How are you doing?
I'm one of these old punters that was 10 when I got Prog 1 - it was at a newsagents just across from my school and I spent my sweet money on it and had lost my space spinner by about 4pm that afternoon - a sudden gust of wind having taken it to the 'haunted woods' that were behind the primary school I was at. My Biotronic stickers were knackered by the Sunday, though the rash they left lasted a lot longer and my Invasion Survival Guide was with me until I realised that girls were not going to find it endearing seeing a blue and red handy survival wallet for a war that had not even happened yet. I cried when John Probe got killed and I once wrote a script for a Judge Dredd film in four school jotters and sent it to 'John Carpenter, Hollywood, America' - that was in 1980 and he never, ever got back to me.
I have always loved 2000AD - no, I have always loved that it existed and even when it has been a bit ropey it has followed me through life.
I have largely shunned online fandom due to a weird and slightly grubby encounter with some Doctor Who fans that took exception to my suggestion that the Rani was and always would be rubbish.
I started talking to some people on IMDB about the Dredd film and found some like minded people and yet another reason to avoid my freelance work and thoroughly enjoyed the discussions. However now IMDB Dredd board has become a mire of misery and wailing and people LOL'ing a lot and other people wondering why AMERICAN AUDIENCES HATE US SO MUCH that I thought that I'd come here as I believe that a lot of the people I spoke to regularly were on here and there would likely be more fairly level headed people than the wailing banshees that are tearing the flesh from their bones elsewhere.
I thought Dredd was a near perfect adaptation and I'm disappointed that the box office is so far not reflecting the quality and I'll put my cards on the table and say I never much liked Rogue Trooper.
Anyway - nice to be here and I look forward to speaking to many of you in the future
Cheers
Cracking first post Samson_k
welcome to an oasis of sanity amidst all the t'internet madness. I understand that a certain mental troll who has long been banned from here has been quite active on imdb lately, I've avoided looking to keep the blood pressure down. And don't get us started on those Dr Who message boards... :lol:
Welcome! You'll find this place entertaining and with plenty of room for 'proper' discussions alongside much, much weirdness. There's nowhere quiet like it, to be honest.
Cheers Dandontdare and ming
Aye, the perpetual troll has been on and off but to be honest the main fear about his posts is the problems with potential seizures as he posts and deletes at such a speed that it's like being Rod Taylor in The Time Machine. I count myself lucky that being a 2000AD fan it took me 35 years to encounter him.
It's not so much the few persistent trolls that's been the problem - it's the general vast swathes of negativity surrounding the actual box office rather than celebrating the fact that the film largely works.
Anyway, thanks again and it's good to be here.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 September, 2012, 10:34:53 AM
Cracking first post Samson_k
What he said. Hopefully we're not as bad as Doctor fandom... though Doctor Who does seem to fire people up here too come to think of it.
I too never like Rogue Trooper, though it almost always looked good.
Welcome aboard and have fun.
Welcome to 2000AD forum!
He is really good chap at IMDB board. I sponsor him on here. His replies really funny and wise.
And you will be fine on here.
Good luck, and my holiday is doing great!
Goaty
Quote from: Goaty on 24 September, 2012, 11:16:18 AM
Welcome to 2000AD forum!
He is really good chap at IMDB board. I sponsor him on here. His replies really funny and wise.
And you will be fine on here.
Good luck, and my holiday is doing great!
Goaty
Thanks Goaty - a pleasure as always buddy
Glad your holiday is going brilliantly. Have you managed to see Dredd in Amsterdam yet?
Hi there, must admit I never liked Rogue trooper either but then again I wasn't interested in Dredd as a kid unless it had uber violent pages ha!
I thoroughly enjoyed Dredd. Took the franchise to a new level.
Saying that i've just ordered rogue trooper on xbox and dredd case files 6 so what do I know?
Welcome to the forum!
Good, you will enjoy it here. I have to leave the IMDB for while as it overload with trolls now exciting about BO shits, sad fuckers.
You take cares.
Hi and welcome, I'll add my voice to the rogue trooper lot too. Could never get into it myself. Thought it was just me, but apparently not. I'm currently disliking Brass Sun a good deal but I seem to be alone on that one. Anyway, welcome once again.
hi guys,umm just got my first thing wrong...doh! posted my hello post in the new readers post above,aww well lol. anyway hi to you all,and i thought the new movie was triffic,
i wont repeat what i wrote in the other thread,but suffice to say its been a long time since i read 2000ad regularly, but i hope to get back into some discussions with you all at some point ;-)
one question? do you suffer with trolls here? i used to use the battlefield 3 gaming forums and they are just horrid, and got a bit peeved on the promethius forums with some A hole getting picky at my occasionally poor typing and spelling. heres hoping your the great bunch i think you all are. cheers ;-)
Quote from: sharkeyfinn on 24 September, 2012, 06:26:53 PM
one question? do you suffer with trolls here?
Our mods have Dredd-like sentencing powers, so not so much! :D. The 'probationary' period seems to weed out most of the bots and total fruitcakes, but if anyone gets out of order, it's a smallish community, so they tend to be reported and removed pretty quickly.
and welcome!
Hi Samson, It's Aaron from the IMDB boards. Good to see you here. I got about 7 people to see the film with me last Friday and all but one of them loved it. Oddly enough the hater is a bit of a troll when it comes to these things, so I am not surprised. But he's a good guy-just no accounting for tastes.
Hope you are well and enjoyed the film as much as I did.
Aaron
Hey Aaron - yeah, I loved Dredd. One or two tiny wee story niggles but nothing to get worked up about.
It's good that you did too - I would imagine the pink limousine was packed with 7 there and presumably 6 back :)
LOL. Turns out I could only afford a Fiat. But we all dressed as cowns and therefore fit snuggle in the back seat.
I'm definitely seeing it again before it leaves the theaters.
Aaron
A fiat full of clowns - like an aborted David Lynch ad campaign...
I went in my Citroen and had the Dredd soundtrack playing and on the way home there was quite a lot of scowling at other motorists and when I bought some milk out of the local shop there was a wee bit of raspy shopping going on.
My missus gave me a row when I got home and told me to grow up.
I'm hoping that she'll have time to come with me when I go again on Thursday.
Quote from: Samson_k on 24 September, 2012, 07:34:28 PM
My missus gave me a row when I got home and told me to grow up.
I hope you told her that Ma-Ma is not the law in your house, YOU are the law.
Welcome to your new home, Samson_k. We are a pretty sane bunch round here.
Like you, I am a prog oner apart from the (quite common) long walk of the 90s. My space spinner's fate was sealed when my younger brother tore it to pieces. Yours had a more poetic finale.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 September, 2012, 07:40:13 PM
Quote from: Samson_k on 24 September, 2012, 07:34:28 PM
My missus gave me a row when I got home and told me to grow up.
I hope you told her that Ma-Ma is not the law in your house, YOU are the law.
I kind of sort of did - but I waited until she was upstairs and I didn't do it into a PA system - but I think she got the message...
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 24 September, 2012, 07:50:02 PM
Welcome to your new home, Samson_k. We are a pretty sane bunch round here.
Like you, I am a prog oner apart from the (quite common) long walk of the 90s. My space spinner's fate was sealed when my younger brother tore it to pieces. Yours had a more poetic finale.
From the reading I've done it seems like a good forum.
The only reason I didn't give up at all was largely because my dad still wanted to read it and every few weeks I'd get an envelope from home with two or three issues of 2000AD - he would have loved the Dredd film if he'd still been about to be honest.
He disliked the 95 one - 'I'm no watching that big lump playing Dredd - have you seen what he's got going on under his belt.' was a quote that I remember vividly.
I suspect that my space spinner might still be there or the green lady got it in between bouts of stealing kids faces.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 September, 2012, 06:38:08 PM
Quote from: sharkeyfinn on 24 September, 2012, 06:26:53 PM
one question? do you suffer with trolls here?
Our mods have Dredd-like sentencing powers, so not so much! :D. The 'probationary' period seems to weed out most of the bots and total fruitcakes, but if anyone gets out of order, it's a smallish community, so they tend to be reported and removed pretty quickly.
and welcome!
thanks dan thats reassuring ;-) and thanks for the welcome
Samson,
Nice introduction on your part. If you thought Dr Who forums were full of precious wankers who can't accept a bit of constructive criticism or an alternative view point then never ever, ever join a forum/message board for any band. EVER!!
I stayed off all message boards for years after being amazed at the rabid fantaticism of these people. This site is the one the few forums that actually has some level head people on it.
See - IMDB is good for something. Glad it brought you here, Samson (i); and well done for getting a Rod Taylor reference in early doors. Start as you mean to go on, I suppose. Samson's one of the funniest guys I've ever met, and his knowledge of genre is formidable; if he hadn't found his own way here, we'd have had to headhunt him. Chalk another one up to the Jock contingent!
(i) treated yourself to a capital letter here, I see
Quote from: judge devs on 24 September, 2012, 08:52:51 PM
Samson,
Nice introduction on your part. If you thought Dr Who forums were full of precious wankers who can't accept a bit of constructive criticism or an alternative view point then never ever, ever join a forum/message board for any band. EVER!!
I stayed off all message boards for years after being amazed at the rabid fantaticism of these people. This site is the one the few forums that actually has some level head people on it.
I have never dipped my toes into online music fandom - bearing in mind that much as I like various kinds of music I did for quite a long time believe that Brian May from Queen wrote the soundtrack to the first two Mad Max films - so I'd be out of my depth.
I once met a guy who was living in a caravan park in the middle of nowhere as he was hiding from three Whovians - Whovers - never sure - from Castlemilk after he had called Jon Pertwee a big camp ham.
Fandom can be scary.
Quote from: bikini kill on 24 September, 2012, 09:44:07 PM
See - IMDB is good for something. Glad it brought you here, Samson (i); and well done for getting a Rod Taylor reference in early doors. Start as you mean to go on, I suppose. Samson's one of the funniest guys I've ever met, and his knowledge of genre is formidable; if he hadn't found his own way here, we'd have had to headhunt him. Chalk another one up to the Jock contingent!
(i) treated yourself to a capital letter here, I see
Aye - I thought samson sounded a bit submissive and I've gained confidence since those days...
In saying that you've got a whole different angle going on here - bikini kill - if I'd known that you were allowed to change your username to band names on different boards then I'd have been the St Winifred School Choir, Wind and Fire - one of the most disastrous team-ups in music history.
And I do mean to be a productive member of the forum - once I've read loads of threads and know where all the suicidal accountant film buff OCD depressives are hanging out.
I managed to get my GF to come out with me to see this. We even got a sitter for the kids. I believe her when she says that she liked it, but a part of me suspects that I'll be stuck taking her to RomComs for the foreseeable future.
Welcome Samson
Quote from: Samson_k on 24 September, 2012, 10:29:22 AM
... to my suggestion that the Rani was and always would be rubbish.
Aha! A man of taste & refinement.
Welcome Sampson. Do be a good chap, pull up a chair & make yourself comfortable.
The Wells boy will be around in a trice with the drinks trolley & some of that bracing Coripiean toot.
Quote from: Samson_k on 24 September, 2012, 10:13:59 PMI once met a guy who was living in a caravan park in the middle of nowhere as he was hiding from three Whovians - Whovers - never sure - from Castlemilk after he had called Jon Pertwee a big camp ham.
:lol: That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 25 September, 2012, 12:13:44 PM
Quote from: Samson_k on 24 September, 2012, 10:13:59 PMI once met a guy who was living in a caravan park in the middle of nowhere as he was hiding from three Whovians - Whovers - never sure - from Castlemilk after he had called Jon Pertwee a big camp ham.
:lol: That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
Isn't the easiest and obvious gag about the collective noun for Dr Who fans is Whores?
But you're right that is hilarious :lol:
Now then
Samson_k, and welcome :wave:
Quote from: Samson_k on 24 September, 2012, 10:29:22 AM
lost my space spinner by about 4pm that afternoon - a sudden gust of wind having taken it to the 'haunted woods' that were behind the primary school I was at.
There's be a few tales of woe like this. I look forward to seeing a future episode of
Time Team, when they unearth a few.
Hi Samson. Getting weary of the IMDb board myself now. When I first started posting on there on the day I saw Dredd on it's release, I loved it, and quickly saw that there was a nice bunch of guys to converse with, including yourself. It was great fun for a while, but ever since the US release (no anti Americanism intended) it did get swamped with a lot of immature rantings.
Coming on this forum from there feels like coming out of a crowded and noisy street into a quiet warm pub with a roaring, crackling fire, putting my feet up and sipping ale whilst conversing with like minded gents lol.
I haven't been on here much myself but look forward to more postings and talking with the members on here :)
Quote from: Samson_k on 24 September, 2012, 10:29:22 AM
How are you doing?
I'm doing great. Glad to see you here too.
I was on the IMDB forums too, remember?
QuoteI once wrote a script for a Judge Dredd film in four school jotters and sent it to 'John Carpenter, Hollywood, America' - that was in 1980 and he never, ever got back to me.
That's cool that you wrote a script. I'd love to see it.
QuoteHowever now IMDB Dredd board has become a mire of misery and wailing and people LOL'ing a lot and other people wondering why AMERICAN AUDIENCES HATE US SO MUCH that I thought that I'd come here as I believe that a lot of the people I spoke to regularly were on here and there would likely be more fairly level headed people than the wailing banshees that are tearing the flesh from their bones elsewhere.
A reasonable idea.
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I thought Dredd was a near perfect adaptation and I'm disappointed that the box office is so far not reflecting the quality
I feel the same way, even though my exposure to the actual comics is severely limited.