Put your nose to the pubstone, and forget about the rest! :-)
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Oh, I'm the absolute worst at being in the loop and watching stuff, even when I have time for it. I'm very often looking at things I know I'd enjoy and actually want to watch, but it just doesn't feel like the time is right (I suppose you and I are kinda alike in that regard).
I couldn't tell you how often my friends and I have this dialogue where they mention some line or twist from a popular or an iconic movie, and I just make an awkward face at them, 'cause guess what? Never seen it.
But to be honest, I think that's not the worst crime. I'm seeing things when I want to see them, what's there to be ashamed of? Being in the mainstream is not an obligation.
The only drawback, really, is when you watch something and want to discuss it with people only to realize that everyone moved on a couple of years ago, heh.
Hey ~tskaalgard! Would a worse example help to cheer you up? Take me.
Yes I know, I do miss out on good stuff. And on good books, even though I read some. And on live music, although I go to a concerts once in a while. I do miss out on so much, but hey, the day has 24 hours and none extra. :-)
~bartender? How about tea? With sugar and cream. Yes. Thinking about Arizona Dream and the fact that I spent a complete year (1989/90) there makes me cry. They were good times.
Me walks over to the juke box. Flips through the lists ... hm, how about some "Siegel Schwall Band"? Or "Sammy Taylor and a band called Sam" ... quite unknown to most ... yes I know. Ok, only one song, before the whole place empties and it's my fault.
Smudge? I wanted to cheer up ~tskaalgard and end down an emotional rabbit hole. Isn't that kind of stupid?
Oh well, ~bartender serves a "White Tea", cream and sugar on the side and a few napkins, how mindful! Thanks so much!
Ok, I have another anecdote about completely insignificant movies:
During a film festival (short movies) I watched "Bunkerlow" by Martin Kirchberger. A German production from 1991. It is a bitter satire thing about selling bunkers (military grade shelters) to the rich. And it works like this: The potential customers board a classic air plane (a Douglas DC-3A) to fly to the North Sea for a short round over an island. There is a very short clip at the beginning, where 2 bombs are visible straped to a cargo palette. It is so short, you might as well miss it. I didn't and my brain was asking, whether I really saw this. Sure enough, to sell bunkers they do a TV video conference with a person located in such an advertised bunker and then drop the two bombs on him. My jaw surely dropped, too. The person is all well --- it's a sales show, remember? All good?
Well no. On the last flight they made, the aircraft crashed into a mountain "Hoher Nistler" near Heidelberg. And I can sort of remember this event. So in the trailer, a lot of names had daggers to indicate, that they died while producing this movie.
I would be very surprised to meet someone, who knows the movie and the story around it.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugunfall_am_Hohen_NistlerAs I said, it is insignificant, but I prefer this anecdote over a "modern" telenovela any old time.
Cheers.
it's the best way to watch media, free from the hype. I'm one of the few people who actually enjoyed the Hobbit sequels, purely because I went in with no expectations, watched it casually on my laptop, and treated it as the sometimes zany but welcome re-entry into the rich world of LOTR again
Free yourself of the feeling of needing to stay current... that's the only thing that kind of works for me...
It's impossible, of course. I'm currently watching a TV series from 2014 on my lunch breaks at work. Anything recent I've seen has been children's media, though I'm also showing my children classic stuff from the 80s...