I feel like a bit of an outlier here. But I just don’t care for them. I much prefer playing video games.
TV shows all have the same safe plot now. I don’t even own a TV anymore after Netflix became slop. For the really special stuff that comes out once awhile I’ll just find a pirate stream.
I play multiplayer indie games on Steam with friends, roleplay in second life, or read books.
Should be doing our phasmophobia playthrough for Halloween soon.
A collegue actually sent me a clip about this, and how the producers are dumbing down / over-simplifying plots because they know the audience is watching while on their phone.
I cant find anything to watch either, its all so dumb. Im on my 5th repeat of Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, IT Crowd because nothing new is good… Sigh.
I couldn’t disagree more. We’re in a golden age of TV and have been for a while.
The Pitt? Severance? Hacks? Succession? The Bear? Ted Lasso? Euphoria? The Crown? Schitt’s Creek? Killing Eve? Barry? Veep?
I don’t watch TV. I actually can’t. I haven’t had cable or an antenna to receive anything since I bought my house in 2011.
I have a media server with movies and TV shows. If I really want to watch something I’ll watch one of those. I do like movies but only watch them if they interest me and that’s getting a lot rarer these days.
I don’t play video games at all or have any game consoles.
I never really watched a lot of movies growing up but then at some point realised there was so much that I was missing. Now I view the history of cinema as a smorgasbord and I am really enjoying jumping all over it.
I’m guessing you’re a good bit younger than me, but this is encouraging to hear. Find your favorite genres, watch what inspired them and you have so much amazing artwork and storytelling to explore.
For everyone that grew up with 10 marvel movies a year its not surprising that modern films don’t speak to them.
Challenge yourself and you’ll find your own rewards. I love video games and watching youtube too, but it’s not the same thing as turning off the lights and watching something like Apocalypse Now, Chinatown or a Kubrick movie without distractions.
Good luck on your cinematic journey!
I think around here you’re more likely to find folk who play video games rather than watch TV or movies, but I might be wrong.
I personally never play video games. I have nothing against them, just never got into it beyond old Atari ST games in my early teens.
From what I hear from friends and colleagues at work I know I’m missing out, so I’m planning to make an effort to get into some sort of game when I have the time, probably when the sprogs are older. It is sort of intimidating and I don’t really know where to begin, but I’m sure it’ll be interesting.
Triple AAA games are pretty mediocre, imo, but if you liked the Atari ST/Amiga era, there’s plenty of stuff like that that’s amazing coming out. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance are a couple of highlights I’ve played recently. Also, a Steamdeck is a great thing for limited time gaming. Just turn it off mid-session, and it’ll be right there at the same place in the game when you turn it back on.
I’m interested in how gaming has become immersive to the extent that the narrative is so deep they make decent TV shows after them.
I’m aware of the like of The Last of Us, purely from watching the show. It’s fascinating to me that you can have an interactive experience of that quality, so I’m told, so that’s something to look forward to.
I should add that I have played a handful of PC games over the last 30 years, such as Alien Vs Predator, Duke Nuke 'em and Portal. But that’s where my experience ends.
There are a fair few games out there with world building that is on par or even exceeds most films and novels. With films and TV shows you only get a limited time to experience the world in which they reside and so many details about the world or context don’t make the cut. With novels you get more capacity for background information but often fewer descriptions of the smaller things in the world. With games you get the best of both where everything down to the smaller details are displayed visually but with a runtime that can sometimes go into hundreds of hours allowing for plenty of time for backstory/lore.
It’s been a fucking meme for the last decade at this point but the Witcher 3 is one of the more memorable ones. I’ve played the game, read the books and watched the Netflix series, and the game is the best of the three.
Another example is Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s set in the wild west so you get all the iconic visuals and action of the best cowboy movies but the amount of detail included also beats many novels. The story of the game goes into a level of gritty detail and complexity that could easily be a book, but you can also bunk off and go hunting, fishing and camping and just live in the world in a way that you can’t experience in any other medium aside from actually being in 1800’s America yourself.
Hell, if you just wanted a video game version of a Tarantino film then GTA 5 (and upcoming GTA 6)has you covered.
I’ve always got music on in the background. Less gaming nowadays, doing my best to read more books.
In my circle this doesn’t seem uncommon. I feel like more of an outlier because I don’t really watch YouTube or anything similar.
Pretty much. I’ve got a bunch of entertaining YouTube channels (some of which are, ironically enough, movie and tv show reviewers that I’d rather watch than the stuff they’re talking about), a huge backlog on my Steam library, and plenty of music to listen to and books to read.
i love a great film. Occasionally a TV series, Channel Zero is really good.
nope not anymore. YT clips are enough since alot of the movies and show these days are very subpar post-2010, also the aggressive push for copaganda, military propaganda, christianity-ganda(movies not parodying or criticizing to a great degree) in some form around the time trumps 1st term. most movies are basically just promoting these 2 things right now, only a small amount are counter to this. since most of them are on streams, im not paying to watch it, if its going to get cancelled anyways.
nutrek is just not interesting, and in light of recent events, people who are fans of trek shouldnt support PARAMOUNT+.
MCU films/movies are quite silly and subpar, except the ones with kathyrn HANH, and cate blanchett.
Go backwards and find the classics that speak to you then. For me good art is usually a little subversive, although there is nothing wrong with pure entertainment of course.
Nope, I just watch Youtube now, specifically things that interest me.
I go through phases, cycling though comics, books, games, movies, TV, etc depending where my interest and curiosity takes me. I tend to watch more TV and movies when playing/practicing music or playing slower or turn based games.
I’m the same, it makes it even harder for me to socialise with other people though, “Have you seen the new (Blank) show?”…
Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.
You are not alone. I have a handful of movies and shows I like to watch, but my excess time is usually spent reading books, browsing thrift stores and library shops for books, or reading articles about books. I also splash a little World of Warcraft, gardening, and house chores in there too.
Yep me too… not many shows or movies that float my boat any more…video games are much more entertaining .
I’m the opposite, I barely play videogames outside a few rounds of whatever multiplayer thing my buddies are playing. But I’ll watch a movie or show from time to time. I read less than I’d like to admit, but I still read more than I play single player video games.
I consume a ton of music though, and not always just in the background, I like to get into it, break down each instruments parts, read up on the context behind the music and musicians
