My Little Pony Centipede

[Moetown]

Anthony Weiner should resign because he's way too creepy to be in office.

[Moetown]

Maybe this is the start of the end of humanity.

[Doctor Rock]

Maybe this is the start of the end of humanity.

Yeah, no satellite TV for a while is surely a harbinger of the apocalypse...

[Doctor Rock]

I think it's the skull-exploding stupidity of it all more than how lurid it is(n't).

How can you be a living breathing person who has ever read a newspaper in this day and age and think that sending people pictures of your junk is going to end well?

Bingo. 

But it's sooo tempting!

[Sabamah]

I really wanted to know, y'all! I thought googleing Green Lantern would cheapen the whole process, though. I wanted to hear it from my favorite nerds.

[Tripp]

You're into Ryan Reynolds I'm guessing.?

[Sabamah]

Nah. Just been bombarded by billboards for the movie since I've been out here and this afternoon both Johnny and I realized that we didn't know what exactly the Green Lantern DID. So I came here, posthaste.

[Tripp]

Well..   GL was co-created by one of my all-time favorite comic book artists Gil Kane back in the 50's (and it was a retcon THEN)..  The comix were usually on the cheesy side (as were most DC comix in the 50's and 60's). For a brief time in the late 60's GL became socially relevant somehow (at least,  we all like to say he did) BUT the comix were never exactly that super-duper.. But the idea of the character is what stood the test of time.. a human joining the space-cops and then of course becoming the greatest GL ever...ALL OTHER alien races are kinda in awe of Earthlings because Hal Jordan is such a bad-ass..
After Star Wars came out... I know that's when I started thinking that a GL movie could be really cool.. EVERY comic geek had the same thought...  slowly the comix themselves did take on more of a space opera Star Wars kinda feel but it really is it's own thing..

[Berunda]

You know as many comics as I read in my youth I somehow managed to never read a single issue of Green Lantern that I can recall. Not on purpose or anything, just one of those gaps in my nerducation

[Berunda]

Saw X Men First Class last night. I liked but can't quite say I loved it. Both James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were great, it was very action packed (in a good way), and overall a more inventive story than I might have expected. But there were some terrible corny lines of dialogue that were cringe inducing or laugh out loud bad, and January Jones is such a bad actress I occasionally felt sorry for her. I'd put it in B- territory. I was considering going on my birthday with E____, but decided to see it on my own last night instead, and that was probably a good call.

[Tripp]

If you want a pretty good  dose of the world(s) of Green Lantern  you could watch NEW FRONTIER  or  Green Lantern: First Flight..    2 different versions of Hal's origins..   I think they're both on Netflix...

[Tripp]

Saw X Men First Class last night. I liked but can't quite say I loved it. Both James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were great, it was very action packed (in a good way), and overall a more inventive story than I might have expected. But there were some terrible corny lines of dialogue that were cringe inducing or laugh out loud bad, and January Jones is such a bad actress I occasionally felt sorry for her. I'd put it in B- territory. I was considering going on my birthday with E____, but decided to see it on my own last night instead, and that was probably a good call.

yeah,  there's a few dumb things in there...  and i thought Mystique didn't seem anything like Mystique...  also, pretty big coincidence at the beginning when she meets ___________...  She showed incredible mastery of her powers considering.......   That seemed to me to be the laziest bit of retconning..  But Magneto pretty much ruled every scene he was in..

[Berunda]

When it comes to movie adaptations of comics I almost prefer characters I didn't grow up reading. The fewer exhaustive details I know about years of storylines in comics the more my inner critic can shut up and just watch a movie

[Berunda]

This might be lost on most of the board, but the coconut creme donut at the donut plant is the pinnacle of human achievement. We've peaked as a species, and it's all downhill from here.

[Tripp]

When it comes to movie adaptations of comics I almost prefer characters I didn't grow up reading. The fewer exhaustive details I know about years of storylines in comics the more my inner critic can shut up and just watch a movie

I didn't mind at all the way they altered the history of the team..  So it's Alex and not Scott...  I could care less...  but Mystique was the character in name only I thought...
I loved Rose Byrne as Moira...