Ever WANT to like something, but just can't?

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has there ever been anything you just don't like for no real reason, and you think that you should like it, or you actually want to like it but can't? Like a TV show or a video game or movie that everyone else won't stop talking about but you just can't get into it?
For example, it seems to me that you can't be a real Nintendo fan unless you love The Legend of Zelda series. I have enjoyed Super Mario games since I was a kid but I just can't get into any Zelda games no matter how good everyone else thinks they are, not even the Ocarina of Time. One time someone suggested I should go and play Dungeons and Dragons but I told her I really didn't care for role-playing games and she thought that was strange. You'd think I'd be just crazy about RPG's because they're like stories made into games and all the different characters with their personalities and fantasy and adventuring and stuff, but I find most RPG's very boring and those card games like Magic the Gathering made me feel all confused. For some reason I'm much more interested in just reading about the characters and their stats and stuff. This has bothered me for quite some time, but I guess I'm used to feeling left out now because I'm just not into what everyone else is.

There is a lot of stuff to hate yet I'm supposed to enjoy.

I wish I liked a lot of foods that I can't stand. Anime and D&D and trading card games seem to be popular among ppl I otherwise get along w/.

I wish I could like sports. I am from Texas and everyone here loves sports; I am an outsider in that respect.

I wish so, so much that I could be a fan of Dark Shadows (2012 movie). You'd think I'd get a lot of enjoyment out of it because I am a huge fan of everything else that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have done as a duo, with my favorites being Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands, but Dark Shadows was a huge disappointment. I actually get jealous of people who enjoyed it more than I did, because they were able to see the good in it that I could not.

What I don't get is that Alice in Wonderland was just as critically panned as Dark Shadows (the two are often lumped together as examples that Tim Burton has lost his magic when it comes to making films), but AiW is sincerely, non-ironically, one of my top favorite movies of all time and I am the first person to jump to its defense when people talk badly about it. Yet whenever anyone criticizes Dark Shadows, I find myself actually agreeing with them. I can't quite put my finger on it, but Alice in Wonderland had some kind of magical quality to it that resonated with me on a deeply personal level, which Dark Shadows severely lacked.

Speaking of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp movies that I wish I could enjoy more, I wish so much that I could become a bigger fan of Nightmare Before Christmas and Pirates of the Caribbean, respectively. NBC is often considered to be Burton's ultimate work (even though he didn't actually direct it, he did come up with the story and characters), just as people often consider PotC to be Johnny Depp's best work. I have seen those movies many, many times, but for some reason, they just don't "click" with me the way that other Burton and/or Depp movies do. I sometimes wonder if NBC and PotC's high levels of popularity have anything to do with it, because as a general rule I have an aversion to anything that I perceive to be "too popular", though there are exceptions - I did get swept up in the Pokemon craze in the 90s as well as the more recent My Little Pony craze.

Sorry for rambling, I'll stop now.

I honestly wish I liked interaction more than I do, but I don't.

I wish that I could like the American music from the 60s as much as I enjoy the music of The British Invasion. I've tried to get into the American stuff, but it's very hard for me to do so. The only American band that I was able to get into, is The Monkees. They're different from the other American bands. I think Davy Jones has a lot to do with that.

Beer

Hard boiled eggs.

Not as far as I can remember, at least. I'm fairly content with what I like. If it fits the general theme of the area, life continues on as usual. If not, I don't give a damn and life continues on as usual. It's too boring being normal anyway.

Clarification - I meant changing yourself to fit the crowd to be normal is too boring.

Yeah - I WANT to like clubbing and mixing with different people, but at the same time I know I can't so I don't.

Artistic type stuff.

All the hipsters love it, but it's all emotional posturing, and so little actual content.

I'd really like hipsters in the sense that I can relate. But I for the life of me can't get into something because of how it makes me feel.

I really, really wish I could like tea. I liked it last year, but now it just tastes awful.

I kinda wish I could like The Hunger Games. My whole family is NUTS over it, and I absolutely despise it. The idea was interesting and I thought I'd like it, but I was filled with absolute rage when I finally saw it. I wish I could like the things my family likes in general.

I wish I were more engaged with TV shows, particularly ones in the science fiction genre. I remember watching the first series of Doctor Who (as in the first series with the ninth doctor) and I actually really enjoyed it for the most part, but then the doctor got replaced and I became detached with it afterwards. I reckon it's because I'm more engaged with science-fiction themed games like Halo and Mass Effect.

lostonearth, so far I haven't gotten into Legend Of Zelda or RPGs in general, either. Nothing against them, really, I just never took the time to sit down and try one. With video games, I'm more a person of the 'quick thrill'.

I guess Pokémon counts as an RPG, but as I understand it, it's quite a simple one in the genre, but that's one game I did invest lots of time in, and I had a blast with it. Nevertheless, I think I can understand where you're coming from with this.

As for myself, I've attempted to get into RahXephon, but found that I couldn't. I had read that it was a lot like Evangelion, and man do I LOVE Evangelion. Some even described it as 'like Evangelion, but it makes actual sense and the characters are likeable'. I guess I can kinda sorta see why people would prefer Kamina Ayato as a protagonist to Ikari Shinji, and why they would like the RahxEphon cast in general better than the EVA cast, but... it's exactly because of that perceived unlikeability that I personally like the EVA cast better. It's because of Shinji's social anxiety and occasional indecisiveness that I like him, it's because of Rei's aloofness, because of Asuka's abrasiveness and arrogance, because of Misato's drinking and relationship problems that I find these people interesting. RahXephon kind of felt to me like an anime that's missing all of that. Of course, the grand mistake is in labeling it as 'like Evangelion', whether I do it or others do it, because everything needs to be judged on its own merits. But even when I do that, I still have trouble getting into the story. For my tastes, it also wasn't action-heavy enough, and googling some forum discussions on this anime, I found that it isn't supposed to be action-heavy. There's apparently a lot of reading between the lines that you need to do, and I guess I don't have the attention span for that. I gave the whole series an honest-to-gosh try, I watched it from start to finish. I liked Ayato! I liked Kuon and Haruka too! But it just doesn't give me that buzz that some other anime series give me.

Something similar is going on with the Excalibur series of Marvel comics. It featured one of my favourite X-Men of all time, Rachel Summers, the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey, but... I had a hard time getting past the 'silly' tone of the comic. It's basically a team that constantly deals with more wacky, 'out-there' phenomena, and I guess I was looking for traditional superheroics.