True Geek Confessions

Over at Alert Nerd there is a fun mega-blog crossover event going on called "true geek confessions".  Sometimes you stand alone in loving a super niche-y run of a popular comic book series. Sometimes you’re the only person on the entire planet to ’ship a certain ’ship. Sometimes you simply Do Not Get a movie the rest of your geeky brethren is falling all over themselves about. And because a lot of fandom is about sharing loves and hates and communing with your fellow geeks, this can feel awfully lonely.  I probably have a whole lot to confess, but we'll just pick one for now.

I like love all those "bad" superhero movies.  Things like Transformers, Daredevil, Elektra, The Fantastic Four, and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.  It's not even one of those things where I thought, "this is really bad, but for some reason I love it."  No, I didn't even know that everybody hated these movies until I started reading around on blogs and stuff, and saw how universally hated these movies are.

Let's take Transformers, for example.  I frickin' loved that movie.  It's on my top ten favorite movies list.  It had action, funny stuff, awesome transforming things, the soundtrack was great . . . what's not to love there?  Everybody says it's such a bad movie, but I don't see it!  I'll give you Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  Even though I enjoyed that one for the most part, I can see where it was annoying/stupid/bad, and why people wouldn't like that one.  

Maybe it's just that I'm really easily entertained.  Although I can't say I love every movie I see, so I don't know if that can be the excuse.  I'm actually kind of picky and easily annoyed, and sometimes the littlest things can make me hate a movie.  But I really can't think of a superhero movie I don't like.   I can think of two reasons to explain.  One: I'm just a kid at heart, and would love to have some awesome superpower, so I love to see superheroes on the big screen, or Two: superhero movies usually have hot guys in them.

Whatever the reason, I don't have to explain myself to you!  I'm sure you have a true geek confession of your own.  And just to add one more itty bitty confession, that will probably get my geek card revoked, I have never seen an episode of Star Trek.  Are there any hot guys in Star Trek?  I don't know.

To see more true geek confessions, see the master list at Alert Nerd.