What’s the antithesis of Arrested Development, Firefly or The Big Lebowski? Those may never have ‘found their audience’ but over time seemed to recognised by everyone. What are the deep cuts that you liked but it feels like everyone has completely forgotten they even existed.
Little Miss Sunshine
Hilarious indie comedy. I’ve never heard of anyone disliking it, but it also almost never gets brought up.
Only when colour blind tests come up
Such a good movie and a great showcase of Steve Carrell’s (and the rest of the cast’s) range, managing to be heartbreaking and laugh out loud funny throughout the movie.
The first few Splinter Cell games should have had a more-lasting impact on gaming. Proper stealth gameplay in which lighting mattered for the first time (revolutionary), and the Spies vs. Mercs multiplayer still ranks among my favorite multiplayer games of all time. Then they made it into a (still good, but not the same) action series before letting it die completely.
I miss those games so much. Nothing out there now compares to
Agreed. I got an original Xbox and Spliter Cell was the main thing I wanted. It didn’t disappoint. Seeing those light rays through a rotating fan, shooting the bulbs and watching a room go dark, etc…never got old. It was a true “NOW THIS IS NEXT-GEN” moment.
Honestly, I’d say that Splinter Cell is considered to have had a larger impact on gaming than it really did. For example, you claim that Splinter Cell was the first game where lighting mattered - at the very least, Thief: The Dark Project featured that very prominently, four years earlier, but I doubt that was even the first.
Splinter Cell basically just copied Thief and Metal Gear Solid’s homework and changed it up a bit, I’d say it’s inferior to both games, and yet is often considered to be one of the best games ever made.
It’s common to see misattribution like this happen woth media, and it’s really not a big deal that someone is caught unaware. Like Thief actually does get a lot of praise and did impact gaming, but it’s easy for someone to not know of it depending on who they talk to.
But the worst example is several users and a couple YouTube essayist claiming Assassin’s Creed 2 was revolutionary, when it was basically doing nothing new, and was just ironing out the formula that was 99.99% established by a game that seemingly none of them heard of called… Assassin’s Creed 1.
Halo is the game I always think of. There’s a much cooler alternate universe where Red Faction was delayed six months and was an Xbox launch title.
I really enjoyed Equilibrium (2002). Is it derivative of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451? Absolutely. But so was V for Vendetta.
It’s a B level film that still packs a punch today, particularly in a dystopian era of politics. The message of learning to connect continues to be relevant in a hyper connected, but shallow relational landscape.
If I could get a version of the movie with the swish sounds removed then it’d be 10/10. I love that movie
not without incident.
Game Cube- Eternal Darkness
That games was a masterpiece.
Absolutely loved that game. I even fell for a couple of it’s tricks when your character loses too much sanity.
I played this with my now-wife; the most memorable of these for me was climbing into a room that had no enemies, just piles of treasure, and we were both saying, “Oh, wow, that’s unexpected…” and whatnot, and after a few seconds we just looked at each other and said, “Wait, this is probably fake, isn’t it…” just before it reverted.
Absolute gem of a game.
The fake-outs of things such as the TV volume adjusting were fun but obviously don’t work for everyone as it wouldn’t of matched their own TVs on screen graphics.
There was one however which claimed the GameCube memory card was corrupted and the save game was lost. Yeah, that freaked me out for a few seconds. 😁
I feel like if this one was particularly unknown, it wouldn’t be so goddamn expensive.
You’re right though, more people should play this
From what I can find, it sold less than half a million copies.
Less than half a million copies on a system that is generally considered a flop itself, market wise.
I’d say it’s become well known, definitely, at least among fans of the horror genre. It deserved better, they had some really creative systems in play. Would be nice to see it made available for modern audiences, wish they could’ve gotten the sequel out, too.
The good place. It’s fairly short and starts out more of a comedy but evolves into a real ethics lesson. One that a lot of people need to hear.
The Good Place might just be my favorite TV show. It’s just so well done on every level and is one of few sitcoms where the main characters aren’t just terrible people. They’re not perfect or anything, but it’s just nice to see characters earnestly carrying for others and trying to be better people.
Parks and Rec is another show like that (also by Michael Schur) that I just love.
There’s a subreddit for discussions.
Take it sleazy.
Really underrated!
I watched it, would absolutely recommend.
Vinland Saga taught me that being kind makes me a stronger man and having no hate for anyone, even those who have wronged me will make me a happier person.
It definitely did make a very big impact on many people, and it’s where all the “i have no enemies” memes originate from. But I do wish It had an even larger impact than it did as it’s an answer to the constant fighting and arguments that has taken over many of our lives.
That sounds really interesting as I try (and often fail) to live my life that way.
I grew up playing the 3D version of Centipede on the Sega Dreamcast. The game was a fundamental part of my childhood.
For whatever reason, I’ve never spoken to even a single other person who has ever played it (aside from my brother).
The level design was crazy. Tons of replayability, a low barrier to entry, but so difficult in the later worlds I never got close to finishing it. Soundtrack and sound effects I never got tired of hearing. Yet, no one seems to have heard of it.
Dreamcast games are very easily emulated, fyi, if you haven’t played it in awhile. The Dreamcast is probably my favorite console of all-time. So many unique, warm and fuzzy late-night memories staying up with that bad boy.
Good shout. Been at least a decade since I tried emulating Dreamcast. Just need to make sure I buy a USB adapter for the controller, for the complete experience.
All the damn Holocaust documentaries.
Oof. It’s fucked, right? Growing up, I thought anti-Semitism was a joke, because how could anyone actually believe that?
I also was stupid and didn’t realise how near the past was, and that bad ideas don’t ever just disappear completely.
I only yesterday learned that some education instituitions in the US and Canada had limits on the number of Jewish students who could attend. The European countries who practiced this weren’t so much of a surprise to me, but the fact that universities like Harvard did this was an eye opener.
Oh man, and that’s by far the most talked-about genocide. Literally any other gets even less attention, and probably has sort-of-mainstream deniers.
Heroes. The first season was so damn good and then the last writers strike completely killed it.
If memory serves, it was written as a miniseries, not a show that would span multiple seasons. Then the network saw how popular it was and demanded multiple seasons. But the writers had already written all the source material they had expected to.
A lot of great shows were ruined because executives saw dollar signs and demanded more seasons, ruining great story telling and pacing.
Just about every successful Showtime show suffered from this. They just didn’t know when to wrap things up and close up on a high note.
Remember when Peter’s girlfriend got lost in time and then was never mentioned again…
I’m going to throw out 2 series that were canceled early that I’m still salty about: The River that was on track to rival Lost in quality, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which is another case where Summer Glau got screwed. Lena Heady has said if SCC didn’t get canceled, she wouldn’t have gotten Game of Thrones, which hits a lot different now than 10 years ago when GoT was good.
I loved SCC, it was such a great show that didn’t get the attention it deserved.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,
Only two seasons and it ended before it ever had a chance to get bad. The acting is phenomenal, sets are well designed, the background music choices are very unique for what you would expect in that time period. But it works! Cannot recommended it enough! If you can find it or “acquire” online I think it would be worth your time.
Did it end prematurely or is there a conclusion?
There’s a conclusion, it wraps up nicely. Give it a watch and decide for your self :)
Absolutely! An amazing show.
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Battlestar Galactica. What a phenomenal series.
Edit: the 00’s series, not the original. That might be good, but I haven’t seen it.
How has it aged? Is it still worth watching in 2023 if I haven’t?
EDIT: Thanks guys, already downloaded!
I would say absolutely. The 2004 series one of my favorite series, even if I find the end tapers of in quality in my opinion. Otherwise it’s great. Give it a watch.
Binged it last year for the first time, it holds up very well. SFX are obviously a bit dated after The Expanse and whatnot, but it’s a really good show even if the last season and finale are a bit underwhelming.
EDIT: I’m talking about the remake, not the original series which I haven’t watched.
Yeah, I should have specified. I was also talking about the 00’s series as well.
Spectacularly.
I was going to comment Caprica, which most BSG fans havnt even seen. For what it was, I really liked it, it’s a shame it only got the first season
So say we all
So say we all
Corncob TV: Just hours of naked, dead bodies busting through shit wood.
There can’t possibly be that many dead bodies falling out of coffins every day. And there’s no way one in every five of them are nude.
Orphan Black.
Intriguing show that entertained throughout, backed by one of the greatest acting performances I’ve ever seen in tv by Tatiana Maslany.
Besides everything else, the show is a master class in acting. Every character has her own walk, speech pattern, and gestures.
Started strong, the got a bit dull
Her acting skills on the series were amazing! She was my main reason to start She-Hulk, but meh.
Not sure if it depends on the region, but AFAIK Orphan Black it’s a Netflix original and it’s not on their platform anymore. I found out because of a mexican series, Triada which is way to similar to focus on the bits that make this story original.
iirc I first saw it on BBC America and haven’t seen it offered on Netflix in my area.
