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Post by jdredd on May 13, 2015 2:18:27 GMT -5
As a dyed-in-the-wool nerd, I think we need a thread to kick around nerd issues. For instance, I just saw "Avengers-Age of Ultron". I believe in the comic books Ultron had much bigger impact, which is why they called it an "age". But the movie should have been called "The Day of Ultron". He came and went pretty quickly. Coming up soon: "Ant Man".
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2015 17:03:39 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on May 30, 2015 13:39:28 GMT -5
Uh-oh! "Furious 7" beat out "The Avengers" as the years top money maker! More people want to watch some stupid car races than superheroes? Say it ain't so!
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Post by jdredd on May 31, 2015 21:22:40 GMT -5
Is Game of Thrones a nerd program? It does have dragons. No fast cars, either.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 1, 2015 0:21:22 GMT -5
You taste-free non-nerds can watch your endless lame crime dramas on TV, but us nerds have GOT, the only TV worth watching IMO.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 2, 2015 13:14:17 GMT -5
It's that glorious time of year...Comic-con approaches. Time to pick up all the Game of Thrones figures I've been waiting for. I hope they have the Night King.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 9, 2015 14:05:11 GMT -5
COMIC-CON is here. Four days of intense nuttiness. People started camping out last night so they could get into programs in Hall H on Friday. Lots of girls in skimpy costumes, definitely not a place for people into Sharia Law. Come to think of it, if there were actually ISIS terrorists sneaking across our southern border, Comic-con would be the first place they would bomb.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 12, 2015 23:59:09 GMT -5
I bought the New York Times this morning (six bucks!) to see what the coverage of the Comic-con was. Well, there wasn't any (six bucks!). Which actually is understandable, just like I don't give a crap what happens on Broadway (six bucks!), or on SNL.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 15, 2015 16:56:43 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/movies/at-comic-con-bring-out-your-fantasy-and-fuel-the-culture.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0"Comic-Con is a trade show and a bazaar, an academic conference tucked into a pop-up theme park, a wholesome family outing and a bonanza for every bar nearby. Even though it’s all one big event, it can be hard to locate the principle that makes its parts cohere. The Comic-Con cosmos includes fans of science fiction and fantasy novels, video and role-playing gamers, steampunks and Trekkies, would-be Tarantinos and binge-watchers of just about any television show whose characters are either animated or costumed or both. "It’s easy enough to mock this spectacle, or to complain, as some old-timers do, that it’s all been co-opted by the movie studios and “the big two” (meaning DC and Marvel). But it’s also possible to marvel, so to speak, at how quickly and completely what were once subcultural pursuits have conquered the mainstream, and to appreciate the bottom-up, populist aspects of that conquest. The commonly heard phrase “fan culture” suggests a world made by consumers, a matter less of capitalist control than of popular participation." The NYT finally acknowledges that Comic-con happened. Ignore the Comic-con Force at your peril. There is a reason so many cities want to steal it from San Diego.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2015 17:34:39 GMT -5
Someday I like to go to comic-con again! I sure miss that event! After Living in SD area almost 11yrs I been to comic con for few years and I stopped going there it was getting waaay toooo crowded! At least I got many Autographed comics and other memorabilia over past few years at CC. One day it will be worth big $$$ one day! Comic Con is Like wall street buy trade and sell.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2016 14:53:14 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/432973/frank-miller-dark-knight-returns-superhero-antiheroMiller extended this realism by politicizing Batman. Although he took the then-fashionable liberal jibes at Reagan (who was portrayed as an out-to-lunch buck-passing politician) and subway vigilante Bernard Goetz (whom Batman hurls into a telephone poll), Miller expressed a generally right-wing sensibility. (Decades later, this would emerge openly, when Miller attacked the Occupy movement as narcissists who should be drafted into the Army — a clear echo of John Wayne’s attacks on the counterculture.) Miller attacked psycho-babbling liberals who denounced Batman while defending the Joker; in his comics, one of these liberals even feted the Joker by appearing with him on a David Letterman–style talk show (the Joker rewards his generosity by murdering everyone in the audience and onstage). Here is geek culture infiltrating staid National Review. Of course they are using it to promote their dogma, but still.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 29, 2016 2:32:25 GMT -5
People have been predicting Superhero Fatigue for a while now, but the new "Batman vs. Superman" movie is making big bucks. Eventually they will crash, but what will replace them?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 20:58:58 GMT -5
People have been predicting Superhero Fatigue for a while now, but the new "Batman vs. Superman" movie is making big bucks. Eventually they will crash, but what will replace them? I agree with some people they are over doing it with Superheros movies, pushing all superheros movies at once, I believe It's DC vs Marvel both trying to push too many superheros movies, To see who is more popular DC or Marvel!
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Post by jdredd on Dec 9, 2017 3:32:16 GMT -5
So Salt Lake City "Comic Con" got it's ass kicked in court for trying to steal the term "Comic Con" from San Diego. It is satisfying to see anti-Trump Californians prevail over a rotten Trump state like Utah, and a non-profit win over a for-profit bunch of hucksters.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 19, 2017 12:48:09 GMT -5
"The Last Jedi" is here but is getting mixed reviews. I think people's expectations are too high. SW was always a somewhat cheesy enterprise, mimicking old serials like Flash Gordon. And it's really for kids.
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