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

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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!

[Purple Aki]

Jimmy Page, when I found out how massive of a creep he is.

[Crusherkc]

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.

[Chris L]

More recently, the movie Argo.

Good example.

[Purple Aki]

Anybody mention Pete Townshend yet?

[gravy boat]

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.

[Big Plastic Head]

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.

[Purple Aki]

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.

[Gleepglop]

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.

[Kormodd]

Homeland.

Also, sex.

[YuriDedman]

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.

[buffcoat]

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!

[Bryan]

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.

[buffcoat]

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!"