Trekkies
1997 Directed by Roger Nygard
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A hilarious look at the universe's most fervent fans.
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All the humour and insight of Christopher Guests explorations into specific communities but it's all real.
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I'm fascinated with fandom and why people get so ingrained into a fictional world, and this is a nice little insight into some of the more extreme aspects of fandom.
However, the real charm of Trekkies is how badly it's aged. This is old skool pre-internet fandom, where a Brent Spiner fangirl has to keep a photo album of her favourite pictures rather than a Tumblr page, where people call into a Trek talk radio show instead of voicing their opinions on message boards. It reminds me of when I used to cut out magazine articles and pictures and make Spider-Man/Tobey Macguire scrapbooks when I was 12.
Some of these people do come across as strange, but mostly I found…
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All the humour and insight of Christopher Guests explorations into specific communities but it's all real.
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Too extreme for me. These people are losers. Call me judgemental if you will. I am a nerd, I read comics. I obsess over movies, metal music amongst other things. But they take it to another level.
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Hilariously freaky documentary about fandom.
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Very funny documentary.
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I'm fascinated with fandom and why people get so ingrained into a fictional world, and this is a nice little insight into some of the more extreme aspects of fandom.
However, the real charm of Trekkies is how badly it's aged. This is old skool pre-internet fandom, where a Brent Spiner fangirl has to keep a photo album of her favourite pictures rather than a Tumblr page, where people call into a Trek talk radio show instead of voicing their opinions on message boards. It reminds me of when I used to cut out magazine articles and pictures and make Spider-Man/Tobey Macguire scrapbooks when I was 12.
Some of these people do come across as strange, but mostly I found…
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I can't even handle this documentary. It's too much. Too much obsession.
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It really is hard to believe that these people actually exist. Fascinating.
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To quote George Takei, "These people are insane."