Geek Confessions & Blasphemies

SixteenBlue wrote:
Bloo Driver wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

I got through 3 books of Scott Pilgrim and decided "nope."

To me, those definitely fell deep into the trying-too-hard category of "clever" dorkiness described earlier. The movie was good fun, though. Maybe it just comes off bad on paper.

Interesting. I watched the movie, read book one, and thought "wow, the movie did a great job of being exactly like the book."

In other words, I don't see the difference.

In truth, aside from some of the jokes in the first three books, it's the last three that get the big character moments in my mind. But it could be a matter of taste. When I first showed up in these here forums I recall a discussion on the books taking place, and there seemed to be an interesting split between who liked it and who didn't.

ccesarano wrote:
SixteenBlue wrote:
Bloo Driver wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

I got through 3 books of Scott Pilgrim and decided "nope."

To me, those definitely fell deep into the trying-too-hard category of "clever" dorkiness described earlier. The movie was good fun, though. Maybe it just comes off bad on paper.

Interesting. I watched the movie, read book one, and thought "wow, the movie did a great job of being exactly like the book."

In other words, I don't see the difference.

In truth, aside from some of the jokes in the first three books, it's the last three that get the big character moments in my mind. But it could be a matter of taste. When I first showed up in these here forums I recall a discussion on the books taking place, and there seemed to be an interesting split between who liked it and who didn't.

I saw Scott Pilgrim due to the overwhelming geek love for it and felt like it clearly was on the other side of some kind of generational line where my age was prohibiting me from "getting it." (I'm 42)

I've never seen a single minute of The Big Bang Theory

It seems that, love it or hate it, everyone else has!

It's starting to annoy me that, because I am an openly geeky person, everyone assumes that I have watched it.

I've never finished The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

I got about half way through The Two Towers once. I have never even tried The Hobbit.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

I got through 3 books of Scott Pilgrim and decided "nope."

I watched the movie last year and thought "Yeah, this movie should have flopped."

As far as Nolan. I think he, Peter Jackson, John Favreau occupy similar space as Spielberg and Lucas did in the 70's and 80's. They are making mainstream films just that little bit better, a bit tighter, more thoughtful. They cannot play with studio money and just lay their balls on the chopping block the same way a purely independent filmmaker can. Juxtapose Guillermo del Torro's studio and independent work in this vein. They are not pushing the envelope, so much as nudging it a bit.

Wrong confession thread (post deleted).

spider_j wrote:

I've never seen a single minute of The Big Bang Theory

It seems that, love it or hate it, everyone else has!

It's starting to annoy me that, because I am an openly geeky person, everyone assumes that I have watched it.

I turned it on once. A guy walked out of his bedroom in a dressing gown to gales of canned laughter from the laugh track. I turned it off.

I hesitate to post this but...

I enjoyed Godzilla (Yes the new one with the French, the babyzillas and the taxi chase)

I'm afraid to post here. I think if I do, I'll be eaten alive, my time here stricken from the records, and all the great, peaceful Shalalm Baskuring that's been brought, will be engulfed in fiery flames of dudebro hatred.

We have more than one dudebro around here?!? Where? I've been meaning to observe those specimens in the wild.

LarryC wrote:

We have more than one dudebro around here?!? Where? I've been meaning to observe those specimens in the wild.

I thought everybody who bought a 360 was instantly transformed by DUDEBRO magic into a DUDEBRO.

DDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDDDDE.

lostlobster wrote:

I saw Scott Pilgrim due to the overwhelming geek love for it and felt like it clearly was on the other side of some kind of generational line where my age was prohibiting me from "getting it." (I'm 42)

For sure. Watching the Scott Pilgrim movie when I was 30 a) reminded me very strongly of when I was the age of the characters; and b) made me very glad I wasn't that age anymore.

I really grokked the movie, it's a fun hyper-real trip back to my early 20s, but it sure makes me appreciate that part of my life is behind me: now married, settled, boring. Well, I could dig the electric guitar out again.

I think FF7 is a terrible game.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
LarryC wrote:

We have more than one dudebro around here?!? Where? I've been meaning to observe those specimens in the wild.

I thought everybody who bought a 360 was instantly transformed by DUDEBRO magic into a DUDEBRO.

DDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDDDDE.

I meant that you will all consider ME to be a dudebro and will hate accordingly.

kexx wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
LarryC wrote:

We have more than one dudebro around here?!? Where? I've been meaning to observe those specimens in the wild.

I thought everybody who bought a 360 was instantly transformed by DUDEBRO magic into a DUDEBRO.

DDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDDDDE.

I meant that you will all consider ME to be a dudebro and will hate accordingly.

Shut up fratboy.

AP Erebus wrote:

I think FF7 is a terrible game.

I'll take this one step farther. I don't think Square Enix has really impressed me since Chrono Cross.

ringsnort wrote:
AP Erebus wrote:

I think FF7 is a terrible game.

I'll take this one step farther. I don't think Square Enix has really impressed me since Chrono Cross.

Yep, i'll go with that. I love Chrono Cross. One of my all time favourite games.

I don't know if this is blasphemy or not, but Stargate: Universe kinda blew after the first season.

Star Trek Enterprise was good. I stopped watching as soon as the Alien Nazis were presented, as in, I changed the channel that minute and didn't go back until the finale, which was a great episode btw.
Of course Buffy seems self-centered, it ain't called People Not Named Buffy Who Are Not Slayers
The Mayor was a great villain.
There wasn't that much wire-fighting in Kill Bill, so I don't know what's wrong with it.
I liked the new Godzilla too (the one with the taxi chase and the baby godzillas).

Things I've agreed with in this thread:

The Walking Dead was an interesting comic that got old really fast. The art makes all the characters look the same. I think the underlying philosophy is fundamentally flawed.

Avery Brooks was the best Star Fleet captain. I'd say he could beat Kirk in a fistfight, but I suspect Kirk would cheat.

Enterprise was as good as any of the Star Treks that came before it (save maybe DS9). I still think that the theme song was the thing that kept it from becoming the next big thing.

Angel was a lot better than Buffy.

Geek/nerd culture is pretty much just culture these days.

New stuff:

Before David Boreanz became a mainstream boy toy, he was a better Whedon hero than Nathan Fillian.

I thought the new Star Trek was flashy and somewhat entertaining, but not very good at being Star Trek.

And on that note, I think everything done by JJ Abrams has been far more flash than substance.

My dorkiness in high school and middle school was exceeded only by my athletic ability. I liked dodgeball. Any teasing that I might have attracted was offset by the fact that I was faster and stronger than most of my age group. I was never really teased or picked on.

I like David Tennant Dr. Who far more than Matt Smith. (I do have a soft spot for Christopher Eccleston. Pretty sure he's the only Doctor to ever cold c*ck a dude.)

The death of hard sci-fi is a net positive.

SMBC is a much smarter comic than XKCD.

Bros are mostly alright. In the same proportion that geeks/nerds/whatever are mostly alright.

I think that Lost was all in all a pretty great TV show, and people who think that it didn't explain enough or resolve anything weren't paying attention or had too short attention spans.

Redwing wrote:

I think that Lost was all in all a pretty great TV show, and people who think that it didn't explain enough or resolve anything weren't paying attention or had too short attention spans.

Confirmed...I have a short attention span.

peacensunshine wrote:
Redwing wrote:

I think that Lost was all in all a pretty great TV show, and people who think that it didn't explain enough or resolve anything weren't paying attention or had too short attention spans.

Confirmed...I have a short attention span.

I felt like I was trapped in purgatory.

Mostly with other people here, but I feel that Dr. Who is laughably bad; I tried watching the new series on Netflix, but the moment a garbage can with a plunger taped onto the front voiced by what sounded like a guy yelling into a fan showed up and the show tried to imply I should be scared, I just gave up.

I don't like zombies. As a genre, as a video game part, as a general monster. World War Z was interesting despite the zombie parts, not because of it.

I also feel Joss Whedon is overrated. I liked Avengers and I've liked some of his other stuff but the way he's made into a messiah my some people really, really puts me off.

I cannot stand Quentin Tarantino's movies and I strongly suspect I wouldn't like him on a personal level either.

I never finished the Harry Potter series. I just gave up after book four or so, and never bothered with the movies.

And generally I don't mind, and sometimes actively enjoy, spoilers. I'm the kind of person who'll read a book out of order because I'm more curious to see how things end up than I am invested in seeing the arc of the story. Sometimes a spoiler will actually get me to read a book or watch a movie too, as it's more interesting to me to try and spot where the spoiled event was foreshadowed.

Redwing wrote:

I think that Lost was all in all a pretty great TV show, and people who think that it didn't explain enough or resolve anything weren't paying attention or had too short attention spans.

o/\o

I like talking about most games more than playing them.

I dislike most games writing.

I love Supernatural, and I'm well into season 2 of Teen Wolf, and enjoying the hell out of it. I think I'm a 13 year old girl at heart.

wordsmythe wrote:

I like talking about most games more than playing them.

I dislike most games writing.

Do you mean the writing within the game-script and story. Or the writing about games in print and web form?

Must....refrain.....aaaaAAAARRGGGH!!!! It literally HURTS!!!

Keithustus wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

In truth, aside from some of the jokes in the first three (Scott Pilgrim) books, it's the last three that get the big character moments in my mind.

Sounds like watching Buffy for me. A friend of mine was watching the DVDs through Netflix and I caught the Halloween-costume episode with him, so decided hey, maybe I should watch this from the beginning, too. So I plodded through season one, which was pretty shallow and action-centric. I was going to give up after one season...but then I reached the season one finale and was hooked. What? Real writing? Maybe this Whedon guy does know what he's doing. Much, much later I got to see a much-too-old-for-her-part Felicia Day and all good was thus restored.

kazooka wrote:

Enterprise was as good as any of the Star Treks that came before it (save maybe DS9). I still think that the theme song was the thing that kept it from becoming the next big thing.

I thought the new Star Trek was flashy and somewhat entertaining, but not very good at being Star Trek.

And on that note, I think everything done by JJ Abrams has been far more flash than substance.

Are we twins?

Hmm, she was 23/24 and playing a 16-18 year old. That puts her closer to her character's age than most of Buffy's actors

Keithustus wrote:

I was going to give up after one season...but then I reached the season one finale and was hooked. What? Real writing?

Season 1 was terrible. Every recommendation I've read says to skip it. The only thing that's relevant to Season Two is the finale.

ccesarano wrote:

In truth, aside from some of the jokes in the first three (Scott Pilgrim) books, it's the last three that get the big character moments in my mind.

Sounds like watching Buffy for me. A friend of mine was watching the DVDs through Netflix and I caught the Halloween-costume episode with him, so decided hey, maybe I should watch this from the beginning, too. So I plodded through season one, which was pretty shallow and action-centric. I was going to give up after one season...but then I reached the season one finale and was hooked. What? Real writing? Maybe this Whedon guy does know what he's doing. Much, much later I got to see a much-too-old-for-her-part Felicia Day and all good was thus restored.

kazooka wrote:

Enterprise was as good as any of the Star Treks that came before it (save maybe DS9). I still think that the theme song was the thing that kept it from becoming the next big thing.

I thought the new Star Trek was flashy and somewhat entertaining, but not very good at being Star Trek.

And on that note, I think everything done by JJ Abrams has been far more flash than substance.

Are we twins? You've precisely nailed the problem with Abrams' Star Trek: it's soulless! There's no thematic exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, or boldly going where no one has gone before!

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