Overrated Side of life

[ValkyrieofHouston]

We've had threads to talk about those things that we think are particularly well done and well run - how about those things that don't live up to the hype? Just a couple to get you started:

Overrated things:

Hotels: Most FourSeasons and RitzCarltons, almost all European hotels - in particular older "grand" hotels.

Restaurants: Le Bernardin (the food is good, but the room looks like the lobby of a JWMarriott), The Four Seasons, Zuni Cafe in SF (shoot me, but I've never had a good meal there), Sparks Steak House (ALWAYS over cook Medium Rare), Masa ($400/person to be abused).

Apparel: Bally Shoes (poorly made for the price)

Cars: Maserati (have looked bad for years)

Movies: Titanac - ( ARRRGGGHHH!!!!! ), Forest Gump (How did this puff piece beat Shawshank and Pulp Fiction?), GoodFellas (I get it, real mobsters are really violent)

Actors: Nicolas Cage (I just watched ConAir on cable - his southern accent is the funniest thing since Kevin Costner switching accents in Robin Hood)

Books and Authors: The DiVinci Code - Every chapter ends like a batman episode!, Caleb Carr (The Alchemist was one of the worst books I've ever read), JD Salinger (yeah, you read me right - wayyy over praised)

I'll think of some more.

 

[casper114]

Paris Hilton

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

How about Da Vinci Code. Horrendously written, an absurd plot and an overall pseudo-intellectual approach. A badly-written thriller doesn't become "intellectual" just because it uses art and architecture as plot devices.

Movies: E.T.

Manipulative crap. Scientists are about to make what might be the most important discovery of all time (intelligent aliens), and we're supposed to root for the alien to get away? Sorry, I was pulling for the scientists. I don't mind being manipulated by a movie, but I resent being manipulated in a way that makes the good guys look like evil monsters.

Star Wars:

The consensus view seems to be that the recent episodes are not up to the standards set by the first 3. Go back and look at the first 3. They're garbage. Horrendous acting, horrendous scripts, ridiculous plots. When they came out the only thing they had going for them was special effects, but now even that doesn't work, since we've been there and done that with lots of other movies.

ET and Star Wars fans, you're now free to flame away.

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

Originally posted by: casper114
Paris Hilton

LOL... So TWUE!

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

wendy's

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

Things that I can do without:

1) Online dating

2) Hollywood couples adopting 3World babies.

3) Blogs

4) 40+ women who dress exactly like their 20 year old daughters

5) Another movie by Michael Bay

6) Michael Moore

7) Fox "News" Channel

8) CNN

9) Having to pay, like, $12 for FOUR Gillette Mach 3 razor blades.

10) The bloated New York Times Sunday edition

 

[sonz70]

Sex with blonds

 

[kogase]

The sun. The sun sucks. Also The Matrix. That movie was barely 'B' grade. Wolverines. They aren't that cool, etc.

 

[godmare]

swiffer

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

Originally posted by: sonz70
Sex with blonds

LOL... you are something else my friend... by the way, what do you charge for your time?

GRIN

 

[brunswickite]

Phil Jackson

Quentin Tarentino

 

[godmare]

angelina jolie

FPS games

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70
Sex with blonds

LOL... you are something else my friend... by the way, what do you charge for your time?

GRIN

Much cheaper sadly lol, The agency I work through doesn't take that much of a cut compared to others, so it runs now from 600-700/night. I did start at a much lower 425 average a night. But, it seems the males always get paid less in the industry for some reason.

 

[meltdown75]

GRINs are overrated...

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: casper114
Paris Hilton

FTW

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70
Sex with blonds

LOL... you are something else my friend... by the way, what do you charge for your time?

GRIN

Much cheaper sadly lol, The agency I work through doesn't take that much of a cut compared to others, so it runs now from 600-700/night. I did start at a much lower 425 average a night. But, it seems the males always get paid less in the industry for some reason.

Damn baby that's fvcked up! Do you ever advertise on Eros or other places??

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
GRINs are overrated...

GRIN GRIN GRIN GRIN

 

[loic2003]

99% of pop music including all R&B, hip-hop, rap, etc.

'It' girls eg Palmer-Tomkinson, Hilton, etc.

Women in general.

Anything to do with wizards, dragons and all that BS eg LOTR (although a well made movie), Potter, D&D, etc.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: meltdown75
GRINs are overrated...

GRIN GRIN GRIN GRIN

GRIN, FTW

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70
Sex with blonds

LOL... you are something else my friend... by the way, what do you charge for your time?

GRIN

Much cheaper sadly lol, The agency I work through doesn't take that much of a cut compared to others, so it runs now from 600-700/night. I did start at a much lower 425 average a night. But, it seems the males always get paid less in the industry for some reason.

Damn baby that's fvcked up! Do you ever advertise on Eros or other places??

No, I still work in an office, and go to univeristy, so anonymity is attractive for me.

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70
Sex with blonds

LOL... you are something else my friend... by the way, what do you charge for your time?

GRIN

Much cheaper sadly lol, The agency I work through doesn't take that much of a cut compared to others, so it runs now from 600-700/night. I did start at a much lower 425 average a night. But, it seems the males always get paid less in the industry for some reason.

Damn baby that's fvcked up! Do you ever advertise on Eros or other places??

No, I still work in an office, and go to univeristy, so anonymity is attractive for me.

I'm laughing and looking at the bottom of your sig here, what the hell is neffing,, I keep thinking you were sniffing something while drinking? LMAO....! WTF???

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston

Originally posted by: sonz70
Sex with blonds

LOL... you are something else my friend... by the way, what do you charge for your time?

GRIN

Much cheaper sadly lol, The agency I work through doesn't take that much of a cut compared to others, so it runs now from 600-700/night. I did start at a much lower 425 average a night. But, it seems the males always get paid less in the industry for some reason.

Damn baby that's fvcked up! Do you ever advertise on Eros or other places??

No, I still work in an office, and go to univeristy, so anonymity is attractive for me.

I'm laughing and looking at the bottom of your sig here, what the hell is neffing,, I keep thinking you were sniffing something while drinking? LMAO....! WTF???

I came on drunk and made a bunch of "hi" and "hellllo" posts, and got baned the next morning. Nef was apparently a person here who made a bunch of useless posts (ATOT founder?) and was banned for it.

 

[xospec1alk]

personally i thought Sparks was pretty damn good.

 

[brunswickite]

Radiohead

 

[MrsBugi]

Shamalayan (sp?).