Media that has made you angry

[POWER IN MISERY]

cousin skeeter's just a guy that wants to take a load off

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Come Dine With Me.

I ABHOR COME DINE WITH ME.

Partly this is because the Ex Wife used to insist on watching it every Saturday afternoon when they'd repeat a whole clutch of episodes back to back and would get seriously bent out of shape if I didn't sit through it with her, but even so, it has no redeeming features whatever. The competitors are usually full of themselves. There's always someone who sneers at how they didn't serve "dinner party food," and the commentary is by this unfunny try-hard wank basket whose quips are more annoying than informative or amusing.

 

[darkhorse816]

Agreed! I think it's mostly demanded by Tumblr genderspeshuls. I can't see most straight females complaining about Batman or Thor...

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Male Thor's actor is so cute!

Not a big comic reader myself, but there are some cases where they aren't gender bent--they're just a new person taking up the mantel of a hero--like lady Thor who uses his hammer. I'm okay with that. But I have no problems with male superheroes--especially in the movies.

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That's why the Thor movies are my favorite

 

[Chicken Nugget Scoon]

Just remembered; The recent Muppets reboot that was like The Office. Fucking stupid idea all round and bona fide proof Disney should never have been given the rights to the characters.

 

[Hypodermic Johnny]

Just remembered; The recent Muppets reboot that was like The Office. Fucking stupid idea all round and bona fide proof Disney should never have been given the rights to the characters.

In light of that and the comic book talk, I couldn't resist:

Also, related to a discussion I had with a gas station clerk the night after HHN 26, World War Z's movie adaption pisses me off so much. Brad Pitt took a great book, full of zombie stories, anecdotes, and perspectives, and took a goddamn flaming shit all over it. Now if I want to discuss zombie media with someone, especially related to the book, I get questions about the crappy movie, and/or a followup "Do you watch Walking Dead?" every fucking time.

Spoiler

In the alternate universe I dream of, World War Z got the critically acclaimed TV series, and Walking Dead got the shitty movie and faded into obscurity.

I hate The Walking Dead so much.

 

[Sailor_Jupiter]

This is the most weebish and obscure thing ever, but... The author of Petshop of Horrors, which is like the most autistic comic book ever written, didn't write an ending. She did the first series, at some point LOST HER MIND, and then did HALF of a sequel with zombies, interspecies zombie sex, and a love story involving Adolph Hitler. No, really. I'm not teasing. Needless to say, the sequel tanked and was never completed, leaving loads of loose ends! The original series was pretty good and dealt with things like the ethics of conservation and animal rights, but... At some point, the author went literally howling-at-the-moon insane and her stories just... Ugh. And some of the loose ends include whether the cop EVER catches the bad guy, and what the bad guy really even IS. Those are some pretty major loose ends! Also she cut every main character from the first series besides the lunatic who sells man-eating animals.

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But the original series has some cute fluffy animal stories so whatever.

Am I the only one here who ever read that autistic masterpiece of failure..? -__-;

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I really hate it when Family Guy tries to tackle religion, especially that one cutaway where two guys are friendly until someone mentions "some magic baby in Bethlehem".

I find this whenever Family Guy tries to be serious. A lot of cartoons manage to be funny, but can also be serious (classic Simpsons is the ur-example here). With Family Guy, there's very little continuity, the characters are very shallow and the humour tends to be deliberately shocking. So when they try to make a serious point, it just feels dissonant. It also doesn't help that the writers aren't very good on the serious stuff, so it's always clunky.

Come Dine With Me.

I ABHOR COME DINE WITH ME.

Partly this is because the Ex Wife used to insist on watching it every Saturday afternoon when they'd repeat a whole clutch of episodes back to back and would get seriously bent out of shape if I didn't sit through it with her, but even so, it has no redeeming features whatever. The competitors are usually full of themselves. There's always someone who sneers at how they didn't serve "dinner party food," and the commentary is by this unfunny try-hard wank basket whose quips are more annoying than informative or amusing.

I'm going to powerlevel like a bastard here.

Spoiler: When Tragi-Chan met Heather

This woman became briefly notorious for being the worst loser on Come Dine With Me ever, and given the repellent contestants they usually have, that's really saying something. Here is her meltdown:

About a year after that, I was involved in a theatre production with her son. For some reason, she seemed to really like me, and insisted on sitting next to me at the pub after the show. Now, you know how they say reality TV is all lies and editing to make people look bad? Wrong. She was as awful in real life as she was on the show. She would not shut up about that fucking episode. No one asked her about it, the conversation never drifted that way, but she'd keep bringing it up. This was a year after the episode. No one gave a shit. But still, she was actually proud of being a terrible person on national TV. She had plans to spin it out into a whole reality TV career, which thankfully came to nothing. Although if they had, I suspect she'd be great lolcow material.

Her son is also awful, by the way. Her husband, however, is both a cool guy and a legit badass, having been a member of the SAS involved in the Iranian Embassy raid. How the hell he wound up married to her I don't know, I suppose she must give amazing head or something.

My own personal rage-inducing TV is Big Brother, the UK version. When I was at university, my friends and housemates used to watch it all the time, so just switching off was never an option. But within about a minute of tuning in, I'd be shouting abuse at the screen due to the shallowness and sheer fucking stupidity of the contestants. If there's one thing I cannot stand on TV or in real life, it's people who think they're fantastically interesting when they really have nothing more than a few superficial quirks they've deliberately cultivated, and Channel 4 gave them an entire series.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I find this whenever Family Guy tries to be serious. A lot of cartoons manage to be funny, but can also be serious (classic Simpsons is the ur-example here). With Family Guy, there's very little continuity, the characters are very shallow and the humour tends to be deliberately shocking. So when they try to make a serious point, it just feels dissonant. It also doesn't help that the writers aren't very good on the serious stuff, so it's always clunky.


I'm going to powerlevel like a bastard here.

Spoiler: When Tragi-Chan met Heather

This woman became briefly notorious for being the worst loser on Come Dine With Me ever, and given the repellent contestants they usually have, that's really saying something. Here is her meltdown:

About a year after that, I was involved in a theatre production with her son. For some reason, she seemed to really like me, and insisted on sitting next to me at the pub after the show. Now, you know how they say reality TV is all lies and editing to make people look bad? Wrong. She was as awful in real life as she was on the show. She would not shut up about that fucking episode. No one asked her about it, the conversation never drifted that way, but she'd keep bringing it up. This was a year after the episode. No one gave a shit. But still, she was actually proud of being a terrible person on national TV. She had plans to spin it out into a whole reality TV career, which thankfully came to nothing. Although if they had, I suspect she'd be great lolcow material.

Her son is also awful, by the way. Her husband, however, is both a cool guy and a legit badass, having been a member of the SAS involved in the Iranian Embassy raid. How the hell he wound up married to her I don't know, I suppose she must give amazing head or something.

My own person rage-inducing TV is Big Brother, the UK version. When I was at university, my friends and housemates used to watch it all the time, so just switching off was never an option. But within about a minute of tuning in, I'd be shouting abuse at the screen due to the shallowness and sheer fucking stupidity of the contestants. If there's one thing I cannot stand on TV or in real life, it's people who think they're fantastically interesting when they really have nothing more than a few superficial quirks they've deliberately cultivated, and Channel 4 gave them an entire series.

Back in 2005 I was working night shifts at a petrol station to pay for myself during university. Big Brother was on that summer, and my old man watched it.

So, before setting out I stuck my head round the door to see a lass named Kinga inserting a wine bottle into her clopper. Just before it actually went in they cut away to the face of one of the other competitors.

I resolved never again to even countenance Big Brother.

(NOTE: This is blocked on copyright grounds in the UK so you may need a proxy.)

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

Made me mad how Anne Rice killed off Lestat's first friend Nicolas de Lenfent and replaced him with Louis. He would have been a cool character.

 

[Chicken Nugget Scoon]

I find this whenever Family Guy tries to be serious

I actually enjoy Family Guy's jokes, give or take, and I agree with you 100%. I also hate whenever it tries to make you feel for the characters, as unlike classic Simpsons, Family Guy's... Er, Family, isn't as relatable nor are they as structured as characters. They can be funny, but I can't feel feelings for multiple people we've seen murder, berate, etc, on a consistent basis.

 

[friedshrimp]

Usually when they have celebs cameo as themselves (not as characters, like Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Bergstrom, who was in a good Lisa episode, or Meryl Streep as Jessica Lovejoy) , they have smaller roles, and play wackier versions of themselves or are in insane situations. Like all the baseball players at Homer at Bat (who all had a few lines and had hilarious fates), or Leonard Nimoy in Marge vs the Monorail.

They portray Gaga like fucking Jesus, and made her so instrumental to the plot that it seemed like the show was trying to be hip and cash in on a popular singer.

Honestly it was very similar to one of the earliest bad Simpsons episodes, that one where Kim Basigner and Alec Baldwin are the guest stars and Homer spends 20 minutes fanboying over them and being their servant. I hated it the first time I watched it, and god it's one of those episodes that they continue to re-air over and over...

 

[Oven Dodger]

Stephen Colbert's new late show. Every joke can be boiled down to "so about Donald Trump" and he goes on to make some generic joke that everyone and their mother has already made. His timing is poor and there is no originality to be found in his sketches. I don't even like Donald, I'm just so fucking sick of hearing about him.

This hurts especially because he used to be one of my personal heros growing up when The Colbert Report was on. His tenure during the Bush years was gold.

 

[Henry Bemis]

La La Land.

Because it isn't out yet.

 

[Ruin]

I know Family Guy is le so edgy on purpose but I really disliked that episode where they made fun of Sarah Palin's kid for having downs syndrome and even had Brian utter the line "disabled people can be jerks too." Turning someone's retarded kid into a punching bag because you disagree with their politics doesn't make you funny, it makes you a soulless monster.

 

[Chicken Nugget Scoon]

I know Family Guy is le so edgy on purpose but I really disliked that episode where they made fun of Sarah Palin's kid for having downs syndrome and even had Brian utter the line "disabled people can be jerks too." Turning someone's exceptional kid into a punching bag because you disagree with their politics doesn't make you funny, it makes you a soulless monster.

C'mon, the song in that one was great.

 

[AnOminous]

I know Family Guy is le so edgy on purpose but I really disliked that episode where they made fun of Sarah Palin's kid for having downs syndrome and even had Brian utter the line "disabled people can be jerks too." Turning someone's exceptional kid into a punching bag because you disagree with their politics doesn't make you funny, it makes you a soulless monster.

I thought Doug Stanhope's rant about Sarah Palin's tard child was hilarious, but while Family Guy does this bullshit edgy lite thing of sometimes pretending to be sensitive about shit, sometimes being edgy, but usually just being utter shit, Stanhope more or less makes a career out of being a soulless monster.

 

[Caesare]

-The Billy Jack movies:

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A white boy playing a half Native American, Vietnam veteran special forces soldier who just happens to be a karate master and a pacifist who "just hates bigotry and injustice". Sure, that's honorable, bigotry and injustice are definitely bad things. But the heavy handed approach and the preachiness of these movies (they tried to make 5, but only 4 were released because the star/writer/director Tom Laughlin, got so wrapped up into himself and his own hubris, that the first film, largely an action film that kids in the 70s loved because of the karate fighting and having the main character "sticking it to the man" made a lot of money after the major production companies wouldn't pick it up because even Hollywood thought it was too preachy and stupid, so he did it all on his own, and made a great deal of money from it.

Later, he made a sequel where his character goes to jail. This movie was also popular because of the action, but had an extremely preachy scene at the end where the hippie school that Billy Jack's (also Tom Laughlin's) real life wife started had soldiers shooting at the students there for some reason or another, I don't really remember b/c it's been years. This was of course in reference to the Kent State shooting of the hippies back in 1970, where those "peace and love hippies" had a peaceful protest in which they tossed bricks and Molotov cocktails at our loyal National Guardsmen merely doing there job and trying to keep the peace.

He made a third movie, which also did well financially, but I didn't see that one. While it is respectable that Laughlin did his own thing outside of the Hollywood cabal, he was such an egotist that his fourth movie, "Billy Jack goes to Washington" naturally, a play on the classic "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" was basically just him jerking off on camera to all his leftist political and social views. He gets elected as a Senator, opposing such "evils" as nuclear power, and the whole movie is basically a lot of talking, filibustering, and shuffling papers back and forth. To say the movie BOMBED would be a gargantuan understatement. The young fans who grew to love the ass kicking, green beret, hippie karate master who took on the establishment were extremely disappointed in his horseshit movie, which basically bankrupted Tom Laughlin and you didn't hear much from him after that.

He tried to go back to his roots and make a fifth movie with more action, but the money ran out, it was never released, and Tom Laughlin faded into obscurity. He did run for President or some bullshit at one point (yes, his ego was that big) but that went as well as could be expected.

Part of me respects Laughlin for doing things his way when the Hollywood elite basically told him to fuck off, but he was such an egotistical asshole he ruins any sympathy I'd normally have for a guy like him.

His movies were basically exploitation films. He played on people's emotions at the time with all the social strife that was going on in the 60s and 70s, especially the youth of that era. In the first film to bear the Billy Jack name (He created the character, Billy Jack, in an earlier film called "The Born Losers") The "villains" couldn't be more any more one dimensional if CWC made it. The "bad guys" are "evil, racist, bigots not for any good reason, just because it makes them unlikable. To make them even more unlikable, the "bad guys" steal horses off the local Indian Reservation.

The sheriff, who's whore daughter is a runaway drug addict who is a smart mouthed little tart, Hep C positive, comes home pregnant, the loving sheriff father is willing to take her back in and help her out when he asks her who the father is. She makes a smart-assed remark about how she "slept with so many hippies that she doesn't know whether the kid's gonna turn out Indian, Mexican, or BLACK!!!" as she screams in her loving father's face. Naturally, the father smacks the fuck out of her, as any loving father would who wants to teach their daughter manners and to honor thy mother and father as any loving, Christian man would.

The daughter, being the ungrateful, loose tart she is, runs away again to Billy Jack's wife's "hippie school".

Another respectable thing about Tom Laughlin that I must add. He stayed married to his wife and raised a number of kids with her, which is kind of rare for actors. And if you see this woman, Jesus Christ, she's so ugly she'll scare the hairs off your ass.

-Do the Right Thing:

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"A Spike Lee Joint" ughhhhh. As much as I despise nerdy black supremacist cuckold, Spike Lee, I will give him props for making some entertaining films. And despite the evil message of this movie, its actually quite enjoyable to watch.

It stars Spike Lee of course (what's the deal w/ these egotist directors wanting to star in their own movies?) Playing Mookie, a youth from the wrong side of the tracks in NYC who works at a pizza joint owned by a generous and lovable Italian gentleman and run by his two sons, one who hates the you know whats, and one who is "kinda" cool with them. Long story short, Mookie is an ungrateful bastard, who is lost in life, going nowhere, working at a pizza place as a grown ass man with a child and a girlfriend. Thankfully, he has the Italian gentleman who was nice enough to give him his job.

How does Mookie repay him? By throwing a trashcan through the window of his own job when a riot breaks out due to the kind Italian gentleman smashing some assholes radio who keeps the volume at insane levels while inside the Pizza Joint, after the Italian gentleman asks him kindly several times to turn the fucking volume down, as his patrons are trying to enjoy their delicious meals. Radio guy's friend, a wishy washy black supremacist, throughout the whole movie, berates the Italian gentleman for not having pictures of famous black people hanging inside of his pizza shop instead of famous Italians. Seriously. This asshole has a problem with a man embracing his Italian heritage by having pictures of Frank Sinatra and Rocky Marciano hanging inside the restaurant WHICH HE OWNS, instead of pictures of people like Malcolm X.

Thankfully, the NYPD shows up and chokes out the troublemaker with the radio until he dies (likely saving many lives in the process as the guy was clearly unstable and probably would go on to a life of crime had the hero police officer not put him down.)

Naturally, this starts a riot (instigated by none other than Spike Lee aka "Mookie") and the Italian gentleman's restaurant is burned to the ground. Then Mookie, ungrateful fucking asshole that he is, has the nerve to show up the next morning and ask Italian gentleman for his paycheck. In a very satisfying scene, the Pizza Joint owner throws the money at Mookie's face one bill at a time.

While this movie is a fucking mess, it is kind of enjoyable. Spike Lee, as much of a fool as he is, knows how to make an emotional movie.

Oh, a little lagniappe for everybody. This was the movie that Barack took Michelle to for their first date lol. Kind of explains a lot if you think about it.

EDIT: Thanks for putting this in the proper place!!!! I didn't see this thread.

 

[AnOminous]

Actually, Eraserhead really pissed me off. It sent me into a rage. I don't even know why exactly, but I just found it loathsome and unlikeable on a really visceral level. I like other David Lynch films, but this one, I fucking despise.

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

Actually, Eraserhead really pissed me off. It sent me into a rage. I don't even know why exactly, but I just found it loathsome and unlikeable on a really visceral level. I like other David Lynch films, but this one, I fucking despise.

Huh, so I am not the only one who hated it. Good to know.

 

[AnOminous]

Huh, so I am not the only one who hated it. Good to know.

Thank you. Now I know I'm not, either.