cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/microblogmemes/p/580697/every-time

“Honey, that guy over there, where do we know him from? Come on he looks so familiar!”

5 minutes of back n forth, to eventually looking it up

It’s, again, Star Trek.

I do that too, but I just pause the movie.

Wikipedia? Nah. IMDB. Incredibly useful for specific episodes of a series as I can isolate that episode of needed. And the answer is always Law and Order.

Once I showed the movie Gattaca to some friends who had never seen it. All of us had comments to make about it and every time anyone talked I paused the movie so people could make their observations, ask their questions, etc.

A bit later after several pauses my wife said "we've been watching this movie for 45 minutes and we're only 10 minutes into it."

Holy shit, I do this all of the time! Most movie plots follow the same patterns anyway, so a lot of the time, the production process is more interesting to me anyway!

I'm here to plug TMDB. It does everything I want from IMDB without being owned by Amazon

Our go to line is "it's that actor from that other show we watched".

to some friends

See, there's Your problem. I don't have any friends.

IMDb used to be way better. I just honestly cannot stand the interface anymore, so I usually just go to wiki instead.

I use a 43" 4K TV as a monitor (essentially 4 1080 monitors) and I often watch stuff on this screen. I end up watching stuff in 3 or 4 sessions because of these rabbit hole quests.

1. Still not sure what I know them from

You need to find some better more interesting movies to watch! If your board of the 3 act structure (which 99.99% of western movies follow) other cultures make other kinds of movies.

yeah I can't remember the last time I actually read something on IMDB

I end up there sometimes, realize that I have basically no clue what the web page is trying to show me because it's covered in a bunch of other crap, and then just back out and leave and go somewhere that actually shows me the information.

Does it have an app?

I've used the web page maybe twice. I just use the app.

this is why it sometimes takes me days to watch a movie lol

I can't pause. The absence of sound makes it too quiet to enjoy researching.

The one I use is called Firefox

Jokes aside, they do not have an official app. There is an unofficial one on the play store, and they have a public API so maybe someone might make one down the line

When the shit the actor went thru in their life is more interesting than the movie

I hate this so much. And even if I avoid doing it, I’m still actively thinking about and still missing the show. This is why I watch tv alone. I can pause it, go on my tangent, and then come back.

This is why I watch tv alone. I can pause it, go on my tangent, and then come back.

My Wikipedia round up for 2025 was:
American actors
American actresses
American voice actors
American voice actresses
Movies
Tv Shows

That was it. I need to watch more non-American stuff, but I’ll just miss it all coz Wikipedia…

Amanda really looks like moai