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Rezero S2. It is straight up ass.

Jujutsu Kaisen.

Shittiest piece of shit to ever shit on my shitty tv.

I guess books fall in the "whatever" category :P I was majorly disappointed by The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. I actually enjoyed reading about 85% of it, but the ending completely ruined it for me.

Everything Everywhere All At Once. People hyped it, I watched it and thought it started out OK and then just became a stupid mess. And I really like off beat movies.

Dragonball: Evolution.

Yeah, I forced myself to sit through this shitshow. All it did, was solidify my opinion that animation to live action anime adaptations are garbage and will forever be garbage and I will not care how fondly you think some live adaptation of an anime is done.

The last fight sequence of the movie, was nothing but CGI glittery dust being spat between characters, they couldn't be bothered to make actual ki beams. And they had the audacity to think that they'd be successful enough to warrant another film?

Tool's Fear Inoculum. I wasn't really wow'ed by this album. 13 years since 10,000 days and we got this. Just because every song was 10+ minutes long (save for one and it's a joke song. and excluding the Digital version), doesn't mean it was good. But because people waited so long for another Tool album, they just accepted it.

Avengers End Game - after years of build up and creating the entire MCU, it felt like a cop out for them to fix everything with a time travel plot that they set specific rules for. It was just lazy writing.

Moving away from physical buttons and physical media. I don’t mind touchscreens and I do enjoy downloading, but there’s nothing more satisfying than a good click of a button and actually holding something in your hand that you purchased.

Dr Who after Peter Capaldi left.

The plots went to crap. The retconning destroyed decades of canon. I've nothing against the actors involved but the writers should be taken out and beaten.

I know I will get hate for this... Breaking Bad. Everyone I know was hyping it up as the best series ever and how much of a complete bad ass Walter turns into - "it starts slow, but give it a chance and it gets so good". It really set my expectation for what the show would be to something... else entirely I guess? I watched the entire series thinking I was still in the "give it a chance" phase and any episode now it will get proper good and I'll stop hating Walter. Then the end happened and I was left so confused.

For the record I loved Better Call Saul. And I think it's possible that in an alternate timeline where someone just told me "you should watch it, it's decent", I'd might have really liked it. But it was built up so much, and Walter was built up to be such a "cool bad-ass", which he basically never is, that it just ruined it for me.

2001; A Space Odyssey

I generally like older, slower paced movies. The Bridge over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Guns of Navarone are all great movies, despite them being very dated in some regards. With that in mind, I decided to give the movie a try, it being a very famous classic and all. Despite that, my expectations weren't unrealistically high, but the movie still fell very short.

So, it consists of four chapters/acts, basically. The first one (with the monkeys) was very "meh" and could have been shorter, but I didn't mind it too much because, again, old movie. The second act on the moon was better, but honestly was "OK" in my books. The third act, now that was really good in my opinion. I though; "looks like the story is really taking off now!" And then came act 4...

I thought that, while the beginning wasn't great, it was still perfectly salvagable if the ending was decent. Here is where it fell really short, in my opinion. It is, in essence, just a light show with music. Now sure, I bet that for the time that was all very advanced, so I want to give them credit. But it didn't need to last for 15 fucking minutes! Even for that time, that is extremely long. I found myself starting to skip ahead to see if anything else was going to happen. And it did, I guess. Wasn't exactly blown away though.

Now what I think they were trying to achieve was what we now typically describe as eldritch horror, to see something we simply cannot fathom. And I think they did that very well with the tools that they had. But it was just way too long, and that thoroughly put the nail in the coffin for me.

my two favorite media franchises are Star Trek and Sonic. how long have you got?

The Hobbit movies

One of my favourite books as a kid, I don't think I'll ever watch the movies again by choice

Episodes 7 through 9 of Star Wars. Yeah 7 was a retelling of the same story almost but we also live in a world where we're repeating history so... It provided some New Hope for the series but 8 was total subversion of everything though I doubt it was all that well planned out to begin with. There were some questionable decisions and characters in that movie. And 9, I didn't even bother to watch it after I found out Palpatine is back. Just...yeah.

The first MCU Doctor Strange movie. To be fair, I collected the comics when I was a kid, so I had high expectations. I was bound to be disappointed. I saw it on Election Day in 2016, so an all-around shitty day.

The liam neeson wolf depression movie. " The grey" Boring circuitous meaningless misery porn