For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.

I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.

His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.

Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    You’re right and you should say it. Ricky Gervais has always been weird and off-putting and the idea that he was ever good has always baffled me. I never enjoyed The Office. When my dad tried to get me into Extras I just found all of Ricky’s parts annoying. When my sister told me how great Derek was, I just found the whole thing simultaneously tasteless and bland, like it couldn’t commit to being offensive but didn’t put the work into being real. His standup is often clever, but always the kind of clever that is let down by a complete lack of emotional intelligence. The man just does not understand people, but thinks he really does.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I’m curious if you’re from the UK, OP, because I think this colours your perception of the The Office very much. For the record I loathe both, but The Office UK is a typical British comedy of taking the absolute piss of the characters, who are irredeemable fools one and all. You re not supposed to find them funny, or like them. You’re supposed to laugh at them. That’s the usual expectation, with British comedy.

    Americans seem to have great difficulty with that concept, and can’t seem to handle a protagonist that is made fun of.

    Again, not defending the show itself. Just saying you need to be aware of this approach when you watch British comedy in general. The common language should not make you forget the ocean of cultural differences in between.

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Avatar the last airbender.

    Literally the only thing interesting is the serial reincarnation of the Avatar, the disability representation in Toph, and that weird demigod of misfortune people call the cabbage merchant.

    Literally everything else sucks. The graphics are meh, the lore is forgettable, the magic system is somehow both overly complicated and restrictive, the characters are cringy and uncomfortable, Aang’s pacifism is infuriating, and the plot even more so.

    Personally, the James Cameron movie is far superior. Not because of its characters or story. God no. But its worldbuilding is far superior. Eywa and the neural queues the Na’vi and the other local flora and fauna have has been a genuine inspiration to so many of my world building projects its crazy.

    The visuals are crazy impressive too for the time period, and those floating mountains are just gorgeous.

    Really, ATLA sucks in comparison, and I hate it when people slander the true Avatar just to push up their own cringy mess.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Sports. I have little tolerance for it because every time a big event is on, people get incredibly obnoxious. They think they know better than the professional players, they keep making so much noise, it polarizes people into arbitrary bands and start talking shit like using that as an excuse to be a homophobic POS, sometimes they’ll even riot because their team lost/won (da fuk), and even kill people over their favorite fucking team, and so much more. If the game is on I’d rather steer clear because it really brings out the worst in people.

  • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Friends…

    I would rather watch women’s tennis or a fishing show. I don’t fish, I don’t play tennis.

  • boaratio@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have friends who are into jam bands and I’m glad they go to live music shows. However, I’m the type of person that likes movies that are a tight 90 minutes long, and one of my favorite songs of all time is less than 2 minutes long. My time is worth money, treat it like it is. I don’t need to listen to a 15 minute guitar solo.

      • boaratio@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Are you currently on drugs? No disrespect if you are, but it took me awhile to unpack that sentence.

        • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          “I’m going to need you to write a concise sentence before I let you go.”–Cop about to perform the Strunk & White sobriety test

          Sadly, no, stone cold sober.

            • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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              4 months ago

              I’d imagine a devilishly complicated citation of a book by a married couple two-generations into hyphenated last names about their ancestors published by their parents’ eponymous publishing house.

    • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Disney somehow made me absolutely apathetic to Star Wars, an IP that as a kid I used to go to sleep daydreaming about while listening to the soundtracks. The whole thing just feels stupid af now, and it’s not just because I got older. It used to feel grounded in something, and now it feels unhinged.

  • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I thought the American version of The Office wasn’t much better. Just constant cringe humor, it’s exhausting.

  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    I’ve got a good one: Andor. People can’t stop raving about it and I had to force myself to finish it. Deathly boring all the way through. I didn’t like anyone in it so I couldn’t root for anyone, and it was just a slog til the end. Crucify me star wars fans, I know you want to. 😇

  • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have seen so much praise for Kingdom of Heaven and all I did was laugh or yell at it, usually both. It’s so bad. So, so bad.

    I’m sorry, you’re telling me they built siege towers in the middle of the desert. Where did they get the wood??? And there’s like 12 of them? And you aimed a Ballista and that took down every single one of them in one swoop? ALSO YOU ARE A SMITH APPRENTICE BUT YOU KNOW SIEGE TACTICS? AND YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT DESERT IRRIGATION WHEN YOU ARE FROM FUCKING ENGLAND? AND

    I’m yelling again

    And that’s not to mention how deeply historically inaccurate it is at moments, like even besides all the general Hollywood of it all. Like sure they get some moments right but generally, holy shit it’s bad lol

    Though I will say watching Will Turner learn sword fighting from Qui-Gon only to be interrupted by Jaime Lannister was pretty funny

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I’ve seen it noted by better critics than me that when people criticize movies by fixating on hyper-specific inaccuracies or contradictions (the Cinema Sins method) they’re usually expressing the fact that there were deeper underlying flaws in the movie itself that meant it failed to give them a reason to overlook those hyper-specific complaints.

      After all, if the things you’ve listed here were reason enough to hate a film, on their own, you’re basically just saying that you shouldn’t watch movies. If you know enough about where and when a movie is set, you’re guaranteed to be able to find those kinds of inaccuracies in any movie you watch, with very few exceptions.

      The real problem here, I suspect, is that Kingdom of Heaven, as released is a bad movie. The director’s cut, on the other hand, is incredible. Ridley envisioned this as a sprawling Lawrence of Arabia style historical epic, and that’s the film he made. That film was then butchered to fit what the studio thought would make a good theatrical release.

      The director’s cut will not, to the best of my recollection, solve any of your specific complaints, but it is a far, far better movie.

      Of course, it is possible that the version you saw was the director’s cut, in which case I’m very sorry, movies set in any version of the real world just might not be for you.

      • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I watched the Director’s cut. It is a ridiculous movie lol

        Sorry but the Hollywoodisms and bad history aside, it is also just orientalist as all hell and I will hold the movie’s pretense of being a historical movie against it when it is so deeply revisionist

        A movie I did really enjoy was Waterloo for example. There are plenty of movies where I can forgive some artistic license. Hell, I like Chernobyl even though yes, that is also revisionist, but I understand the choices that were made. For Kingdom of Heaven though, it’s clear Ridley Scott did what he is known for: putting a hatchet to real stories and chopping them down until there’s nothing left.