How much of a nerd can you be?

danoff
Do you have a good photo of neo in his robe in the movie (when it isn't raining) that you can post?
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Attached is one of the coat in the rain...the shininess is just water. Also I have included one of the original Matrix Reloaded Neo poster, brightened a little so you can see the detail better. There's no shine; it's just wool:
 

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Anderton
Attached is one of the coat in the rain...the shininess is just water. Also I have included one of the original Matrix Reloaded Neo poster, brightened a little so you can see the detail better. There's no shine; it's just wool.
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I consider that a fair comparison. Problem solved as far as I'm concerned.
 
It does look like it's just wool now. But the stitching is deinitely different. Going back and forth between the two you can tell that there is a difference in the material. The second set of pictures you posted with the dorky guy with the swords makes the material look better. It might be decent quality afterall.

I'd say once you get yourself a trinity in a leather outfit you can feel completely comfortable wearing that in public.

Also, of course, you need to have a keanu build. Don't tell me you're 200 lbs and want to pull off the matrix look...
 
Actually that nerd up in the pictures in Post #27 has the right build, just a funny face and looks very nerdy. Keanu has the mystery about him. That's why he was the right man for the role.
 
danoff
Also, of course, you need to have a keanu build. Don't tell me you're 200 lbs and want to pull off the matrix look...
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Yet another reason I won't be buying the thing. We're not all built like Ted Theodore Logan. But a man can dream, can't he?
 
Anderton
Yet another reason I won't be buying the thing. We're not all built like Ted Theodore Logan. But a man can dream, can't he?
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I'm going for Bill S. Preston, Esq. myself. :)

Edit: Wyld Stallions rule!!!!
 
I would call you a nerd (and probably laugh) if you wore that coat on a sunny day or with the shades.
Otherwise I think you would look little different to any goth I see walking around town.
 
Yeah, to be honest its not going to be cool, except maybe a sci-fi convention....although would have been a little cool before the matrix movies...I like Dquans idea for the Jedi cloak, practical, and can hide alot of shizzit under it
 
Context matters.

Downtown: I wouldn't think twice. I grew up in NYC. We have the Naked Cowboy, so your outfit wouldn't get a second look from me.

Work: Strange. You're probably in a cult. Definately avoid you at water fountain and leave you out of the football pool.

At a casual social gathering such as a party at someone's house: Dork. Don't plan on impressing the ladies.

At a formal social gathering (black tie event, wedding reception, etc.): Bold and fashionable in a non-conformist way. If you were with a good looking lady friend, you'd be stylin. Unless you're ugly. Then I'd figure she was an escort and you're trying too hard. See above. If you came alone, I'd figure you for a stalker.

Also, weather and time of day matters...

Middle of the day: You must be in a vampire goth cult.
Middle of the night: You must be a male prostitute, looking for a john.

Summer: Mega Dork. I mean DORK.
Winter: Stylish alternative to a trench coat. You must direct French film noir.


^this is all tonque in cheek, have chuckle and move on.


M
 
We're all missing the underlying question:

Who is dressing up as the lady in red??? :sly:
 
Since most male prostitutes have male as well as female clients, I don't know if that's a look I'd be shooting for... :crazy:

And just so you don't think I'm making TOO much fun of your geek-ness, I will share that I actually DO have a Jedi Knight robe. And the tunic, belt, boots and assorted ubergeek accessories, including a light saber. But they only come out of the box in the closet ONE day out of the year, during the last week of October ;)

Famine
P'tach!
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Okay, Insta-Poll time. Who is the bigger Geek?

Famine: Because he speaks Klingon.

///M-Spec: Because he knows what Famine just said in Klingon.


M
 
///M-Spec
Okay, Insta-Poll time. Who is the bigger Geek?

Famine: Because he speaks Klingon.

///M-Spec: Because he knows what Famine just said in Klingon.
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I'm going with it's a p'tie
 
<i> How much of a nerd can you be?</i>

How much of a nerd do you want me to be, big boy? ;)

I would have to say, that cassock is incredible. I'd wear it to special events. Requires good hair and sunglasses though. You don't have to be all "Neo" about it, but the cassock does not stand alone - in order to wear it in today's society you have to be a badass through and through.
 
Consider yourselves warned: the next person who pollutes my already-nerdy-enough thread with a post in Klingon is getting stabbed in the eyes with a butter knife.
 
Anderton
Okay, first off, let me ask everyone to be nice...well, at least as nice as possible.

So, Famine can vouch for this...I am obsessed with the Matrix Trilogy, and have recently found an extremely good replica of the cassock worn by Neo in the 2nd and 3rd films (cassock=that long black priest-like robe/cape he wears). Now, here's my question: if you saw someone on the street wearing one of these, and it was well-made (unlike the myriad crappy Halloween costume versions that can be found at every Wal-Mart across the continent), would you have respect for the person, or would you join forces with others and form a posse which would proceed to beat him unmercifully and steal said cassock? Just wondering, because even though I would never be able to fork over the money for it, I would like to know how much of a nerd I would be percieved to be...

Here's a few pics, from the website that sells it, www.abbyshot.com:
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You are what you are, don't ever care wat other people think of you, do what you want, when you want, how you want. . .The coat is cool. . . 👍
 
Oh god. Can people please stop speaking Klingon. You're degrading the forum! :lol: Joking!

In other news, how the hell do you work Gigolo out of a Trenchcoat? Lol. Now you've put bad images into my head. Images of Anderton running down the street, asking for a dollar and if they refuse him, opening his trenchcoat and flashing them, chasing them down the street.

Disturbing.
 
Jimmy Enslashay
In other news, how the hell do you work Gigolo out of a Trenchcoat? Lol. Now you've put bad images into my head. Images of Anderton running down the street, asking for a dollar and if they refuse him, opening his trenchcoat and flashing them, chasing them down the street.

Disturbing.
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Oh, thanks a lot. :rolleyes:


:lol: j/k.
 
The coat is nerdy. But probably not as nerdy as Morpheus's full-length leather number, and you see plenty of people wearing those...

I want the sunglasses.
 
I would say you are just obsessed with Keanu Reeves aka (Mr Anderson)
Nerdy? Nahh not really. Nerdy is all of us sitting here posting on the internet all day and talking about how we cant wait till GT4 comes out. Yup we are all nerds. :lol:
 
Well the good thing about the gigalo coat, you buy it on credit, then it pretty much pays for itself with the business you get whoring out !! CHEERS !...its almost like a free coat when you think of it like that....you just have to put up with guys that look like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons saying..." Oh Neo, free my mind ! "
 

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