk.

[yesno]

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.

[daveB from Oakland]

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 ...

[buffcoat]

Austin Powers in Goldmember is one of the least essential films ever made.

[cutout]

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..."