Darth Vile said:Is it me or doesn't anybody else find this just plain weird and a little scary? Full grown men dressing up as Indiana Jones and taking pictures of themselves in front of the mirror!!!
Darth Vile said:Is it me or doesn't anybody else find this just plain weird and a little scary? Full grown men dressing up as Indiana Jones and taking pictures of themselves in front of the mirror!!!
|ZiR| said:Never go to a comic book or anime convention; you may very well be scarred for life!
Really though, do adults who dress up for Halloween scare you too? I'm not being sarcastic. I am genuinely curious about this.
Darth Vile said:Also - I understand completely the interest with props and costumes. However, I still think there is a big difference in collecting props, costumes... and to dress up in them for your own gratification.
Personally I think Sankara looks way more like Nicholas Wyman (Jeremy Irons partner in crime from Die Hard With A Vengeance), as well as Michael Brandon, then he does Harrison Ford! He channels the vibe of Ford as Indy, but that's when making scrunched up, squinty, angry faces! The pics of him relaxed look way more like Wyman and Brandon then Ford! I still give Sankara kudos for pulling off the outfit so well!Dr. HenryJones.jr said:if you are "Doppelgänger" for Harrison Ford
DocWhiskey said:I agree with your first paragraph. But the part I quoted seems to completely retract what you just said. So you're saying it's better to spend a few hundred dollars on screen accurate costumes as a collection stowed away somewhere rather then wearing it out for a movie premiere of that said character, convention, or Halloween?
I've never dressed up for a convention, though I am planning on it next year, and the reason I personally do it is not for my own gratification .
I do it because I love people's reactions. A friend of mine and I go to a big haunted house every Halloween dressed up as something(last year we were the Mario brothers) and meet people in line, take pictures etc. It's boring waiting there for hours and doing it passes their time and ours.
Raider S said:Darth, you're a douche.
You submit over 1,000 posts discussing or defending the merits of the last Indiana Jones film then launch into some psycho-babble diatribe about people playing dress-up.
A guy spending hours, and hours, and hours of his time on a message board doesn't have much credibility when he starts bashing others on the same site because he thinks their behavior is odd.
I can tell from the way you write you aren't a child (in terms of years, anyway) but just how adjusted are you? Do any friends you might have know how much time you spend on an Indiana Jones site? If you have a job, do your coworkers know? You seem to have a need to rationalize your behavior while questioning those who aren't doing anything much different. So maybe it's a little hard to take you seriously, too.
I own an Indy jacket and wear it all the time; not because I want to be Indiana Jones but because I think they are good looking jackets. Other than the jacket, I don't dress as Indy. If someone else does, however, I'm not going to question them anymore than I'd question the accountant or engineer who dresses like some wannabe badass Hell's Angel when he rides his Harley to the mall on Sunday afternoon.
Darth Vile said:Be that Indiana Jones, Batman or an adult baby in a nappy.
deckard24 said:Personally I think Sankara looks way more like Nicholas Wyman (Jeremy Irons partner in crime from Die Hard With A Vengeance), as well as Michael Brandon, then he does Harrison Ford! He channels the vibe of Ford as Indy, but that's when making scrunched up, squinty, angry faces! The pics of him relaxed look way more like Wyman and Brandon then Ford! I still give Sankara kudos for pulling off the outfit so well!
Nicholas Wyman
Michael Brandon
The Man said:
"Gwah! Judge not lest ye be judged. Bwah!"