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I just want my kids back.

The movie is based on a "pen-and-paper" role playing game, which I suspect it even geekier than the kind of role-playing games that actually get you out of the house.

You couldn't be more wrong on this point. At all.

Pen-and-paper role playing games are infinitely less geeky than the kind of role-playing games that actually get you out of the house, see i.e., LARPing. There are few things geekier than LARPing.

From someone who has been 10 out of the last 12 GenCons, you'll have to trust me on this one.

I played a brief Mutant Chronicles campaign back in my college days. It was a decent game and a pretty interesting concept, but this movie looks horrible.

I'm still waiting for Homeless Dad to come out so that he can pay for gritty personal project about a junkie's life, which he only got to do in exchange for making a rigidly formulaic popcorn movie.

This trailer is trying to go for both, so clearly, it will fail. Time to invest in some diamond cream.

every time Dustin gets his hate on for the geekery, i wonder what he's suppressing from his past...

Pen-and-paper role playing games are infinitely less geeky than the kind of role-playing games that actually get you out of the house, see i.e., LARPing. There are few things geekier than LARPing.

Forbiddendonut speaks the truth. Although I would add that LARPers with big foam weapons are less geeky than those without them. Simply because without the draw of beating a guy senseless with a PVC pipe covered with padding, all you have are theater nerds. *shudder*

this is definitely what I would call a "fandom trailer". It is obvious the only folks that can make sense of that trailer are those already quite familiar with the material. It isn't for the uninitiated, or the closeted masochist movie reviewer population, either.

Thomas Jane Ruins Everything He's Ever Touched

Including that Arquette chick from Medium?

every time Dustin gets his hate on for the geekery, i wonder what he's suppressing from his past...

Oh, don't worry. We have several investigators looking into these claims as we speak.

Hey look, Ron Perlman. Hardest working B-movie actor next to The Chin.

uh... let's see.... something something haunting, stacatto flicker of the failing flourescent light in mom's basement something something model paint something catgirls and tentacle porn something something stick-on elf ears blah blah blah drow.

I'm just not feeling it today.

I'm with TK on this one.

Hell if I know, I don't even know what that is, Sabrina. I haven't played an RPG since D&D back in 1985 or so.

The concept of arguing which RPG is "less nerdy" amuses me endlessly. Please, continue. You brighten my morning.

In all things there is a hierarchy.

Please follow the link below (I added some extra spaces so it'd make it through the filter) for a more detailed description:

The Geek Hierarchy.

http: // www. brunching. com/images/geekchartbig.gif

And after I get home from work today, I am going to go home and sleep with my wife.

Hating on Thomas Jane?

You are sad, pathetic, little man.

To clarify for the non-geeks out there, LARPing involves dressing up in costume and going out to a forest (or park, hee) and play-acting with fake weapons. Awesome when you're 5, not so much when you're 30. Pen and paper RPGs mean a bunch of guys sitting around in someone's basement rolling dice around a table and making up stories about their character while eating Funyuns (the low-tech version of a video game RPG). Still nerdy but at least that shit is in private and doesn't involve costumes.

[raises hand]
Does dressing up for Ren Faire = LARPing?

I just need to know where on the Geek hierarchy I stand, hooded-cape-double-daggers-in-m'boots- staff-in-hand-leather-pouch-filled-w/-coin.

Wow. What the fuck is wrong with John Malkovich? Did he need this paycheck from that movie to pay off the loan shark before his knee-caps get blown away?

And while I'm questioning life, what the fuck is up with great actors doing shitty movies lately?

forbiddendonut - that was great, thanks for sharing. These things really do need a flow chart.

"Ron Perlman gives me a clitboner."

Marra, Pretty sure I can help you with that. If you don't mind closing your eyes, I'll answer to "Ron."

Or did you already rub one out?

Quite frankly I have no objections to Thomas Jane touching and ruining my body...all day and all night. Preferably while wearing his kilt and not much else.

Oh, and I saw "Let the Right One In" yesterday and honestly thought it was overrated. The kids were great in it but being overlooked for Best Picture? Yeah, I can understand why.

Crank 2?