verushka70

I've never heard that saying, but then I am a dilettante-ish scifi fan, so maybe that's why. (I am by no means well-read in scifi -- if it wasn't laying around our house between ~1975 and 1992, like the Bradbury, Pohl, and Heinlein novels my older sibs read -- I probably haven't read it, except for everything William Gibson has ever written and will continue to write.)

I'm not a Star Trek devotee or completist by any means; I just grew up with it and I went through a childhood phase with the original series where I really got into it. But it is incredibly cheesy to watch now. I remember watching the animated series on Saturday mornings and I read some of the episode novelizations, but only because they were laying around the house due to my older sibs (and they were already falling apart with cracked paperback spines and the like). I didn't go out and actually buy the numerous ST novels. I bought one, once. It was okay, but I didn't feel compelled to continue. Of all the permutations, my favorite was ST:TNG (mostly due to Patrick Stewart and the holodeck). I didn't like ST:DS9 much at all, despite Whoopi Goldberg, I rarely watched Voyager, and I never watched the one with Scott Bakula, the name of which escapes me. I saw most of the ST movies, but not all of them -- I missed at least 2, maybe 3. The only one I felt compelled to own and watch again and again was The Wrath Of Khan, largely because of Ricardo Montalban's slit-to-the-navel shirt, lol. I got a couple of the movies on VHS but I didn't rebuy them on DVD.

Actually I'm the same about Star Wars, a dilettante. I saw the first two movies (Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back) probably about 30 times each in theaters on first and second runs and revivals. When they came out on VHS I bought both (but I haven't re-bought them on DVD). After Star Wars, I got a plastic R2D2 model kit and actually completed it and I got a Lego X-wing kit one year for xmas because I asked for it. I was less than happy with Return Of The Jedi, but that was mostly because of the Ewoks.

But when the prequels started coming out in the 90s and 00s, I just couldn't get into it. The mythology was too complex and convoluted and frankly the newer movies were not as exciting to me as the first two. But I will forever have a huge soft spot for Empire Strikes Back, despite the cliffhanger ending with Han encased in carbonite. I think it is the most dramatically compelling of all of them all. (Han Solo FTW!) But that's coming from someone who didn't see the last two Star Wars movies, lol.

I thought there were 2 Jack Ryan movies, but maybe I'm wrong? I dunno, I don't really keep up with Chris Pine despite the pretty.

And apparently you ARE trying to kill me, because that top pic of Chris Evans taping his hands on that link to your Tumblr is so positively pornalicious that my jaw literally dropped and my freakin' heart *palpitated*. I might as well have been one of those Looney Tunes cartoon wolves with the eyes that pop out the size of dinner plates.

That shot with the boxing glove hanging in his lap looks obscene even though he's clothed. Jesus. The hotness. Okay, I give in: I will watch all of the Captain America movies. I've been meaning to catch up on all the MCU anyway, though a quick perusal of the MCU Wikipedia page shows that I actually *have* seen all of the movies except the last four. I wanted to see Ant Man anyway, just because I've always liked Paul Rudd.

Just kidding! I will see The Winter Soldier, lol. You convinced me with your softcore eye candy. Although I like your version of Chris Evans in all these older photo shoots much better than the Photoshopped and waxed version in the MCU.

Now that I'm looking at the list of all the MCU movies and when they came out, my viewing drop-off coincides with my breakup from my ex. We used to go to the movies all the time (we preferred the over 21 luxury theaters that serve booze and food and where, typically, there are no children to be found ruining one's movie-going experience, yay). But since we broke up there's just my besties (2 of the 3 are men). Both guy besties are not big moviegoers at all unless it's either a movie with Madonna (sigh -- I love her, but I'm not a completist) or something weird, perverse, esoteric, or in German (preferably all four). My one girl friend works nights at her other job on the days we don't work together and her husband makes her life difficult when she wants to go out with her friends because he's such an insecure, jealous, controlling loser. So I have gone to very few movies in the last 2 years, whereas I used to see every blockbuster within a few weeks of its release.

I did actually go out to my local video store where I still have a video card that I haven't used in like 4 years... and they were closed. I think they're going out of business. Maybe I can find the MCU Captain America movies via Red Box? I don't have the DVD thing with Netflix, just streaming.

But you have succeeded in convincing me. Hmmm. Now that I think about it, once I sort out my VPN options and pick one and pay for it, fuck it -- I'll just DL all the Captain America movies! \o/