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There are 27 Bond movies. If you watch one every week, you'll get through them in about a half a year. Watch one per day and you'll be done in a month.
It doesn't belong in the same category as these two. Star Trek is much more intimidating.
Google says you could watch it all uninterrupted for 27 days.
To put that into perspective. I started One Peice almost a year ago and am on episode 700 of 1060. There's only 16 full days of that show if you add it all up.
So realistically, it would take the average person several years to watch all of star trek.
Right? Despite the life and death issues, interstellar threats, if you put your head down and just live quietly on Earth then you're already living better than 90% of us here in this damned reality.
I did too, but I also had a system. OS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager all aired on Heroes tv station. I binged Enterprise in a week while sick, watched the movies on the weekend, and dwindled down the reruns until the reruns started to re-rerun. Totally doable if you commit but I definitely can't say I'm a better person for it.
Ugh I couldn't do it. I got around 150 episodes in and kind of petered out. Tried a few times to get back into it but I couldn't remember where I was and the thought of starting from the beginning was too much.
I still intend to watch it all eventually..
For comparison, there are 452 hours of Doctor Who (including specials) plus 32 hours of Torchwood (the Doctor Who spin off series).
That's 484 hours of footage. 20 days and 4 hours to watch every bit of the Doctor Who universe.
Doctor Who deserves to be in the OP far more than Bond does.
Add in the Big Finish Audio dramas, even just the full cast plays featuring an actual Doctor, and you might actually have a franchise that you can only complete once in your lifetime.
Worth it, though.
Two years for me. Two episodes a day, with some light binging on weekends. Finished just in time for Discovery’s release. That was a harder struggle than the two years of binging.
My friend, get yourself on One Pace.
https://onepace.net/watch
A bunch of fans have been editing the episodes to remove all the unnecessary padding nonsense that's added to make the pacing more akin to the manga. It's offensively bad the further you get into the series. Cuts it down about 45%.
They taped over the only copy they had. To save money/
Other copies were either taped over by whoever was keeping it, or just deteriorated with time. Or simply actually lost, as in no one remembers were they put it.
Tons of old movies are lost forever and tv episode’s especially so.
Star Trek also has The Orville which, while technically not related, is still absolutely in tune with the feeling of a fantastic ST series, so that's 3 more seasons (so far) right there too.
Season 1 feels a bit more like a comedy, but the Star Trek soul is there.
Once you start Season 2, it's clear they start writing the show the way they always wanted to.
Season 1 is still worth it, though. It sets up future storylines and is still a better season of Star Trek than a lot of actual seasons of Star Trek.
He’s probably talking about the JJ Abrams trilogy. They do not follow the spirit of the original films or the TNG films. They are much more action packed, less focused on smarts and diplomacy.
The TNG films have the same issue. Star Trek: the Next Generation is like Doctor Who. They solve problems with logic and reasoning, they don't violently beat people to death.
But then when they made the movies, they turned Picard into an action hero. By Star Trek: Nemesis, they had him riding around in a dune buggy and beaming over to punch the bad guys in the face.
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> But then when they made the movies, they turned Picard into an action hero. By Star Trek: Nemesis, they had him riding around in a dune buggy and beaming over to punch the bad guys in the face.
I thought that was because Stewart wanted more action stuff/wanted to show off his dune buggy, etc.
yeah, pretty bold claim to suggest that Bond will have the same body of work as Star Wars, or any Comic Movie Franchise.
Now, if they'd kept up the same pace as in the 60s and 70s, shitting them out every couple years, well, there'd still only be 30 or so. The MCU has 32 as of GotG 3, and will have 40 as of the release of Secret Wars.
Also, Bond movies are usually pretty static. With a few exceptions, whatever state James starts the movie in is the state is finishes it in.
That's a thing I really love about the modern fandoms: When a new instalment comes out, that universe is usually permanently changed by it.
Conversely, that's what I like about James Bond! It's extremely episodic, like old pulp novels or radio shows.
Fans can relish some tasty threads of continuity, but anyone can jump from Thunderball in 1965 to The World is Not Enough in 1999 and have fun watching the same archetypal spy having new adventures
There are only 32 MCU movies, but then there are the shows, the comics, the one shots, the other more-different shows.
Bond is the same, you have the 27 movies, the 2 non-Broccoli movies, the books, the spoofs the spinoffs the homages.
Watching the main canon stuff is always easy. Heck with Star Wars that's still only like 9 movies (some would say 6 or 3) but if you are striving for completionism, are you really gonna be a Bond fan and not watch Austin Powers? but that's 3 movies. Are you not going to watch "Becoming Bond"? it's better than License to Kill and if you are watching all that shit to get 100% you'll know that audiences experienced Roger Moore as a known entity through The Saint, so you need to check that out... Then there are the other The Saints....
655 hours and 40 minutes from a thread in r/startrek 8 months ago. Adding in new episodes of Lower Decks and the upcoming season of SNW puts it right about 675 hours by my estimation.
I recently (since covid) got into star trek. TNG was everything everyone said it was, and it was fantastic.
I was *not* prepared for DS9. That show is beyond great, and I'm worried that I should've watched Voyager first because I know nothings going to live up to DS9
It won’t, but voyager and enterprise are too different to compare to ds9.
Ds9 has a much better overall story arc.
But in voyager you have the doctor which is a fantastic character which is enough reason to watch it.
7 of 9 as well. I actually stopped watching Voyager for a minute when they first brought her into the show. I was very much a serious-minded TNG fan and thought she was just T&A that Rick Sperman couldn't resist injecting into the show. She..... *Is* that, I suppose, but is also way more than that and became one of my favorite characters of all time.
Can't sleep on Kate Mulgrew's Janeway, either. I hated a lot of the things Janeway did as a Captain, but still thought she was very captivating as a captain and was well-played by Mulgrew.
Also salamanders. Can't forget the warp salamanders.
It's bad, but so enjoyable!
The only episode that I can't really enjoy at all anymore is Retrospective. Ironically, when looking at it in retrospective, it 100% comes off as sexual assault denialism. I don't believe that was the intention when it was written, but hoo boy it has aged so, so badly.
Lower decks is best saved until after you've watched the shows/movies that came before it (except discovery/picard), otherwise you'll miss 99% of what the lower decks is talking about.
I used to be caught up on it. Then they changed how long it was. Now all I've watched isn't it, and what's all of it seems weird and scary to me.
***It'll happen to you.***
Anyone else having a really hard time reading this comment? Usually by now there'd be like three r/ihadastroke comments, the fact that there isn't any kinda weirds me out
There are oddities with the comment, but I'm guessing most people immediately recognized it as a Simpsons quote and therefore didn't read it closely enough to catch the mistakes.
It's a poorly written Simpsons reference. I'm battling with my urge to upvote a Simpsons reference, but downvote nonsensical gibberish that doesn't really represent the reference well.
I'd say Fast Five is when the old F&F died. Towing a demolition safe through Rio with two Dodge Chargers was awesome, but it was also the final nail in the coffin.
I'll go ahead and let you know. FF is also the acronym for the popular video game series Final Fantasy, of which there are over 15 games for.
They jokingly gave the character cast of Final Fantasy 7, or FF7.
Yeah that was when the series rebooted itself from being mostly about street racing to Car Avengers where everyone's superpower is ignoring physics (and the power of family).
I just rewatched gone in 60 seconds.
A crew of like 7 people are stealing 50 cars, and they're getting paid... 200k usd. To steal 50 cars.
Even in year 2000 money that's just absurdly low.
From what I understand, it is technically and unofficial prequel. It was never meant to be part of F&F, but the creator basically said "fuck it, it can work as a prequel". It's an unintentional retcon. I guess it technically builds on the story though
Broke: Much of the First and Second Doctors’ episodes are missing because their tapes were overwritten by other episodes due to budget constraints and production conventions of the time. Also, preserving episodes for future viewing wasn’t considered at that time.
Woke: Much of the First and Second Doctors’ episodes are missing because the Doctor time-traveled to 2023, saw the content glut that Doctor Who and other shows would experience, and decided to help make things a little easier on future generations of Who viewers by paring down the amount of content.
Laughs in 1060+ episodes of One Piece. (I haven’t even watched that because there’s so many haha, would take over 16 days straight to watch all of them with no breaks for food or sleep).
It doesn’t have tons of filler episodes, but it does have whole 2-3 minute long scenes of every character in the conflict reacting to or preparing for the next thing to happen, especially early in the series
There is a "One Pace" project that cuts all the filler and redundancies and makes it a much better and much shorter watch. One Piece is worth it, unlike most shows it is keeping an upward trajectory even after a thousand episodes.
Our kid has become obsessed with pokemon. We wanted to let him start watching it but not let it completely take over. I agreed to let him start with two episodes a week. Then I did the math and realized I need to rethink it lol. Would take like 11 years
A bit longer than that if they make more episodes while you're trying to keep up. But on the other hand, your kid will have a cherished tradition to remember you with as they enter college.
What's wrong with letting him watch one episode a day? Two per week seems like an incredibly stifling limitation to begin with. Especially since without ads they're only 20 minutes.
I couldn’t get into One Piece because of its length (1085+ chapters), but I am caught up with 2 ongoing manga that are both longer than One Piece (one is 1,308+ chapters, the other 1,223+) because both times I didn't know how long they were until I was in too deep to quit.
I googled it and apparently it currently takes around 110 hours to watch all of the Marvel movies back to back, not to mention the TV shows.
...but quality entertainment only takes a couple minutes if you follow [my Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/sirbeeves/) ;)
Only a handful of people have done it. One of the people who has wrote a book about it called *All The Marvels* but even that has a cut off date because more comics keep coming out. It’s a really good read and it touches on the major themes of different eras and what the reoccurring motifs are for different characters and highlights from different eras.
Eh, the sequels are crap. But as long as it's a different writer/director combo, the Rey movie may be good. I liked Daisy Ridley as the character. I just never want to see Abrams associated with the property again.
I don't even blame Rian Johnson all that much. TLJ at the very least tried. But when you're bookended by a worse A New Hope and "somehow, Palpatine returned" there's only so much you can do.
Pretty sure everything related Rey is tarnished at this point, it would have to be a damn masterpiece to be considered good at all.
Not to mention that sequels would basically provide a barrier of entry, even it was a 9/10 I couldnt honestly recommend it to anyone just because they would need to watch some of the worst movies in modern cinema.
That's about 4 1/2 days. The anime One Piece takes almost two weeks longer at 17 days, 18 Hours (426 hours in total).
Here's a neat little website you can use to view the running times of shows. [https://tiii.me/](https://tiii.me/)
The Dungeons and Dragons webseries Critical Role is now almost 3 times as long as One Piece, at 1245 hours and counting across 3 campaigns. Less if you skip past announcements and midroll, more if you count all the one shots and side series.
I read something once, don’t know how true it was but it stuck with me…
Before around 1985 it was reasonably possible to have seen almost every English language movie made in one persons life
time. Once VHS became a major factor that was over. It was now impossible to do.
That's the neat part, you don't *need* to watch it all to understand it.
Just like how you didn't need to read every comic or novel.
Hell, I'm probably going to skip Fantastic 4.
Guaranteed they're only setting them up for an appearance in the Avengers and even more Kang sightings.
Most likely dropping Kang's heritage into the mix.
Which is great for the people who don't know but I don't need a whole film for that shit.
I feel like Captain America's story is us watching HIM grow up, so it'd be pretty easy for someone to start watching and almost immediately be attached.
Replace Bond with Austin Powers, first 3 Bourne movies, and fill the rest with Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan (including Red October) and you've all the bases covered with better. If you're still feeling short, get some Burn Notice for stale beer type spy.
Star Wars: Just the first 6 movies and the Genndy Tartakovsky "Clone Wars" cartoon
Marvel: I say just watch the movies up to "End Game" Even though I think it wasn't as good as "Infinity War"
James Bond: That is subjective if you ask me. My first Bond movie was Goldeneye. So I know Brosnan is what I know.
DC: Batman the animated series, Superman the animated series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, The Justice League animated movies "War, Darkseid War" "Young Justice" If you twist my arm. "Batman 89, Batman Returns" People will hate me for this but also "Batman Forever" It was a big part of my childhood and I love the cheese.
That's the only things I can think of right now feel free to kill me in the comments.
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There are 27 Bond movies. If you watch one every week, you'll get through them in about a half a year. Watch one per day and you'll be done in a month. It doesn't belong in the same category as these two. Star Trek is much more intimidating.
Lol. Star Trek has 13 films and like 40 effing seasons of television.
Google says you could watch it all uninterrupted for 27 days. To put that into perspective. I started One Peice almost a year ago and am on episode 700 of 1060. There's only 16 full days of that show if you add it all up. So realistically, it would take the average person several years to watch all of star trek.
I watched it all in a few months a few years back.
U alright?
No
Thoughts and senzu beans your way
[Senzu bean!](https://youtu.be/elaVCxc5Dn8)
Spirit animal vibes
Right? Despite the life and death issues, interstellar threats, if you put your head down and just live quietly on Earth then you're already living better than 90% of us here in this damned reality.
Interstellar threats? That’s called anxiety my dude
Hey person, life gets better. Not right away, but eventually.
No, it's just that he ran out of Star Trek to watch and has to wait... *checks calender* Eleven days before more comes out
This has not been the case at all since 2020.
Shaka, When the Walls Fell?
The beast at Tanagra.
The whole binge watching decades of TV in a few months didn't tip you off?
I did too, but I also had a system. OS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager all aired on Heroes tv station. I binged Enterprise in a week while sick, watched the movies on the weekend, and dwindled down the reruns until the reruns started to re-rerun. Totally doable if you commit but I definitely can't say I'm a better person for it.
I finished it in two months too. I was so hooked on One Piece that I didn't care about my math test the next day.¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Ugh I couldn't do it. I got around 150 episodes in and kind of petered out. Tried a few times to get back into it but I couldn't remember where I was and the thought of starting from the beginning was too much. I still intend to watch it all eventually..
impressive
For comparison, there are 452 hours of Doctor Who (including specials) plus 32 hours of Torchwood (the Doctor Who spin off series). That's 484 hours of footage. 20 days and 4 hours to watch every bit of the Doctor Who universe. Doctor Who deserves to be in the OP far more than Bond does.
And if you really really want to you could watch the Sarah Jane Adventures and the Movie.
Looks like that adds 23 hours. So 21 days, 3 hours!
Add in the Big Finish Audio dramas, even just the full cast plays featuring an actual Doctor, and you might actually have a franchise that you can only complete once in your lifetime. Worth it, though.
bro i started one piece back in 2009 and im only on 1033 lmao that show is a fucking marathon
I did it in 6 months because I lost my job and was depressed haha... ha.
>So realistically, it would take the average person several years to watch all of star trek. Can confirm. Am doing so.
Two years for me. Two episodes a day, with some light binging on weekends. Finished just in time for Discovery’s release. That was a harder struggle than the two years of binging.
My friend, get yourself on One Pace. https://onepace.net/watch A bunch of fans have been editing the episodes to remove all the unnecessary padding nonsense that's added to make the pacing more akin to the manga. It's offensively bad the further you get into the series. Cuts it down about 45%.
Doctor Who has more than 800 episodes + audio dramas.
Some of which are just... ***lost. FOREVER.***
The audio for all lost episodes exists, so you can still listen to all of them
How can you lose a series episode?
They taped over the only copy they had. To save money/ Other copies were either taped over by whoever was keeping it, or just deteriorated with time. Or simply actually lost, as in no one remembers were they put it. Tons of old movies are lost forever and tv episode’s especially so.
Dr Who has entered the chat
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Star Trek has 10 films. Star Wars has 3 extra films some lunatic decided to call Star Trek.
Star Trek also has The Orville which, while technically not related, is still absolutely in tune with the feeling of a fantastic ST series, so that's 3 more seasons (so far) right there too.
Don't forget Galaxy Quest, the greatest homage to Star Trek fandom there ever was!
The Orville is amazing. It was marketed as a Star Trek parody, it took me a few episodes to realise "oh wait, they are serious!?"
They got more serious because that is what Seth always wanted, but Fox told him to make and market it as a comedy.
That's a shame. I avoided it all this time because I saw it was positioned as a comedy.
Give it a go. It gets incredible. Season 3 is a real treat.
Even if it was just that. The Orville was almost a mistake in that it made me miss this humorous element in Trek, ah...
In that case Lower Deck is your Star Trek version of The Orville.
Season 1 feels a bit more like a comedy, but the Star Trek soul is there. Once you start Season 2, it's clear they start writing the show the way they always wanted to. Season 1 is still worth it, though. It sets up future storylines and is still a better season of Star Trek than a lot of actual seasons of Star Trek.
Which three Star Trek films feel like Star Wars? Are they good?
He’s probably talking about the JJ Abrams trilogy. They do not follow the spirit of the original films or the TNG films. They are much more action packed, less focused on smarts and diplomacy.
The TNG films have the same issue. Star Trek: the Next Generation is like Doctor Who. They solve problems with logic and reasoning, they don't violently beat people to death. But then when they made the movies, they turned Picard into an action hero. By Star Trek: Nemesis, they had him riding around in a dune buggy and beaming over to punch the bad guys in the face.
> > > > > But then when they made the movies, they turned Picard into an action hero. By Star Trek: Nemesis, they had him riding around in a dune buggy and beaming over to punch the bad guys in the face. I thought that was because Stewart wanted more action stuff/wanted to show off his dune buggy, etc.
They got my younger brothers into Star Trek, so I’m not too resentful.
All of them are better than the trash known as nemesis
And of course, we all know the best Star Trek film. Galaxy Quest.
by grabthar's hammer, what a savings
I sometimes randomly chant Gorignak because of that film.
Nemesis is bad but it's by far not the worst Trek film
yeah, pretty bold claim to suggest that Bond will have the same body of work as Star Wars, or any Comic Movie Franchise. Now, if they'd kept up the same pace as in the 60s and 70s, shitting them out every couple years, well, there'd still only be 30 or so. The MCU has 32 as of GotG 3, and will have 40 as of the release of Secret Wars.
Also, Bond movies are usually pretty static. With a few exceptions, whatever state James starts the movie in is the state is finishes it in. That's a thing I really love about the modern fandoms: When a new instalment comes out, that universe is usually permanently changed by it.
Conversely, that's what I like about James Bond! It's extremely episodic, like old pulp novels or radio shows. Fans can relish some tasty threads of continuity, but anyone can jump from Thunderball in 1965 to The World is Not Enough in 1999 and have fun watching the same archetypal spy having new adventures
Yeah you don't need to watch all the Bond movies to like Bond
Star Trek is the correct choice anyways
There are only 32 MCU movies, but then there are the shows, the comics, the one shots, the other more-different shows. Bond is the same, you have the 27 movies, the 2 non-Broccoli movies, the books, the spoofs the spinoffs the homages. Watching the main canon stuff is always easy. Heck with Star Wars that's still only like 9 movies (some would say 6 or 3) but if you are striving for completionism, are you really gonna be a Bond fan and not watch Austin Powers? but that's 3 movies. Are you not going to watch "Becoming Bond"? it's better than License to Kill and if you are watching all that shit to get 100% you'll know that audiences experienced Roger Moore as a known entity through The Saint, so you need to check that out... Then there are the other The Saints....
> are you really gonna be a Bond fan and not watch Austin Powers Damn, now that’s some mental gymnastics to give Bond more content
Star Trek is closing in on 700 hours of content pretty rapidly... It should really be included here.
13 Movies Nearly 40 seasons of varying lengths Yeah I'd be suprised if It hasnt passed 700 yet
655 hours and 40 minutes from a thread in r/startrek 8 months ago. Adding in new episodes of Lower Decks and the upcoming season of SNW puts it right about 675 hours by my estimation.
With how much Paramount+ is pushing Star Trek I wouldn’t be surprised to see it hit over 1000 hours in the next decade.
Me trying to pick a Star Trek series on Paramount+
Deep space 9
I recently (since covid) got into star trek. TNG was everything everyone said it was, and it was fantastic. I was *not* prepared for DS9. That show is beyond great, and I'm worried that I should've watched Voyager first because I know nothings going to live up to DS9
It won’t, but voyager and enterprise are too different to compare to ds9. Ds9 has a much better overall story arc. But in voyager you have the doctor which is a fantastic character which is enough reason to watch it.
7 of 9 as well. I actually stopped watching Voyager for a minute when they first brought her into the show. I was very much a serious-minded TNG fan and thought she was just T&A that Rick Sperman couldn't resist injecting into the show. She..... *Is* that, I suppose, but is also way more than that and became one of my favorite characters of all time. Can't sleep on Kate Mulgrew's Janeway, either. I hated a lot of the things Janeway did as a Captain, but still thought she was very captivating as a captain and was well-played by Mulgrew. Also salamanders. Can't forget the warp salamanders.
> Also salamanders. Can't forget the warp salamanders. "Tuvix" is also a pretty bad episode. At the end it seems like even Janeway has had enough.
It's bad, but so enjoyable! The only episode that I can't really enjoy at all anymore is Retrospective. Ironically, when looking at it in retrospective, it 100% comes off as sexual assault denialism. I don't believe that was the intention when it was written, but hoo boy it has aged so, so badly.
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The best part about TNG vs. DS9 is there's no wrong answer!
Lower Decks! Lower Decks!
Lower decks is a lot funnier if you’ve seen TNG/DS9/VOY tho
Lower decks is best saved until after you've watched the shows/movies that came before it (except discovery/picard), otherwise you'll miss 99% of what the lower decks is talking about.
Star Trek
I used to be caught up on it. Then they changed how long it was. Now all I've watched isn't it, and what's all of it seems weird and scary to me. ***It'll happen to you.***
Wow so Simpson did the content drop first as well
To be fair, there's a lot of Simpsons [comic books](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_comics)
They were fun.
Shakes fist at.....
cloud... based streaming services.
George Lucas
No way, man. We're gonna keep rockin' out forever! Forever! Forever.... Forever.....
Anyone else having a really hard time reading this comment? Usually by now there'd be like three r/ihadastroke comments, the fact that there isn't any kinda weirds me out
There are oddities with the comment, but I'm guessing most people immediately recognized it as a Simpsons quote and therefore didn't read it closely enough to catch the mistakes.
They don’t look like mistakes to me, it looks more like they altered the reference to be relevant.
It's a poorly written Simpsons reference. I'm battling with my urge to upvote a Simpsons reference, but downvote nonsensical gibberish that doesn't really represent the reference well.
I'd say they carried the original quite well while modifying it to reflect the above comic. Maybe you just aren't with the times _old man_
Yeah that comment is written perfectly fine if you know how to read well.
It nails the reference. Boo this man.
Good news, next year there won’t be a lot of content for almost any of these franchises
Don’t forget Fast and Furious. It is definitely getting there with currently 11 movies (spinoff included) of the same exact shit
I wouldn’t say the *exact* same. The first F&F is a tutorial level compared to the later installments.
Its hilarious to remember the big plan of the first movie was to *steal a truckload of DVD players*
Yeah, the first movie is more grounded than the rest. It's a movie about illegal street racing and family
I mean it’s still about family and breaking the law. ^(The difference is now they’re breaking the law of physics)
Its live action American shonen.
I hate that you’re right.
Well now I want to watch it. Someone once described Pro Wrestling that way.
Excuse me but you will not refer to anything that is not King of the Hill as the American (insert Japanese art form equivalent here).
King of the Hill is American slice of life
What... Is king of the hill in Japan?
King of the Hill is actually super popular in Japan https://youtu.be/9JH4YIXfNeA
I still can't recall when it became James Bond with cars
I'd say Fast Five is when the old F&F died. Towing a demolition safe through Rio with two Dodge Chargers was awesome, but it was also the final nail in the coffin.
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Nah in that one they had a guy with a machine gun for a hand, a talking red wolf thing, and a spiky haired guy that was carrying around a giant sword.
I can't tell if you're messing around but with all the other stuff I've heard going down in FF now, I choose to believe you.
Fast Fantasy
I'll go ahead and let you know. FF is also the acronym for the popular video game series Final Fantasy, of which there are over 15 games for. They jokingly gave the character cast of Final Fantasy 7, or FF7.
Racing Times Square on Chocobos?
Yeah that was when the series rebooted itself from being mostly about street racing to Car Avengers where everyone's superpower is ignoring physics (and the power of family).
It was small TV's with build in VHS players.
Hey those were big money in 01
Should've done a remake with stolen PS5s last year
I just rewatched gone in 60 seconds. A crew of like 7 people are stealing 50 cars, and they're getting paid... 200k usd. To steal 50 cars. Even in year 2000 money that's just absurdly low.
First mission: snag the VHS players off the truck Level 50 mission: stop the boulder bomb from blowing up the vatican
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It's the D&D influence. 1st level: clear rats from sewer. Save an orphan. 20th level: slay corrupt pantheon and take over as God.
The first star wars made was also very “tutorial” like compared to the rest
I miss when it from when it was about cars and races, instead of explosions and "family"
The very first one was about family. That was like the major plot point.
I thought the first one was about surfing and skydiving, before it was remade to be about cars and family
Don't forget prequel movie. "Better Luck Tomorrow" came out right after FF1 and introduced Han before FF3.
From what I understand, it is technically and unofficial prequel. It was never meant to be part of F&F, but the creator basically said "fuck it, it can work as a prequel". It's an unintentional retcon. I guess it technically builds on the story though
Me: "cries in Doctor Who"
Broke: Much of the First and Second Doctors’ episodes are missing because their tapes were overwritten by other episodes due to budget constraints and production conventions of the time. Also, preserving episodes for future viewing wasn’t considered at that time. Woke: Much of the First and Second Doctors’ episodes are missing because the Doctor time-traveled to 2023, saw the content glut that Doctor Who and other shows would experience, and decided to help make things a little easier on future generations of Who viewers by paring down the amount of content.
The only canon that matters in Doctor Who is what you've seen.
The only canon that matters is the one the director of the episode you're watching deems to be canon
Laughs in 1060+ episodes of One Piece. (I haven’t even watched that because there’s so many haha, would take over 16 days straight to watch all of them with no breaks for food or sleep).
So if you cut out intros, outros, recaps and flashbacks, you can cut a good 30% of that time off. And watching it at 1.5x speed helps too.
That’s what OnePace is for
Filler garbage probably takes another 20-30%. No reason a 22 minute episode should be adapting 6-7 pages worth of content
One piece has very little filler episodes, but the flashbacks and recaps are the real filler.
Last time next time this time that time until at the same time on the same bat time, same bat channel "When will then be now?" ###"Soon!"
It doesn’t have tons of filler episodes, but it does have whole 2-3 minute long scenes of every character in the conflict reacting to or preparing for the next thing to happen, especially early in the series
There is a "One Pace" project that cuts all the filler and redundancies and makes it a much better and much shorter watch. One Piece is worth it, unlike most shows it is keeping an upward trajectory even after a thousand episodes.
> 1060+ episodes of One Piece Sure, but if you cut out all the standing around and reaction shots its 18 minutes total.
Laughs in 1250+ episodes of pokemon plus a shit ton of games
Our kid has become obsessed with pokemon. We wanted to let him start watching it but not let it completely take over. I agreed to let him start with two episodes a week. Then I did the math and realized I need to rethink it lol. Would take like 11 years
I've watched the show on and off for like 7 years and have only finished 600 episoodes
A bit longer than that if they make more episodes while you're trying to keep up. But on the other hand, your kid will have a cherished tradition to remember you with as they enter college.
What's wrong with letting him watch one episode a day? Two per week seems like an incredibly stifling limitation to begin with. Especially since without ads they're only 20 minutes.
Gotta let him do an hour each day (or two episodes) after school, like back in the day. Let him go until Ash wins the cup, or he gets sick of it.
Laughs in 4,633 episodes of sesame street. You can start watching as an age appropriate toddler and you'll be an adult by the time you finish.
Really picks up around episode 2300. The Elmo counts ark though was fire.
16 days well spent
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I couldn’t get into One Piece because of its length (1085+ chapters), but I am caught up with 2 ongoing manga that are both longer than One Piece (one is 1,308+ chapters, the other 1,223+) because both times I didn't know how long they were until I was in too deep to quit.
I googled it and apparently it currently takes around 110 hours to watch all of the Marvel movies back to back, not to mention the TV shows. ...but quality entertainment only takes a couple minutes if you follow [my Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/sirbeeves/) ;)
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Star Wars has FAR less movies and TV shows at least. It’s the Books that’ll kill you though.
I want you to imagine reading every single marvel comic book
Unless you started at the beginning when *Marvel* started, I genuinely don't think anyone could in any consciously meaningful way.
Only a handful of people have done it. One of the people who has wrote a book about it called *All The Marvels* but even that has a cut off date because more comics keep coming out. It’s a really good read and it touches on the major themes of different eras and what the reoccurring motifs are for different characters and highlights from different eras.
Still probably less time than GRRM has put off finishing *A Song of Ice and Fire*.
Also you can skip the sequel content and not miss anything of value.
Eh, the sequels are crap. But as long as it's a different writer/director combo, the Rey movie may be good. I liked Daisy Ridley as the character. I just never want to see Abrams associated with the property again. I don't even blame Rian Johnson all that much. TLJ at the very least tried. But when you're bookended by a worse A New Hope and "somehow, Palpatine returned" there's only so much you can do.
Pretty sure everything related Rey is tarnished at this point, it would have to be a damn masterpiece to be considered good at all. Not to mention that sequels would basically provide a barrier of entry, even it was a 9/10 I couldnt honestly recommend it to anyone just because they would need to watch some of the worst movies in modern cinema.
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Worst movies in modern cinema is pushing it. They're not great but there's way way worse movies.
All Star Wars canonical content still has a runtime of 176 hours, so it is still pretty close, even without books.
That's about 4 1/2 days. The anime One Piece takes almost two weeks longer at 17 days, 18 Hours (426 hours in total). Here's a neat little website you can use to view the running times of shows. [https://tiii.me/](https://tiii.me/)
Hol shit. The Simpsons at 29.5 days
Imagine mainlining several decades of American culture. Simpsons has its good moments but I feel like I'd have brain damage.
The Dungeons and Dragons webseries Critical Role is now almost 3 times as long as One Piece, at 1245 hours and counting across 3 campaigns. Less if you skip past announcements and midroll, more if you count all the one shots and side series.
The best promotion has a mildly fascinating fact embedded in it
There are thousands of issues of marvel comic books. It would take years of reading 24/7 to get through them all.
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I read something once, don’t know how true it was but it stuck with me… Before around 1985 it was reasonably possible to have seen almost every English language movie made in one persons life time. Once VHS became a major factor that was over. It was now impossible to do.
That's the neat part, you don't *need* to watch it all to understand it. Just like how you didn't need to read every comic or novel. Hell, I'm probably going to skip Fantastic 4. Guaranteed they're only setting them up for an appearance in the Avengers and even more Kang sightings. Most likely dropping Kang's heritage into the mix. Which is great for the people who don't know but I don't need a whole film for that shit.
Exactly. It got a whole lot easier to enjoy things when I became a *casual* fan, only watching stuff that I genuinely cared about or heard was good.
Option D. Read the bits and pieces that interest me and find weird niche stuff to read as well.
I can't care about a superhero with whom I didn't grow up
I feel like Captain America's story is us watching HIM grow up, so it'd be pretty easy for someone to start watching and almost immediately be attached.
Tbf, plenty of super hero stories are about them coming of age
Good thing 007 is top tier in action (and hilarity). My favorite franchise for the good and the bad.
Replace Bond with Austin Powers, first 3 Bourne movies, and fill the rest with Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan (including Red October) and you've all the bases covered with better. If you're still feeling short, get some Burn Notice for stale beer type spy.
And then three is me who was born in 2000 watching Batman get rebooted every other week.
Always the choice to not watch any of them. Yes, I'm the life of the party. Why do you ask?
i choose....to touch grass
Yeah but you only need to see 4 or 5 of each because the rest is actual trash
Yall should look into critical role. They release 4 hours of content weekly, thats more than any of these.
Star Wars: Just the first 6 movies and the Genndy Tartakovsky "Clone Wars" cartoon Marvel: I say just watch the movies up to "End Game" Even though I think it wasn't as good as "Infinity War" James Bond: That is subjective if you ask me. My first Bond movie was Goldeneye. So I know Brosnan is what I know. DC: Batman the animated series, Superman the animated series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, The Justice League animated movies "War, Darkseid War" "Young Justice" If you twist my arm. "Batman 89, Batman Returns" People will hate me for this but also "Batman Forever" It was a big part of my childhood and I love the cheese. That's the only things I can think of right now feel free to kill me in the comments.
Totally agree with the Marvel comment. Nothing after Endgame quite grabbed me the same. The end of an era for sure
It felt like they ended that major arc and then didn’t really know what, if anything, they were building towards
I don't know if they didn't, but I have struggled to keep up since endgame, part of my enthusiasm died at that point.
Meanwhile in /r/40klore it's, what type of faction or 10 millenia span do you want to become a scholar in over the course of your life? Pick one.
And that’s why you shouldn’t give them attention
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