I can’t make it more than an hour though the first Lord Of The Rings without falling asleep. It just doesn’t fancy me.
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I have bookshelves full of Superman comics, graphic novels, books, basically anything in print I can get my hands on. And I've read every last one of them. I grew up on Christopher Reeve Superman films and will still watch all 4 of them. I've watched the old Fleischer cartoons, Super Friends, the 90s animated series, and all Justice League shows. I own the entire Smallville series on DVD. I was one of the dozen or so people who subscribed to DC streaming service before Max. And I've watched every Superman movie and TV show that came out in the last 25 years.
I've never gone back and watched Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. There is no reason I've never watched it other than I just haven't gotten around to it.
I've never seen 2001: Space Odyssey, I already tried watching it multiple times, but always end up falling asleep.
Similarly, I've never managed to finish Firefly, usually watch a couple of episodes and forget about it.
Also up until very recently (less than 2 years ago) I had never played any Call of Duty games.
I've yet to watch Schindler List. I feel like it's signing up for feeling bad for 2 hours 😕
I'm also big into Sci-fi, and have yet to watch the OG Star Treks, Stargate, Babylon 5, or Dr. Who
Never watched Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. (Or countless other shows)
Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.
Social media is the devil. I have Lemmy and that's enough
Agreed.
I've heard "I don't trust people who don't have instagram" more than once, but the last time was in 2021, so I dunno how's the current sentiment
Nowadays it's "I don't trust people who don't have PixelFed".
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I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.
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I've never seen Lost, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or any of the rest of the mandatory drama television genre. I gave up partway through watching Battlestar Galactica and kinda just stopped watching television.
For awhile there, the only non-technical conversation I could have was "Did you see Game of Thrones last night?" "No, I don't watch that show." "Oh. Bye." Humanity's ability to talk about anything except heartburn drama television for the last decade and a half kind of weaned me off of socializing.
I have never read the Harry Potter series.
I plowed through all sorts books as a kid in the 2000s but never picked them up.
Yeah I think I'm cool with that.
They're not bad, if you enjoy the movies the books are at least as good, and they explain lots of the plot-holes I had with the movies. But they're definitely not great, there are still several plot-holes and stuff that she clearly made up as she went. That being said, they're enjoyable, and you should get through them fairly quickly.
Do you still enjoy fantasy aimed at kids? if you do the series is good. If you don’t you’ll see all the flaws
I've never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that's pretty much it. But no longer.
Game of Thrones maybe. To coin a phrase, “spare me the drama, and the incest.”
I love fantasy, it was right up my alley at the right time, but all the grit in GoT for me just resolves to alt-history Europe.
I've never seen or read Game of Thrones either, despite also being a big fantasy fan. I just never got around to it when it was popular, and after hearing how it collapsed in upon itself at the end I don't feel the need to.
I've tried multiple times, but it doesn't gel with me. Alt history, like you said, bit also 'lotr with abundant sex' just doesn't sit well with me.
And then the world was devastated by the badly written ending, and I felt vindicated without even having skin in the game.
I don't really think that LoTR and GoT have that much in common other than both being popular and fantasy. LoTR is high-magic, focuses mostly on a small group or two of people, is done in the context of an impending apocalypse, and follows a quest. GoT is low-magic, follows many different story threads, and is mostly people navigating their political and social environments.
They both have dragons, both have some important characters be nobles, and both are kinda faux-European, but I can't think of all that many things that really tie the two together. I'd say that most fantasy that I've read is significantly closer to LoTR than GoT is.
That being said, I'm basing this on the books.
Oh yeah Tal, my reference point for fantasy is only LOTR. So the people telling me to watch Got because I was a big Tolkien fan might have instilled the comparison in me.
But I lacked the staying power to get a proper comparison
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I've never seen a (modern) marvel movie, despite being a fan of the comics and cartoons as a kid.
I've never seen a harry potter film.
The harry potter movies were not good. Daniel Radcliff, however good of an actor he is now, back then, wasn't. he literally ruined those movies.
You're not missing out on much with Harry Potter. It's one of those stories that are "just there". Not really much depth.
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I never watched Game of Thrones. I only watched the very last episode because the friends decided it'd be fun to watch, and even then I was disappointed lol
I also never read any books based on any RPG or other games (D&D, World of Darkness, 40k)
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No Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. I tried a little and gave up.
Never used any music or video streaming service. Yo ho
Not quite what you are asking, but the first time I saw the video from 9-11 of a plane crashing into a building was around 2014-2015 when I moved to NYC. The people I was working with there couldn't seem to believe that I had never seen it.
I've never seen a single James Bond movie or know anything about the scenes or characters, except for the fact there's an agent named James Bond who likes his name and always looks dressed to the nines.
I didn't watch the show Firefly. I had already been using this screenname for a long time when that show came out, but people began to assume I was a fan and named myself after it.
While I'm generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn't feel like checking out another show by the same guy.
I do have the DVDs on my shelf, having picked them up cheap secondhand ages ago thinking I might just get it over with someday, but the more I've learned about Joss Whedon over the years the less inclined I find myself to check it out.
I never manage to finish it, I started it twice already, and there are some gems there, there's one scene in particular which I LOVE: https://youtu.be/yXuhtZ9lh9A but for some reason can never get myself to finish it.
Joss Whedon is problematic, but dang he made some good TV. There's a reason Firefly got a movie after not getting picked up (Serenity, it's also great), and a reason it still has a devoted following to this day.
...But oh man that opening song... lol
While I’m generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn’t feel like checking out another show by the same guy.
fwiw, Firefly is nothing like Buffy.
I got my nerd card revoked after a convention when I revealed that I hadn't seen any of the Marvel movies. And this was about 10 years ago. I eventually made exceptions for Deadpool and GotG.
Wot!? Dude!! I started playing DnD just to get the nerd card and this is how I find out I still don't qualify??? I've watched X-Men (2000) though, does that count?
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Most comedy movies from the 00s-10s, for me. Anchorman, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Step Brothers... If Judd Apatow was involved or it starred SNL celebrities, I probably never saw it.
Never saw:
• Game of Thrones
• Breaking Bad
• The Walking Dead
• Maybe have only seen 2 or 3 Marvell movies.
• Haven’t seen a single episode of any anime.
• Couldn’t name a famous YouTuber if I tried.
I’m sure there’s more, but for now, that what I can come up with.
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