Most overrated TV show/movie

[Evil Genius]

TV:


Movies:
Hook - DH and I saw it when we were dating. We walked out after about 45 minutes, because it was going nowhere fast.
The Nightmare Before Christmas - DH fell asleep in the theater. I watched the whole thing in stunned silence.
The Neverending Story - It lived up to its name!

Wow! Three movies that are considered part of the classic American film lexicon!

[pdrlkr]

Napoleon Dynamite - just didn't get it.

[alphamommy]

Wow! Three movies that are considered part of the classic American film lexicon!

I actually thought of others that most people love after I posted:

ET - never saw it, never wanted to (even though I love sci fi).
The Godfather Saga - saw the first one, watched part of the second. I just don't get the appeal.
The Matrix series - DH was watching the first one, and I sat down to join him. I happened to come in at a point where someone (Keanu Reeves?) was having a hole drilled in his head. After several brain surgeries, you don't watch things with holes being drilled in heads, so I was done.
The Lord of the Rings movies - never read the books. I tried watching the first one with a bunch of people who had either already seen it, read the books, or both. I got lost and confused (they kept telling me what to pay attention to), so I just gave up. Some day, when I'm home alone, I'll give them a try again.

[Ian]

I actually thought of others that most people love after I posted:

ET - never saw it, never wanted to (even though I love sci fi).
The Godfather Saga - saw the first one, watched part of the second. I just don't get the appeal.
The Matrix series - DH was watching the first one, and I sat down to join him. I happened to come in at a point where someone (Keanu Reeves?) was having a hole drilled in his head. After several brain surgeries, you don't watch things with holes being drilled in heads, so I was done.
The Lord of the Rings movies - never read the books. I tried watching the first one with a bunch of people who had either already seen it, read the books, or both. I got lost and confused (they kept telling me what to pay attention to), so I just gave up. Some day, when I'm home alone, I'll give them a try again.

You and I must have similar tastes, because I agree on all of these except the Godfather series. Those I love.

The rest?

[BMan62]

Any "reality" program

Agree 100% --- and this INCLUDES American Idol!!!!

How can any of these shows suggest reality when they are clearly staged fantasies?!?!?!?

[Tiggerlovr9000]

Scary Movie I II and III

[PirateLover]

I actually thought of others that most people love after I posted:

ET - never saw it, never wanted to (even though I love sci fi).

Hmmm not sure how you can really call something over rated if you haven't actually seen it. There are a number of movies that have been critically acclaimed that I had no interest in, but I left them off my list because I didn't actually see them. ET isn't phenomenal but it's definitely a heartwarming story and I think it's a good family film... and at the time the special effects were certainly groundbreaking.

I agree with the Matrix though. I saw the first, and just did not get the big obsession.

[Disneyatic]

TV
The Simpsons (this show makes me want to scream)
Friends (just never appealed to me)

Movies
The Life Aquatic (I slogged through this one and was NOT impressed)


I know there has to be a few more but I can't come up with them right now!

[MissMaryPoppins]

I've thought "Friends" was pretty overrated. I was in my senior year of highschool when it started and when graduation came around that annoying theme song was everywhere. It seemed like it was being shoved down everyones throat.

I thought "The Devil Wears Prada" was highly overrated. I read the book and loved it. There were parts of that movie I was looking forward to seeing come to life but it didn't happen. I didn't think Anne Hathaway was all that great in it and Meryl Streep did not fit the Miranda Priestly in the book. Taking away her British accent was one huge mistake.

[Greenlawler]

I am stunned by some of the nominations but to each his own. You guys are hammering my favorites.... Oh well here are mine and I am sure many of you will be thinking the same things about my suggestions:

Movies
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious B......."
Tranformers 2


Television'
Any show featuring an overweight middle class comedian and his runway model starlet wife.
Rossanne
Another vote for; Everyone Loves Raymond
How I Met Your Mother
Two and a Half Men
Jersey Shore
Desperate Housewives

[Rhetoric2000]

I'm only going with shows that I truly consider to be near universally "Rated".

I'm always annoyed at the fact that being British supposedly makes me love John Cleese and especially Fawlty Towers. From a young age it is virtually stuffed down your throat that this is the greatest comedy in the world and nothing even comes close.

Never got it. Well I do, it's occasionally funny - but it's just a farce, I could name 50 other farces that are just as funny and plenty that are funnier. And Cleese is, and I vouch always has been, a poor comic performer who thinks the louder you shout the funnier it is.

But then what I saw with Britain and Comedy, I then saw with the US and the Sopranos. A very, very average show that makes the irritating assumption that viewers are just going to be inherantly interested in the subject matter, rather than earning your interest.

Finally Buffy the Vampire Slayer, tedious naval-gazery mixed with an annoying central character played by a bad actress, inconsistant mythology, and the problem that whatever creative plot you can come up with the format of the show requires that all problems can be solved by a girl doing a bit of kung fu.

[Granny Jill A]

TV: Any show that is in perpetual re-runs such as Everybody Loves Raymond, Cheers, and Friends. They are even bringing back Barney Miller, for crying out loud. What's next? Welcome Back Kotter.....

I dropped my cable TV service back to BASIC because the choices are so terrible.

Movies: Anything that is nominated for an award, but no one actually goes to see it. I can't figure out why some of these movies get made in the first place.

[Scar]

Seinfeld
The Simpsons
Family Guy

Everyone's tastes are different.

TV: ... Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and Family Guy are on in our place almost every day and have made me laugh so hard.

It is funny how people's tastes are so different. I'm right in the middle of you two. "Family Guy" is unwatchable, literally. One time I left my TV on and was in another room when it came on and I could barely hear it. Well "barely hearing it" was too much. I had to get up and go back to turn it off. "Sienfeld" on the other hand is my second favorite show of all time. And I'm just "eh" on "The Simpsons". I can watch it and it is basically funny, but I don't.

[murphy1]

Whoever said Gone with the Wind, well, here in Atlanta that is blasphemy!

[Lakin]

My List of Most Overrated TV Shows/Movies:

Twilight: I tried reading the books, and my friend tried getting me to watch one of the movies but I just couldn't make it. I just didn't get it. I mean, it was trying way to hard to sound all dramatic. Frankly, the movies don't have much of a good plot or substance to me. And I think that over half of the audience watches it just because of the 'dreamy' Jacob Black and Edward Cullen. I don't think it would be much of a success without those two taking the lead, just MHO. Not trying to sound mean.

Family Guy: All of my friends watch this show and look at me crazy when I say that I don't like it. It's just a collaboration of inappropriate jokes and celebrity trashing.

South Park: This show can't go 5 seconds without swearing about something stupid. I just can't stand it!! This show is lots worse than Family Guy.

Jersey Shore: What's so great about it???

American Idol: It's a good show, but it's just nothing to get hooked on. And the only good part is in the beginning when you get to hear all of the bad singers. I don't like the way the finalists sing popular songs that should be left alone.

Napoleon Dynamite: pdrlkr, thank you for mentioning this in a previous post. I almost forgot to put it on here. This movie is just SOOO weird. I don't get it, either. >_< These two guys in my class brought this movie on the bus for our class trip to Chicago and we ended up watching it. I all of a sudden got tired right before it started. (Thank you, instincts.)

Everybody Loves Raymond: Momma wanted me to add this on here, plus I can't help but agree with everyone else when so many people say it. She says it's a show about nothing.

Transformers: I just don't get it. It's just....robots.

Polar Express: Do not flame me for this, but this 'Christmas Classic' is SOOOO BORING!!! I cannot believe that me and my mom wasted an hour and 10 minutes of our life watching this.

Any Tim Burton movies - Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, or anything of the sort - I just don't like it. I don't fancy the dark concept.