I’ll come too.
Me as well!
I know SDMB members that would be no stranger to this description …
Last movie I saw in a theater was the original Jurassic Park during its first run in <checks wiki> 1993. So 32+ years ago.
I’d not watched a movie on TV or streaming until 2022-24 when I sat next to my now ex-wife while she watched a couple on our TV. Haven’t had any interest in doing that since. And not due to any poisoning by association w her. They just hold zero interest for me.
I suppose if I tried one now and liked it I might start going to them as I had as a teen & later in college. But they’re just completely out of sight out of mind to me.
Some current people that have been declared “smartes person on the planet”:
Marilyn vos Savant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
Christopher Langan Christopher Langan - Wikipedia
And of course The Straight Dope founder Cecil Adams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Adams
Marilyn vos Savant once answered a question about solar flashlights by claiming the whole idea was absurd. Well after they’d not only been invented but were commonly on sale.
Count me as not impressed with her brains.
Anyone can claim to be the smartest in the world, but only one person actually is, however you decide to measure intelligence.
I last watched a movie in a theater in January 2020. In April of 2-23 I watched the then new Barbie movie with my son and daughter-in-law streamed in their home.
I must say that as a movie hound I’m surprised that there a bunch of folks here who rarely watch movies, like once a year or less. I’m totally addicted to movies, but usually don’t like going to theaters much, so it’s usually a home experience. But I’ll watch as many movies a week as I can get my paws on, sometimes double and triple features in a single sitting. It’s limited only by the availability of quality movies that interest me. There’s an enormous amount of garbage out there and my selection of movies is partly determined by having high ratings from different respected sources and critics, and partly by the subject matter.
When it comes to fantasies like Avatar, for instance, I have no interest. James Cameron is a fine director and I was (so to speak) all on board with Titanic, but not this crap. I usually like reality-based movies; find me a good one and I’ll probably love it. I practically thrive on film noir. But there are always exceptions for fantasy films like Bugonia that are truly exceptional in their creativity. I just love soaking up the make-believe land of movies as much as I can, but it has to be plausibly believable. Otherwise I may as well just watch Loony Tunes cartoons!
I had to go back and check which post this was a reply to. I was afraid it was about the person who masturbates the most.
Slightly different from what you asked about but there’s a famous saying:
Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name
I’d like to observe that moment of the “second death” for any person but especially someone of a like, lower middling level of fame. Like, the mayor of a medium sized European town from the 1700s or something.
Like, I’m imagining a map of little animated red dots of everyone walking around who has some distinct memory of that person affecting their life in some way and work to actively remember that person. And you see the dots slowly snuff out one by one with occasional new dots as someone tells their kids about how the mayor once came to eat at their restaurant and told them it was the best roast beef he’s ever had or something. And like, there slowly just becomes one dot left and that dot finally disappears, I want to be in a god’s eye view above that scene viewing that moment.
I’m more like one per decade. Hmm, not even that. The last film I saw at a theater was “Cold Mountain”, when ever that was. I’m done. I do watch many movies one the small screen.
It is possible to know everything. But it is not possible to know that you know everything. So do you really know everything?
Oh! More on topic: I uploaded a random selection of Youtube videos, most more than a decade ago. Some continue to get dribs and drabs of views now and then from random Youtube searches but there’s a few videos that have the exact same 100ish views for many years now. Definitionally, the last person to have ever viewed those videos had no idea they were the last person to view that video but I’d like to meet that person. I never expected people to see those videos apart from me and close friends I sent it to. What were they thinking? Did they watch it all the way through, did it leave any kind of impression on them? What stopped Youtube from ever serving it again to anyone?
In a moment of kismet, I happened to open up this reddit post within a few minutes after seeing this thread:
I like the mistaken capitalization and apostrophizing. Bit of a run-on sentence too. Somebody is a shitty writer.