DuracellEnergizer said:

I used to get teased for being a Batman fan, and this was back in the early '90s before the Schumacher films came out.

Thank you! I was a fan of Burton Batman and the comics around that time too (semi obsessed), but never let it be known, because after the treatment I got for being a Star Wars fan, I knew to keep my geek passions under wraps to acquaintances. That's why conventions were popular. A place where people would be accepted in likeminded geek company, unlike in greater society. Comic books were definitely not "cool", and neither were fantasy or sci-fi. As an armchair social anthropologist, I'm really interested in seeing what happens to geek culture and geek movies now that they've been embraced by mainstream culture. Will we get more and more Star Trek (2009)s until every geek franchise is "saved" by mass appeal?