Books/TV/movies that everyone else seem to love

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27 Dec 2016, 12:08 pm

Are there any books/TV/movies that everyone else seem to love but you don't like very much? This is my list of the things I've actually read/watched:

Books
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Percy Jackson
- Divergent
- Lord of the Rings
- The Hobbit
- Narnia

TV/movies
- Frozen
- Finding Nemo
- Dispicable Me
- Pretty much any Disney Pixar film
- Mary Poppins
- The Notebook
- Vampire Diaries


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03 Jan 2017, 8:05 pm

Star Wars Original Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)
Juno

The Andromeda Strain (book)



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03 Jan 2017, 9:33 pm

Not into Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, or anything like that. And I'm lukewarm towards Star Wars.

And while I thought Guardians of the Galaxy was OKAY, it was probably one of my least favorite Marvel movies.



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03 Jan 2017, 10:11 pm

Books:
The Color Purple
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
A Million Little Pieces
The Lovely Bones
Angela's Ashes
Stephanie Plum books
books by Jane Austen
The Bell Jar
Matilda
A Tale of Two Cities
Tuesdays With Morrie
All Quiet on the Western front
Song of Soloman
The Witches
A Doll's House
A Separate Peace
A Streetcar Named Desire


Movies:
The Princess Bride
Clueless
The Princess Diaries
How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
Ten Things I Hate About You
13 Going on 30
Never Been Kissed
Miss Congeniality
27 Dresses
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Maid in Manhatten
The Wedding Planner
She's All That
Grease
Failure to Launch
What Women Want
The Devil Wears Prada
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Beaches
The Color Purple
The Lovely Bones
Matilda
Bridget Jones' Diary
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
O Brother Where Art Thou
Life as a House
Spanglish
Guardians of the Galaxy
Ice Age
Spirited Away
Saving Private Ryan
Pretty Woman
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Freaky Friday
White Chicks
Bring It On
We're The Millers
Bad Santa
The Next Best Thing
Runaway Bride
French Kiss
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Ghost
Juno
Dangerous Minds
Dead Poets Society
The Breakfast Club
Before Sunrise
Legends of the Fall
Fight Club
Driving Miss Daisy
Jungle 2 Jungle
Krippendorf's Tribe
For Richer or Poorer
Hotel Rwanda
The Godfather
Braveheart
Goodwill Hunting
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Million Dollar Baby
In and Out
Rocky
Cinderella Man
Center Stage
Simon Birch

Have never read/seen and therefore cannot judge, but highly suspect I wouldn't like:
Fifty Shades of Gray
Twilight Series
Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus
The Rules
Amelie
Bridges of Madison County
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Bad Teacher
Chocolat
Nicolas Sparks books
What A Girl Wants
The Fault in Our Stars
The Aviator
Jersey Girls
Gangs of New York
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Eat, Pray, Love
The Nanny Diaries
Steel Magnolias
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Extremely Loud, and Incredibly Close
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Mermaid Chair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Joy Luck Club
Minions
The Passion of the Christ
Waiting for Superman
Finding Nemo
Toy Story
Uglies
Sophie's Choice
The Poisonwood Bible
The English Patient
Gone Girl
Like Water For Chocolate
Shopaholic
Dirty Dancing
Sixteen Candles
Kungfu Panda
Gigli
The Catcher in the Rye
Atlas Shrugged
Dukes of Hazzard
Black Hawk Down
Monster's Ball
A Child Called "It"
Three Cups of Tea
Gladiator
Napoleon Dynamite
American Beauty
Revenge of the Nerds
300
Pearl Harbor