SF Signal: Neal Stephenson: It's All Geek To Me

Neal Stephenson: It's All Geek To Me

Neal Stephenson has a New York Times article, It's All Geek to Me, that talks about geekdom and the film 300:

Lack of critical respect means nothing to sci-fi's creators and fans. They made peace with their own dorkiness long ago. Oh, there was momentary discomfort around the time of William Shatner's 1987 "Saturday Night Live" sketch, in which he exhorted Trekkies to "get a life." But this had been fully resolved by 2000, when sci-fi fans voted to give the Hugo Award for best movie to Galaxy Quest, a film that revolves around making fun of sci-fi fans.

I saw '300' this weekend. The showing I was at was extremely animated, people cheering for the good guys and jeering at the villains.

I really liked the movie, if movie you can call it. It seemed to be more of an MTV music video of the Battle of Thermopylae. The movie took liberties with the original graphic novel, adding giants and rhinos, elephants and political intrigue back home while the boys were off at Hotgate mixing it up with the Persians to a serious guitar riff soundtrack.

Posted by Kevin on Sunday March 18, 2007 at 10:41 PM