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What’s your entertainment related unpopular opinion?

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OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 12/10/2020 07:42

Mine, because I finally got around to watching it this weekend, Hamilton is all that great.(though I do have the dadadaaadadaaa chorus from the king’s song in my head)
So come on, those sacred cows of film and tv, why don’t you like them?
Oh yeah, the Beatles. The Kinks were better.

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Notverybright · 12/10/2020 21:20

Sorry that was meant to be although* I do love Elijah wood.

MrsAvocet · 12/10/2020 21:21

Friends was shit and not in the slightest bit funny. Nor is most American "comedy " come to that, but I quite like The Goldbergs.

ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN · 12/10/2020 21:26

Friends was crap in the 90’s and still is and the most overrated show ever

So glad ds and his friends think it’s rubbish

Celebrity Juice is just grim, I can’t understand why women want to act like such stupid idiots to show they are up for a bit of sexist fun

GrouchyKiwi · 12/10/2020 21:31

Time to upset every one of my nerdy friends: Firefly was crap and deserved to be cancelled.

Joss Whedon is overrated, ditto Tarantino.

Game of Thrones is overwrought rubbish.

Tom Hiddleston is not attractive, nor is Tom Hardy, and Thor is way, way, way cooler than Loki.

The Hollies were better than the Beatles.

Bagadverts · 12/10/2020 21:38

GoT
All reality TV and talent shows on TV especially involving children
Mad Men

I like plain TV and catchup where you have a semblance of a schedule (Watch within X days or it’s gone) rather than streaming.

shinynewapple2020 · 12/10/2020 22:53

Unpopular opinion on Mumsnet but I like Adele, Ed Sheehan and Coldplay Grin

PercyKirke · 12/10/2020 22:54

@ANoTail

The vast majority of Scorcese films are ruined by being much, much too long.
Ditto the films of David Lean.

Fleabag was awful.

PercyKirke · 12/10/2020 22:55

Oh and there wasn't a single laugh in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

0blio · 12/10/2020 23:03

@SquatBetty

Idris Elba is a terrible actor (but I wouldn't say no)
Ooh, did you see him in The Wire?
megletthesecond · 12/10/2020 23:09

Justin Beiber is actually pretty good.

Top Gear, with both old and new team, is brilliant.

I could have a huge negative list but I'm going to be nice.

GlummyMcGlummerson · 12/10/2020 23:12

The Beatles are shit and overrated.

La La Land and A Star is Born are two of the most boring self indulgent crappy films ever made.

Ed Sheeran is a glorified busker who got lucky.

Beyoncé's songs are rubbish and screeching does not make for good singing. Have no idea how she's got this reputation as a "Queen".

Directionerforever · 12/10/2020 23:16

Can’t stand Beyoncé, move on, stop droning on about Becky with the good hair, let her have him. And that pregnancy photo shoot. No thank you, the pair of them in fact strike me as the most humourless up their arse bores.

Directionerforever · 12/10/2020 23:17

Oh. And David Jason just comes across a bit smug. Ditto Harrison Ford.

GlummyMcGlummerson · 12/10/2020 23:17

Tom Hardy is not attractive or especially talented. I think he actually looks like the chavs who used to hang around the video rental shops making twatty comments to women who went in, in their fake Burberry and clown necklaces.

GlummyMcGlummerson · 12/10/2020 23:23

Hate forest hump

Didn't realise we were including porno in this too Wink

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 12/10/2020 23:29

Alicia Keys is so feted for her amazing performance on Empire State Of Mind (haven't heard her other songs, so I don't know if it pervades throughout), but she 's very slightly and noticeably flat.

It's quite a good tune, but if you want to hear a much, much better rendering of it, check out the parody about Newport. The lyrics are so clever and hilarious; but more to the point, the female part is sung by Terema Wainwright, who, it's probably fair to say, isn't a household name - but her voice runs rings around Alicia's.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 12/10/2020 23:40

So glad others feel the same about Bohemian Rhapsody and The Beatles.

The lyrics for BR are just utterly ridiculous and it isn't a pleasant sound at all - so disjointed and overwrought.

The Beatles were founded on a massive sea of hype. "Love, love me do/You know I love you/I'll always be true/So please, please, please, love me do". Ugh. Even those nasty, abominable pieces of trite tat they sell in the magazines that fall out of the weekend papers - the ones with captions like 'At first just my daughter; now also my best friend' written on a tawdry little vomit trinket box - have better doggerel than that.

BlackLetterDay · 12/10/2020 23:40

Everyone on gogglebox is a frigging idiot, not sure if it's evolved into some kind of propoganda tool or it's always been that way. I'm fairly sure it didn't used to make so angry.

I had a long break from any "normal" TV, can't be doing with most of it. There doesn't seem to be anything in depth or challenging at all.

American comedy is 90% shit, there are gems though, golden girls is one of my favourites. Frasier is okish, it grates though, I hate Seinfeld and curb your enthusiasm just not for me at all.

I have tried to watch the wire and breaking bad, nope not for me.

UK utopia is my favourite and hardly has seen it, haven't got round to watching the US version.

I cannot stand Steven Moffat he is insufferably smug, I put him in a category with Neil Gaiman for some reason. I really disliked most of his stuff on Dr Who, although compared to the current era he is a genius. I hated the whole fairytale aspect, especially the visiting people when they were children then showing up ta da when they were adults, creepy grooming shite. Like I say the millimetre deep social justice bollocks with poor jodie whittaker is abysmal, just awful.

Mookie81 · 12/10/2020 23:57

@PercyKirke

Oh and there wasn't a single laugh in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
That one actually hurt my heart! ShockGrin
Belleblush · 13/10/2020 00:00

MR Bean turns my stomach

Harry Potter and 50 shades are both utter shite

Itsmybirthday19 · 13/10/2020 03:05

Oasis: nasal pricks in parkas laced with hubris. A pair of circular sunglasses does not make you John Lennon... which leads me onto...

The Beatles: less founding fathers of Rock and Roll, more found a gap in the market, plugged it with pedestrian guitar music and shit haircuts

Every British Male solo artist of the last 20 years or so it seems: terminal bedwetter with an acoustic guitar, cries while he wanks onto sheet music and calls it an album.

Beyoncé: furious about something... why else all the stamping and lip curling. Not, in fact, the answer to everything.

Britain's got talent: if Amanda Holden is the answer, what is the question?

Only fools and horses: about as funny as a public hanging, though I suppose at least one entertained the masses.

Friends: she got off the fucking plane.

SATC: later that night, I got to thinking: is Carrie squealing like a hamster being laminated the most unbearable sound in the history of time, or am I the asshole for watching it?

Ally McBeal: a character so narcissistic she makes me want to have brunch with Carrie and Ross.

Itsmybirthday19 · 13/10/2020 03:13

Colin Firth as Mr Darcy has all the raw sexuality of an Ed Sheeran gig.

Ryan Gosling looks like he talks about himself in the third person and cries when he ejaculates.

Jamie Oliver is a condescending, fat-tongued wanker whose face I would never tire of hitting.

Jameela Jamil is a pathological liar who doesn't really give a shit about the average woman.

Wincarnis · 13/10/2020 03:38

Just because they are awful and/or not funny:
Danny Dire
Ant & Dec
Michael Macintyre
James Corden
Amanda Holden
Davina McCall
Most if not all “celebrity” Tv shows

BorderlineHappy · 13/10/2020 04:57

Jameela Jamil,she must give herself whiplash for all the jumping on the bandwagon she does.

Lisa who used to be married to Ant.Shes psycho,and her new bf better watch himself.

Caroline Flack,I don't get all the # Be Kind.When she was the one being gone for domestic abuse.

Lady GaGa,heralded as being the new Madonna.Nope,she's not fit to wipe her boots.

allthewaterinthetap · 13/10/2020 05:00

The 'golden buzzer' in whatever reality show it is, where the button is dramatically hit, slow motion and tears ensue as the music swells. Cringe and patronising.

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