Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer VERY nice. Dunno where mine came from, I've always assumed it was from the Imageworks.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> May deserve it, but you have to admit, they don't get it. Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men and Capt. America will probably be in the top 20 movies of the year--Transformers, based on a comic book based on a toy!--will probably be #1, unless the movie based on the kids book beats it. There is no social stigma in seeing a comic book movie on Friday night; probably more the opposite. << You're right, of course. >> True. But goes for everyone, even non-CMs. In greater LBV (for lack of a better term for this area), you don't bump into guys you went to high school with, or see your old next-door neighbor at the grocery store. Add in the transient nature here--after 3 years you may as well be a local--and that makes it hard to make friends or even friendly acquaintances. << I guess...but what's bumping into friends from high school got to do with it? Surely it's the experience of most people around the country not to bump into HS buddies at the local Publix. Maybe it's the effect of a society that has become less social and more isolated in the last 30-40 years.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> All of Florida is like this. You have all he retirement villas, all of the urban areas, and then TONS and TONS of people like that. Really disturbing. You can't be on a permanent vacation. the fun wears off. And then it just gets worse. And that's exactly why I want to move to a REAL city... << Florida's a fascinating place, if you're open to its weirdness and its variety. But I can understand how growing up here would change your perception of it. As for a "real" city -- that's another discussion for another time (I suppose like your critique of The Dark Knight!)
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Got it! Leo said Mousegear, so I had to qualify it. Mine is a Centorium Authentic. << Centorium Authentic. I'm laughing, Mike. You sound like the pixie dusted version of a hipster proudly sporting retro Chuck Taylors, or something.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Florida's a fascinating place, if you're open to its weirdness and its variety. But I can understand how growing up here would change your perception of it. As for a "real" city -- that's another discussion for another time (I suppose like your critique of The Dark Knight!<<< Oh, I'm open... and I LOVE places like St. Auggie, or Key West, or Titusville, or even Mount Dora... But it's not where I want to live. I want to be in a place that has monuments and monumental history. In a place that has high culture and class. In a place that has art in it. That's what I mean by a real city. And yes, another time! LOL. (Here, I do think it was a good movie, albeit predictably and dramatically obvious at times. )
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer EPCOT Hipsters. You know what ride I like? Meet The World. You've probably never heard of it...
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<>>>*The Dark Knight's an exception.<<< No, no it's not...>> Why must you fail so hard, EE?
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>Centorium Authentic. I'm laughing, Mike. You sound like the pixie dusted version of a hipster proudly sporting retro Chuck Taylors, or something.<< Just trying to show, in a Super Magical Way, that I'm not so blinded in range and hate that I am about to put on Darth Mouse Ears.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<>> But that sort of fandom gets a pass--it reminds me of an article on the AV Club, how it's "acceptable" for 35-year-old men to watch comic book movies, but we'd mock a 35-year-old woman who listens to Justin Beiber. Why is one teen obsession "cool" while the other isn't? << Whoa, whoa. Both of these groups deserve ridicule. Relentlessly. I'm so sick of comic book movies. Even the supposedly good ones are really quite forgettable*, unless you watch them over and over again, like an obsessive Disney fan watching "Oliver and Company" on replay. *The Dark Knight's an exception.>> Sorry, leo, but I can't agree with you there. Other than the fact that the movies recently have been very well done, since when is it illegal for people to go to a movie to have fun and one they think they'll enjoy? That kind of mentality is rubbish if you ask me.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>Why must you fail so hard, EE?<< Your definition of failing is grossly misplaced... ;-)
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>EPCOT Hipsters. You know what ride I like? Meet The World. You've probably never heard of it... << Did you have a chance to ride it in Tokyo EE?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Just trying to show, in a Super Magical Way, that I'm not so blinded in range and hate that I am about to put on Darth Mouse Ears.<<< And history is ALWAYS the way to do that.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>EPCOT Hipsters. << Seems like a cool thing to be since the 25th. I am no EPCOT Hipster.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Did you have a chance to ride it in Tokyo EE?<<< This post assumes that I've been to Tokyo, and that leaves me incredibly depressed, Mike. LOL. I was just being facetious about something obscure. AKA, Hipstering.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Seems like a cool thing to be since the 25th. I am no EPCOT Hipster.<<< SERIOUSLY! Since then, EVERYONE like EPCOT Center. Not that I'm complaining, but if your first visit was after Epcot 94, I don't know how these assumptions are made...
Originally Posted By leobloom >> I want to be in a place that has monuments and monumental history. In a place that has high culture and class. In a place that has art in it. << Ah, you little modernist you! (The lit major in me is surfacing.)
Originally Posted By leobloom >> You know what ride I like? Meet The World. You've probably never heard of it... << I liked 'Meet the World' until it opened and then everyone started seeing it and it lost some of its creative energy and just stopped trying and sold out.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Sorry, leo, but I can't agree with you there. Other than the fact that the movies recently have been very well done, since when is it illegal for people to go to a movie to have fun and one they think they'll enjoy? That kind of mentality is rubbish if you ask me. << I was never a comic book fan (until Disney bought Marvel and then I started wearing Iron Man undies), so that colors how I see comic book movies. I don't care if people like comic book characters, but I'm bored with Hollywood producing a seemingly endless series of comic book characters, both the famous and the obscure. I can't blame them since even the bad ones rake in the money, but as a film buff, I find it a little tiring. But to bring this back to the topic -- if I was a real Disney fan I guess I'd be obliged to love Thor 2 and Iron Man 4 and the Avengers 5 and Captain America 7 simply because they put money in Mickey's pockets.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> Ah, you little modernist you! (The lit major in me is surfacing.)<<< Ohhhhh, you sound just like a good friend of mine. She's a medievalist...
