Is there a sadder thing on Earth than a grown adult obsessed with superheroes, openly talks about superheroes, and wishes he WAS a superhero?

[UnPRePared]

I make no qualms, as a fan of cinema, that I enjoyed the gothic visuals and neo-noiresque feel of 1989's Batman. I admit to a soft spot for the failed Alec Baldwin movie of "The Shadow". I quite liked "Winter Soldier", the only legit good Marvel movie I didn't regret watching (Gosia likes them, sadly). I love "Logan" as a genuine movie. And I admire Snyder's DC films for the art that they were - even if they're a mess.

But that's where it ends. Superheroes were never big in the UK comics scene, so exposure was minimal in my childhood
While I've read a few stories, and some were really quite good, they never became a hobby or, god forbid, something I collected. Once I got into music, it was tunnel vision. Then once you meet girls, all bets were off.

But good fucking God, go online even just the littlest bit, and you would think the entire world is obsessed with capeshit. Clickbait articles about rumours relating to Marvel movies, and grown adults having long discussions over them - but not as cinema... As invested fans of the fucking story. Siskel and Ebert wouldn't even do that shit.

Those "invested fans" are usually grown men and women who focus on it like housewives with soap operas. My father was a John Wayne fanatic, but he never gushed over "Red River" or "McClintock" like Pat does over "Captain America". There is actually a world of Pat's surrounding us, lapping this up like candy, the pre-diabetic cattle they are. It's sickening.

It's not as overbearing here in Europe, but there's a tangent of it in Poland, and it bothers me a little. I see it more in the Americas, and even China - take that as you will, my American Brothermen. Myself, I would take it as depressing, knowing that anywhere you go, there's a Pat who would love to talk to you about The Avengers or the Loki TV series as if you're dissecting Homer's The Odyssey.

How do you not want to kill yourselves or anyone around you?

 

[Raymond]

I remember that I was actually kind of uh-ffended by Iron Man. There's a quick scene where he flies to the Middle East, lapidarily kills a bunch of people and takes off like it was nothing, while he's obviously meant to be a good guy who's also very, very cool. Just mindless dreck. Iron Man is a faggot liked by faggots.

 

[YourOldPalHoward]

> Superheroes were never big in the UK comics scene

What are your thoughts on 2000 AD? My dad is from the UK so I grew up on vintage Dredd comics, I think it inoculated me from American capeshit.

 

[Will Tate]

As a grown adult who likes capeshit movies, I can assure you that no, there is indeed nothing on Earth sadder.

 

[Harry Powell]

May I posit taking photos of kids underwear and being called a coward by your octogenarian mother?

 

[Jim Norton’s Wife's Cock]

What are your thoughts on 2000 AD? My dad is from the UK so I grew up on vintage Dredd comics, I think it inoculated me from American capeshit.

I was going to say 2000 AD was the only comic aimed at adults i remember growing up. If you wanted generic American capeshit you had to find a Forbidden Planet or something.

2000 AD was actually pretty kino, got shit around the mid 00’s though. Haven’t followed it since.

I have a few of the Judge Dredd Complete Case Files stashed away somewhere.

 

[Pringle Can Lothario]

Nothing is more embarrassing as a white male than seeing some fat, balding beta in public with his jorts and smedium capeshit t-shirt.

 

[TheDarkFezRises]

My only real exposure to superheroes as a kid was seeing the batman forever movie in the cinema and then my parents bought me the video game for the genesis.

I didn't even know comic books were a real thing until I was an adult because I had only heard about them in movies, I had never known anybody who read them.

I remember it being quite a jarring experience when the Nolan batman movies started coming out and seeing adults 10 or 15 years older than me coming to work with batman and joker merch. The kind of person who is very attracted to this stuff is never normal in my experience.

 

[CanISitOnJonsLap]

I watch them to be entertained, honestly that new Suicide Squad is a pretty entertaining little action flick. Margot Robbie doesn't get enough credit for her perfect Harley Quinn even in Birds of Prey when literally everything else sucked. But they're popcorn movies, you shouldn't make part of your personality revolve around them.

It's like seeing a hooker: pay for it, get your happy, then casually forget about it. Don't keep fixating on the hooker a week later, buying t-shirts of the hooker's face and wearing them around Paris.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

As I get older I'm starting to feel this way about all movies. I just don't care about make believe worlds.

Still go deep with the documentrees tho

 

[UnPRePared]

What are your thoughts on 2000 AD? My dad is from the UK so I grew up on vintage Dredd comics, I think it inoculated me from American capeshit.

Well, the heyday of 2000AD wasn't around until my teens and early 20's, and by then I was indoctrinated into music.

I do like Dredd and the metaphors it stands for. Stallone's movie was awful - though he's said many times he wanted it to be like the book, studio overrode his demand, blah blah - but Karl Urban's Dredd was great.

My youth had an abundance of war comics growing up. I guess Ireland had it similar from what I hear. The only capeshit was thick black and white reprints, but there weren't a lot.

 

[stealthygeek]

I always found his gay ADHD rant to be very telling:





"Evolutionarily advantageous"
"We need those [tards] now more than ever"
"The creative mind I am today"

He genuinely thinks he's one of the X-Men because he's on the spectrum. Pat probably just gave up his scholarship to the X-Men Academy so Professor X could give it to an autistic POC.

 

[UnPRePared]

As I get older I'm starting to feel this way about all movies. I just don't care about make believe worlds.

Still go deep with the documentrees tho

I still love film noir.

Neo-noirs are rough with me - often they're too bleak for my liking (looking at you, The Long Goodbye). The older Hayes-Code era noirs usually found a good balance of style, cynicism, and caustic dialogue. The modern ones can't compete with "Pickup on South Street" or "Moontide".

 

[UnPRePared]

I always found his gay ADHD rant to be very telling:





"Evolutionarily advantageous"
"We need those [tards] now more than ever"
"The creative mind I am today"

He genuinely thinks he's one of the X-Men because he's on the spectrum. Pat probably just gave up his scholarship so Professor X could give it to an autistic POC.

He wants "special" to actually be special.

You're not. You're behind the rest, you're the lesser of evolution. It's harsh to say, but you will struggle, and if you're lucky, you'll thrive ONLY with help.

It doesn't make you special, Back-Fat - it makes you a burden.

 

[UnPRePared]

I watch them to be entertained, honestly that new Suicide Squad is a pretty entertaining little action flick. Margot Robbie doesn't get enough credit for her perfect Harley Quinn even in Birds of Prey when literally everything else sucked. But they're popcorn movies, you shouldn't make part of your personality revolve around them.

It's like seeing a hooker: pay for it, get your happy, then casually forget about it. Don't keep fixating on the hooker a week later, buying t-shirts of the hooker's face and wearing them around Paris.

It's why I hesitantly admit to the few I like - the natural expectation is to make this shit a part of you.

No, you fucking load. I like many kinds of movies. GOOD ones. Some actually turn out good, but most are disposable. I don't go back to the latter; but I'll rewatch "Winter Soldier" once in a while, or "Logan" if I'm in a down mood.

I sing the praises of hardboiled noir, but you're not going to see me dress up as Nick Charles or Philip Marlowe, you LARPING-fruit bats.

 

[LockedHDD__Pot]

toil for starvation wages in work farms owned by the 1%

yet he's pro medical tyranny, & anti-libertarian.

He's legit retarded & can't even keep his own opinions coherent. I think he's sneaky tho', & married into old-money thinking he'll be safe... can't wait for the impending divorce so 'hush child' can be whispered to him in the dole queue

 

[NoBacon]

I don’t have a problem with anybody doing things they enjoy or liking things they like. It doesn’t stop them being complete faggots though.

I actually think the full dungeons and dragons nerds are less gay than the marvel adult creeps. I can’t even explain why, being an adult man who idolises and obsesses over marvel is just profoundly gay. They aren’t even good movies. I’ve seen a couple that were okay, but none of them are good.

I really don’t understand it. Frankly I don’t want to. I humour my nephew sometimes and let him tell me all about it, but I physically can not retain any of the info in my head, whenever I hear or see a new marvel film coming out I just think it’s Spider-Man. As far as my awareness goes they release like 30 Spider-Man films and tv shows a year and that’s how I’ll always perceive it - which suits me just fine.

 

[Ant_It_Fun]

I make no qualms, as a fan of cinema, that I enjoyed the gothic visuals and neo-noiresque feel of 1989's Batman. I admit to a soft spot for the failed Alec Baldwin movie of "The Shadow". I quite liked "Winter Soldier", the only legit good Marvel movie I didn't regret watching (Gosia likes them, sadly). I love "Logan" as a genuine movie. And I admire Snyder's DC films for the art that they were - even if they're a mess.

But that's where it ends. Superheroes were never big in the UK comics scene, so exposure was minimal in my childhood
While I've read a few stories, and some were really quite good, they never became a hobby or, god forbid, something I collected. Once I got into music, it was tunnel vision. Then once you meet girls, all bets were off.

But good fucking God, go online even just the littlest bit, and you would think the entire world is obsessed with capeshit. Clickbait articles about rumours relating to Marvel movies, and grown adults having long discussions over them - but not as cinema... As invested fans of the fucking story. Siskel and Ebert wouldn't even do that shit.

Those "invested fans" are usually grown men and women who focus on it like housewives with soap operas. My father was a John Wayne fanatic, but he never gushed over "Red River" or "McClintock" like Pat does over "Captain America". There is actually a world of Pat's surrounding us, lapping this up like candy, the pre-diabetic cattle they are. It's sickening.

It's not as overbearing here in Europe, but there's a tangent of it in Poland, and it bothers me a little. I see it more in the Americas, and even China - take that as you will, my American Brothermen. Myself, I would take it as depressing, knowing that anywhere you go, there's a Pat who would love to talk to you about The Avengers or the Loki TV series as if you're dissecting Homer's The Odyssey.

How do you not want to kill yourselves or anyone around you?

What an insufferable faggot. Patrick, too.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

As a major film fan (even working for a time in TV / Film production) it disgusts me how far film has fallen. It’s majority the studios fault since they are too afraid to take any risks and would rather pump out sequels, reboots, comic book, and Star Wars movies because of a built-in audience. My skin crawls when I see grown men raving about the latest paint by numbers comic book or Star Wars movie like it’s some great achievement. Those movies are made to sell merchandise to kids & man children and nothing more.

 

[Coonskin]

Plus he's obese