What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

Dave Matthews band. Also, any "jam" band in general.

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100% with you on this.

I just don't get the appeal at all. I knew a couple that were all about String Cheese Incident. Finally listened to their stuff...fucking 15 minute long songs of fairly standard 90's ironic music zapped by bloat ray. Hard pass.

I was also really disappointed by the adaptation, especially compared to the Martian. I'll see if I can find the comment where I talked about why and I'll come back and copy paste it.

Edit: here it is:

NOTE: I've tried to keep this as spoiler-free as possible, but even so you may not want to read this until after you've seen the movie.

The movie was definitely good, but fell pretty short compared to the book, and especially when compared to The Martian's adaptation.

For one, the movie felt way too much like a comedy, almost like a Taika Waititi Marvel adaptation of the much more serious (but still very funny) book, which felt tonally weird and didn't really land for me. Even the weight of the reveal of
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Grace's refusal to go
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was completely undercut by a tonally inappropriate, almost zany
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chase sequence
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that robbed the scene of most of the pathos it should have had. Reminds me of this excellent video about how modern blockbusters seem allergic to sincerity to their detriment.

We also didn't like how much more useless the movie made Grace feel. The book went out of its way early to show that he was a resourceful, intelligent, excellent problem solver, and while there was certainly a bit of this in the movie, it still felt like Grace was pretty much useless, undeserving dead weight, and like he either completely lucked his way through or had to rely only on
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Rocky,
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while in the book their partnership felt much more collaborative. All of this combined to make the reveal I mentioned earlier feel much darker/more depressing, because you get the impression that no, he really didn't deserve to be there, and then what he says at the end of the movie completely falls flat, because it felt like almost none of it was the result of his choices or character. Feels like it completely undercuts one of the main themes of the book, which is that he did deserve to be there, and that he was the right person for the job, even if he didn't think he was.

We also thought the movie omitted some of the book's best lines. "You can hear light?" is an all-time great line that still gives me shivers, and it definitely should have been in the movie.

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Things we liked: 1. The movie was visually stunning - everything it was going for in the looks department it completely nailed. 2. One of the most important characters in the movie was very well done, in both design and characterization. Maybe a bit too manic, but that's a relatively small quibble in the larger context of just how well they did with him.

So yeah, very much an enjoyable two hours, but not as good as it should have been due to a few flawed adaptation decisions.

😂 Indeed.

Personally, I think the plot of just wanting to achieve a task as little as getting your carpet reimbursed and then running into all these absurd situations as a 'normal' dude makes it so appealing. Also the meme-ability helps. If the former is not your thing, we'll then this movie is not for you then (which is totally okay!)

You gotta be taking some psychedelics and want to dance, I'm not into it either. But I have plenty of friends who are and it makes them happy to have a show that lasts for long sets and they can get their freak on

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I feel that is generally the type of thing on any option based social media thread

I think it's important to parse country music. There's Nashville country music and then there's county music. Actual country music is great. Nashville country music is not.

You're the first person I've ever seen that made it that far into The Wire and didn't like it. Are you American? If not, I think that maybe makes more sense. For Americans, it's just such a great representation of so many things that every city experiences. And the fact that you see the same story from so many different perspectives is just SO compelling. I think it should be watched/taught in high schools because of how many perspectives it gives on the plights of society in American cities.

but the payoff for Garry was SO good.

Would you be so kind as to share a few of those artists?

See, I caught my ex listening to country yesterday, and I know she’s just doing it because her new gf is into country, and it sounded like your aforementioned Nashville schlock. I figure if she’s going to force herself to listen to country to impress her gf, least I can do is suggest some real country artists.

VH1

Also known as “rich trashy people being rich and trashy.” Who the actual fuck watches that garbage?

Fuck Ricky

I think that it's reasonable to like or dislike something without them needing to analyze further for that opinion to be valid. I think it's fine for someone to say that they don't like the taste of, say, strawberry ice cream without being obligated to break it down further. I mean, people form opinions without trying to psychologically analyze themselves.

And I don't think that people generally "choose to not like something" either. People don't say to themselves anything like "I think I'll dislike the flavor of strawberry ice cream."