you don't know what you don't know.
nothing in this thread so far screams weird to me yet.
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I have two of yours. honestly I just don't care what I might have or not seen. there is just to much that flies by to fast in modern times and everything is fractured. Everything that is a thing now likely was never watched by a majority of people. its not like when the broadcasters were the only game in town. even with cable their stuff was seen by more eyeballs because it was available. I remember folks who felt it was a badge of honor to not see stuff everyone has seen. like its a wonderful life.
Some of the older "must watch" series mentioned on here I feel fall into a category where, at the time they came out, they were really good, but down the line and some less-spectacular releases in the series later, they're not that big a deal.
This includes:
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The Alien series. I'd say that Alien was a good movie for its time. Same for Aliens. Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are kinda meh. They're not awful, but they aren't as good as the earlier movies.
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Star Wars. I really liked the original three movies. Certainly at the time, I'd have recommended them to pretty much anyone. But The Phantom Menace really killed the series for me.
I'm not sure that it's all that surprising for someone who wasn't watching movies when they came out not to go back and watch them.
Rogue One is one of my top 3 SW films.
Yes, all three of those.
I'm also not really into superhero stuff so I've seen like 2 Marvel movies.
Only ever seen one episode of The Sopranos (enjoyed it, but never went back for some reason).
Never seen:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Game of Thrones
- Oppenheimer (nor Barbie)
- Forrest Gump
- Saving Private Ryan
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Rocky (seen 2-4, but not the original)
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Good Morning Vietnam
- Braveheart
- Brokeback Mountain
- Borat
- Any of the Daniel Craig Bond movies
Mafia stuff always aggressively puts me off, I have no taste for it at all and find no enjoyment in it. I never watched The Sopranos, and despite being a huge movie geek in general I've never managed to stay awake during any Godfather movie.
Maybe I was "bumped off" in a past life or something.
Ha, maybe :-)
I generally enjoy that sort of thing, Godfather, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, etc but the Sopranos is just so big, I need to set aside some time to watching it. I have the first 4 seasons on DVD, but never watched them yet!
Pokemon here. I played go for like 20 mins. I was in highschool and super busy when the first came out and never got interested.
Game of thrones and a ton of shows (when I lived in the US. I've been living in Japan the last 10 years so I have no clue what's current).
Also hawk tuah and such. I don't have TikTok or basically any social media anymore so no clue what's going on.
I watched the very first episode of The Walking Dead and realized I didn't like zombie stuff and didn't want to get pulled into a show about it. No matter how much people were raving about it. Just not for me.
I also quit The West Wing about halfway through the first episode.
The west wing is very good.
Does the west wing get better? Similar to OP I watched the first few episodes and couldn't stand it. It came off to me like the typical big network show of that time, with unrelatable characters, cheesy dialogue, and cliched storylines.
Yet I've seen lots of praise for the show...and memes with Martin Sheen's character that I like. Would you say there's a point when the show starts to get into its groove?
Eh, I don't know. Been many years since and thus I don't remember many details, but indeed the first few episodes where not very gripping for me, and the whole show started being very good after I had familiarized myself with the cast first.
I would say that the characters and the dialog are the strong points of the show. If that doesn't click for you, then maybe skip it.
It is in a "typical" Aaron Sorkin fashion, at least from a couple of decades ago as I have not watched modern shows of him like Facebook etc. I did like it. I also liked very much, maybe more, the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip which had similar style and dialogs, which I would heartily recommend to anyone liking the style.
Pulp fiction. It's been on my list for ages, for some reason I never get around to watch it.
Breaking Bad
Lost
The walking dead
There's lots more among the popular titles but I think those are my worst blindspots when it comes to popular media.
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Never watched E.T.
Everything other than squid game, among us and minecraft
I haven't watched a lot of movies in general, be it mainstream or indie. Completely my own fault, since I'm built different when it comes to setting up a roadblock for myself, in that regard.
Pretty much everything? I have very specific likes and pretty much stopped consuming things outside of those, since I can't even fit all the stuff I'm guaranteed to like.
I guess among like-minded people, Final Fantasy 7 is the most glaring omission.
For lemmy, it's probably anything Star Wars or Star Trek.
I technically only played my first pokemon game (official) on emulator around 2020, despite my brother having gen 1, so I wouldn't feel too bad about that personally.
Anyways, some people would probably look at me weird for never having played games like any Resident Evil games or any of the Mass Effect games or really many games like them (BioShock series not included, love those games). Same thing for anything Final Fantasy (excluding 10 on PS2, which I never finished and lost the memory card with my save file). Name just about any game over the past decade that won awards at a big game show and there's a real good chance I've never played them once. Never played on a Wii U (a blessing), Xbox past 360, or anything past PS3.
I have also never seen most of the marvel Rickey Rats owned films. Same with a lot of live action films. Name a real popular one to come out over the past decade, maybe decade and a half, and I probably have not seen it (Sonic not included because I actually enjoyed the first couple and cannot wait to eventually see the third despite the VA of Shadow). Hell, even growing up I didn't watch many live action films because I just didn't care compared to the amazing world of animated cartoons, so my knowledge of live action films is a lot lower than my cartoon knowledge.
Speaking of cartoons/animation, I have never watched a single episode of Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kono Suba, or JoJo, among an absolutely massive list of anime that currently have relevance and such that are currently popular and in people's minds. Also never seen influential older stuff like YuYu Hakusho or Fist of the North Star either.
Star wars and Lord of the Rings
I've seen enough clips and overviews and "facts about" clips to understand that I am not interested enough to invest the time it would take to watch either series. The story of the production of Star Wars is very interesting, the actual story the movies tell, not so much.
Star Wars. I saw maybe 20 minutes of one film of the original trilogy, and 10 minutes of one film of the second trilogy, none of the rest. It's beyond me.
I agree. If I want to watch proper space shenanigans with Muppets targeting a more adult audience, I'll watch Farscape.
Oh Farscape <3 <3 <3
The show that taught me English because I couldn't wait for the subtitles back then! I rewatch it every couple of years, what a fantastic show! It was a long wait to get a proper conclusion when Season 5 was cancelled.
How did learning English from a show known for inventing fictional alien slang words go? Were you dropping "frell" and "yotz" into conversations?
we actually use those with my friends, as we all enjoyed the show ^^
As an adult I have watched some films, not all of them and not sure which, but I still don't really like it. It's like a zoo show for kids in space. I really don't get the appeal for an adult.
I do plan on playing the Kotor games, maybe that would change my mind a bit.
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Someday, I am going to watch "The Notebook", and "Forest Gump", not on the same day.
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I watch like one or two movies a year and very few TV series. I've been watching Dexter - Original Sin now, the previous one I watched was Dexter - New Blood and few years back I watched the first season of The Last of Us but I didn't like it so I never continued with the season two. Before that I watched the Chernobyl mini series and before that Game of Thrones. Suffice to say that you can pretty much name any modern TV serie and I haven't seen it. I've never had Netflix or any other streaming service subscription.
I also don't listen to radio or have Spotify so I have no clue what the popular songs currently are and ChatGPT is the only app on my phone that's somewhat new. No games, no social media - nothing. I do occasionally play DayZ on my PC but that's a 10 year old game as well. I might very well be the most ignorant person when it comes to popular culture that you'll meet all year.