I don't exactly agree with Dag on the "let's stop making super hero movies" thing... but yeah, I also think it looks lame. The CGI looks terrible (particularly his suit and mask), and even the acting isn't good. And Hal Jordan is not a goofy character. And Blake Lively's acting... just seemed terrible.

I want more super hero movies, but I want them to be made properly.

>> ^honkeytonk73:

Looks far more promising than 'Thor' as inferred by the hammer at the end of Iron Man 2. Meh


Honkeytonk73: I think you'll want to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOQv_H2W_pU&feature=related
and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77I-SKeBkQE

>> ^mentality:
This is also the guy who predicted in 1999 that by 2009, we'd have hundreds of 3d computer chips in our house, wearable computers embedded into our clothing, keyboards replaced by speech recognition software, glasses that projected HUDs directly onto our retina, and all our wars will be fought with robots.
Keep that in mind when listening to his prophecies. I feel that reverse-engineering of the human brain by 2029 is like HAL and manned missions to Jupiter by 2001.


A worthy addendum.

This is also the guy who predicted in 1999 that by 2009, we'd have hundreds of 3d computer chips in our house, wearable computers embedded into our clothing, keyboards replaced by speech recognition software, glasses that projected HUDs directly onto our retina, and all our wars will be fought with robots.

Keep that in mind when listening to his prophecies. I feel that reverse-engineering of the human brain by 2029 is like HAL and manned missions to Jupiter by 2001.

Note his jibe towards fellow crackpots Jack Van Impe, Hal Lindsey and John Hagee at 3:20. Hal Lindsey is particularly interesting since he is the most important inspiration for Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, the authors of the atrocious "Left Behind" books. The premillenial dispentionalist subculture of evangelical christianity is rife with such bickering between adherents of different nuances in their so-called "literal" reading of the Bible.

Paging Hal Jordan..

You know some marketeer, or some evil Cooperation CEO just gagged on a muffin watching this kid demonstrate independent thought and is scheming of a way to dumb kids down even further.

Quick Hal, Change the Sugar content to 200%
Burt, Tell the networks we need faster edits and brighter colors!
Woozan, Invent a new lustier Tween Popstar!
Chochak!, Implement a "Science and thinking is Laaaaaame to the Exxtreme campaign"


Get that shit out there to these kids, before I rip my comb-over out.

Hal, Burt, Woozan, Chochak: <<< YES SIR ! >>>

1,2,1,2,3,4
We accept her, one of us, we accept her, one of us!
Gooble gobble gooble gobble!
We accept her, we accept her!
We accept her, one of us, we accept her, one of us!
Gooble gobble gooble gobble!
We accept her, we accept her!

(We-we) we came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
I was testing you - and you passed,
Dental plan! Lisa needs braces,
Be required to fart on a regular basis,
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse,
Channel 13 - Eyewitness news!
Robocop, who is he?
Dead or alive you're coming with me.

In a hurry to be fed, beady eyes and big blue head.

I'm telling the truth Doc, you gotta believe me,
Why does everything I whip leave me?
My beautiful chocolate! Candy is dandy,
Fava beans and a nice Chianti,
You can count on Slippery Pete,
Suicide will be nice and neat!
I didn't build the Panama canal,
Open the pod bay doors please, HAL,

These aren't the droids you're looking for,
These aren't the droids we're looking for,
I am not a number I am a free man!
Rosebud.
To The Idiotmobile!
Right away Michael,
I-I-I-I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered.

We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
You don't understand I coulda had class,
Round and tasty on a bun,
Ooh Zippy look what you've done!
Finally! Cast off those lines!
No, I've been nervous lots of times,
Red Rum! What's the matter honey?
Just robbed Boss Hogg all of his money!

We came, saw, we kicked it's ass,
Writing checks your body can't cash,
I was elected to lead, not read,
I feel the need - the need for speed,
Watch out for snakes, a good man's loafer,
HQ - my hat looks like a muffin - over,
My god it's full of stars,
There was no driver in the car..

In the car (repeat)

Well you see I'm in hot pursuit!

There are only two things I love in this world - everybody and television!
#The Simpsons
#Run With Us!
Ugh - you must be shrooming,
Wait for me Moomin!
Cross live to meet the host of that show, Meat Boy,
I want to go to there.

We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
An oil tycoon - like a.. moustache,
Nice beaver! I just had it stuffed,
I don't give a shit, close enough,
Where's me washboard? I'll get me coat,
Y-y-y-you're gonna need a bigger boat,
What'd she say? I think she bought it,
Suck it monkeys! I'm goin' corporate!
C'mon let's take a drive! A drive?
Number 5 is alive!
It's only a laugh, no harm done,
Pickles, french fries, yum yum yum,
Bueller, Bueller, Bueller,
It's 2 degrees cooler,
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long,
Six words in the whole song.

We-we-we accept her, one of us, we accept her, one of us!
Gooble gobble gooble gobble!
We accept her, we accept her!
You are number 6 5 4 3 2
I am not a number, I am a free man

We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
Give me my 20,000 in cash,
We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
I think you woke up the dead with that blast
We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
I think fast, I talk fast,
We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
Lois, this is not my Batman glass,

HAL 1.0.

>> ^Fusionaut:
quality
Now we know why HAL sang it!
http://www.videosift.com/video/HAL-Sings-Daisy-as-he-Dies


OK, my geek pride is a bit wounded by the implication that 'we' didn't already know this.

That was really one of the cool things about that scene, the way Hal's brain digresses back to his first programming. But before this I'd only read about Daisy being the first synthesized voice program. Awesome to finally hear it.

Thank you, Fusionaut!

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
*quality

Now we know why HAL sang it!

http://www.videosift.com/video/HAL-Sings-Daisy-as-he-Dies

*quality

Now we know why HAL sang it!

http://www.videosift.com/video/HAL-Sings-Daisy-as-he-Dies

Perhaps, "PHJF" would be a way of the admins to create a ghost account in order to sully the pool? Who is daxgaz anyhoo?-The avatar looks like plain-Jane, Photoshop swirl of HAL from Stan's, "pies de resistance"-or simply some swirly red dot altered with choadish effort!!???

Who cares??! Post some content!!-Or lose "quality" and make some meaning of the word by way of tweaking the invocation to appeal to those through with tree-dwelling for several epochs now.

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/provocateurs-at-end-the-fed-rally.html
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-web-hal-turner-0819aug19,0,1700724.story

that shit pisses me off.they been doin that since the 60's..
who would call themselves an american and then set his own neighbors up so the government can come down hard.take away a few more liberties maybe?
gah..i dont know how you do it man.
i had to stop watching all that stuff..it was making me sad and apathetic.
ill peek every now and again,but i cant do the research it requires.
bravo my man..bravo.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/provocateurs-at-end-the-fed-rally.html
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-web-hal-turner-0819aug19,0,1700724.story

wait wait wait theres a company actually named Cyberdyne and they purposely named their new product HAL??? Are they *trying* to bring about the robot apocalypse early?!