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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
you don’t know what you don’t know.
nothing in this thread so far screams weird to me yet.
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.
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!
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.
I have only seen the first four episodes of Breaking Bad, I just could not get into it.
I’ve watched all of Breaking Bad, except the last episode.
Breaking Bad was okay, but not great. I did like Better Call Saul a whole lot better. The cinematography in that show (BCS) is amazing!
I wasn’t a fan, but my shitty and abusive ex loved it.
I forced myself to watch it because everyone said it was so good - it wasn’t. It just never got any better. There was good scenes in it but as a whole it was boring as hell.
Seasons 4 & 5 are fucking nuts
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 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 know it’s been out forever and a day, but Prometheus being in the Alien canon is kind of a spoiler.
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.
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.
Pulp fiction. It’s been on my list for ages, for some reason I never get around to watch it.
Watched the first 30mins and noped the fvck out…
