Just as examples:
- I’ve never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
- I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn’t realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
- Oh, and I’ve never seen the “hawk tuah” video.
Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.
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
Social media is the devil. I have Lemmy and that’s enough
Agreed.
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.
GoT’s rise to popularity is almost as crazy as its sharp fall into irrelevance.
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 read the books, and I had no intention of going through the pain again, watching the show.
I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.
I’ve never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that’s pretty much it. But no longer.
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.
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
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.
I’ve only seen the first two parts of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
You monster. That’s somehow even worse than not seeing it at all
“I bow to no one.”
…or whatever the hell Aragorn says when he kills Sauron.
Ill news is an ill guest
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.
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
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.
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)
They only made 4 seasons of Game of Thrones. Really wished they had made more, but what can you do?
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!
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.
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.
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’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
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 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.
