On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:34:07 GMT, Agent Smith
<agent-smith.RemoveThis@two-blocks-on-your-left.com> wrote:
>"Magnus, Robot Fighter." <me.RemoveThis@key.com> wrote in
>news:i3o36311a2u7sp31sp07u05h8ulb7d6r4b@4ax.com:
>
>> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:33:51 GMT, Agent Smith
>> <agent-smith.RemoveThis@two-blocks-on-your-left.com> wrote:
>>
>>>From the trailers, he looks bizarre and inhuman, and might inspire
>>>revulsion in people. He may not inspire the intrigue and awe, that his
>>>psychedelic imagery did in the 60's.
>>
>> Actually that's exactly what he did inspire when he first appeared.
>
>Right, but I mean now. We all know what happened back then.
Aye! He was a sleek silver dude who rode the cosmic waves between
galaxies on a freakin' surfboard! That is the '60s to the hilt and
tapped into kids of the day the way Ghost Rider did a decade later
when that character took the burgeoning motorcycle craze and split it
right down the middle with a single character who possessed both the
squeaky clean daredevil public image of Evel Knievel and the black
leather swagger of an outlaw biker: a literal Hell's Angel, if you
will.
Problem is that today there has been a resurgence of the motorcycling
culture which no doubt helped the "Ghost Rider" film a bit, but
surfing just isn't the "craze" it was when SS came along, when it was
inspired by bands like the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean and bolstered
by Beach Blanket drive-in fare starring the likes of Frankie and
Annette (and Annette's twins) and kids who had never seen an ocean
dreamed of shotting the tube. Kids nowadys are liable to say: "He
rides a >surfboard< through space? That's just stupid...". I don't
even know of any smaller kids among my grandkids and their friends who
have evinced an interest in the animated surfing penguin movie that
opened this weekend, but that could just be because it doesn't look
even remotely funny.
>> Stay informed about: Bad Feeling about Silver Surfer 
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