Geek Weekend

It's going to be a super fanboy weekend.

First, the series finale of Battlenerd Dorkula. I was a skeptic at first, since the original series, while enjoyable in my youth, suffered from the cheesy flavor of the 70's that spawned it. But I've really enjoyed the dark, gritty, and intense emotional stuggle for survival as it's developed over four abnormally spaced seasons. Some you follow the show, but to the uninitiated it's little good to tune in to tonight's oversized installment, which hopefully answers not only the longer dogging questions, but properly completes each of the character's own arcs.

On Sunday, I get to see some big blue cock on the IMAX, when Herr Docktor, Scarlett, and Weibe do the Watchmen. It's been called a flop because it didn't open to Batman -level numbers and beaten up by critics and comic readers, but I'm still looking forward to seeing it. Even seeing just a glimpse of what makes a comic character come to life can be satisfying even if the film is no good. Wolverine's berserker rage as the mansion was being raided in X-Men 2. The stoic grimace of the Punisher in last year's re-reboot. The brute simplicity of Marv in Sin City. I especially like Patton Oswald's take, who is just a big a fanboy:

“You’re all going to go see it, you resentful nerd mafiosi. And you’ll walk in rolling your eyes and you’ll walk out whistling sadly through your teeth because the fuel of the Nerd Mafia is disappointment and exclusion.

Tell you what — before you go and see WATCHMEN, plunk down and watch CATWOMAN, GHOST RIDER and DAREDEVIL. And use those seven hours (and don’t pretend like you don’t have seven free hours in your day) to get out all of your disgust and the-world-owes-me-my-daydreams-made-real attitude you strut around with.

Because Zack Snyder STEPPED UP, motherfuckers. WATCHMEN was going to get made, one way or another. And instead of bleating on his Facebook status updates or Tweeting about how shitty the upcoming adaptation’s going to be, he TOOK THE BULLET and tried to do it right. Yes, WATCHMEN should be a limited series on HBO and blah blah blah IT WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN THAT WAY. Zack delivered a 2 1/2 hour, honest attempt, and broke his ass cranking out tons of free extras. Hell, he even animated The Tales Of The Black Freighter for you chumps. Plus, he gave you a kick-ass DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, plus 300, plus whatever else he’s got coming down the pike. He’s the best friend the Nerd Mafia’s had since Joss Whedon and Brian Michael Bendis, so everyone please crack the tab on a frosty can of Go Fuck Yourself and go see the movie version of WATCHMEN.”

I think maybe that should have been the post-release marketing campaign.