Media that has made you angry

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The Paranormal Activity series.

Let's just put a few cameras in the houses of people who are apparently rich enough to live in a picturesque one horse town (like every other commercial out there), have a copy/paste man and woman in the house with no emphasis on their imperfections acting like meth heads pretending this shit is even remotely scary at all. How about people who go to the theater these days are knuckle dragging spoonheads that are too easily amused or terrified?

I was hoping the Blair Witch trend would've stopped being a thing but that's very, very optimistic.

Also shout out to the people who thought rebooting Crow was a COOL TOTALLY RAD IDEA, all of you are exceptional individuals that should accidentally trip on a Colt .45 with its safety unlocked. There's a reason we never brought Heath Ledger's Joker back, or brought back Crocodile Hunter... Truly tasteless horseshit big business studio's pull off.

 

[Caesare]

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.

Eraserhead fucking stunk!!!! I know David Lynch is talented. He's a weirdo, but he is a creative and talented weirdo, but Eraserhead just sucked. It was gross, unappealing, didn't make a lick of sense, idk everything about it was just disgusting and enraging. I'm definitely with you two on this one.

 

[The Janitor]

A certain episode of a certain kids show angers me because of where I was born. I have gone on massive Chris-level tirades about this one episode with friends.

 

[John Titor]

The Simpsons Lady Gaga episode. I watched it knowing it would be bad, but curious at HOW bad. Then I found out.

Other than that, I can't stand Adventure Time. I wouldn't be angry about this if it wasn't for the fact it's influenced a lot of artists, aspiring animators, and shows, which is the bit that riles me up.

ANY River Song episode of Doctor Who barring the original. What a god-awful Mary Sue.

It was a Lisa episode, it so it was going to suck. Same plot as usual: Lisa's feeling sad/is a social outcast/no one likes her because she's so smart. The only thing funny was Homer eating Lady Gaga's meat dress.

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.

Pretty much any 2000s-up Lisa episode is going to suck and be a preachy piece of shit. I don't watch the Simpsons to learn about sustainable energy or the environment. I watch it to laugh my ass off.

I was never a fan of the "Lisa the outcast" episodes because it makes her character so inconsistent and the writers make her look more pathetic than Milhouse.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

The only movie to ever make me mad was the movie Now You See Me everything was so contrived and there were never any stakes in the plot.

 

[Magnum Dong]

First example that comes to mind is The Tonight Show w/Jimmy Fallon. He doesn't tell any original jokes, he doesn't have enough of a distinct personality to spearhead a show, he tries too hard to be inoffensive (not in the PC way, but in the "I want to be universally liked" way), tries too hard to be "hip", and most of all I hate his impact on pop culture news.

If I'm trying to be in the know about pop culture, I don't wanna see 100 clickbait-y articles about "Check out [fav actor] [intentionally making fool of self] on last night's Fallon!" Fuck right off and stop pretending entertainment for public consumption on a broadcast network is news.

Arguably these complaints apply to James Corden's Late Late Show/its impact as well, but I find myself less angry about him because it seems like he's having a blast with this gig and it's infectious, and like he's phoning it in less than Fallon.

 

[BurningPewter]

Any teen comedy where the nerd gets mocked for trying to be PUA and then gets rewarded with sex for being himself again.

 

[BurningPewter]

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.

I agree with that. I read that Neil Gaiman read the first book and got bored. I think he would have prefered the second book.

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

I agree with that. I read that Neil Gaiman read the first book and got bored. I think he would have prefered the second book.

He's such an underrated character and one time on Anne Rice's Facebook page people were asking why she killed him and Merrick off so soon after establishing them as characters and she made a mad post about how the characters choose not her. lol.

It made me mad at the end of the The Georgina Kincaid series when she got turned into a human, got her soul back and her Nephilim ex boyfriend sacrificed his immortal life for her to have a short, normy mortal life and we never know exactly what happens to him. The later books were awesome... so dark but that was a dumb ending to come to after all that.

I love urban fantasy and paranormal fiction but I hate the trope that everyone wants to be human. Rice played with that in Tale of the Body Thief.

 

[The Fair Lady]

Revenge-for-rape movies. Not that they trigger me or anything, they're just ridiculously edgy. Who the hell is the target audience for these anyway? Feminists?

 

[Cynical]

The general state of the news media occasionally makes me want to punch holes in walls.

Used to be a time when the media prided itself on some degree of impartiality and was proud of its role as a exposer of corruption and societal ills while trying not to blatantly take sides.

Now, both internet and non internet media are mostly biased shitpits, and I for one find it sad that it's you can actually find it noteworthy that a source of news is generally honest.

I wish it was way less the exception and much more the rule.

 

[AnOminous]

The general state of the news media occasionally makes me want to punch holes in walls.

Used to be a time when the media prided itself on some degree of impartiality and was proud of its role as a exposer of corruption and societal ills while trying not to blatantly take sides.

I don't care about taking sides so long as it's up front.

The media now though isn't an exposer of corruption. It's the corruption that needs to be exposed. But who is going to do that but the media, which isn't going to do it?

 

[FemalePresident]

Defiance, that movie with Daniel Craig. I think it was a completely waste of my time and my money. I usually find positive things about everything I watch, but in this case it was almost impossible.

It felt very artificial, I think it didn't handle the war drama in the right way. It felt like they were putting neon signs saying "okay, cry now". I really want to bury this film in the most vile depths of hell.

 

[Shokew]

Anything Pure Flix makes. Christian fear-mongering and propagandandic BS at its finest.

 

[Xarpho]

It was a Lisa episode, it so it was going to suck. Same plot as usual: Lisa's feeling sad/is a social outcast/no one likes her because she's so smart. The only thing funny was Homer eating Lady Gaga's meat dress.

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.

Pretty much any 2000s-up Lisa episode is going to suck and be a preachy piece of shit. I don't watch the Simpsons to learn about sustainable energy or the environment. I watch it to laugh my ass off.

A couple of years ago, when FXX had Simpsons on all the time (dunno if it still does), I watched a gamut of episodes, and it's surprising how much quality varies. Some of the episodes were highly enjoyable and some of them flat-out sucked. Anything after, say, 2001 is usually terrible (the Lisa episode in question had her become a magician because...reasons). Homer's characterization from a slightly dim everyman to full retard was annoying, as well as how he grew to hate Abe, including a fantasy sequence where he murders the old man after a car accident.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I can't watch Ancient Aliens even just to make fun of it. I'm not a "yell at the TV" person but I inevitably end up howling at these nutbars or just facepalming.

The Paranormal Activity series.

Let's just put a few cameras in the houses of people who are apparently rich enough to live in a picturesque one horse town (like every other commercial out there), have a copy/paste man and woman in the house with no emphasis on their imperfections acting like meth heads pretending this shit is even remotely scary at all. How about people who go to the theater these days are knuckle dragging spoonheads that are too easily amused or terrified?

I was hoping the Blair Witch trend would've stopped being a thing but that's very, very optimistic.

Also shout out to the people who thought rebooting Crow was a COOL TOTALLY RAD IDEA, all of you are exceptional individuals that should accidentally trip on a Colt .45 with its safety unlocked. There's a reason we never brought Heath Ledger's Joker back, or brought back Crocodile Hunter... Truly tasteless horseshit big business studio's pull off.

I haven't seen any of them, but I've heard it's basically people freaking out over weird bumping sounds. I've heard it said that if you live in an old house that makes a lot of creaking noises then nothing about the movies are even kind of scary. There is nothing frighting about the expanding and contracting of floorboards as a response to ambient temperature changes!

 

[TheMightyMonarch]

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...

Ugh. I hate it when shows have guest stars and they spend the entire time kissing that person's ass and saying "Isn't this person GREAT!?!" That Archer episode with Burt Reynolds come to mind.

 

[nonnewtonian]

Spider-Man 3. The first two Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies are cheesy fun. The third? A complete clusterfuck of a film. Too many plotlines, too many villains, everyone is underdeveloped, and emo Peter Parker. I saw it opening night and I can still vividly remember how the packed theater when from excited to praying for the death of the universe. The only enjoyment I got out of it was when at least 10 people in the theater shouted "FUCK YOU" when Peter jumps in front of the giant American flag.

 

[Xarpho]

Spider-Man 3. The first two Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies are cheesy fun. The third? A complete clusterfuck of a film. Too many plotlines, too many villains, everyone is underdeveloped, and emo Peter Parker. I saw it opening night and I can still vividly remember how the packed theater when from excited to praying for the death of the universe. The only enjoyment I got out of it was when at least 10 people in the theater shouted "FUCK YOU" when Peter jumps in front of the giant American flag.

I actually never saw Spider-Man 3, but I seem to remember it being a huge let-down (perhaps one of the biggest superhero film let-downs until the DC Cinematic Universe). I did read the novelization, though, and thought the novelization was alright, because it had a number of plot points that were cut from the film. Not that it made a good story, but at least it made sense.

 

[Hypodermic Johnny]

I hate Fox's Lucifer if for no other reason than my friends will not shut the fuck up about it like it's the second coming of Jesus.

Yes, we get it, Satan is hot. Everyone loves the snarky charming asshole who got an unfair deal from God because he questioned the status quo/went against the ultimate authority. The first rebel. There is literally nothing original about this concept at all; I'm pretty sure this has been the interpretation of the Morningstar since fucking Paradise Lost.

Also, I like The Flash, and I want to keep liking The Flash. I do not, however, like plot-relevant crossovers that require me to watch four shows to follow what's going on because I do not have the time (or the money, in the case of the DCCU). It is in fact why I fucking left the Marvel cinematic franchise.

Besides, who gives a shit about Batniss Everqueen and his broody archer problems? Or the time-traveling sidekick clusterfuck that's Legends of Tomorrow? Literally nobody. Bring back Captain Cold and put him back on the show he was actually entertaining on.