What really popular movie or TV show have you never seen?

Game of Thrones.

Read the books and got maybe to the 5th book? 6th? And gave up. It stopped going anywhere, the politics went away, it was just people going from A to B and getting killed somewhere along the way. Just like the show, they lost direction and floundered, Martin couldn’t finish it off.

So I never bothered to watch it. Never will.

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You definitely saved yourself, the show took out so much stuff, which was kind of inevitable, but the amount they took out in order to slap in some trash was a bit aggravating. Spoilers below.

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And even knowing how seemingly pointless some of the stuff would turn out, it’s odd they kept any of the Dorn stuff in in the later seasons. I get that Pedro Pascal was awesome, but the Dorn stuff in the show was even more pointless than it was in the books.

Biggest sin I think though was leaving out Lady Stoneheart. In GRRM’s mind, I suspect Arya’s story is so deeply intertwined with her’s that to leave her out just basically knee-capped Arya’s revenge-fueled character arc, she’s headed for a confrontation with LS, to see a sort of mirror-image of herself. In the show she was given a somewhat unearned “consolation prize” that just seemed stupid.

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Probably the fifth since GRRM has not yet published book six (TWoW) or 7 (ADoS), unless you count the spinoff books and/or the history book (A World of Ice and Fire).

I agree that the books fizzled out, but that's kinda the only interpretation possible since we haven't gotten 6 & 7. Theoretically the whole story has been building to those books (7 most of all based on how the show presented their likely events), but 5 (A Dance w Dragons) was definitely a chore to get through. That whole book felt like filler imo

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Me too

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I've never seen the show or gotten past the first couple pages of the first book so we're in a similar boat

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Many of them, but one show that people sometimes nag me about is "Friends". Not going to watch it either, doesn't seem even remotely worth my time.

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I watched Friends without the laugh track as my introduction to the series and have had zero interest in watching the actual show

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- It's funnier than Big Bang Theory, well Pheobe is.
  
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Most of them?

I mean, these things are grossing hundreds of millions, and I haven't been to the movies in almost a decade, don't have TV, and seldom stream anything like TV or movies.

My video habits have gotten much more personal over the years. I'll watch specific adaptations, and specific YouTubers, but that's about it. For my brain-mush time, I generally play videogames and listen to audiobooks.

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The Godfather. It just never happened.

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I tried watching that awhile ago and found it hard to get into because I've seen it parodied and ripped off so many times in other shows/movies that it's hard to take the original seriously anymore.

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- The tregidy of timeless classics
  
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Same. I know all the references, jokes, and memes around it, but I've never watched the actual movie.

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Check out Once Upon A time in America. The full length version

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- I know nothing — why?
  
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- It's on my bucket list!
  
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I haven't seen any super hero movie since the first spiderman with Tobey Maguire.

Well, no serious one. I've watched Deadpool and Kickass.

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I bet you'd like The Boys if you like stuff like Kickass. It's a show that takes the piss out of the concept of superheros but at the same time takes the concept very seriously and has some fantastic character-driven stories.

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- The Boys is amazing. You'll know if you like it within the first 5 minutes I guarantee it.
  
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- I watched the first season but couldn’t bring myself to watch the second. I just got the ick too much from it to have any enthusiasm to finish it
  
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Game of thrones and ill be sure to keep it that way

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Same, but I did read the books.

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The Sopranos

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This one. Not sure if I should watch it.

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- Watch the wire instead. Again if need be.
  
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I have never seen the Truman show (only the movie about it)

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Took me a second.

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Breaking Bad. I tried it and it's just... too much.

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I finished it. It was just OK for me.

Better call Saul (BcS) is better. Some parts may be boring but BcS made me think. Impressive writing.

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It is a lot, but it's rated high because it's amazing. You could start with better call Saul, little slower and still as amazing.

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Movie - Titanic. It has simply never appealed.

TV - any popular reality show. They are just not my thing.

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I saw Titanic 4 times in the theatre I liked it that much. It was so well done I recall wondering if the ship was going to sink when it hit the iceberg.

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I'm in the same boat as you for Titanic. That movie was so everywhere during it's time & I just never felt the need to watch it. I feel like the modern equivalent would be someone not watching any of the marvel movies.

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Friends, Big Bang Theory. Let There Be Blood. Which is odd because I like sitcoms and dramatic movies but sometimes it feels like the time has passed and all of the like memes and expectations surrounding a certain thing make for an insurmountable amount of initialization energy.

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Big bang theory is absolute garbage, don't waste your time.

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The Wire, The Office, Parks and Rec, The Expanse.

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strongly recommend watching the Wire. its in a different league to the other three.

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- One of my favorites, but I will concede that it's not for everyone. Those I've met that don't like it usually complains that the pacing is slow and the plot is too convoluted and vague.
  
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The Wire. Although I'd really like to get around to it one day.

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Just finished it last week. Season 1 was decent, 2 and 3 I was really wondering why everyone had talked up the show so much, but season 4 is where I felt it got real. Quality TV, I do recommend, but I do think it's a bit overhyped.

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- I work in logistics and transportation so I always enjoyed season 2. Especially what McNulty does in episode 1.
  
  It is an eye opening show in that you can see how each part of crime affects the community. Local political corruption, media corporatization, defunded inner city schools, international sex and drug trade, they all lead to the way society works for the rich and fuck everyone else raw.
  
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Game of Thrones, The Sopranos and The West Wing are probably the biggest hitters.

I own 4 series of the Sopranos on DVD, but I've never got round to watching them.

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Latest one is Dune. I’ve read the book (rereading it now actually) and seen all the other versions, but for some reason I’m holding off on this movie, I guess until at least the next one comes out.

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if you liked the book watch Denis Villeneuve's movie. even if the second movie blows (which I highly doubt) the first one is incredible. go watch Sicario as well. and Prisoners. Villeneuve does not miss.

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Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Office, Parks and Rec

I don't have anything against them, I'm sure they're all fine, I've just never had to interest in watching them.

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Star Wars

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Game of Thrones. I once started episode 1 but then had to interrupt and go somewhere and found it too boring to give it another try at first. Then the entire internet was full with with GoT and spoilers for it so I was too annoyed to try it again

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I hate to admit it because there's no real reason but I have never seen The Godfather. I've gone almost 50 years and still haven't sat down to watch it, or the sequels. I want to I just keep forgetting to.

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Episode 9. I saw Episode 7 at the movies and I was pretty happy walking out and it dawned on me that I'd seen it before.

I borrowed the DVD of episode 8 and pushed through.

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Pretty much everything. I didn't watch many things when I was single, I prefer more active things like games or social activities.

Since I got my girlfriend, I've been keeping up with a lot of anime series/movies since she's a weeb. But we haven't seen anything except Barbie with actual people.

However, there are so many memes about the good stuff, I feel like I've seen enough about all of them anyway.

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TV: Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, NCIS, CSI, American Idol, The Voice, Survivor

Movies: the Avengers movies, Top Gun (old or new), Deadpool movies

These are just the ones I can remember people surprised about

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Breaking Bad, Parks and Rec, Harry Potter Movies, Twilight Movies, 50 Shades Movies, Arrested Development, and roughly 90% of everything Tarantino has made with the exception of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (The guy's a douche whose entire oeuvre is two-plus hours of patting himself on the back for how film history literate he is)

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i've also never seen the lion king, or the jungle book, the little mermaid--but popular media being what it is, i have still absorbed numerous songs from them.

i have also never watched any star wars movies other than the original three movies (during their initial theatrical runs, and never again since), and only a few of the marvel and dc movies.

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A lot of early 90s late 80s comedies. As a kid I always just thought it was adults acting really dumb. And for the most part I still think that about that era.

Maybe because cocaine and pills?

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I haven't seen Interstellar yet. It's probably the biggest one though i don't really watch movies or tv series much anyway so I haven't seen almost anything recent. Also Godfather, Friends, Reservoir Dogs ...

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I can't think of too many I haven't watched at all. Plenty I have seen a few episodes from and just didn't get into. Although, many of these I should give another go because they, supposedly, got better later on. Such as The Expanse and Star Trek: Picard.

GOT I didn't get into right away because, at the time it came out, I didn't know shit about the book series and the ads made it look like another HBO show going at the time I was watching called Rome, but with a medieval Europe style instead of the Roman stuff so I was like "I don't really want to watch two historical fictions at once when this one is already hella dense." Had I known it was a fantasy, with magic and shit, I would have started it much sooner.

Most of I haven't seen a single episode of is before my time. Like Dallas or My Mother the Car (was that one even popular or just really stupid? 🤔) Although I have never seen The Wire or 24 nor have I known a single person IRL who liked them.

I consume media like a fiend. Ever since I discovered piracy as a lad, there's nothing out of reach to at least check out.

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The Lion King. Beauty and the Beast. Frozen.

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Godfather, Shawshank, lotr, the wire, six feet under, I'm sure there's a lot more. I enjoy watching such epic films for the first time late on. Just having the time to approach them whenever I want is nice

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You don't need to rush LotR or Shawshank, they will still be excellent whenever you get to them.

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I’ve never seen Avatar (movie, not the anime)

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Harry Potter movie series and Lord Of The Rings movie series. Never seen any of them.

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Friends and the office.

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GoT because I'd read the first two books and got bored of a medieval soap opera where the writer substitutes misery porn for a plot.

Breaking Bad because Bryan Cranston vaguely irritates me (I don't know why, I'm sure he's a lovely man).

Zombie related stuff because seriously, it was non-stop shit zombie movies for almost a decade and I'm bored of it. It's just become another lazy trope. Exception: Zombieland.

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Breaking Bad because Bryan Cranston vaguely irritates me (I don’t know why, I’m sure he’s a lovely man).

It is honestly refreshing to see this kind of honesty including not knowing why.

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Everything I've seen and heard indicates that he is in fact a wonderful person. But I'm not going to argue with you, because I have such an intense hatred for Hugh Grant and Richard Gere. And I don't have a rational explanation as to why.

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I realized have never seen a single episode of 24.

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Rick and Morty

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

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The Office. Arrested Development. Parks and Recreation. Breaking Bad. Game of Thrones.

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Sopranos, Game of Thrones. Basically anything produced for HBO.

I caught the first 2-1/2 seasons of The Wire because of a promotion on Hulu.

It boils down to: I'm a cheapskate.

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Yo ho me hearty, 'tis no excuse says I.

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Breaking Bad.

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Last 2 seasons are fucking epic

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I started watching this in 2022. Just picked it up again last november, I like the show but it's too heavy for me. I need a break after a couple of episodes. I like it enough to pick it up again but it really feels heavy for me.

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I'd tell you about the popular movie I haven't seen, but the first rule says I can't talk about it.

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Most of the "current" ones because I have not really watched TV for years. I see a lot of stuff on social media about them which is the only way I know that they exist.

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The Godfather. And I don't really plan on seeing it because I don't like the genre or those tropes.

I hear good things about How I Met Your Mother but I'm too lazy to pillage it. Arrgh!

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How I met your mother was very funny back in the day but it did not age well...

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Name a popular live action show from the past maybe close to a decade or sooner that aired in America and I probably have not seen it. Or if I have, it's because my parents watch it and I happen to be in the area for a little bit.

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Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Avatar,

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Pulp fiction for the movie, and friends for the show

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Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Goonies, Gremlins, the new Avatar, most Star Trek movies, any movie like La La Land, Finding Nemo, Frozen, a lot more.

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That applies to all Disney movies for me. The last one i saw was The Beauty and the Beast when it came out. My then girlfriend dragged me to the cinema to see it. It wasn't awful but I had no inclination to see another one ever since.

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Breaking Bad, Parks and Rec, The Office, The Wire, Game of Thrones, John Wick

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The Walking Dead, Keeping up with the Kardashians, Jersey Shore

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