A recent article I came across on the twitters spoke on how Hollywood’s presence at San Diego Comic Con this year was especially meager when compared with years past.  The prevailing theory seems to be that in a take-my-ball-and-go-home kind of way Hollywood is shunning the geeks at SDCC on account of previous marketing efforts not abating failures like Scott Pilgrim at the box office.

I’m not saying this definitively the reason for a smaller studio presence; it’s all speculative at this point as to why geeks are being given the cold shoulder.  However, if this is the case,  expecting that your attendance at a few geek gatherings will guarantee you a box-office smash is pretty naive thinking.  Content is king and if you can’t  produce something worthy of our time, we’re likely to have a luke-warm reaction at best and move on.

I exist within the very niche to which studios are trying to appeal, but one of the things that  I feel characterizes geeks is a very analytical nature.  We tend to be natural rebels and especially questioning of polarized opinions- especially when those opinions come from what you might call an outsider, or someone who is out to capitalize on the geek subculture instead of an established member of the group.

Is all lost for geek movies?  I sincerely doubt it.  In fact, in a way the term geek is becoming more hazy as mainstream encroaches on our territory more and more with its adoption of things we secretly coveted in our secret club of sorts.  I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but I personally won’t lose any sleep worrying if they’re ever going to make another comic book movie.