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What is a book or tv series you’ve read or watched that was really bad, but still had you hooked anyway?What kept you reading even though it wasn’t very good?
@kathleen The Tobey Maguire Spider-man movies. The first one had terrible acting, but the second and third ones are better. Honestly, I kept watching them because I wanted to know what they were about. I would say that I liked the second and third ones a whole lot better than the first. In my opinion, they kept getting better with each one I watched.
I personally really didn’t like the Eragon series. And yet, I read all four of them (and they are super long!)
What kept me reading was the fact that there was a certain character that I really, really liked and I wanted to see what would happen to him.
Overall, I think I can stay with any story – no matter how boring or poorly written it is – as long as I am in love with the characters.
@kathleenramm I never read any of those kinds of books but I am guessing from what I hear. Twilight is one of those books.
If that doesn’t prove how important characters are, I don’t know what does!
@leon-fleming
Were they worth watching? What made the later movies better than the first?
@kathleenramm Weeelllll…it depends, I guess, on why you’re watching them. I watched them because I wanted to know why people liked them so much when they came out. And also because people said they were terrible films, too. I’m not really sure if they were worth watching as much as they were interesting to watch, you know what I mean? I may or may not watch them again, but the experience was sorta fun, really cheesy in parts, and just plain interesting.
I’d say that the second and third movies were much better partly because of the acting and partly because of the story lines. #1 was terrible because it had terrible acting (with some of the actors), and I could guess at its story line. Plus, the Green Goblin’s suit was terrible. Willem Dafoe did some of the better acting as the Green Goblin, though.
@leon-fleming
Ah yes, the difference between interesting movies verses movies that are interesting to watch.
If your watching with some good friends it can be really fun to just laugh at movies. Especially cheesy ones with bad acting.
@kathleenramm Yep; this was one of those we laughed at in parts. XD
The Flash TV series. Actually, all of the CW TV series (Arrow, Supergirl, Gotham). I’ve watched all of them, and didn’t really enjoy any of them ( stopped watching Supergirl and Gotham because the content was awful). But I watched the Flash in particular almost obsessively because for some reason, even though logically I knew the plots were awful and recycled and the characters had no growth or depth whatsoever, something really connected me to it.
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