So the new Conan Trailer reminded me...

One: That Jason Momoa looks more like Conan than Arnie ever will. The film might suck, but at least we get that.

Two: Nerd films are increasingly not for nerds.

Three: This is kind of our fault.

Too many nerds nitpick and freak out about stuff so far in advance of a film, book, comic release and then don't even bother to make ourselves a significant or unified presence in the market I'm starting to see why many media producers kinda ignore us.

I mean, I think I would most times, and I'm a huge nerd. It's gotten bad enough I occasionally look at my current novel I'm working on and say:

"You know, I should be selling out more...since the nerds will never actually love this. They'll nitpick and namecall and freak out. But if I put in a bit more technothriller and a bit fewer talking apes, I might have a bestseller."

And that makes me sad. I mean, I hope it's not true, but as I look at how modern-pulp thriller types like Rollins, Maberry, Preston and Child, and others handle the balance and how they manage bestsellers while simultaneously being almost non-entities in the geek crowd net circles? Eh, starting to wonder...