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kzap

Name: Andrew Coleman

Bio: Linux enthusiast, avid twitterer and full time geek. Semi-new to the comics world. I'm usually the guy behind the camera (or fixing it in post). Follow me on twitter @kzap333 (shameless plug for more followers)

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August 9, 2013 10:17 am Is the word "porn" really that offensive anyway? I'm sure it must be an American thing because in the UK I'm sure people use the word casually all the time. Genuine question for those offended or upset by the use of the word "shelf porn": Would you have a problem with someone calling themselves a "comic addict" or saying "they're suffering from withdraws from Saga"? Because that draws a connotation to drugs and surely they're worse than pornography? I'm just baffled by how seriously people take that word.
August 9, 2013 10:10 am I'm not sure what prompted it but it's not exclusive to geeks, as this article seems to be making out. I personally don't have a problem with it but perhaps that's because I've heard the word being used so much it's lost it's explicit connotations. The phrase "Food Porn" has been around for a long while. On my TV Production Course tutors use that word seriously in lectures all the time, it elicited sniggers at the start but after a while people just used to it. My course leader, a man who looks like he's in his 50s and is always polite and respectable, said he'd directed a number of housing programs "or 'property porn' as they're often called in the industry". So I personally don't see what the big deal is, "shelf porn" seems like an accurate phrase to me. I guess I can't get upset over a word (unless it's particularly derogatory).
July 24, 2013 11:26 am @Flakbait It depends if it's a sequel to the book or the film. In the book Tyler only tried to blow up a museum not banks AND HE FAILS (he made a mistake with his home-made explosives). It's a big difference that would make for a totally different sequel, so it's important to know which one it's a sequel too. Traditionally you would think he wrote the book so that's what he would write a sequel too but the author of Who Plugged Roger Rabbit (which was adapted into the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit) ending up writing a book which was a sequel to the film NOT his original novel. And I'm willing to bet the film is more well known than the book, Chuck himself admits he prefers it.
July 11, 2013 6:07 pm I scrolled down to the comments sections in the hopes of seeing one Always Sunny reference and I got four out of five. You do not disappoint iFanboy community.
June 21, 2013 5:47 am On reflection it's not so much the brightness as the lack of saturation it looks more 'drab' than 'dark' which is odd for a show aimed at kids, usually they go over the top with color and saturation. It does mean certain things, like the explosions, really pop though.
June 20, 2013 4:47 pm I was about to make the exact same comment, visually it's really dark (and I have a correctly calibrated monitor) I can imagine all the kids at home watching on small, cheap CRT screens not being able to make out what's going on. It's odd because tonally it doesn't seem as dark as it is visually.
June 17, 2013 6:25 pm BQ: I just brought Fight Club on Bluray, even though I already own it on DVD and I don't have a Bluray player. But I'm back with my parents over the summer holidays and they have a Bluray player and my brother hasn't seen the film yet and I want him to experience it in the best possible quality. I think this makes me a good brother.
June 3, 2013 8:53 pm Yes! You're very right, just because nerdy things make money doens't mean nerds no longer face any problems. And while it sucks that some nerds accuse others of being "fakes" it's no different to any other group, like sports fans who accuse others of being posers because they only started supporting the team when they started winning. I'm not defending people who act that way and maybe that behavior is more prevalent in nerdom but it's certainly not exclusive to it. Here's the thing, even if the word "nerd" or "geek" is cool, people who used to be bullied for being a "nerd" or a "geek" will still be bullied, their tormentors will just use other words to do it. The fact is socially awkward people will also be picked on, they used to be picked on because they liked Star Treck and comics now they'll be picked on for another reason, that doesn't make it better. Finally, and I understand this is going to be ridiculously controversial but on a personal level I think anti-nerd bias CAN be comparable to racism. If someone commits suicide because of bullying, then it doesn't matter if the bullying was because they were black or gay or a nerd, in that circumstance discrimination against any of those things is equally bad. Although on a larger social scale of course the atrocities committed by racists are worse than those committed by anti-nerd bullies.
May 30, 2013 6:13 pm There's got to be a pun there; you enjoy it in bigger portions instead of piecemeal, something like that. Just make sue you don't bite off more than you can chew.
May 4, 2013 8:31 am @Invasionforce That's all hypothetical, it COULD have had all that subtext doesn't mean it WOULD have. In fact you admit Shane Black probably wouldn't have gone for that tone anyway. And there's plenty of philosophical themes they can explore with this character, in fact you already have the ethical issue at the end of how do you treat Trevor Slattery. Did he do anything wrong? He was just an actor playing a role completely naive to what it was being used for. There are just as many themes you can explore with this character than the comic book Mandarin, in fact I'd argue he's MORE relevant to modern society and the way we need a hate figure, a face the news can use to blame certain events on. You've got to not get too caught up in the way the comics did things and accept the upsides of change when you move to a different medium. Arguably the Marvel movies are less serialized than the comics, so they can afford to throw away more characters, The Mandarian may never have come back anyway, and they couldn't guarantee they would get Sir Ben Kingsley again. I'd rather they just tell go, entertaining, stand alone stories.