Okay, Maybe I Do Have To See SUPERMAN RETURNS

[filkertom]

Seeing as how it's Harry Potter 8 and all.

(Edit: Gaaaah. The community is friends-locked. I might post the pics myself here. The gist of it is, a bunch of pics of Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns that are eerily similar to a bunch of pics of Emma Watson in the Harry Potter movies, with a few disquieting Brandon Routh/Dan Radcliffe pics as well.)

(Edit 2: Yay! Unlocked. Thank you, venus_ice! Scroll down to the comment of connaka for the real comparison shots.)

Comments

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Locked entry-what is it?

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

We're not cool enough, apparently. :(

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd live to see the day when I "wasn't cool enough" for a Harry/Hermione Shippers community. =P

Modded membership seems a bit much, though.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I apologize -- maybe I should just nuke this thread. I'm trying to get 'em to open it up, if they can. What it is, is a bunch of photos comparing shots of Kate Bosworth in SR to Emma Watson in the HP movies, with a few unnervingly similar shots of Brandon Routh and Dan Radcliffe. The reason it's modded membership is because of the, shall we say, rude and aggressive behavior of the Ship Wars -- that is, after Book 6 a bunch of Harry/Ginny shippers came on like trolls. If I can't get it loosened up or find a different link, maybe I'll copy the pix....

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not that terribly big a deal; I was just bustin'. =)

And suddenly the modded membership makes sense. It's just that, on the surface, a shippers community seems like one of the last that would need to protect its members. The photos sound interesting, though.

[tygress.livejournal.com]

You'd think it was safe, for sure, but there was some pretty insane people that went balistic after the sixth book came out. People work themselves into a froth over the most amazing things. >.

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

Fanboy territorialism. Sometimes I've almost seen it as funny, but I'm sure it gets just this side of "Misery"-like stalking.

The worst I've ever personally seen it at was in anime fandom in Atlanta. There were quite a few anime fans in that region that essentially said, anime is OURS, we don't want any "mundanes" to like it because they'll just dirty up "our thing," and so we'll make crude sexist comments while we run our "great" acid-mixed music videos derived from "our" anime.

It might sound unreasonable, but that's the impression I got from the first few years of seeing the anime presentations at Dragon*Con. I thought all "otaku" were as posessive and as misogynistic as they were. Then I went to San Diego and found anime fans could be human beings...and in fact, some of them female human beings. A later talk with a person much more in the know about anime confirmed it: "The Atlanta folks are their own scene."

That kind of posessiveness does nobody any good. In fact, sometimes it gets scary.

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

Didn't anyone ever tell you? Every character in every movie ever made has been played by the same guy. I think his name is Chester.

It's all done with green screens and pixie dust.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Oh good -- the entry itself has been unlocked; at least I (a non-member) can see it right now.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I can see the resemblance very easily. I thought that Kate Bosworth looked too young to be playing Lois Lane given the movie's plot. Especially too young to be playing Lois with a five year old kid (she must have given birth when she was only 16 or 17, Kate looks like she is just barely out of college). Kate looks right if this had been the first Superman movie, but not a movie set six years after that.

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

I blame the internet. It's all the internet's fault that we have an internet.