Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 21:46:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 113 Message-ID: References: <2102647458.734140255.319770.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1156436104.734155739.307526.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <39273419.734230384.595016.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 04:45:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bfa2803ee9841e6ada44e5be8b2cb9e6"; logging-data="3471240"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19tuREAf1z9a4w8JaVMWFyb" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JcLWaWQTSchC/5oyIkFWZqFjIrA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <39273419.734230384.595016.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 5857 On 4/7/2024 6:28 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 4/6/2024 11:26 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>>> On 4/6/2024 5:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>> In article , >>>>>> "Ian J. Ball" 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. > >> >> >>> Michael B. Jordan was 28 >>> >>> Chris Evans was 24 and then 26 >>> >>> Jay Underwood was 26 >>> >>> >> >> I got to meet Jay Underwood at last year's Vegas Star Trek convention. >> I completely forgot he was in Voyager. Although I wanted a "Fantastic >> Four" picture autographed. Second choice would have been "The Boy Who >> Could Fly." I was surprised he didn't have any "Not Quite Human" photos >> on his table. I forgot to ask about that. I asked him about "Star >> Command" and he shocked anyone remembered it. >> > > L O L I never heard of this guy either outside of that FF movie and I had > to look up his name for that. > -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.