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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:30:53 -0400
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anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> 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.
>
>He can't lose!

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