Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 464

What is a bad fan?

 

idk like only listening to the one album a band released while they were in high school, never going to see them for twenty years, and then only going to see them play that one album in full then leaving after the album is done and not bothering to stick around for the rest of the set. talking through the opener. shit like that

 

spending $50 on alcohol then not buying any merch from the band

 

Watching The Godfather (started this afternoon and finishing now) and Apocalypse Now (watching with my wife for her first time. Made it 37 mins tonight) and, unpopular entertainment opinion, two of the best films ever made.

 

I asked my friends if Apocalypse is better than The Godfather and they all got mad at me and said no. I will need to finish both within the week to confirm my hypothesis.

 

The Godfather I and II are so intertwined with what I understand film to be that I can't really compare them to other things. Apocalypse Now came much later for me. I will say that the original is much better than the Redux.

 

We watched apocalypse now when we covered heart of darkness so that was....freshman year??? Sounds right. Didn't see the godfather for the first time until my early/mid 20s

 

I’ve seen 1 a bunch, it’s great and I am appreciating it more now than I ever have. I’m excited to watch 2 again for the first time in a while.

 

Do people who aren't deadheads know the story of how Coppola went to a Dead show and so loved the experimental/ambient portion that they did nightly called "Drums/Space" that he asked the drummers (and Phil RIP) to score Apocalypse Now and they did and you have them to thank for some of the sick ambient score in it

 

This was sick, a perfect listen while I did a little writing.

 

I have an unconventional strategy for watching big long-running older episodic tv with 20+ episode seasons. I did it with all the Star Treks and now I am doing it with ER.

instead of just doing a regular binge where i watch every single episode from start to finish, I look up a list of what fans say are the most essential episodes online and I do those by season along with every season premieres/finales. Then after I am done with that I do the filler episodes whenever in whatever order.

 

That is certainly unconventional.

 

It cuts the core of the biggest episodes and most important storylines to a shorter binge watch, and makes the less important episodes into a more casual paced watch. It makes shows like that a lot less intimidating watchthroughs.

You're basically filtering episodes into two separate categories with different watching patterns for each. I guess you could call it a binge/casual hybrid viewing model

 

It’s probably a good approximation of how tons of people watched those shows: Big sweeps episodes live and random others in syndication.

 

Seems unhinged.

 

I get it, I usually watch the first and last 10 minutes of a movie then watch the rest on TBS three years later

 

It sounds unhinged because he typed it out weird. Mr Jones could of said hes watching old long TV series and skipping the filler eps and that would have been fine.

 

It seems like you’re still watching every episode by the end of it. Just watch in order!

 

Filler eps are more tolerable once you've become a fan and are invested in the characters.

 

this is upsetting

 

You do you but the thought of that stresses me out

 

Exactly.

Also the better episodes stick with you more and are more memorable when they're not in the sea of filler. When you binge an episodic drama with 300+ 60 minute episodes the traditional way from front to back everything starts to kind of blend in together and a lot of stuff gets lost.

 

I’ve told myself that if I ever start Doctor Who, I’m going to watch every available episode in order

 

The idea of making a trimmed watchlist specifically to, idk, “cut out filler” and do a faster “binge”? That’s weird to me, personally. Definitely not comparable to watching just the beginning and end of a movie, lol, but still weird.

I will say, for older episodic television, looking up favorite episodes to get a strong taste of what said show was like makes sense. I’ve thought about doing the same with certain shows I never got around to. But, that’s different from trying to speedrun a show, lol; I’d compare it more to checking out a band with a playlist or “greatest hits” first.

 

A lot of people used to experience shows that way with syndication. That is why nothing permanent usually happens in those older shows; people need to be able to start anywhere and be able to understand what is going on.