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    Stuff You Just Don't Get.

    Inspired by the funniest scenes thread, are there any movies (or TV shows) that everyone bangs on about endlessly, but you just don't have any love for?

    I'm going to come out of some sort of cinematic closet here and say, The Big Lebowski. Literally everyone I know thinks it some sort of cinematic and comedy masterpiece, but I've tried to watch it 4 or 5 times and never got past the 40th minute. Bored me to fucking tears, man. I just don't understand the love.

    As for TV, I have tried to grasp what's funny about a gangly bloke gurning and shouting at people and hitting cars with bits of tree, but I don't. Fawlty Towers just isn't very funny. I'm not much of a fan of slapstick or farce anyway, and FT just seemed like a particularly depressing example of the genre. To me it's in the same pot as Keeping Up Appearances and One Foot in the Grave.

    SO there you go, I've laid myself bare. Have at it.

    #2
    Were you worried about not meeting your wrongness quota or something?

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      #3
      Although I'm a fan of both Fawlty Towers and Big Lebowski, I totally get where hobbes is coming from on having a blind spot for things other people rave about.

      My big three are Blade Runner, Seinfeld and League of Gentlemen: millions of people love those, but their appeal has completely passed me by.

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        #4
        Were you worried about not meeting your wrongness quota or something?
        Hah. I knew you'd be triggered by that.

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          #5
          Fawlty Towers 'in the same pot' as OFITG and KUA?

          I don't know what manner of misshapen kitchenware from a bug-eyed conman from Wrongchester you've been buying over the years, but...(cont'd page 138)

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            #6
            I'm with Blameless on all three of Blade Runner, Seinfeld and League of Gentlemen.

            I'll also throw in - to make sure that OTF's blood pressure goes through the roof - Alan Partridge. I mean, I understand the point of it and what it skewers. I just don't find it funny or watchable.

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              #7
              This is much more entertaining than bruno's schtick

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                #8
                Fawlty Towers 'in the same pot' as OFITG and KUA?
                I mean in the sense that people I know and respect like them and say they're brilliant. And I imagine that there must be some fundamental thing I'm missing, so I try watching them again to figure out what it is. And then there isn't. They are exactly what they appear to be, fairly unfunny sit-coms.
                I'm not saying Fawlty Towers is the worst thing in the world or anything. Just that from the adulation it receives I'd expect something with more dimensions than an ongoing gag about racially abusing a European.

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                  #9
                  Withnail and I. I've tried to watch it three or four times but given up underwhelmed. Some of the people I originally watched it with who were similarly unimpressed have also since had another go and now consider it a classic.

                  I'm willing to believe I'll come across it one day and change my mind but it hasn't happened yet.
                  Last edited by Ray de Galles; 29-03-2018, 15:44.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by hobbes View Post
                    To me it's in the same pot as Keeping Up Appearances and One Foot in the Grave.

                    Originally posted by hobbes View Post
                    I mean in the sense that people I know and respect like them and say they're brilliant.
                    I'm far more shocked by the idea that there are people who think KUA and OFITG are brilliant than someone not liking Fawlty Towers (which I love, but can understand not being everyone's cup of tea).

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                      #11
                      Any of these seemingly endless American drama series people binge watch in perpetuity.

                      I just don't have the attention sp... ooh, a squirrel!

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                        Any of these seemingly endless American drama series people binge watch in perpetuity.

                        I just don't have the attention sp... ooh, a squirrel!
                        +1

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                          #13
                          Seconded on Withnail & I. Apart from the scene with the jag and "All Along The Watchtower".

                          I can see what hobbes means about "The Big Lebowski". I enjoyed it but it's no classic. It does, however, inspire my lifestyle in the summer holidays.

                          On my list would be

                          Film
                          2001 - A Space Odyssey
                          Clockwork Orange

                          TV
                          The new Dr Whos
                          Little Britain
                          The League Of Gentlemen

                          The last two aren't a huge surprise as I am not a fan of the grotesque but what is surprising is how much I enjoyed "Inside No. 9".

                          I have to say that I am not as slavishly devoted to Monty Python as many. "Life OF Brian" isn't a classic to me and the TV series was bitty to me. Perhaps it is because I heard so much of the stuff quoted to me by people before I saw both. Having said that, some of the films are ace.

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                            #14
                            Anything with Simon Pegg and his fat friend in it.

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                              #15
                              Porridge is much better than Fawlty Towers.

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                                #16
                                Horror movies, especially the torture porn ones. Why?

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                                  #17
                                  Don’t mind a horror if decent, but Saw/Hostel type stuff, don’t get it.

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                                    #18
                                    The second series of The Trip. The first one had a fairly amusing thread running through it of Coogan being a self-obsessed serial shagger, but what I saw of the second series (and I didn't persevere with it all the way through) was just two blokes doing impressions, the vast majority of which meant absolutely nothing to me as I'd either no idea who the person was that they were impersonating, or hadn't seen the film from which the impression came. I didn't bother watching the third series.

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                                      #19
                                      One of my early Creative Directors used to rave and rave and rave about Withnail & I. He finally loaned me a VHS cassette. L and I just stared at it for two hours, trying to find some semblance of...anything. Mirth, humour, insight. God knows what. "We've gone on holiday by mistake." Yeah...okay ... I guess.

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                                        #20
                                        I keep meaning to give Withnail & I another look. I thought it was hilarious on it's release. It's all about character rather than plot isn't it? Everyone is pitch perfect, not just the leads. I mean I still remember the dope dealer, because one night in 1970 he banged on our door when we had the stereo on high. "Music man..." he said, eyeballs like gobstoppers and granola in his beard. "Yes." I offered. "But like... music... man." "OK" I replied and closed the door. It was him in the movie, to the life.

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                                          #21
                                          Revisited to great effect in Wayne's World.

                                          I had to beat them to death with their own shoes.

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                                            #22
                                            Grease, The Lost Boys, Dirty Dancing.

                                            All very popular with people my age, all leave me utterly cold.

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                                              #23
                                              Another vote for Withnail & I
                                              Also:
                                              Stranger Things
                                              Mr Robot
                                              Arrested Development
                                              Updated Dr Who
                                              South Park
                                              Interstellar
                                              The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
                                              The 'Marvel Cinematic Universe'
                                              Tika-Taka

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
                                                Don’t mind a horror if decent, but Saw/Hostel type stuff, don’t get it.
                                                Same

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                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View Post
                                                  I have to say that I am not as slavishly devoted to Monty Python as many. "Life OF Brian" isn't a classic to me and the TV series was bitty to me. Perhaps it is because I heard so much of the stuff quoted to me by people before I saw both. Having said that, some of the films are ace.
                                                  This. It was so heavily quoted at school it became a cliche. On the occasions I've watched it more recently the parts I've enjoyed the most have been Terry Gilliam's cartoons.

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