[ SECRET POST #2715 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2715 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Tales of Innocence]


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03.
[Transamerica]


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04.
[Final Fantasy VIII]


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05.
[Interview with the Vampire]


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06.
[Andrew Lloyd Webber]


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07.
[Critical Miss]


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08.
[Great British Menu/Emily Watkins]


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09.
[Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls]


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10.
[Pacific Rim]


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11.
[Star Trek TNG]


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12.
[Homestuck]


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13.
[The Man From Nowhere]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 058 secrets from Secret Submission Post #388.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

What movies, books or shows are you "supposed" to like - either because they're classics or because they're inspiring or whatever else - that you don't? Or liked at the time, but in hindsight don't like as much?

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, uhhh Pacific Rim.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[silvereriena]

I loved Rurouni Kenshin as a kid, and even though I don't dislike it now, I just know that I'd be pretty meh about it if I tried to rewatch it. I'm still interested in checking out the live action movie.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[solticisekf]

The movie is more grown up. It's actually quite nice. And I believe there's another movie in the works.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

12 Years a Slave.

Found it for the most part boring and overrated. Some scenes were really well directed and gave me knots in my stomach in horror. (Like Solomon almost being hanged while everyone in the background went on like business as usual because such violence and evil was business as usual. That was brilliant.)But I was expecting something along the lines like Schindler's List by the fuss. Something that I could not ignore and that would affect me deeply. (I was bawling with that movie.) But...no. The only time I came close to crying was at the end when Solomon was discovered and freed and he ran into his friend's arms.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. The first hour, I was squirming but a lot of it was boring.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[dethtoll]

Man, you know what, fuck A Clockwork Orange and fuck people who think that movie is good.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

I quite liked the book, but mostly because I thought the nadsat was interesting. Conslang creoles 4 lyfe, yo.

What specifically don't you like about it?

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

I can't ever watch that movie because I form indelible associations really easily and I don't want any indelible music / rape scene associations.

I liked the language Burgess invented for the book, but not the book itself.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[quirkytizzy]

Evangelion. That was the hot nerd thing when I was getting into anime and I mostly wanted to smack all the characters. I liked the mechs, but there are better ones out there.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[a_potato]

I know I've got a bunch of these, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is 'The Dark Knight.' Everyone was like, "this movie is Jesus!" But watching it felt like swallowing small bits of metal.

OH WAIT. I thought of something else: 'The Name of the Wind.' Holy fuck, that book. So many people I know rec'd it, but it drove me bonkers. I was feeling it during the first few chapters, but then it flashed back to Kvothe's youth, and I spent the duration of the book waiting for the flashback to end so that we could get back to the interesting bits. I was about 3/4 of the way through when I realized that wasn't going to happen, because at that point, it couldn't. I was so pissed at all the time I'd wasted.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

I could only get through 5 minutes of Titanic before getting so bored I had to switch over.

Also everyone seems to really love the Romeo & Juliet with Leonardo Dicaprio but it seemed really stupid to me. I mean, if you want to have Romeo & Juliet in a modern setting with guns then fine, that's cool, but to still have the Shakespearean old english just jarred with me really badly.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

Jane Austen and all the Bronte sisters can go fuck themselves. NOTHING HAPPENS EXCEPT 19TH CENTURY SQUEEING OVER SOME DOUCHEBAG. Why do people like these so much, it's not even interesting on a psychological level? Frankly most of the 19th century is fucking overrated on the literary front.

Catcher in the Rye can also suck my metaphorical dick.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[slashgirl]

Elementary. I watched the pilot and it was *meh* but what really soured me on it was all the crap on tumblr about how much more awesome than BBC sherlock it was. Oh, so groundbreaking to have a female Watson. Whatever, if they were truly groundbreaking it'd be a female sherlock/male watson, or, *gasp* female Sherlock AND Watson.

All I can say is thank god for xkit and blacklisting....

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Rent at the time, but now I feel it's easy... idealistic 20-something bait. I still appreciate the message and love the songs, but the characters actually kind of annoy me. Though Angel and Collins are still love. And Joanne.

*Ducks*

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[ariakas]

Children of Men and Saving Private Ryan. The former was decent but utterly ruined by the last ten minutes or so, and only the first ten minutes of the latter were any good at all.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

Legally Blonde. I can't get behind hailing it as a feminist subversion of the dumb blonde stereotype. When I saw it (before tumblr, before I was much into internet discourse at all) I thought it was just one giant blonde joke played straight. "Look at this cute blonde getting a law degree and being good at it... by knowing about hair care and stuff!" is the joke. Because that would totally never really happen, right? (Though none of that actually upset me as much as that one part with the tricking a gay man into outing himself and bisexual erasure that came with it.)

Stanley Kubrick's stuff

[(Anonymous)]

Every bit that I've seen, I just feel no connection to the characters at all. It always seems very cold, clinical and I feel very distanced from the story, which is extremely off-putting to me.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an enormous, hardcore fantasy fan - so the fact that I despise Game of Thrones seems like sacrilege to some.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

X-Files.

Everyone I know loves it. I don't get it.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[philstar22]

Sherlock. It seems like everyone who is a Doctor Who/Supernatural/Harry Potter/MCU/etc. fan is a Sherlock fan. I just don't get it. And the thing is, I don't even get the connection between it and the other fandoms because it isn't remotely scifi or fantasy or genre in any way.

When it comes to detectives, give me Poirot every time.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly love things that everyone else seems to dislike. But I can't stand Law and Order (any series) and I used to love Tom Robbins but I don't any more.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[otakugal15]

Current Doctor Who.

It took me forever to see ANYTHING with Nine and Ten and that was due to a friend. No9t really because I didn't wanna see it, but because, at the time, I had shitty internet and was unable to download/stream anything from it.

I like Nine and Ten, but I saw a bit of Eleven and the companion with Twelve and just went "nope!" I can't, I don't get the appeal.

Sherlock is another.

Supernatural

Teen Wolf

Attack on Titan looks way too weird for me.

Free...I got over that kind of bullshit during my yaoi phase. I know it's not yaoi, but ugh, pretty boy animu isn't exactly my cup of tea anymore.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[(Anonymous)]

I can't stand Ernest Hemingway. I hate his writing style but everyone in my program worships at the asshole's feet.

Re: Movies/books/shows you're supposed to like but don't?

[thezmage]

Young justice
Danny Phantom