I watched tons of anime. Now everything feels like a redo of something from years before and it’s hard to get into anything. I feel the same about movies.
I have never had patience for anime that goes on and on for hundreds of episodes. I find a lot of modern anime to be annoying in how flat and boring the presentation is.
That said, I have recently enjoyed both SpyXFamily and Dungeon Meshi. They both have quality to the art and as of yet feel like the are going somewhere and not intended to go on for 500 episodes.
Thanks for the recommendations.
gilmore girls
after a few re-watches i realized what a terrible person lorelai is, making it hard to watch
You should refer to her as her nickname, Rory, since they’re both Lorelei.
Im only 1 season in but she comes off pretty airheaded and undecided, whats your take?
and selfish. borderline narcissistic
I’m watching a lot of old sitcoms and that’s a pretty common characteristic. Seems like there’s always multiple characters lying and manipulating their loved ones for relatively insignificant reasons. At the end we all have a few laughs and think that’s normal.
I remember really enjoying How I Met Your Mother when it was airing. I tried for a rewatch recently and only made it a few episodes in because I was so disinterested. It felt empty, and the humor wasn’t hitting. I think it’s a combination of I’ve changed (I’ve aged out of the “20-something singles fool around in a fantasy version of NYC” demographic) and TV has evolved (good comedy shows are no longer just goofy hijink situations and setups for one-liners).
So instead I rewatched Archer season one (same era as HIMYM) and fortunately that one still slaps.
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Mah. Mah.
The opening to Full Metal Jacket hasn’t, uh, hasn’t aged well.
The show Psych used to be a favorite of mine. When rewatching it recently, there’s a string of episodes a few seasons in that are just straight up all racial stereotypes
That’s interesting. I rewatch psych (as my comfort show) all the time and couldn’t really think of anything egregious. Mind sharing which episodes?
It’s been a hot minute, and I don’t particularly want to spend too much time on it, but I think season 5 episode 1 was the final straw with how they handle Chinese culture.
Watched Beetlejuice with the kids last night. Not as funny as I remember, and they weren’t laughing either.
OTOH, we all thought The Lost Boys was still pretty cool.
Blazing Saddles next?
Beetlejuice was never funny, so much as it was fun and weird.
Blazing Saddles still holds up
Blazing saddles was written with the golden rule of offensive comedy: don’t punch down or up, punch in all directions.
Watched Beetlejuice with the kids last night. Not as funny as I remember, and they weren’t laughing either.
OTOH, we all thought The Lost Boys was still pretty cool.
Blazing Saddles next?
Blazing Saddles holds up for the Common Clay quote alone
I used to really enjoy classic RTS games. But other games are just more interesting that I can’t seem to ever play them much.
I still really enjoy games like Princess Maker 2 even 20+ years later.
I was never great at RTS games, but I always liked expanding my base. I’m happy at the expansion of the “colony builder” subgenre which scratches that itch to make things and is more exciting than a SimCity type city builder, but isn’t all in service of combat like an RTS.
Have you tried rimworld or Oxygen Not Included?
No but they are both in my wishlist. Right now I’m playing Colony Ship, which is coincidentally about a generational colony ship, but the game itself is an RPG.
Colony Ship
Oh wow it has a demo. I’m going to try it, looks like a modern fallout 2 kinda game.
It’s very heavily inspired by the original Fallout game designs. Very heavy on having lots of types of character builds and options to complete quests. I’m probably going to restart soon because my first character wasn’t a great build.
There’s just a lot of anti trans stereotypes in media that I tolerated before. It’s a lot harder to turn a blind eye to it when people use the same misunderstandings to try and tell me I’m sick and confused and bad for just being myself these days
Old media has become such a minefield because there’s just so much awful stuff that went over my head at the time. I’m scared to recommend anything that I haven’t rewatched/reread in the past few years.
It wasn’t all bad, though. One of my favorite TV shows is Babylon 5, a 90’s sci-fi that I watched as it aired but hadn’t seen again until late last year. All I really remembered were the cool space battles and devious political maneuvering, but it turned out to also be an incredibly progressive show. One of the main characters is first introduced while wearing robes that appear to have been partially made from a trans pride flag!
CBS laugh tracks are like nails on a blackboard to me now.
White noise laughter tracks wind me up no end. All the hype and screaming on comedy like it’s an opera or Ellen show is also painful to experience.
I might just be turning into a grumpy old fart but I also refuse to accept that people want awful pop music plumbed into our supermarkets and dance music in restaurants - why does everything degenerate into a nightclub setting?
Other way around for me. I used to find “stupid humor” obnoxious, but now I can appreciate it better.
I quit smoking pot and no longer enjoy the Spin Doctors. Well, that’s half true. I heard them straight one day and decided if that’s the kind of thing I like when I’m high, I should quit.
I only know that one song of them. I really like that. I won’t buy you rockets though.
Well said, Little Miss. You can’t be wrong.
Comedy in general. Others have given specific examples of things that are discriminatory, including racism and sexism.
On the one hand, it’s sad to realize that your old favorite movie is no longer that, but when you realize why I think it’s actually uplifting. You can feel that you’ve learned something, you’ve improved as a human being, that you care more about society.
And because there are many genres other than comedy, it’s not like you lost all of your favorite movies.
Can i ask everyone to please watch the movie M * A * S * H in honour of Donald Sutherland passing… And share then share your experience here.
Im very curious how it will be received, i wont be surprised by some problematic aspects, but it was an impactful movie (and tv show)
I think they dealt with subject matter that might be important in this current era
I am also looking to watch the tv show at some point. Which onr should I watch first, the tv show or the movie?
I’m not that knowledgeable on either, but if I remember rightly you also have the choice of watching the TV Show as it was broadcast in the USA or as it was broadcast in the UK (and maybe elsewhere) - the main difference being that the USA one has a laugh track added.
I may have some of the details wrong, but just FYI.
I think it’s a personal choice, or at least i didn’t have any specific reason not to watch the movie first. They are a fair bit different but if you watch the series first that’s a lot of Alan alda to unsee if you watch the movie afterwards so i think it’s better for your movie experience if watch it before the series, and it was released first so there’s that
If you can then watch it without the laugh track first.
So many things, too many to count. Been revisiting things pretty regularly with my partner and the ones that don’t make me cringe are really rare. Things I adore are unwatchably sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or creepy.
