Saturday, November 15, 2008
New Watchmen Trailer
Calling them Watchmen seems to be about the biggest inaccuracy so far, and that's probably so people who aren't familiar with the book aren't going to be more confused than they already will be when watching it.
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yep, still makes my pecker hard.
If I had a pecker, mine would be hard too.
I cry a little bit every time I see my geek heritage being sold piecemail to the public. Its bad enough things like the SNES and Sega Genesis are considered "retro cool" even though I distinctly remember being made fun of for my fascination with video games.
It's even worse that World of Warcraft and the LOTR movies has made my Ork and Elf fantasies of yesteryear consumer trademarks that define an entire subculture of people that don't even know what Sperethial is.
But now that I see this utter piece of garbage being displayed as shlock-art, and I know "everyone" will have "read Watchmen before the movie" I'm filled with a sense of rage and angst.
What bothers me most about this "cool geek" subculture is your cred within it is almost defined by your lack of involvement within it until something becomes consensually cool. It would be like if people who played sports had rotating schedules of coolness. Like, when a football movie came out football was suddenly amazing cool. But during this period if you played basketball you were considered a dweeb. Until a basketball movie came out.
WE are the people who make these things happen. WE are the people responsible for our culture being stolen and sold back to us like the Blacks with Jazz, Funk and Rap. I only wish we had a word we could call each other that hadn't already been stolen.
Nerd. the white, tech fetishing community stole it from us and used it in songs about Boba Fett. So, wassup, my nerd?
Unfortunately since this is a label the faux-nerds have adopted it loses its poignancy.
Before the rise of fair weather geekness and faux nerds I remember the use of such words had distinct definitions. They weren't bandied about as a catch all used to describe one set thing. I remember the venom used when geek, nerd and dork were hurled at you from the jocks who had their wonderful high school worlds handed to them on a silver platter of good looks, athletic prowess and parents with deep pockets. Nerds were smart, that was it, socially awkward, but "too smart" to be socially accepted. Except when said jocks had to have a good test grade to play in the big game and as thanks after the fact the nerd was rewarded with double the derision and some form of public humiliation. Sure they played D&D and had vast sci-fi knowledge but not to the extent of Geeks. The definition of geek as I always understood it has always been a double standard to me. A geek is someone who enjoys the entirety of of our sub-culture, comics, sci-fi, fanstasy, etc but has a specific knowledge base in one of those subjects. A man who watches sports center five times a day and can list the starting line up of the entire history of "his team" is a fan, whereas a man who has seen every trek movie, tv series, and book is a geek, and as an added bonus "needs to get a life". Dorks on the other hand, well they're just dorks, fuck those guys.
If you're wondering if I intend to make a point.... No, not really, if I had one to make I forgot what it is now. Still, I know movies like this are made for us, by us. Sure assholes are capatilizing on it, but the way I look at it is these are testements that show how fucking cool our intrests and sub-cultre have always been. They just get to show the rest of the world they've been wrong this whole time and they get to eat crow because of it.
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