Stuff like Tolkien or C.S. Lewis are obvious, but other authors, movies, music, or entertainment might not be as well known.
So, how about a thread that lists some recommendations for things untouched by modern insanity?
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Garth Merehnghi’s Dark Place is a hilarious satire of Stephen King esque horror tropes and 80s tv in general. It’s short and all seven episodes are on YouTube.
I’m not really big on Star Trek, but a friend of mine got me to watch DS9 a while back and I loved it, excellent series and characters with some of the best episodic story telling I’ve ever seen. It’s a shame that the only Star Trek anyone seems to talk about is TNG and all of the shitty new trek, because DS9 seems much more grounded and interesting to me. Plus most of the cast haven’t turned out to be giant pieces of shit as far as I know, Avery Brooks seems to be pretty based.
I’ve been watching classic Unsolved Mysteries with the incredibly badass Robert Stack. There’s like twelve seasons of great stuff, murder mysteries, missing people being reunited with their families, and they even get into crazy shit like aliens and the Loch Ness monster, it’s also kind of nice to look back on a time where the media could be used to actually help people, and it feels good whenever you see that they caught a criminal or found a missing person because of the show. Excellent stuff and again every episode is free on YouTube.
I love eighties action movies, Schwarzenegger, Stallone etc. some real gems that still hold up and you can pop in whenever for a nice pick me up. The Running Man, Total Recall, Robocop and Commando are probably my favorites, along with the first Conan of course.
Some one already mentioned early Simpsons and I would throw in King Of The Hill as well. Excellent show, very funny and with great characters. Hank Hill is probably the last example of a competent, morally sound father figure in tv history.
As for books I’ll always recommend Howard. His stuff is great, it’s hard to believe his fantasy work pre-dates LOTR, and it still absolutely holds up today. Plus they might still make that modern Conan show and you just know it will be pozzed, so it’ll be good to see the real Conan before they pull a Geralt on him.
There’s a YouTube channel I really like called Hats Off Entertainment that talks about a lot of the classic 80s and 90s comedies I really like, he did a series of documentaries in some of my favorites like John Candy, Leslie Nielsen and Gene Wilder, and it’s got some great recommendations of a lot of classic feel-good comedy.
That’s about all I can think of off the top of my head, happy to look at everyone else’s suggestions.
If you like other pulp stuff like Solomon Kane, Kull, The Shadow, The Spider, or things like Lovecraft's writings, I highly recommend checking out Seabury Quinn's tales of Jules de Grandin. They center around a French expat detective/physician and occult expert in the US (circa 1920s and forward) and generally have a "weird tales" bent to them. They're short stories that were written for the pulp magazines of the era, and while the collections are quite massive (Quinn was a prolific writer), they're best read in small doses.
Looks pretty cool, I’ll check it out for sure.
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I actually have that one in my bookmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8WtFTpE&list=PLC046BB28463E1459&index=1
Unfortunately the first episode requires age-verification now. You can try downloading the first episode (just ignore the sketchy WebSecurity add-on ads ;) ) if you don't have a youtube account and watch the rest on Youtube.