Do you ever feel overwhelmed thinking about all the films you haven't seen?

[Aeolienne]

Or do you sometimes feel that people are giving you a hard time because you haven't got around to seeing a certain film? Thoughts.

 

[Forest Cat]

Films I haven't seen, no, I haven't really thought about that. I don't think anyone cares about what films I have watched. But if I mention that I still haven't watched any of the Star Wars movies, sometimes someone shouts "you haven't watched Star Wars!??"

 

[Neonatal RRT]

No. Rarely a topic of discussion. Even if it was, it wouldn't be that important to become overwhelmed or to give anyone a hard time about it.

 

[Gerontius]

Nope. Movies are neat but I don't weigh that kind of fun by other people's opinions.

 

[TBRS1]

The majority of movies I've seen were pretty lousy. Missing more of the same doesn't bother me.

Good movies generally stick around, so it's usually possible to catch them, sooner or later, so no, not a problem missing them when they are new.

 

[Misery]

Last time I watched a movie was probably like 15 years ago.

I get a lot of "WHAT THE HECK HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THAT" from people.

And an inexplicable amount of people trying to convince me to go to the theater with them over and over again... I dont understand that part. What's the definition of insanity again?

I have at least often HEARD of various movies before. Not very often, mind you, but sometimes.

Beyond that I dont care much.

 

[Outdated]

But if I mention that I still haven't watched any of the Star Wars movies, sometimes someone shouts "you haven't watched Star Wars!??"

Our class went to the cinema to see a pre-release copy of the first one for an English lesson in 1977, our English teacher was a sci-fi nut, but I've never seen any of the others.

I much prefer books to films.

 

[Judge]

That strikes me as a rather bizarre form of peer pressure!

But nope...never gave it a thought an no one has ever suggested it. Most of the time it's just the usual, "Have you seen _____?"

Wouldn't work on me anyways...I stopped physically going to movie theaters years ago.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Films I haven't seen, no, I haven't really thought about that. I don't think anyone cares about what films I have watched. But if I mention that I still haven't watched any of the Star Wars movies, sometimes someone shouts "you haven't watched Star Wars!??"

Don't worry. I have not watched those either. I'm not really into those outerspace type of shows.

 

[FayetheAspie]

That strikes me as a rather bizarre form of peer pressure!

But nope...never gave it a thought an no one has ever suggested it. Most of the time it's just the usual, "Have you seen _____?"

Wouldn't work on me anyways...I stopped physically going to movie theaters years ago.

I have only been to a theater once in my life. I have generally watched shows/films on the tv at home instead. In recent years I sometimes watch a movie on my phone as well.

 

[Shevek]

Absolutely no regrets. I've seen a couple real stinkers from trying for variety. I wouldn't want to lumber my memories with even 0.1% of the possibilities. My only regret is not understanding references to red and blue pills.

 

[Raggamuffin]

Nope.

In fact, I'd argue the people who do get overwhelmed are my friends who enthusiastically say in shocked tones "How have you not seen [insert movie title]."

I also have a strong aversion to popular culture. So there's every chance I will never watch things that people have an interest in.

Ed

 

[Misty Avich]

No but I get depressed when I think of all the movies and TV shows I can't see because they won't release them on DVD and I don't have Disney Plus or Netflix or any other streaming services.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Absolutely no regrets. I've seen a couple real stinkers from trying for variety. I wouldn't want to lumber my memories with even 0.1% of the possibilities. My only regret is not understanding references to red and blue pills.

I don't know what those refer to either. I hear the saying at times but do not know what people mean by it.

 

[Metalhead]

If you have not seen Plan 9 From Outer Space, you cannot be my friend.

Sorry, I have to apply the peer pressure in here.

J/k

 

[Jumpinbare]

I have not.

 

[Outdated]

Back in 2001 or something, when the Lord of the Rings was new...

I've seen bits of it. I read the books when I was 11 or 12 and loved them, in the films it took less than 5 minutes to deviate from the books and that turned me off, never watched the rest of it. I saw adverts for what they did to The Hobbit, basically turned it in to a Disney cartoon sort of somehow maybe perhaps related to a story by Tolkein.

Same deal with Game of Thrones, watched 5 minutes and got frustrated with deviation from the story and poor casting. The only one they got right was the dwarf Tyrion. To date I've only ever seen one movie that follows the book as the story was written, The Chronicles of Riddick.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I've seen bits of it. I read the books when I was 11 or 12 and loved them, in the films it took less than 5 minutes to deviate from the books and that turned me off, never watched the rest of it.

That always bothered me as a kid, and now decades later, bothers me just as much - even though I understand they are not producing movies to appeal to the readers, they are producing it for the far greater numbers of people who didn't read it. But still, they are butchering the story, and that's just wrong.

I know the man who wrote the book Dropzone, and he was so angry when he read the screenplay that he told the production company to disassociate his name with the movie entirely because they had mangeled the story so badly. When the movie came out, he was listed in the credits as Technical Consultant, which was a horrible irony because they specifically turned very realistic elements of the story into pure fantasy directly against his advice.

 

[UFO]

Do you ever feel overwhelmed thinking about all the films you haven't seen?

Sometimes, but not so often that I would be worried.

Or do you sometimes feel that people are giving you a hard time because you haven't got around to seeing a certain film?

I am usually that people

If I have one special interest, then that is the movies (collection of at least two thousand titles and increasing - almost all good movies, I don't invest in anything that I wouldn't want to re-watch).

I have learned that swarm intelligence of fandom and critics pretty much matches my taste of movies, so it is enough for me to let them to watch new titles, write a review, and me to pick a flick based on what my most trusted critics recommend.

If I would try to watch all of them on my own, ignoring their good and bad reviews during my vetting process, I would just burn out, or shoot myself as vast majority of flicks are just plain torture. I have been disappointed too often when I have ignored the reviews, or just tried something random from the video rental shop (80s and 90s thing - young people know nothing about the glorious pre-streaming days), so I have abandoned fearing of missing out good, unfound gems a long time ago.

Considering how much I do follow movie fandom (at least of my own country), I have found out that if some title is couple or more years old and I haven't heard of it, there must be a reason why it is unknown and forgotten.

Hence: No reason to feel overwhelmed.

But if I mention that I still haven't watched any of the Star Wars movies

Which is probably a quite an achievement . In my country, if you open TV randomly at weekend, odds are that there is a James Bond, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, or Lethal Weapon movie running.

If you have not seen Plan 9 From Outer Space, you cannot be my friend.

Seen it. I have also seen "Glen or Glenda" (don't remember anything about it thought). Not sure if I have seen also "Bride of the Monster". For some reason I think that Ed Wood causes less brain damage than The Asylum studio's movies.

I saw adverts for what they did to The Hobbit

I have no problems with movies that deviate a lot from the source material, but too much is too much (thought I had no issues with "Bladerunner", which wasn't much of close call to the original story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"). "Lord of the Rings" was actually quite faithful adaption, an epic movie based on an epic brick for a book. And well made one.

But "The Hobbit"-movies... A book that was mostly a short faery tale for children (except that it got out of hand towards the ending, but let's not go into that...) but made like a pompous carbon copy of LOTR-adaption?

I could have liked "The Hobbit" more if it would have been more of 80s style fantasy flick (like "Neverending Story" or "Dark Crystal").

To date I've only ever seen one movie that follows the book as the story was written, The Chronicles of Riddick.

Which is a novelization of the movie... Surprisingly, while most movie novelizations actually are faithful word-to-word copies of the movie, some might deviate a lot of original theater version as they might have been written from a different version of the original script or just have given much of artistic freedom to the writer. (Or so I have heard, I don't myself read novelizations.)

 

[Tedzilla]

I don't fully understand myself about this, but can't get myself to go to a theater, especially since it is unlikely that I would be with anybody.

I know that if I try to watch at home, I often stop towards the end due to some impatience with me.