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SFX Event. Anyone else waste their life there?

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17:07 / 20.05.03

Oooooh, god. Did anyone waste their time and money on this fiasco?
The best part of 150 quid to wallk into an aircraft hangar and watch awards being given to no-mark celebs in place of proper people who weren't there. _Then_ be forced to watch poor old Scotty be forced to climb some steps he obviously couldn't cope with.
The list of just how shabby and cack this event was could go on and on.
I won't waste any more of your time, but urge you to cancel your SFX subs if they don't hold their hands up and apologise.

Aethelwine Jedi

18:40 / 20.05.03

150 quid! The fuck?!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:45 / 21.05.03

I didn't go to it but wasted about five years of my life subscribed to it, watching it descend from a fairly clever, intelligent magazine that would cover authors and comics and less well known stuff to a run-of-the-mill 'big movie of the month' mag that wouldn't even bother to come up with excuses to slap pictures of 7 of 9 et al wearing nothing much while at the same time telling jokes about lesbians as though they were trying to be the lost link between sci-fi and lads mags.

I suggest you write a letter of complaint to them so they can patronise you. Then bomb the offices from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

rizla mission

10:46 / 21.05.03

Amen to that.

Not entirely sure what their "Event" was supposed to entail, but am tempted to ask - dude, what did you expect? This is a magazine that conducts in-depth interviews with bit-part actors from Sky One filler shows that are so lame that not even drunken students can stand to watch them,forcryinoutloud! (or at least, it was last time I read it, which was, like, YEARS ago..)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:06 / 21.05.03

Flowers: I have to take issue with the phrase "clever, intelligent magazine". It's ALWAYS read as if it's been written by sweaty-palmed fifteen-year olds. Yes, some of the colunms are great (Cornell, Langford, fuck knows who's writing for it now). But it was NEVER that. I still buy it sometimes. They get good reviewers, good columnists... but it's always struck me as being a mag done by geeks who wish they were doing "proper" lad's mags...

either that or I'm just bitter, having been personally dissed in a caption beneath a photo in the fucker. Twice.

No. I'm not bitter.

(That last statement was a lie. Though not a particularly heartfelt one.)

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16:17 / 21.05.03

Point taken. Lesson learned. Got to meet Simon Pegg, though.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:21 / 21.05.03

Stoatie- The first six months, with Bielby at the helm, were some of the best mags you'll ever see. Jamie Hewlett for Gibbering Christ's sake! 7-24, pretty good. 25+ quality starts to plummet.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:05 / 21.05.03

Oh come on... I've still got the first one, with Tank Girl on the cover, and it's awful.

rizla mission

15:59 / 23.05.03

So have I, and I'm annoyed that no fucker wants to buy it off me for lots of money!

For all it's faults, the first few years of it's run did introduce me to countless great authors, comics and movies about which I'd otherwise be clueless..

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:11 / 23.05.03

How were you dissed, Stoats?

My one real experience of SFX is the bit in Rober Rankin's really rather shitty "Apocalypso", where, upon mention of conventional warfare, a general says something along the lines of "Conventions? Don't like them - Bobsy and the SFX crew always hog the bar".

Which was sort of a breaking point for me. Because it meant that Rankin was prepared to disrupt the flow of his character snot for comic effect, not as a stylistic trope, but to mention that he was mates with the SFX crew. That struck me as very sad indeed. In the flebilis sense. I fear it has been condemned by association.

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17:18 / 23.05.03

Strangely, Rankin was one of the few people who came out of it all well. He was the only sleb who was on view and available to talk to in the big aircraft hangar. Lovely move when he won an award and failed to leave the bar because of it. I remember selling him cheap porn, y'know...

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:53 / 24.05.03

People tend to get the magazines and events they deserve.

Discuss.

John Adlin

19:59 / 24.05.03

Not been to the event so I can't comment but as regards the mag.
Its gone downhill lately, so has the quality of Sci/Fi fantay it covers. Market forces dictate that it must pander to whatver is popular. SFX is the tip of the iceberg, with a whote sattelite channel devoted to Sci Fi and new big buget films coming out all the time X2, Reloaded. you'll think that Sci Fi is a healthy animal but it isn't.
Sci Fi has become T&A (Buffy/Smallville/Farscape) or a Hollywood moneyspinner X2, Spiderman, Matrix films.
So what's the alternative? Starburst? Something else.

Quality specualtive ideas such as Donnie Darko are and allways have been thin on the ground, to the point of one per decade. SFX has to fill its pages with someting, but at £3.75 or therabouts I thinks its expansive.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:11 / 25.05.03

Haus- it was some Star Trek anniversary or other and I was working at Forbidden Planet. The manager made us all dress in (gulp) uniform. There was a picture of me in a Kirk shirt with dreadlocks down to my arse and a caption saying "That's not a regulation Star Fleet haircut, youg man". The other embarrassment was a Mars Attacks promotion. Oh the shame.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:48 / 25.05.03

Sex my legs off, Stoatie, that's harsh. They shall all perish. Oh yes.

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