Quick: Name something sci-fi/comic nerds might argue over (1 Viewer)

[Max Leung]

Jason is right...read the original Niven!

Now, who is the sexiest alien? My vote goes for the Orion slave girl. Although, I hear that the mutant 6-breasted Orion Slave girls are the best...

 

[Eric_L]

tastes great or less filling?

Business calculator or scientific calculator

Apple vs Wintel

Plain vs salted

Is Star Wars really a ripoff of Asimov's Foundation?

 

[Edwin-S]

I would like to comment on this thread. I would like to know what purpose a thread like this actually serves.....other than to belittle someone else's interests. It may seem funny that some people take Sci/Fi and comics to such a level of minutiae, but I do not see any difference between Sci/Fi "nerds" and Home theatre/movie "nerds" talking about their particular passion.

How about "Quick: Name something that Home Theatre/Movie nerds would argue about"

Such as: Is pan and scan the plot of a Hollywood "Axis of Evil" or is widescreen the work of crazed internet movie "nerds"?

Is 100 dollar a foot "Monster" speaker wire the cat's ass or is 50 cent a foot lamp cord just as good?

Or how about, "Quick: Name something that anime "nerds" would argue about".

Such as: Is Neon Genesis Evangelion the greatest animated TV series ever made or just an overrated piece of overindulgent pop pschology flotsam?

I know it is an "unrelated to home theatre" discussion area, but I do not see much in this thread to discuss. It seems primarily designed to "make light" of another groups "obsession".

 

[Morgan Jolley]

Is Neon Genesis Evangelion the greatest animated TV series ever made or just an overrated piece of overindulgent pop pschology flotsam?

Yes, but can't it be both at the same time?

 

[Brad Porter]

I know it is an "unrelated to home theatre" discussion area, but I do not see much in this thread to discuss. It seems primarily designed to "make light" of another groups "obsession".

Can you eliminate "another group's" from your statement? Does that make the thread less offensive to you?

Brad

 

[Vince Maskeeper]

I am writing a movie (for a class) about 3 kids who travel across the country to abduct Mark Hamill from a Star Wars convention. They hope to get him to star in their "ultimate" star wars fan film.

These 3 comic & sci-fi obsessives would likely have endless debates, like we all do, as they travel. In my day we would debate who would be the best actors for specific roles in an Xmen movie. Now that this is sorta moot and outdated (since 2 moies have come out now, and half the actors weren't even heard of when I was in the 7th grade), I wondered what people into this type stuff might debate now. Since i'm not up on the scifi world so much (although I regret that), I had hoped to get some ideas for conversations I could drop into and out of in the course of the story.

I would imagine 90% here would be self-proclaimed nerds or geeks. Heck, I know I am. I can't see anyone would be offended. This is the second thread I've seen recently where someone seemed to get bent out of shape on something that had, up to that point, been completely good natured. I apologize if anyone is offended, if anyone feel belittled.

Sometimes a bit of poking fun at ones self (as i imagine anyone who would take part here is doing, not point fingers)--- it's a good thing. I would use geeking sci-fi diatribes from my own life, if they weren't terribly outdated.

-Vince

 

[Brad Porter]

I am writing a movie (for a class) about 3 kids who travel across the country to abduct Mark Hamill from a Star Wars convention.

Does your class require you to worry about copyrights and trademarks in your script? It would seem that your script (and several of the arguments listed thus far) couldn't be filmed without passing a little funding along to George Lucas, et al. Goodness knows he needs the money.

Brad

 

[Vince Maskeeper]

Since it's basically a mechanics class, I could turn in Star Wars and as long as the spelling is good, i'd be fine.

Although, I dunno if Lucas would have to sign off, star wrs ref seem to be in everything.

-V

 

[Brad Porter]

I was going to link to the "Who would win in a fight?" tournaments that we had in the Polls area last year, but the threads have all been trimmed down to the final post.

The stretch in the first poll where Yoda defeated Superman, Bugs Bunny, and (I think) Indiana Jones generated some pointless and fun arguments where I callously threw around the "fanboy" epithet. Ever since The Little Rascals argued about "Flash Gordon vs Tarzan", this sort of argument has always been a crowd pleaser.

Brad

 

[Morgan Jolley]

Vince-
Watch just about ANY Kevin Smith movie, especially MallRats, and this sort of argument pops up somewhere.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Betty or Veronica?

 

[Max Leung]

At the same time? You bet!

 

[Allen_Appel]

Does your class require you to worry about copyrights and trademarks in your script? It would seem that your script (and several of the arguments listed thus far) couldn't be filmed without passing a little funding along to George Lucas, et al.

Mentioning someone else's creation hardly requires you to compensate them. Quentin Tarantino and the aforementioned Kevin Smith do this often. Mark Hamill probably couldn't appear dressed as Luke Skywalker, but he could certainly play himself, a la John Malkovich in "BJM".

X-Files: "Conspiracy" vs. stand-alone vs. "funny" episodes.

Gormenghast is better than Lord of the Rings.

Adam West was the best Batman.

 

[LaMarcus]

Personally I see this thread as fun. The word "NERD" always had a negative association to it, and I never thought I'd be on the nerd end of the stick. But ever since I've joined this forum, I see myself as a HT NERD and I'm proud of it.

So if the sci-fi geeks and nerds feel as passionately about their hobby as I do about mine, I see it impossible for them to be offended by any thing any one has to say about it. I know it's impossible for me to be insulted about HT.

Some people kill me with whining, give me a break man, some folks are too sensitive, I say have fun with it. Once your hobby stops being fun it's no longer a hobby it's work, and I do enuff of that AT my job.

 

[Devin U]

In my day we would debate who would be the best actors for specific roles in an Xmen movie.

Me and some of my friends used to do that too! I allways thought Glen Danzig would make the perfect Wolverine.

 

[Brian W. Ralston]

What is the Matrix?

 

[Andy Sheets]

What is the Matrix?

A rip-off of The Invisibles!

 

[Daren Welsh]

If you have sex with your clone, is that gay sex or masturbation?

What if you travel back in time and have sex with yourself from the past? Is that gay sex or masturbation?

 

[Max Leung]

Daren, those questions are answered at the Space Moose website. www.spacemoose.com (keep trying...it seems to be down now. Oh well. If you can get in, I suggest reading the infamous "Master of Time" episode).

 

[Chris Moe]

Transformers vs Go-Bots (like anyone would choose the Go-Bots)

I would choose Go-Bots

CGI:
Yoda VS. Gollum