Knowing your stuff

[BeyondTheGrave]

I was wondering besides b-movies what else do members of this fine board know.  like for example I have pretty good knowledge in Anime, comic books ,military history and video games. Maybe thiers a genre or sub genre of movies you know well. Like I know alot about the cyberpunk genre in the sci-fi category and Asian movies. or maybe you can rattle off information about computers or name every song from a certain rock band.

So what do you know?


You can’t give it, you can’t even buy it, and you just don’t get it!-Aeon Flux



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[Menard]

With regard to movies, my interest has always been in horror movies, but mostly stuck in the 70's and 80's. In particular, I do like zombie movies; why, I don't know. Seems like an odd fascination for someone who is as critical of movies as am I.

I have been a gamer for over 25 years and am probably familiar with the majority of role-playing games that have been published for the first 15 of those 25 years. As well, I am familiar with quite a few board games, card games, and wargames (and no, that does not apply to computer games).

I am a fan of 3-D used in various media, particularly movies.

I am also familiar with photography. Of course, being a photographer this comes in handy. I do have quite a bit a familiarity with camera equipment, contemporary and vintage. And yes, my interest in 3-D does extend into stereo photography. I hope to extend my interest in 3-D into videography as well.

I am slightly familiar with the English language ( :

[Drezzy Mac]

Zombie films, heavy metal, and the biggie: PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. I doubt there's many questions you could ask me about professional wrestling that has to do with the past 10-15 years that I wouldn't know the answer to.

[Ozzymandias]

Pop music in general (favorite genres bubblegum, psychedelia, 70s art rock, heavy metal, glam, garage bands, punk and 80s), comic strips and comic books, literature (mainly sci-fi) and TV (love limited TV animation).

[odinn7]

My interests and areas of knowledge include (but not limited to): Motorcycles, guns, horror movies, and the paranormal (ghosts and UFOs).

[Scott]

Rich Andrini My daughter is big into Anime, so naturally I know a bit about the subject. Enjoy watching the style of the art work and stories. It has really taken off with the younger generation and if your on the West coast they have the coolest stores and conventions out there. We had a chance to go into a couple of these type places in L.A. a couple years ago. They have larger Asian communities out there as well. My daughter started with POKEMON and SAILOR MOON. Then onto COWBOY BEBOP, VAMPIRE HUNTER- D, and now HELSING. She reads and watches anything Anime and anything Japanese.

History in general is a great subject as it contains so much of what we and the world are about. Went to West Point and visited the ground and museum. Very nice. One of Napoleons Swords, Hitlers pistol, and much much more are in this museum, plus it's in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York state. Check it out as I think you live close to it.



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[Scott]

Menard I enjoy all era's of film, but mostly from the 60's and 70's though. I like the style of these 60's and 70's films. Something about the camera's I guess as the images look so much different than todays. Maybe it also has something to do with the lack of special effects.

Zombie films are the greatest these are the ones that I've seen:

The Night of the Living Dead
Zombie
Return of the Living Dead
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Return of the Blind Dead
Blind Dead 3 (it comes under many titles)
Dawn of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead II
Day of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
Shaun of the Dead
I Drink Your Blood
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: The Apocolypse
Last Man on Earth
White Zombie
Plague of Zombies
I Eat Your Skin
Kung Fu Zombie
Revolt of the Zombies
28 Days Later
King of the Zombies
I Walked with a Zombie
The Walking Dead
Serpent and the Rainbow
The Believers

Many films are borderline zombie films including anything that was dead and comes back to life like Vampires, Frankenstein, etc.

Played board games my whole life. Even created many of my own, but never able to get them manufactured.

Played a lot of Computer Real Time Strategy games. War Craft I, II, III. Starcraft, Ages of Empire, Dune, etc.

Even made some attempts to patent different sports. Spectator type sports.

The only photography I do is when traveling.



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[Scott]

Drezzy Mac I was a big fan of Professional Wrestling back especially from 1979-1986. Still watch it on occassion, but have found that national exposure of these characters kills the magic it once had during the territorial days before Satellite TV. Started watching it about 1979 when our new cable system was upgraded and we picked up WTBS from Atlanta as one of our channels and they showed GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING and that is how I recall becoming a big fan of the "King of Sports". I always was curious about wrestling in the 70's, but it was on late at night, but always noticed the bloody covers on Wrestling magazines when going to the local newstands where I lived.

Favorite Wrestlers of all time are:

Kevin Sullivan
The Fabulous Freebirds
The Masked Superstar
Brusier Brody
Abdullah the Butcher
Dory Funk Jr.
The Shiek (original)
Stan Hanson
Superstar Billy Graham
Harley Race
Iron Shiek
Catus Jack
The Samoans
Mr. Fuji and Mr. Saito tag team
Terry Funk

Current Wrestlers that I like are:

Eddie Guererro
Tajiri
The Undertaker



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[Scott]

Ozzymandias I really like New Wave/Punk from the 80's and of course Heavy Metal mostly from about 1980-1985. Had a chance to listen to all those songs again when my daughter became a teenager. Reliving my childhood I suppose.



Post Edited (01-17-05 11:17)

[Scott]

Well, odinn7 been a big UFO follower for years and also any of the mysteries since childhood. Great subjects.



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[Chopper]

i'm pretty knowledgable in music, i play guitar and write songs. the genres of music i'm the most knowledgable in are punk, hardcore, indie rock, and folk music. but i also listen to a lot of old school rock like Pink Floyd, Van Morrison and Jackson Browne. if anyone ever wants to talk music genres feel free to hit me up.

[BeyondTheGrave]

Thanks Scott Ive been makeing trips to go to different places around New York cause their so many different  things to do over here. West Point sound good. I to have been to Anime conventions here in the New York area. Also Scott If your interested check out regular comic conventions also. Not only do they have comics from times long ago and comic statues but stuff related to comics like rock and roll memborialia, sci-fi stuff and anime. They have one every two months here in New York.

 You can’t give it, you can’t even buy it, and you just don’t get it!-Aeon Flux

[Menard]

I have tried to watch as many zombie films as I can (and many are truly bad). In finding some zombie movies I may have not seen, I found some help with a book published by DarkSide magazine simply called ZOMBIE. I am anticipating the release of a zombie movie history book called BOOK OF THE DEAD which Amazon.com will be carrying. I really miss THE MONSTER TIMES magazine.


As a photographer, I do not actually take many personal photos (not necessarily unusual among photographers). I have improved upon my ability to avoid being in photographs. This almost becomes an artform when photographing weddings to prevent from being in half the photos that guests have taken.

[odinn7]

Scott, I find paranormal topics real interesting. I've been real into UFOs for over 20 years and the last few years I've also added ghosts to my paranormal interests. However, I'm not like some people that believe everything you see that isn't readily explainable is caused by something paranormal.

[blkrider]

Big fan of wrestling here too, though I've gotten disgusted with it recently and haven't watched it in a few years.   It was pretty sad to see a diehard WWF hater like myself actually choosing to watch them instead of WCW in the final years of the Monday Night Wars.  WCW had just been taken over by the kind of crap that had caused me to hate the WWF all those years.  My "home" promotion was Mid-South Wrestling and to me that will always be my favorite wrestling of all time.  

I know zombie movies pretty well....I'm a fan of movies in general, not just the Bs.
I probably know more about arthouse/foreign films.   I don't know much about most of the popular movies/stars of recent years, though.  

My other fields of "expertise"--I'm a history buff--not really any specific field, though I tend to know more about 20th century US history.  I have an English degree and still maintain an interest in literature and writing.  

I also like true crime stuff, creepy photos, reading about psychological disorders, and other assorted weirdness.   I'm nigh obsessed with old intermission films, trailers, classroom films, etc...on the rare occasions I do have any money I usually spend it on Something Weird Video.