Name a book, movie, or tv show that everyone just loved, but you think is overrated.

All the movies with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan - just didn't love them - I love several movies with Tom Hanks & loved Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, so it is not the actors. Really don't love Nacho Libre or Napoleon Dynamite either. My daughter is really loving the Bachelor/Bachelorette, and she asked me to watch the most recent season with her. Spent every Monday night biting my tongue to keep from saying "these are not quality people" and "this isn't going to end well" every episode.
 
Yes, I even hate the commercials for the Bachelor/Bachelorette.

Also, any trashy reality tv. The Real Housewives, nope! I don't get it.

I know there are a ton more.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians, was another one.

Aside from like the Voice, American Idol or Survivor I don't do reality TV since the Real World, LOL! Season 3. I don't even watch American Idol or Survivor anymore.

stephc777 said:
All the movies with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan - just didn't love them - I love several movies with Tom Hanks & loved Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, so it is not the actors. Really don't love Nacho Libre or Napoleon Dynamite either. My daughter is really loving the Bachelor/Bachelorette, and she asked me to watch the most recent season with her. Spent every Monday night biting my tongue to keep from saying "these are not quality people" and "this isn't going to end well" every episode.
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Most of the things you all are mentioning I love. Schitt's Creek, The Walking Dead (especially Daryl), Gone Girl, etc. etc. lol

Book: "I am Thinking of Ending Things" I don't know if everyone loved this book, but Netflix made a movie based on it. I hated it. Gave it a 1 on Goodreads which I never do.

Show: Supernatural. I don't know if I hated it, but I tried to watch it many years ago when I worked nights at work. Demon stuff scares me so watching it alone at night and then needing to walk around by myself did not work.

Movie: The Princess Bride. I just don't like movies like this. lol
 
I liked the second half of Gone Girl...the first half was sooooo boring.

I didn't care for A Star is Born. It just didn't wow me.
 
joelsgirl said:
I hate Elf. So. Much. And every Christmas our neighbors invite us over to watch it and it's torture for me every time.

I hated the book, A Gentleman in Moscow. I read to the end because I have to know how a story ends, but it was sooooo slow and boring to me.

My brother raved about Ozark, and I love Jason Bateman, but I hated that show so much.

I could not love Napoleon Dynamite or Nacho Libre. I love to laugh, but neither of these shows did it for me.
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A Gentleman in Moscow was on my to be read list. Sorry to hear it was slow.

You poor dear about Elf. That does sound like torture.
 
stephc777 said:
All the movies with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan - just didn't love them - I love several movies with Tom Hanks & loved Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, so it is not the actors. Really don't love Nacho Libre or Napoleon Dynamite either. My daughter is really loving the Bachelor/Bachelorette, and she asked me to watch the most recent season with her. Spent every Monday night biting my tongue to keep from saying "these are not quality people" and "this isn't going to end well" every episode.
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I do not enjoy Bachelor/Bachelorette type shows either.
 
nesser1981 said:
Outlander for me too. I tried to read the books, watched the first season or two of the show. Just couldn't do it. I find her super annoying and I'm not crazy about Jamie either.
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Never have I ever watched Outlander or read the books. They are books too right? I think so. See I don't even know.
 
I tend to just re-watch old favourites. I've seen Gilmore Girls several times through, and I'm currently re-watching Bones. Maybe it's because I rarely have actual time to watch TV, so I want to enjoy it when I do. The only current TV show I watch is Grey's... I've got 17 years invested so feel like I need to finish it, even though it's pretty painful to watch now. I do watch Outlander, but the show is not nearly as good as the books. (I just like "watching" Jamie! lol) I've been enjoying Handmaid's Tale too, even though I can't stand Margaret Atwood as an author (and seriously hated the book!)

Not into reality shows, zombie shows, etc. Actually, I have Crave now, so I'm getting back into some older series that I'd never seen before, like Sopranos.
 
Leablahblah said:
It's just a single movie with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper ;)
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There's actually 4...
1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason
1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
and the latest with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
 
Books-didn't like the Twilight Series. Read the first one and was done. Also read the first of the Game of Thrones novel and didn't like it either. Way too many people to keep up with. Heard rave reviews of the book, "The Dry". I found it really long and tedious. It's been made into a movie for some reason. I also hated The Handmaid's Tale.

Movies/Shows: I've never watched The Walking Dead and have no desire to do so. Not a fan of the zombie genre. The Office is fine, but I've never watched it all the way through. Same with Parks and Rec. I just prefer dramas I think.

I'm surprised so many of you didn't like the Outlander series. I read up through Drums of Autumn years ago and just didn't pick up the later books because her books are way too descriptive about minutiae. I started watching the series during the pandemic though and absolutely loved it. I've watched it through 3 times already. I always loved the characters of Jamie and Claire though, although I could do with less graphic torture type scenes though. I can't watch those. This is one instance where I think the shows are better than the books because you don't have to wade through all the detail and you get to look at Jamie!
 
carrie1977 said:
I had no idea it was a remake. Might have to check this one out!
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Streisand's best days IMO were her work in the 70's. Some of the movies I really enjoyed in those years were hers including A Star Is Born. I will admit I have not watched any other version of the Star Is Born movie because to me that version is awesome.
 
I never could get into The Office or zombie/supernatural stuff either. It just doesn't click. I didn't hate Gone Girl, the movie, but I didn't love it either. Agree that the ending was meh.
 
tjscraps said:
Schitt's Creek, Brooklyn Nine Nine

Never seen anything Star Wars, don't really feel the need to
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Star Wars. Ugh. I saw the first three (first released, not first in series) as a kid. I wasn't interested in the rest. My husband made me watch them. Okay, so he didn't "make" me but I watched them with him after hearing him WHINE for weeks asking when I was going to watch them with him. I watched them. I stayed awake. I kept up with the plot. Still didn't like them exactly, but he's happy.
 
joelsgirl said:
I hate Elf. So. Much. And every Christmas our neighbors invite us over to watch it and it's torture for me every time.


I could not love Napoleon Dynamite or Nacho Libre. I love to laugh, but neither of these shows did it for me.
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Yes! Elf and Napoleon Dynamite both! I didn't even try to watch Nacho Libre.
 
Oh, just thought of another. Princess Bride. HATED it. Thought it was the most ridiculous thing every. My family liked it and bugs me about it.
 
I am an empath & suffer second-hand embarrassment when a character is being embarrassed or should be embarrassed so I have never seen more than a couple episodes of "Schitt's Creek". Other physical/slapstick comedies & adult cartoons affect me the same way (and is also the reason I don't enjoy Dana Carvey, Martin Short, or Robin Williams when he was being interviewed on TV).

I never watch horror/zombie/vampire things and have never seen any Star Wars, Star Trek, or Harry Potter movies. I've never had HBO so I've never seen any of those shows, either.

I love the "Outlander" books but the TV series is no longer interesting to me. I'm still watching it because #SamHeughan but it doesn't pack the same punch as the books anymore (or the first two seasons were so good that no further seasons can compare?!).

I tried to watch "Gilmore Girls" but the way the mom & daughter spoke to each other was so weird & off-putting to me. I also tried to watch "Dawson's Creek" but couldn't get past Pacey dating his teacher in the first season. I've seen most of "The Office" but don't think it's all that funny.

I did binge-watch "The Golden Girls" when I was recovering from my PEs earlier this year & that was hilarious. :wub:
 
LeeAndra said:
I am an empath & suffer second-hand embarrassment when a character is being embarrassed or should be embarrassed so I have never seen more than a couple episodes of "Schitt's Creek". Other physical/slapstick comedies & adult cartoons affect me the same way (and is also the reason I don't enjoy Dana Carvey, Martin Short, or Robin Williams when he was being interviewed on TV).

I never watch horror/zombie/vampire things and have never seen any Star Wars, Star Trek, or Harry Potter movies. I've never had HBO so I've never seen any of those shows, either.

I love the "Outlander" books but the TV series is no longer interesting to me. I'm still watching it because #SamHeughan but it doesn't pack the same punch as the books anymore (or the first two seasons were so good that no further seasons can compare?!).

I tried to watch "Gilmore Girls" but the way the mom & daughter spoke to each other was so weird & off-putting to me. I also tried to watch "Dawson's Creek" but couldn't get past Pacey dating his teacher in the first season. I've seen most of "The Office" but don't think it's all that funny.

I did binge-watch "The Golden Girls" when I was recovering from my PEs earlier this year & that was hilarious. :wub:
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I love the Golden Girls too!
 
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