No, he was referring to me. I didn't realize in making light of comics and wrestling that I was taking aim at the two threads he populates most.
Nice. Stalking my posts now. You sure you aren't a troll, because you keep saying you aren't, and then you do things like that which suggest you are? (FYI, I've been a member of this board since almost the beginning way the heck back, and I read a lot more than I post; I run through most of the journalism board topics and add my thoughts there , too, when I feel like it. I gave up on much of the news stuff when every thread -- even some of the sports ones -- devolved into political namecalling.)
I readily admit I have a lot of "juvenile" interests like wrestling. heck, I love the Harry Potter books and even Hunger Games. My desk is covered in toys, which I don't even pretend to call "collectibles." But I also read Kafka and Dostoevsky (admittedly, neither of them in a few years) and enjoy a good play as much as a good movie. I'm an eclectic guy. But dropping in with the first post like you did was, as I said, "troll-like behavior."
And to answer your question from your earlier post, yes, playing a ton of video games is also juvenile to a lot of people. But I won't go onto the video game thread and tell everyone there that it's juvenile. I respect that that's what they're into, and I understand that there are depths to some of it that I don't get because I have only been exposed to a limited degree of it. And beause I'm not a troll.
You can make your point that the market is being saturated with comic book movies (a lot of people on here have) and say you don't get the appeal without saying they're juvenile and that comics are "art for the easily distracted." You can show respect for what other people find interesting without condescending. There are comics where the artwork inside could be hanging in museums, and while most of them are just light entertainment, there are plenty that are serious literature. One of the most critically acclaimed writers of the last few decades, Neil Gaiman, got his start in comics, and his writing is just as prosaic in comics as it is in his novels. You clearly have a very limited experience with comic books. That's not to say you would like them, but if you can't look at something like "Trillium," where the art was done in watercolor and had an insane amount of depth, and see that there's an art to it that you just don't get, then you're just being obstinate.
And bottom line, if you don't like comic book movies, don't go to them. If enough people agree with you, they'll stop making them just like they did with Westerns.
