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[sigma7]

It's the "Things we Hate" meme! Is there a song, film or book that you thought was terrible, but to your continuing amazement everybody else seems to love? Show them how foolish and deluded they are by listing it here! - tyrell via marysiak

Movie: Inventing the Abbotts strikes me first. It was on cable and I was watching it out of utter boredom until a plot twist out of nowhere just...utterly ruined the movie for me, and I couldn't even finish it.

Books: Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. Took an entire class based around it. One of the worst experiences of my life. Awful, awful book, I'm sorry. Made me want to dig up and desecrate his corpse.

Music: "Give a Little Bit," the Goo Goo Dolls. Seriously. I will not brake if I see them crossing the street. An atrocity. I'm not saying Supertramp is implacable, but this is emblematic of a song remake that didn't need to be made by a group that doesn't get it. And it's not hard. Still. It's a travesty.

Comments

[faithx5.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Portrait of a Lady, but I saw the film with Nicole Kidman, and it was terrible. I was blaming it on a poor adaptation, but maybe it's just the story itself.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

The film...meh. Campion did the best she could with what she had, but it's a dreadful piece of work to begin with. I'm not sure how much of that is because of its original form -- serialized, actually -- versus turning it into the novel of th..zzzzsnrufhuh? Sorry. Faded out there for a second.

It's insanely repetitive. James was born in the US and grew up in England, so he was always conscious of the division and interplay between the two, and it's mentioned, I'm not kidding, about once every three pages to the point where you just can't live anymore.

I ended up taking the same class again later (mainly because I just couldn't finish the Portrait class) and the source work was Frankenstein. That was awesome. It helps that I got to do a creative final project, rewriting the novel and setting it in a modern-day frat house. I creeped people out. But then, that's what I do.

[jkgriffin.livejournal.com]

I would so love to read that. Sounds utterly fantastic.

I concur

[cptn-oblivious.livejournal.com]

I would like to read your take on a modern Modern Promethius