For me, 2 things come to mind; Berserk & the Long Walk
Berserk may sound controversial, but I just didn’t have a good time watching the 90’s anime. I felt angry while watching it. I just didn’t like the characters for how dickish they were (especially Guts & Casica) and the setting was too miserable for me. And some of you may go, “but the comic is 10x better” (I know it’s manga, I’m just calling a comic to piss of people) I also just don’t like dark fantasy in general, since they’re edgy, pretentious, and worst of all… they’re ugly. There’s a reason why I never played the Dark Souls games, outside of the difficulty
The Long Walk movie is really well made movie with amazing acting. But man was it a miserable movie to go through. Seeing all those kids getting shot by soldiers for being slower was painful to watch.
Side note: there’s a lot of critically acclaimed stuff I like (Cowboy Bebop & the Dark Knight). It’s just that entertainment is so subjective that it’s not mutually exclusive to writing.
Lord of the rings. I watched the whole trilogy of movies, and I tried to read the Hobbit. They’re all so boring, I don’t get the appeal.
I’m glad I saw them in theaters. I’m glad they contributed what they did. They’re cool every many years. But holy fuck those are long movies. And people always want to watch the super extended directors cut versions that are like 4 hours each. One time we watched the first one after eating brownies. What a horrible mistake. That felt like literal days. I couldn’t believe how slow time was passing, and then when we were done, it was only the first movie.
The Hobbit book isn’t great. The Lord of the rings books are great. They’re just written differently.