I'm inclined to dislike things, as a rule.
There are so many forms of entertainment that achieve great popularity and acclaim that do absolutely nothing for me. I continually react with indifference or outright contempt, and resist attempts to get me to agree with the established opinion.
Part of it is that I detest overly graphic violence, of which there is a proliferation in popular entertainment, and that limits my options considerably. My imagination and 'empathy' towards what is happening are far too strong to allow such things to pass without unacceptable discomfort--I imagine what it would be like if it happened to me, and that makes it horrible and not fun. I do recognise that there needs to be a distinction between the horror of real violence and the sort of 'clean' killing that takes place in many movies, but unfortunately I think that point is lost on many people--they become so desensitised that even the most ghastly images and acts cease to have any effect on them at all.
But my general dislike of things goes well beyond that. I can't really explain a lot of it, but there's just some kind of disconnect between what other people like and what actually affects me in a positive way. Take Seinfeld, for example: a tremendously successful tv show, but one which ultimately does very little for me. I'll watch it if other people want to, and I'll laugh at all the funny parts, but I feel no real connection with it, and would actively prefer not to watch it if possible. I feel the same way about nearly all popular music. I don't like being bombarded with too many new things either, because I already know I'll react this way to most of them.
But then there are certain things that get to me in a huge way, and I admire and revere them beyond rational justification. Star Wars of course is the obvious example for movies, no matter what Lucas has done recently. The Lord of the Rings is such an excellent book series that I am still in awe of it (though the casual destruction of so many nuances of character and sense of place left me with little but cold disdain for the Jackson films). I absolutely adore Metallica's first four albums, and music by Vivaldi and Bach speaks to me in a way that nothing else can even approximate. Firefly is the best tv show I've ever seen, and the Legend of Zelda video games give me immense enjoyment. There are many other things I like too; these are just some of the highest on the list.
For the most part I'm at loss to explain just why I like these things so much, other than that they're just that damn good. In recent years I've become more adept at analysing works of art on a technical level and uncovering what makes them work or not work, but there is a huge subjective component to it all that no measure of logic can adequately describe. I have no real conclusion to relate, so I'll end on that note.