Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday)

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 4/7/2024 6:28 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/6/2024 11:26 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/6/2024 5:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

In article <uurujd$26es8$1@dont-email.me>,
"Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 4/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

 
Yesterday, I got through a soap, and a Tubi movie!

 
I saw GHOSTBUSTERS in the theater. It was okay. I think I'd have liked
it more without the kids. Why does Hollywood feel it's necessary to
insert either kids or a love story into every movie?
 

 
Except for the increasingly terrible fantastic, four movies, which have a
built-in 16-year-old that they insist on casting with obnoxious actors, a
decade too old.
 

 
 
What movie is this?

 
Any of the Fantastic Four movies.

 
Johnny Storm is 16 in the comics?  I'm pretty sure he wasn't 16 in any
of the animated series either.  He was a robot once, but not 16.  ;-)
 

 
He was when the story starts, and four out of five fantastic four movies
are origin stories. In fact, I’d place him at younger, except that he
tinkered with hot rods, and Was barely old enough to drive. His older
sister was pretty much jailbait herself.  Johnny was a high school student
and a contemporary of Peter Parker.
 
OK research can be fun. :-) Ian‘s Wikipedia article flat out says Johnny
was 16 when he got his powers although they don’t have a cite for it.
Several articles confirm he’s the same age as Peter Parker. He and Parker
both checked out Empire State University at the same time but Johnny put
off college because he was busy saving the world all the time. He ended up
going at least briefly to a couple colleges, one at the same time as Jean
Gray of the X-Men.
 
But he was never actually shown graduating high school. It’s assumed he did
since he eventually went to college. It’s also assumed he missed graduation
because of that being busy saving the world pesky stuff.
 
It’s surmised that the missed high school graduation occurs somewhere
between issues 35 and 41.
 
https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/fantastic-four
 
This appropriately covers dragon man in calamity on the campus, a couple
attacks by the frightful four and a trip off world, and then losing their
powers and daredevil helping them fight Dr. doom. That was an extremely
cool crossover because they actually had daredevil artist, Wally Wood come
in and draw just the daredevil character within a book otherwise drawn by
Jack Kirby. I’m not really sure why the boundary of that ends with 41 and
not 43 which is the conclusion of that storyline.
 
Anyway, yeah, he was sort of busy.
 

 
It’s amazing that they keep making them, and they keep making them worse.
 
Joseph Quinn is 30
 

 
 
Who *is* this guy?!?  I go to a lot of conventions and for about a year
now I would *constantly* see people on Facebook and Twitter asking for
him to make convention appearances.  I thought it was a running joke or
something.  I never heard of him before.  I googled him and confirmed he
was a real person, but it still felt like a running joke.  Then he gets
cast as Johnny Storm.

 
I never heard of him. Isn’t he the guy who took over for Daniel Jackson
while Jackson was dead?
 

Actor Corin Nemec played character Jonas Quinn.

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