I'm exactly the same, in all aspects. I think the only recent film I enjoyed was Ballerina
Oh, Dune was good too. The only two films I've been to the cinema for in years..
I only went two times to the theater last year to see Longlegs and Nosfertu. Both were fantastic. I'm not gonna to watch any movies at the theaters this year.
So far there has been 13 films I loved that came out this year
Most media I find on Netflix or Prime, etc, just doesn't resonante at all and most of it has this garish look to it, as for the writing..
I mostly download stuff that interest me when it comes to shows. I'll try out shows that my friends reccomand. But if I'm not grabbed by the first or third episode I tend to drop them
Gaming hasn't been too bad, we've had some awsome stuff come out and some brilliant indies, most of the AAA studios though, yeah, I don't really buy into a lot of it, most of it is utter gash
Lot of the gaming side lately hasn't been interesting me. Even the Japanese stuff I tend to wait for a sale. If it's Nintendo, Xenoblade, Trails or certain other Japanese franchises, I will buy them full price but my spending when it comes to videogames has been considerably less
But, I have been going back to quite a bit of retro lately, mostly on the Deck, PS2 stuff, Amiga, Wipeouts etc
I still need to finish Shadow Hearts, I have been playing that on my Steamdeck using a PS2 Emulator but nowadays I'm just more interested in reading books, manga and comics than I am playing videogames
I guess the best really is in the past
I hate Nostalgia but there's the case that certain stuff is better than most of the modern stuff due to back than, focusing on fun and telling a good story without any preachiness from either side
I always felt that anime in the early 2010s were way better than modern anime even though that's slowly turning around since they are seeing how much trouble the Japanese Game Industry is in due to listening to the bad actors and have been thankfully going to what actually sells. This anime season is a good example of that
Manga never had that issue in the first place and it's one of the reasons why I prefer reading manga to watching anime. Especially when lot of the time anime is used to just promote the manga. So that's why lot of anime series are left with one season and they want you to read the manga to finish the story.