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.
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.
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