Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ubiquitous Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:30:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 94 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> <792859538.734663104.329552.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:17:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c6414539b657566239b19e60a4062411"; logging-data="1678128"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qIjxRyEv4ObyKUry3Owu0tcn18peUgZE=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:P+I0t2dCzL39fmJJTpr47VJiJYg= X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.12N (x86 32bit) Bytes: 5303 anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote: > Dimensional Traveler wrote: >> 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. > >He can't lose! https://youtu.be/FtR_6xFY_BQ -- Let's go Brandon!