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You know the ones. Things you thought 'that looks great' only to watch/listen to it and conclude that its utterly pants.
I watched Four Lions last night. I even bought it on DVD as, being a Chris Morris film, I reckoned it'd stand up to repeated viewing. How wrong I was. One viewing was more than enough. Its absolute crap!!! Embarrassingly awful!
Your nominations please
In terms of the greatest difference between experience and hype, I've got to go with Withnail and I. I thought it was utterly terrible.
Reservoir Dogs. Over-blown crap.
Cocaine.
Drum 'n' Bass.
+1 Withnail and I.
+1 on Four Lions.
Pretty much everything by Morrisey/The Smiths. Some of it's fine and some of the lyrics are quite good but really it's so far overhyped that it's hard not to hold that against it. And he's a miserable, grumpy sod.
The Matrix sequels.
Zodiac - heard it raved about, saw it at the cinema, thought it was toss.
sex...a poor substitute for the real thing
[i]The Matrix sequels[/i]
I've not been disappointed by the sequels, mainly because, after being so disappointed with The Matrix, I haven't bothered watching them
Oasis - Be Here Now.
Been Played Once would have been a more apt name. Utter bobbins.
Withnail & I is a work of genius IMHO, but you have to watch it a few times.
Oasis' entire output since Definitely Maybe.
[edit - damn, too slow]
2012. Worst. Film. Ever.
Yeah that was awful but I wasn't expecting much from it so wasn't disappointed...
Gorillaz new album, utter crap.
Breville toasted sandwich makers.
Filthy, Rich & Catflap.
High Definition TV.
Angel Delight.
The pubs in Berwick Upon Tweed.
Drum 'n' Bass.
Heard any London Elecktricity?
There's a lot of awful DnB out there but there's some great stuff too, it's a massive genre. I'm not a fan of stuff like DJ Hype which is what most people think DnB is. Hospital Records podcast is a good start to hear a range of styles if you care, which I suspect you don't!
Kill Bill was appallingly awful. That said, I didn't expect it to be great. I saw KB 2 on DVD and watched perhaps 20 minutes. If Tarantino had edited the two films together he might (just maybe) have made a good film, but for me, it's easily the worst thing he's done. Yes, even including Death Proof
Possibly a bigger disappointment was Shrek 3. I had premiere tickets through a work contact, took the kids, who gave a resounding thumbs-down. They'd been so excited after the first two instalments, but the third was astonishingly poor.
On the flip side, just watched Iron Man on DVD, and expected it to be utter bobbins. For what it was, the result was surprisingly well-scripted and acted.
I thought Kill Bill (in a good cinema) was brilliant - properly blew me away. Kill Bill 2 was a massive disappointment. As strangely was seeing Kill Bill 1 on TV - a real underwhelming sensation having liked it so much at the cinema.
Lifer, cheers for the tips.
Try and have a open mind when it comes to music but as much as I've tried, just can't get into it - was out around Bury for an all day music festival yesterday and the only bit I didn't really like was the D & B set
at Siberia.
Luke Aznavour, a shouty bald chap with a backing track and a theramin was a highlight - a cross between Bob Calvert and John Shuttleworth 😀
the film "oh brother where art thou"
sorry but i just didnt get it at all... 😯
24
Considering it was billed as gritty etc it's turned out to be a bit of a steaming turd.
(Just borrowed the entire box set which is why I'm so far behind with this particular series)
organic food
"classic" films and rock music (just 'cos something's old doesn't make it a classic!)
+1 the matrix sequels
+1 Withnail and I.
american nature documentaries (in my humble opinion the tv liscense fee is worth it for the Blue Planet episode "the deep" alone)
facebook
london
hot girls who open their mouth to reveal harsh accents
sean lock's live stand-up dvd
frankie boyle's live stand-up dvd
my sister's choices in life
my mum's inability to budget
food that turns up with onions in/on it when you've specifically asked for no onions.
listen to some jungle and not dnb. as far as dnb albums go try beats by design by dj zinc. also timeless by goldie.
Top Gun. I thought it was utter, predictable tripe.
Debbie Does Dallas.
I mean, we don't even see her get to [i]do[/i] Dallas ffs.
So I'm told. Not that I've watched it or anything... 🙄
"Ooh Mr Hardwick!"
Lost-stuck with it from the start,the end was guff
Muse- stadium dross
iphones
Real Ale
other people
but hey were all different,if we all liked the same thing yadda yadda yadda
x
Real Ale? You've tried them all?
of the dozen or so iv'e tried over the years never found one that tasted alright,most were like ditch water
A book for me, Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Yeah, it was good, but it wasn't [i]that[/i]good.
Oh, and Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. I expected it to be at least a bit interesting and different. Was just awful from start to finish.
most music since the 90's 🙄
we finally got up to speed with the rest of the world and bought an IPOD, had a few mates over saturday night and they were laughing as 90% of the albums were fomr the 90's.....
most of the bands these days are utter tripe, i was watching the highlights of V and reading and i was almost crying....
The Green Zone
I'm with you 100% on the real ale thing Alcopop. All the beardy types chortle at me for orering fizzy euro-lager in the pub, but to me real ale all tastes like stagnant pond water.
I gather from your name, that your tipple is WKD blue? 🙂
Muse, [i]The Resistance[/i]- really, really looking forward to it. Oh well.
organic355 - Member
Gorillaz new album, utter crap.
i'm outraged. it's a brilliant, very well rounded album. albarn is a genius.
I kind of agree on the real ale a few are fantastic but lots are "wanna be's"in my opinion.and again imho when something really good does get created it tends to eventually go into lots of pubs and be commonly found everywhere thus not realing classing it as niche "real ale"
i could be wrong tho...
Dry cake.
Cash-in sequels to films that ended properly. Highlander 2 ('there should have been only one'), Alien cubed, The Matrix Rebooted and suchlike.
Most of the UNKLE stuff after psyence Fiction. It all went a bit too housey. What made it worse is most tracks had a banging last few bars. Should've been more of that!
Oasis, started out copying the stone roses and the beatles ended up making Status Quo sound good.
Citizen Kane
Shutter Island
Death Proof
Singlespeed
Thought I'd go see the Expendables last Thursday night to avoid the emotional trauma of listening to Celtic's Europa League tie on the radio........I shoulda just stayed at home and listened to the fitba'.
Utter nonsense (to be honest I wasn't expecting a classic, but still....)
Alice In Wonderland (Tim Burton version) - that was crap an aw! Only saw it 'cos my wee girl fancied it.
As for new music - rarely buy it these days purely to avoid disappointment.
Time for some new interests perhaps.
Deathproof +1
Muse- The Resistance +1 self indulgent tosh
44 inch chest WTF? dreadful.
Went to see Iain Banks at the book festival, and he said his favorite of all his books was The Bridge. That was very disappointing as it is the only one I hated.
I am lining myself up for disappointment when the Battlestar Galactica film comes out. It can't possibly be as good as it should be.
btw
I quite enjoyed Deathproof, actually.
Just watched Four Lions - laughed a lot.
England Football Team at every major championship, hyped to the nines and then total rub outs
Them Crooked Vultures
STW
Was told it would be like the Promised Land.
Avatar. Being blue and 3D doesn't make up for being a long, crap story.
Going out with Alison Stanley. I wanted her so bad for months. She was one of the most stunning girls I knew and we were friends but I wanted to be the other type of friend, oh how I wanted it.
Eventually it turned out so did she so we got together. She dropped her sense of humour and turned into a right nagging cow. And she was crap in bed.
Boogie Nights
Everything Tim Robbins has done (apart from Shawshank)
"RnB"..... as in banal shite, not Rhythm and Blues.
Gaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
you guys are right picky miserable sods!
24Considering it was billed as gritty etc it's turned out to be a bit of a steaming turd.
24 isn't meant to be gritty AFAIK. It's more of a predictable yet enjoyable action series with an awesome main character.
Withnail and I is a work of flawed genius. I must have seen it 30 times and would watch it again tonight if it was on t' telly.
Maybe it's a generational thing, or perhaps it comes down to the viewers experiences or past lifestyle 😮
manic street preachers
and +1 for shitter island
Cosmetic surgery - have you ever, genuinely, seen anyone who looks better afterwards?
Agree with monkey boy, very few of the albums I own are by bands that formed after 1997
My list:
Arcade fire
iPod touch (should have stuck with a classic)
Lost
Simpsons after about season 7
Underground hip-hop after listening to it for two years then realising it was really crap and derivative
Arbroath
Golf
Simpsons after about season 7
Are you kidding? Season 8 and 9 were my high points. See "22 Short Films about Springfield" and "You Only Move Twice" 😀
Are we including Sports ?
Every Rugby World Cup since 1987. Such hope...
And the remake of Reggie Perrin.
I have to agree about Withnail, one of the best films ever, but yes maybe a generational thing.
Another vote for avoiding The Expendables. It's like a v poor made-for-tv Channel Five offering
the entire Star Wars thing
Beck
Real Madrid
[i]very few of the albums I own are by bands that formed after 1997[/i]
WHAT?! Christ that is sad. In other words you both have absolutely nothing to say about music that would be of any interest to anyone!
Mark Haddon - "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". How it got so many awards I don't know. Utter pap, and not even well researched.