Brenda: No worries. Unless I get too far into my own head my age doesn't mean a thing. Thank you very much Jack. I try to be young at heart. Walking is good and seizures are no fun. I deal with enough idiots in real life, don't want to stress myself out here. The looking younger than my age has been happening since I was in my late 20s or early 30s. First time it happened was in a small food court in a strip mall that I used to take my mom to. We were having coffee and maybe something to eat. There was a nice family running the hamburger place and I could the wife looking at me. She called her husband over and told him to ask me how old I was. He said, "Please don't get mad at me but my wife wants to know how old you are?" I was into my early 30s then and I told him, he told his wife. She came over to me and looked at me then said, "No, is not possible. No, no."  People can't believe it. |
| Brenda: Think I saw Donald Sutherland in the ads for the movie when it first came out. I had forgotten about him and that does get it a slightly better chance of me attempting to watch it. |
| Brenda: You are right that you can't have a good comic book unless there is a good villain. Course if it is a parody that doesn't matter. I had a couple of the "Miami Mice" comics back in the day. And yes it was built around Miami Vice. Think I even had a t-shirt of it. Couldn't get into the Daredevil movies at all and I did try. Not my thing. |
| Brenda: Oh, I didn't realize that David's character was Jessica Jones. And my library has apparently got rid of the copies they had. They were last week. Nuts! |
6ixStringJack: Was staying away from the age thing, but I do have to say that I never would have pegged you for the age you mentioned or anywhere close to it, Brenda. I figured you for not a day older than my youngest babysitter growing up. Young at heart. You keep in shape and on top of your illness and you don't get into needless stressful arguments over what ends up usually amounting to nothing. I bet people tell you you look a lot younger when they have need to look at your ID for something, huh?  |
| 6ixStringJack: Would it change your mind if I told you that Donald Sutherland was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie? |
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| 6ixStringJack: I was just pointing out that I don't believe you can have a good comic book property that anybody cares about if you don't have a good villain in the story. Most Marvel/DC properties struggle with that these days. Jessica Jones was one of the few that really got it right, even among the pre-Disney Netflix days. I mean, I liked Daredevil, and the character himself as well as the cinematography were top-notch, but Vincent Dinorfrio's Kingpin was by far the worst rendition ever. Michael Clark Duncan did it way better in the Ben Affleck movie. |
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| 6ixStringJack: Oh... Killgrave is on Jessica Jones. He doesn't have his own series. Tennant plays the bad guy on Jessica Jones. |
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| Brenda: Nah, I still think I will give the Buffy movie a pass. Yeah, Pee Wee Herman just no. |
| Brenda: It only gets worse as you get older. What till you hit 60. I'm the youngest in my mah jong group. But a lot of places I am the old dog in the room. I've gotten used to it. |
| Brenda: Well, the X-Men stuff and Blade were and are good fun for me. I had a slew of X-men comics and I know about the Blade comics but I didn't have any of those. |
| Brenda: I've seen Jessica Jones at my library and I've picked it up and read the cover and put it down again. I've heard of Killgrave but my library doesn't have that yet. I hope it will. |
| Brenda: I never saw Blade in the theater either one of them but I have the first two on DVD and rewatch them every so often. I just love them. |
| 6ixStringJack: That literally is all I remember about the movie now. |
| 6ixStringJack: I absolutely had to see the Buffy movie just because of Kristy Swanson. I don't really remember much about it now. I'm sure compared the lore that Joss built up around the show that the movie would come off as pretty dumb to somebody who watched the whole show and liked it. Fun early 90's movie though if you don't go in expecting much. Paul Reubens (Pee Wee) was in it too and had a funny death scene. |
| 6ixStringJack: I absolutely had to see the Buffy movie just because of Kristy Swanson. I don't really remember much about it now. I'm sure compared the lore that Joss built up around the show that the movie would come off as pretty dumb to somebody who watched the whole show and liked it. Fun early 90's movie though if you don't go in expecting much. Paul Reubens (Pee Wee) was in it too and had a funny death scene. |
| 6ixStringJack: Heh... I get that feeling a lot now. I comment on social media and other places from time to time and I started realizing about 5 years ago that I'm the old dude in the room a lot of the time, and I'm posting among people who on average are anywhere between 10 and 20 years younger than me, depending on where I'm posting and what the topic of the video or article or whatever is. I still feel pretty young here. Out there, among them, I'm getting to be an old dog. |