My understanding of RPO is that it's every guy who's challenged a woman's geeky credentials, personified.
I've said it elsewhere but it's a book written entirely around the concept that being that guy who hangs around a comic shop and substitutes pop culture references and minutia for actual conversation is so important that it'll save the world.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
The Bullitt one makes the least sense
Even if you were a nerdy teen in the actual 80s I doubt you'd seen Bullitt
My Dad made me watch it for the chase scene, but agree 100%.
That poster embodies this stupid-ass drive to fit everything that was ever cool under the geek umbrella that people ought to know better than to give into.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I'm just saying that the people they are targeting probably think those posters are awesome.
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
My understanding of RPO is that it's every guy who's challenged a woman's geeky credentials, personified.
I've said it elsewhere but it's a book written entirely around the concept that being that guy who hangs around a comic shop and substitutes pop culture references and minutia for actual conversation is so important that it'll save the world.
And ultimately, it's neither determination, justice, a sense of duty to humanity, kindness, nor courage that wins out.
It's being good at games like Joust and being able to regurgitate the script of WarGames and Holy Grail.
My understanding of RPO is that it's every guy who's challenged a woman's geeky credentials, personified.
I've said it elsewhere but it's a book written entirely around the concept that being that guy who hangs around a comic shop and substitutes pop culture references and minutia for actual conversation is so important that it'll save the world.
And ultimately, it's neither determination, justice, a sense of duty to humanity, kindness, nor courage that wins out.
It's being good at games like Joust and being able to regurgitate the script of WarGames and Holy Grail.
Well yeah that guy at the comic shop has none of the former, only the latter
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
My understanding of RPO is that it's every guy who's challenged a woman's geeky credentials, personified.
I've said it elsewhere but it's a book written entirely around the concept that being that guy who hangs around a comic shop and substitutes pop culture references and minutia for actual conversation is so important that it'll save the world.
Don't forget that if you aren't one of those people you do not deserve to live.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
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His family and everyone in the building they live in gets killed directly because of his actions and nobody important cares because they don't know how to recite The Breakfast Club.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
He's Pooh Bear, people.
Jesus.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I think the marketing looks terrible to most of us because we are not the target.
We are absolutely the target.
Nerds who love video games and movies and were kids in the 80s and 90s when all this stuff was coming out? That’s who this crap is supposed to sell to. They just misjudged...well, everything, right down to the core idea of the movie.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I think the marketing looks terrible to most of us because we are not the target.
We are absolutely the target.
Nerds who love video games and movies and were kids in the 80s and 90s when all this stuff was coming out? That’s who this crap is supposed to sell to. They just misjudged...well, everything, right down to the core idea of the movie.
Yep. We're supposed to be psyched as hell for this.
I'll just get tickets for The Incredibles 2 instead.
it might be more accurate to say that we, the people on this board, are a small segment of the target market
I honestly have no idea how Nerds at Large are reacting to this movie or its marketing
Most of the nerds I work with (who are not bad people with poor taste by any stretch of the imagination) are moderately to extremely excited for it, for whatever that's worth.
I think the source material is trash, but I trust Spielberg to at least turn it into a mindless, dumb, fun spectacle that's probably entertaining enough for a matinee ticket if I'm bored before Infinity War drops.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I'm glad I saw that here and not out in the wild for the first time. I imagine employees would be upset at someone yelling "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE!" in a theater lobby.
A quick look on twitter used to bring up plenty of people excited for the film. But I think people must really hate these posters because I'm seeing nothing positive.
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
That book is very popular. And I wouldn’t be shocked if it makes bank.
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
I think the marketing looks terrible to most of us because we are not the target.
We are absolutely the target.
Nerds who love video games and movies and were kids in the 80s and 90s when all this stuff was coming out? That’s who this crap is supposed to sell to. They just misjudged...well, everything, right down to the core idea of the movie.
It's doubly funny since, just a week before RPO is released, I'll have my ass in a seat watching giant robots punch giant monsters once again.
That's likewise a movie made exactly for someone like me who loves the shit out of giant punchy robots and it gets everything right about giant punchy robots.
The only thing RPO gets right is teenagers being asshats on the internet.
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The problem with referencing great films you love is it makes you want to watch great films you love, and not, say, RPO
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I wasn't as annoyed about these as others, but fucking Bullitt?
*thinks for a bit
Yeah. Yeah it is.
Even if you were a nerdy teen in the actual 80s I doubt you'd seen Bullitt
I don't think bullitt is even mentioned in the book
I've said it elsewhere but it's a book written entirely around the concept that being that guy who hangs around a comic shop and substitutes pop culture references and minutia for actual conversation is so important that it'll save the world.
Bullitt is definitely a movie for "car guys", and while there's some crossover between nerds and "car guys" (hello!), it's not super common.
My Dad made me watch it for the chase scene, but agree 100%.
That poster embodies this stupid-ass drive to fit everything that was ever cool under the geek umbrella that people ought to know better than to give into.
And ultimately, it's neither determination, justice, a sense of duty to humanity, kindness, nor courage that wins out.
It's being good at games like Joust and being able to regurgitate the script of WarGames and Holy Grail.
Well yeah that guy at the comic shop has none of the former, only the latter
Don't forget that if you aren't one of those people you do not deserve to live.
Jesus.
Excuse me m'lady, if I may. Not really a question, per se, more of an observation. A comment, really: Not all men.
*Tips fedora*
Whoa whoa whoa, this is the future Raijin
His fedora can tip itself
Plenty of women love books about men who are terrible to women. Look at the success of the Fifty Shades series.
Me too actually.
We are absolutely the target.
Nerds who love video games and movies and were kids in the 80s and 90s when all this stuff was coming out? That’s who this crap is supposed to sell to. They just misjudged...well, everything, right down to the core idea of the movie.
Yep. We're supposed to be psyched as hell for this.
I'll just get tickets for The Incredibles 2 instead.
Excellent work, GG
very good
I honestly have no idea how Nerds at Large are reacting to this movie or its marketing
Most of the nerds I work with (who are not bad people with poor taste by any stretch of the imagination) are moderately to extremely excited for it, for whatever that's worth.
I think the source material is trash, but I trust Spielberg to at least turn it into a mindless, dumb, fun spectacle that's probably entertaining enough for a matinee ticket if I'm bored before Infinity War drops.
This is what I was talking about. Not nerds in the wild.
He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what 'ther' means?
The first trailer has over 14 million views on Youtube. Over 197,000 'likes', and just under 11,000 'dislikes'.
I'm glad I saw that here and not out in the wild for the first time. I imagine employees would be upset at someone yelling "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE!" in a theater lobby.
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It's doubly funny since, just a week before RPO is released, I'll have my ass in a seat watching giant robots punch giant monsters once again.
That's likewise a movie made exactly for someone like me who loves the shit out of giant punchy robots and it gets everything right about giant punchy robots.
The only thing RPO gets right is teenagers being asshats on the internet.
it was popular and it reviewed well!
I do not understand it