Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 10, 2024 14:18:08 GMT -5
Pop culture largely passed me by decades ago. I'm old and I accept that. *goes back to listening to Slipknot* With her being 11 years and a few months younger I use her judgment on when I became an old man. Seems it was summer of 94 when i was 20. Cause according to her "you are old when you stop listening to top 40 radio. Worry about what the weather is gonna be like. And can't get out of bed with out a few joints popping" So been old for 30 years now I guess. Now she is late 30s and fits two of those qualifications. So I am guessing she isn't OLD MAN level yet. But it is coming.
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Post by KingPooper on Jul 10, 2024 15:11:25 GMT -5
Harry Potter and Pokemon I was in 8th grade when both of these things exploded and I said "I'm too old for this for this shit".
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 10, 2024 15:48:40 GMT -5
To pile on to what others have said, at this point most things really. The only new movies I would have any excitement for, for years would be a new Seth Rogen comedy or some critically acclaimed horror movies. But Rogen stopped being in his typical comedies and no horror movies have really grabbed me as must see for a few years now. Like I enjoyed 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it hardly seemed like a huge pop culture event.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 10, 2024 17:00:33 GMT -5
Harry Potter – I fell asleep in the middle of an IMAX screening of the second movie, and four years in a relationship with a Potter superfan didn't bring me around either.
Lost – to this day I've never seen a second of the show and have never had any motivation to do so.
Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Walking Dead – young, nihilistic me would've loved these shows. Older, more sentimental me has no time for them.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 10, 2024 17:21:39 GMT -5
Quick scroll, so I may have missed something, but literally everything mentioned here except Jurassic Park and Bob’s Burgers.
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Kalmia
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Post by Kalmia on Jul 10, 2024 17:35:14 GMT -5
I haven't seen a single Fast and the Furious movie. Just not interested at all.
I have seen a few MCU movies and couldn't understand the fuss. Although I love comics I'm just not a comic movies person, I think. I'll give DC movies a go even when I think they suck because I grew up with the characters, but I have zero connection to any of the Marvel characters.
I'm also quite comfortable in the knowledge that I am completely out of the loop on most popular music artists. I'll dip into a new release playlist occasionally just to see what the big new thing sounds like and will then quickly go back to my little corner.
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Fundertaker
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Post by Fundertaker on Jul 10, 2024 17:48:05 GMT -5
Well, Harry Potter also passed me by, but I guess that's because I was already knee deep in stuff like Final Fantasy and Fighting Fantasy, so HP's take on fantasy makes it seem little baby's first fantasy for babies by comparison.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jul 10, 2024 17:53:40 GMT -5
most tv and movies, i try to stay at twin peaks and below pretty much
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jul 10, 2024 21:20:02 GMT -5
Okay, before I talk about some stuff, let me just point out that I am not against trying some shows or anything like that, but when you see how popular they are and you haven't tried it, it's kind of annoying when someone asks me if I have been watching it when I haven't watched a single episode of it. With that said, I will talk about my picks. Anime in general - I personally don't have anything against the medium as a whole. In fact, some films and shows seem interesting. Hell, a lot of the visuals are good in some anime films that I have watched, but for many nerd circles, it's almost like a requirement to be into it. That isn't to say that there aren't any anime shows or films that don't interest me, but there are too many out there that I am not sure if I have the time or interest to really to consume the really popular ones. I don't dislike it, though, but I wouldn't say that I am into it, either. RPGs - Now that I am getting into video games here, this is something that I wonder if I should actually try, but in many cases, the concept doesn't feel like it's for me. For the most part, it's usually a theme because a lot of RPGs have fantasy themes involving magic and stuff. Then I have heard that it takes a lot of time to complete. I may give some a try, but I am not sure. I don't know if I could go for a whole playthrough of a "Final Fantasy" game or anything like that. However, I do have memories of playing "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past." I'm with you on Anime. I just can't get into it. I know a lot of people that love it and more power to them. Well, like I also said before, there are some that interest me and some that I like. I have always liked "Akira." That is a good example.
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sassafrastaz
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Post by sassafrastaz on Jul 10, 2024 21:53:50 GMT -5
Most everything? Honestly, I've never really been about following trends, dating back to when I was younger. It wasn't on purpose or anything. It just worked out that way.
When it comes to pop culture, the big thing I'm probably into is music, so I'll lean a little more into that. I was in my teens through most of the 1990s, and so at the time, there were groups and bands like Backstreet Boys, *NSync, Oasis, and Radiohead that were big at the time. Now, I wasn't into the former two because...being a teenage boy, their music wasn't meant for me. ![(puke)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sick.png) The latter two...I just never saw what the big deal was with them.
Oasis...I mean, I could probably be like a lot of people and rag on them being a third-rate Beatles cover band at times, but that's too easy. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Musically, there wasn't much that attracted my attention. The closest song that did was maybe Champagne Supernova. Given to another band, I might have liked it more, but I think the thing that kills that song and maybe even the band in general is Liam Gallagher. Granted, the Gallagher brothers themselves are a right set of tits, but we're talking musically here. Liam...I think it's his yelling vocal delivery that really drives me up the wall. He sounds like he's trying to sing simultaneously through his nose and the top of his throat, and it's very grating...and probably wasn't all that good for his vocal cords.
Radiohead...I'll be honest. Their music pretty much just sounded like noise to me. This is admittedly an exaggerated way of putting it, but whenever I hear most any Radiohead song (at least the singles), all I heard was the equivalent of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music".
1999-2001 was a musical deadzone for me. Perhaps coincidentally that was the peak of nu-metal. Not to say I didn't like any nu-metals songs, but...yeah. I think I might have all of maybe two albums total from that time frame.
Coldplay's another band that became big during that personal deadzone that a lot of people liked but I didn't. I just find their music to be rather bland. Like, Nickleback post-"The State" bland. For the record, I'm not a Nickleback fan either, but at least they sounded like they had something resembling life on that album.
If anyone likes/loves any of the above artists, that's cool. They're just not for me.
As for modern music...I won't say I pay extreme attention to it, but I'll check things out here and there. The internet certainly makes things easier to maybe go a little more off the beaten path to find artists that maybe I wouldn't have gotten into otherwise, like Kaki King, MUTEMATH, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, The Beaches, Pales Waves, and Skating Polly, just to name a few. Not to mention a few more I want to check out more of like Sarah and the Safe Word, Wolves of Glendale, Tom Cardy, and Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band.
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fw91
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Post by fw91 on Jul 10, 2024 21:54:13 GMT -5
Game Of Thrones Harry Potter Lord of The Rings Jersey Shore
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tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Jul 10, 2024 22:43:28 GMT -5
Add me to the group who just eventually tuned out of what was considered hip.
With music, I almost never listened to anything that was 'fresh', especially since the era in which I was getting into music, the brand was essentially Brittany Spears, NSYNC, Marilyn Manson, Green Day and Will Smith. Pretty much everything that I found largely pre-existed the late 90's, or it was an artist that wasn't front and center. I can't even name a 'new' artist I have listened to from the last 20 years. What I have done though is continuously gone back and found many artists I like after the fact.
I used to be a movie binger, but lack of releases, stunted franchises and creative bankruptcy (at least in my opinion) basically means I don't want to invest my time in something that is likely going to leave me unfulfilled. I occasionally will watch a 'newer' movie if it hits streaming, but most of them fall completely flat for me, which I feel vindicated not spending a ton of money to see it in theaters.
With any TV shows, I cut the cord nearly a decade ago, and hardly bother with streaming shows. Part of the novelty of TV was catching a glimpse of something and having it trigger that 'watch or flip' mechanism, and that is something I do not do with streaming. I had an associate harass me about Game of Thrones when it was first came out (probably 4 episodes in), and openly ripped me for not watching it, thinking she could get me to break down and watch it. I responded that because of her behavior, I was never going to watch the show, and I never have.
Video games are a lot like music for me. However, I did keep up with new releases and whatnot for years, but I just lost interest in my 20's. I was a huge Metal Gear Solid and Grand Theft Auto fan, and when both franchises hit the PS3, I was excited for them, but playing my friend's copies, I didn't find myself enjoying either game. I did own a Wii at the time and enjoyed many of those games, but the last 'new' game I bought was Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword. The gushing over this game was absolutely extreme, and at the time I couldn't escape it, to the point that when I did play it, I didn't find myself enjoying it. I haven't bought any games since then...except for vintage games for older systems.
I pretty much like stuff that predates my adulthood. I never have to worry about anything new because I have enough other stuff that could keep me entertained for 100 years.
I think the one of the reasons for this might be because of people like my sister, who has always felt the need to be 'in' with whatever was going on, which just feels completely disingenuous and exhausting for what you actually do get out of it.
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Post by Herman The Tosser on Jul 11, 2024 2:01:53 GMT -5
Oasis...I mean, I could probably be like a lot of people and rag on them being a third-rate Beatles cover band at times, but that's too easy. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Musically, there wasn't much that attracted my attention. The closest song that did was maybe Champagne Supernova. Given to another band, I might have liked it more, but I think the thing that kills that song and maybe even the band in general is Liam Gallagher. Granted, the Gallagher brothers themselves are a right set of tits, but we're talking musically here. Liam...I think it's his yelling vocal delivery that really drives me up the wall. He sounds like he's trying to sing simultaneously through his nose and the top of his throat, and it's very grating...and probably wasn't all that good for his vocal cords. I was kind of a child of Britpop and Oasis were a big band for me, still have a place in my heart for it all now, but this is actually one of the fairest, most measured explanations of why someone doesn't like them. As for Liam, I think it's agreed he peaked early. Maybe even before they released an album (i.e. the scrapped Monnow Valley sessions) It also came to light that he had Hashimoto's Disease that went undiagnosed for years, and his mic was sometimes turned down so he shouted a bit to make himself heard, which explains some of his decline in the 2000s. Also, y'know, drugs. For me? Star Wars. It feels like when someone says this now, it's met with suspicion, that someone who doesn't care for Star Wars is somehow only saying it for attention. But I have never seen any clips from it and thought "Wow! That looks cool!" - it just never grabbed me. Now, all I see from alleged "fans" makes me think even fans of Star Wars don't like Star Wars anymore. Why would you devote time & money to something that brings you so much pain? Seen anime brought up here, I feel like this about modern anime, definitely. In my mind THIS is anime: I'd buy a video tape released by Manga Video UK (since rebranded as Funimation UK which saddens me) and get this trailer as the first thing I see. It just looks cool in a way anime is lacking in now. I miss when anime was edgy (I know, bad choice of word) rather than this quite mainstream thing it is now, some will act like it isn't, but it is.
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SmashTV
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Post by SmashTV on Jul 11, 2024 13:53:32 GMT -5
Anything Ninja Turtle based. Although the arcade game wasn’t too bad.
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4real
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Post by 4real on Jul 11, 2024 14:03:05 GMT -5
The lack of love for Harry Potter in this thread warms my cold heart.
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sassafrastaz
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Post by sassafrastaz on Jul 11, 2024 15:01:14 GMT -5
The lack of love for Harry Potter in this thread warms my cold heart. I didn't mention it in my post because it was music-centric, but yeah, I didn't get into Harry Potter either. I think that more had to do with the first book coming out shortly before I graduated from high school (1997). I also thought (once I heard about the books, shortly before the first movie came out) that it was a children's book, so I didn't have much interest in it because of that. Might not have anyway even if it wasn't, since it's a genre I'm not huge on. Finding out down the line that J.K. Rowling is a transphobic git certainly didn't help matters.
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ToyfareMark
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jul 11, 2024 16:02:15 GMT -5
I don't know how much this really counts as a pop culture event, but another one for me is The Legend of Zelda. At least anything past Link to the Past. I hear stuff about Ocorina Of Time being the best game ever, and I just have no interest. The games after that don't interest me either. But I do respect the franchise for what its meant to video games.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 11, 2024 16:27:12 GMT -5
Kanye West
Never heard any of his songs.
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unc40
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Post by unc40 on Jul 11, 2024 17:06:09 GMT -5
The Godfather Saga or for that matter most mobster movies. I find them very boring.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jul 11, 2024 21:53:49 GMT -5
Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, when they first aired and toward the end of their runs (I think I started watching Breaking Bad when it was in its 4th season, Game of Thrones in its 6th) I did find them to be excellent though when I did watch them. Breaking Bad especially. Absolutely fantastic series.
The big one for me though is Marvel. I have been dragged to the cinema to see the odd one by girlfriends and whilst I am not bored whilst watching them, as soon as I get home I have forgotten most of what happened.
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