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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 8:17:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I certainly collected baseball (& to a lesser extent baskeball & football) cards as well. Sold my collection for, IIRC, $85 to a shop right after we moved to Phoenix for grad school in 8/81 & were broke as heck. *sigh* The early Jackie Robinson, Henry Aaron, Ernie Banks & Willie Mays cards would've each easily brought considerably more than that by themselves a few years later, of course, not to mention the Lew Alcindor & Julius Erving rookie cards, etc. Same lament as any comics collector who sold his collection back then (as I had a couple of months before that), needless to say.
At least I somehow managed to keep my autograph collection.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 9:02:18 GMT -5
I also collected both stamps and coins as a kid, mostly because my older brother did and at the time I wanted to do everything he did. I never really enjoyed either one and quickly focused on comics, which were a lot more fun. I tried a few other collections - Wacky Packages, baseball cards - but none had the legs of the funny books. These days, even if I had an infinite amount of money, I can't imagine collecting anything but comics (except, perhaps, autographed first printings of Dr. Seuss' ouevre). Cei-U! I summon the singlemindedness! My album was neatly tucked away for about 10 years and something clicked when I got preggers....and I made up for some lost time. This is something I'd like to pass on to my daughter, teach her about other countries in the world and where they are. And here's my favourite spot...stamps from this place are brutally hard to find commercially used...
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Post by DubipR on Jun 29, 2014 9:10:01 GMT -5
The man, who shot the man who shot Buckwheat, has been shot.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 29, 2014 10:52:37 GMT -5
My first collection was Lincoln head pennies.It was the only thing I could afford.I still have the 2 books with the slots you stick the coins in. Never found that 1909s-VDB I moved on to Baseball cards in about 1963.All the kids in school seemed to be into it as well and at recess time dozens of guys were flipping cards against walls or flipping straight down. If there was another company besides Topps back then,they were treated like a Charlton comic. I don't recall any other sport card being too popular either. In 1964,through buying a trading I acquired the entire run. That winter,the season over,I looked at my shoebox collection and decided its too old to keep. So on my own decision,I threw them into the incinerator. From then on I only collected comics
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 11:05:11 GMT -5
Fleer, I think, put out a set circa 1964. I acquired a couple via trade in the early '70s; they were really attractive-looking. Edit: Looks like 1963, judging from Google. The shop I worked at used to have a Roberto Clemente from that set.
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 29, 2014 11:16:19 GMT -5
The majority of his movies I haven't seen. I think his biggest critics have seen them all though, which is so odd to me. Well, if someone watches two or three Michael Bay movies and hates them, why would they go out and watch all the rest of his films? I saw Transformers and thought it was terrible. I'm certainly not going to waste several hours watching the rest of the Transformers movies just to verify that they still stink. I loved the Rock. And enjoyed Armageddon well enough. I probably should have quit after Pearl Harbor. But I love Transformers so I gave the movie a chance. Will never watch another Transformers movie by him. Or Ninja Turtles. One of these days I may watch The Island on some streaming service, though.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 29, 2014 11:20:26 GMT -5
Pearl Harbor was Roland Emmerich, not Michael Bay.
Cei-U! I summon the crappy director confusion!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 11:21:45 GMT -5
I think the only thing I've seen of Bay's is Armageddon, a year or two ago. I found it perfectly OK.
Didn't realize he directed The Island, which is pretty near the top of my Netflix queue & will probably end up shipping next week.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 29, 2014 11:55:57 GMT -5
Pearl Harbor was Roland Emmerich, not Michael Bay. Cei-U! I summon the crappy director confusion! I believe you may be incorrect, sir.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 29, 2014 12:38:27 GMT -5
I dabbled with stamps as a kid, but eventually settled on baseball cards before discovering the joy of comics... though I do still by some cards now and then My father is a big-time philatelist, with a huge high-grade collection that includes a lot of really rare items. He has a US #2 (issued in 1847) that he bought for $25 in 1963 and is today worth somewhere around $3,000, as well as a complete 1930 Graf Zeppelin set (only 227K of these stamps were ever sold) which can go for $1,500 or more.
I was never into stamps growing up, instead collecting hockey and baseball cards along with the occasional comics back in the late '70s and early '80s, switching over to comics almost exclusively around 1986.
I'm currently trying to piece together sets of the 1979-1980 and 1980-1981 O-Pee-Chee hockey card sets, as the Topps versions of those were the first two hockey sets I collected; the OPC sets have 132 more cards and are harder to find in the US, as they were only widely distributed in Canada and certain areas of the US.
My wife collects coins (primarily the Lincoln-head pennies), so she understands my compulsive need to stop at flea markets, antique shops, and garage/yard sales. It's nice to have someone who "gets" collecting, or otherwise I would just seem weird.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 29, 2014 12:39:13 GMT -5
Pearl Harbor was Roland Emmerich, not Michael Bay. Cei-U! I summon the crappy director confusion! I believe you may be incorrect, sir. So I am. Cei-U! Like I said: crappy director confusion!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 29, 2014 12:43:44 GMT -5
I don't collect anything. I have a bunch of funnybooks, but I read them, I don't collect them. I could get rid of them tomorrow and not mind all that much as long as I still had a way to read funnybooks.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 29, 2014 13:44:33 GMT -5
The Island is a beat-for-beat ripoff of a 1970s film with Peter Graves called Parts: The Clonus Horror. I believe this was actually proven in a court of law.
The MST3k episode featuring Clonus is available on DVD and also on YouTube.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 30, 2014 1:38:45 GMT -5
Considering that the only things I have seen by Bay are "Bad Boys" and a Lionel Richie video he directed, I think his next movie should be a remake of Dream Girls. With guns.
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Post by impulse on Jun 30, 2014 9:53:02 GMT -5
While I think a lot of people do watch things to complain about them, a lot of folks find themselves gradually into situations where they have paid for crappy experiences. Speaking from my own experience, Michael Bay seems to have gotten worse over time. Couple that with growing up and not being a teenager anymore and it's a gradual shift until a wake up call of "Okay, who directed this piece of crap?"
I loved The Rock and thought Bad Boys was quite good as an action/comedy buddy cop flick. I liked Armageddon, too. Not award-winning stuff, but I liked the actors and summer blockbusters, and I was still in high school, so my taste was not as discerning as it is now. By the time Pearl Harbor came around I started to notice the plots dragging a bit more, but stuff still blew up real good, so whatever. A very related side note, I'm not sure when I started paying attention to who wrote and directed movies, but the proliferation of the internet and IMDB has made that much easier to do. I did enjoy the first Transformers movie because 1.) nostalgia for my childhood, 2.) much better than I expected it to be, and 3.) it was the first time so as an audience member I was less jaded, it was fresher, and not every drop had been wrung out yet. It was a fun novelty movie, and I was willing to overlook the flaws and plot holes...once. And here is the line in the sand.
Then they started spewing out uninspired sequels where not only was the novelty gone and the old flaws not fixed, but they started making them actively worse. The writing and story were horrible, and I found Transformers 2 awful. I didn't think a movie about robots fighting could be so boring, but there we are. I wasn't even going to see the third one, but I was roped into going with my in-laws while my wife was doing something. The movie was helped because my expectations were so low I could have tripped over them, but I was pleasantly surprised by the last hour or so that was a technology and special-effects showcase despite the abysmal writing. Seriously, the first 90 minutes were nearly unwatchable. I do not plan to see the 4th one unless it is in similar circumstances, i.e. a group wants to go, etc. My parents are in town so that may happen...
Anyway, sorry to ramble. Short version - not everyone watches stuff they hate just to hate it. In my case, I grew up while Bay's writing got worse.
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