From my own childhood... The Muppet Movie
This is so fun! I’m really glad I popped into your thread today!
Die Hard
Welcome to the Dollhouse, one of my all time favorites in any genre. So dark, so funny, so good.
The Taste of Things
Oddity was the first one to pop into my head right now.
Karate Kid and Annie.
The Taste of Things goes here as well.
The Arrival. Naturally, can’t beat linguistics.
Jeanne Dielman is so long but also so good and also definitely worth watching.
Little Shop of Horrors is fun and appropriate for the season, so I’ll pick that.
Amour made me cry so much when I saw it the first time, ugly cry.
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Die Hard ( bonus also best Christmas movie)
Flying High (or Airplane as Americans call it)
Gladiator
Jaws (that scarred me for life as a child)
E.T the Extra-Terristrial
Lost In Translation (a unconventional romance movie)
Umm does Star Wars go here?
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
The Sound of Music
My Girl
Here's where I'm going to be annoyed at my own rules of only one movie....
Terminator 2
Jackass 3D
The Color Purple
)The Shining is my comfort horror. It's terrifying and a visual masterpiece.
The Goonies is my all time favorite. Full of nostalgia, adventure, humor, excitement. Another one I can quote the whole way through.
The Princess Bride - I don't think I need to explain.
Labyrinth and Willow are a tie here! (God I was born a nerd.)
Dead Poet's Society made a huge impression on me.
Hard to pick - I am a musical lover but there aren't many good movie adaptations.
Steel Magnolias
All the rest of your picks areThe Color Purple
"I never asked you for anything - not even your sorry ass hand in marriage!"
This is an all time favorite and one I can almost quote the whole way through. It's a perfect movie.
(Fried Green Tomatoes is a runner up. I'm a Southern girl. What can I say.
The Shining is my comfort horror. It's terrifying and a visual masterpiece.
"Wendy! Darling....light of my life!"
Hereditary is the movie that upset me most deeply though.
The Goonies is my all time favorite. Full of nostalgia, adventure, humor, excitement. Another one I can quote the whole way through.
Also a perfect score
The Princess Bride - I don't think I need to explain.
Labyrinth and Willow are a tie here! (God I was born a nerd.)
Dead Poet's Society made a huge impression on me.
Hard to pick - I am a musical lover but there aren't many good movie adaptations.
Moulin Rouge is really the right answer.
Steel Magnolias
This has always been a tearjerker but watching my parents lose a child - this will always hit way harder.
"I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out."
Goddamn Sally Fields
Such a good movie!!
This is, of course, the right answer. But I feel like these are more than movies.
Ok, I've had this movie recommended to me MULTIPLE times! I need to watch it.
Ok this is much better and more dignified answer than mine.
Are you my new twin????
You've rec'd this to me. I need to watch.
Correct.
There are NO cats in America!“ An American Tale 2: Fieval Goes West” dunno why but that’s what popped in my head
Ahh! Another spectacular one!
I love Totoro!
I knew you'd have some interesting ones!
I can see this being on brand!The Arrival. Naturally, can’t beat linguistics.
I really love this movie and I really struggle watching it after he passed.
Ugh The right answer!!
No! Stop! Listen... this what cishet white men COULD be doing with their time. Just saying......
You can't put "stop" and "listen" so close together in one post. Now I gotta dance party.
I have no idea why it’s called that. TV has definitely replaced movies, I have no idea why. Maybe because I can convince it in bite sized pieces when I am time poor.
I recently started reading-watching ER when I finished The Pitt. It’s still great and enough time has passed that I don’t really remember too much of it.
do you wish you had more time for TV or spent less time in front of it? Do you stick to one type of TV or are you down for anything good?
I stick to the TV downstairs and I think it’s a Samsung Smart TV, but that’s not what you’re asking.
At the moment I am sitting waiting for the series finale of The Summer I turned Pretty.
UK version of The Office
I’ll go with The Pitt for a newer one that was really good. For a classic, The West Wing.
The X Files
South Park
The Wonder Years
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The Wonder Years
Greatest American Superhero
Survivor or The Amazing Race
TV hasn't replaced movies for me, but it has stepped up its game over the past 20 years or so.
80% of my job is done from home with something on tv in the background. If I really have to concentrate on work I'll put on something I've already seen a dozen times before so I don't have to pay too much attention.
I'll re-watch this a lot when I'm feeling down and just need something that feels like home.
Parks and Rec. Back when Chris Pratt was likeable. I've also never related to a character more than Ben Wyatt. And I've never wanted to be a character more than Ron Swanson.
I watch a lot of historical dramas. This is hands down one of the absolute best out there.
Once again, these are two very different genres!
The Legend of Vox Machina. Pays brilliant homage to all the classic archetypes of D&D classes (horny bard, not-too-smart barbarian, too-gentle druid), but does so lovingly in a way that each character shows growth from those cliches and gets a chance to shine.
Favorite show from childhood? Or about childhood?
My least favorite genre. Though there are a few good ones I like. "Midnight Mass" turned out to NOT just be a nice show about a church. But it was still pretty good and I've rewatched it a couple times.
Oh, this might be the place for "The Wonder Years." But since I already used that one... I'll say "Newhart." It was must-watch tv in our house and took place in a town very much like where I grew up.
I have no idea what qualifies a show as "action/adventure" but if all it needs is a lot of shoot 'em-ups, then you can't go wrong with "Peaky Blinders."
Give me your absolute trashiest hook-up reality shows. I want a house of scantily-clad twenty-somethings, all just young, dumb, and full of cum. I want to see bad decisions being made for the absolute most selfish of reasons. Let me live vicariously through your drunken sluttiness! There are SO MANY shows to choose from that meet these requirements. First one off the top of my head is "Too Hot to Handle" so I'll go with that.
You had me at Gilmore GirlsI just got to work and I have things I need to be doing. But this seems way more important at the moment.
TV hasn't replaced movies for me, but it has stepped up its game over the past 20 years or so.
80% of my job is done from home with something on tv in the background. If I really have to concentrate on work I'll put on something I've already seen a dozen times before so I don't have to pay too much attention.
I'll re-watch this a lot when I'm feeling down and just need something that feels like home.
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Parks and Rec. Back when Chris Pratt was likeable. I've also never related to a character more than Ben Wyatt. And I've never wanted to be a character more than Ron Swanson.
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I watch a lot of historical dramas. This is hands down one of the absolute best out there.
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Once again, these are two very different genres!
For fantasy, I'll go with Xena: Warrior Princess. God, that show made me wish I could be a lesbian.
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For sci-fi there's no other choice for me than Doctor Who. God, that show makes me wish I could pull off hats.
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The Legend of Vox Machina. Pays brilliant homage to all the classic archetypes of D&D classes (horny bard, not-too-smart barbarian, too-gentle druid), but does so lovingly in a way that each character shows growth from those cliches and gets a chance to shine.
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Favorite show from childhood? Or about childhood?
Either way, I think "The Wonder Years" has to be the way to go for this one. Also, the wifi here just ground down to a crawl, so no more .gifs or pics for my answers.
My least favorite genre. Though there are a few good ones I like. "Midnight Mass" turned out to NOT just be a nice show about a church. But it was still pretty good and I've rewatched it a couple times.
Oh, this might be the place for "The Wonder Years." But since I already used that one... I'll say "Newhart." It was must-watch tv in our house and took place in a town very much like where I grew up.
I have no idea what qualifies a show as "action/adventure" but if all it needs is a lot of shoot 'em-ups, then you can't go wrong with "Peaky Blinders."
Give me your absolute trashiest hook-up reality shows. I want a house of scantily-clad twenty-somethings, all just young, dumb, and full of cum. I want to see bad decisions being made for the absolute most selfish of reasons. Let me live vicariously through your drunken sluttiness! There are SO MANY shows to choose from that meet these requirements. First one off the top of my head is "Too Hot to Handle" so I'll go with that.
I watch movies more than I watch TV, I think. The TV might be on, but I don’t watch it very much. I go to film festivals, I watch at least one movie a week at home and I go to movies a couple of times a month, too. I find movies good for my concentration. When I watch a TV show, it’s always so easy for me to do something else while doing that, but when watching a movie, I never, okay, I rarely, multitask.
Gilmore Girls is the only thing I can answer here. I watch (and quote) it all the time! My sort of dream came true and J (my fella of very many years) started to watch it with me after years and years of only watching an ep here and another there. Now we’re watching it together and it’s so much fun, also interesting to hear his thoughts on some matters, as he’s seeing most of it for the first time. The downside of it is that I can no longer just put it on in the background whenever I want, because we watch it with J.
Schitt’s Creek. My first instinct was Parks and Rec, but I don’t want to look like I’m intentionally copying Whiskeyjack…
Anne with an E was good and the first one that I thought of.
Battlestar Galactica, the 2000’s RDM version. I can’t even begin to describe how much the series means to me.
Nick Knatterton, episode 1 in the link.
Also Nick Knatterton
I don’t think I’ve ever really watched anything in this category, except American Horror Story season 1.
Matlock! My mom always watched it on Saturdays after sauna and I got to watch with her.
Another genre I don’t really watch. So maybe Black Doves? It’s the only one I can think of that fits the genre.
Also not my genre, but as a kid, I immensely enjoyed watching Fort Boyard on TV5. A French channel. In French. I didn’t understand what they said, but it hardly mattered.
I’ll be honest, I’m not a big fan of “peak tv” I think in general it’s a poor medium for long narratives. The “jumping the shark” phenomenon affects almost every successful show sooner or later. Die young or live to become that which you hate or some shit. Anyway.
This is a mighty fine list - I'm going to have to check out The Tick.
The live Action Amazon show was good too. A a shame they didn’t get a third season.
I've decided that you have excellent taste in everything. I watched the Nick Knatterton cartoons you linked to. My first thought was, "this narrator's German must be really terrible - I can understand almost everything he's saying." My second thought was, "I need to learn mouth-to-mouth resuscitation."Okay, so, based on the movie one and this, I think I’d let Whiskeyjack pick what I watch next.
I watch movies more than I watch TV, I think. The TV might be on, but I don’t watch it very much. I go to film festivals, I watch at least one movie a week at home and I go to movies a couple of times a month, too. I find movies good for my concentration. When I watch a TV show, it’s always so easy for me to do something else while doing that, but when watching a movie, I never, okay, I rarely, multitask.
Gilmore Girls is the only thing I can answer here. I watch (and quote) it all the time! My sort of dream came true and J (my fella of very many years) started to watch it with me after years and years of only watching an ep here and another there. Now we’re watching it together and it’s so much fun, also interesting to hear his thoughts on some matters, as he’s seeing most of it for the first time. The downside of it is that I can no longer just put it on in the background whenever I want, because we watch it with J.
Fun fact: I got to use “when woman gives birth to a crack baby, you don’t buy her a puppy” line at work last week. Oy, with the poodles already!
Schitt’s Creek. My first instinct was Parks and Rec, but I don’t want to look like I’m intentionally copying Whiskeyjack…
Anne with an E was good and the first one that I thought of.
Battlestar Galactica, the 2000’s RDM version. I can’t even begin to describe how much the series means to me.
Nick Knatterton, episode 1 in the link.
Edit: I just have to leave a link to the episode 2 as well, because it’s gold.
Also Nick Knatterton
I don’t think I’ve ever really watched anything in this category, except American Horror Story season 1.
Matlock! My mom always watched it on Saturdays after sauna and I got to watch with her.
Another genre I don’t really watch. So maybe Black Doves? It’s the only one I can think of that fits the genre.
Also not my genre, but as a kid, I immensely enjoyed watching Fort Boyard on TV5. A French channel. In French. I didn’t understand what they said, but it hardly mattered.
I guess I have a type
