Don't blink. No, it's not about weeping angels, it's just creepy when Hal does it.

[ps238principal]

Comments

[cjthomas]

I'm going to go out on a plausibly-deniable limb here, and say that the Marauder's Map item might have been intended to just be a a hug.

The pawprints were the part I found most amusing about that credit sequence in the theatre.

[ps238principal]

Cristi and I always stay through the credits of every film now. We enjoy pointing out odd names, but also collecting easter eggs like the footprints.

It's weird. Even if all you get is a character winking at you after the final MPAA warning, if you're told later that it was there and you left, you sometimes feel you didn't get your money's worth. :)

[fractal9091]

That Max Ghostly game reminds me of the old Captain Power TV show. The vehicles and enemy targets flickered like that, so if you bought the special toys, you could shoot at the TV screen when it was on.

[vulpisfoxfire]

Hey, I had and liked the Action Max! It was an el-cheepo way to do light-gun-like games

[ps238principal]

Regarding the fight scene insertions, I sometimes feel that way about shoe-horned romance sub-plots in films where they really don't need 'em. :)

And I was wondering if the old toys would still work with YouTube or if the flash/frequency was too off after being downsampled. I never got to play with the Captain Power toys, or the other light-gun ones I liked: Lazer Tag (because the equipment looked cool) and Photon (which looked dorky, but you didn't have to pay for the extra sensors).

The Lazer Tag guns still look pretty awesome. I can't believe how many batteries those suckers ate.

[vulpisfoxfire]

Heh. I still miss my Sega Master System, actually--I always liked the look of the included lightgun for that a lot better than Nintendo's Zapper (though the Super Scope was cool...the head-set one...so-so), and while the Menacer is wireless and has interesting attachments...it's not so great for the job it's meant for.

[geeky_monkey]

I've got a really bad feeling about Green Lantern. The film is out in a week and there's not a single review anywhere (at least not that I can find - and Rotten Tomatoes has none listed) - I can't remember the last time this happened to a summer blockbuster and it didn't turn out to be a massive turkey

[kiddala]

I'd imagine the Green Lantern is just not as well known to people outside of the comic book world, they need to get those people dollars too.

[ps238principal]

The thing that kind of bugs me is that I don't think the FX people read the comics and/or thought out how to adapt the character's abilities, as his powers seem to be kind of "off," if that makes any sense. I'm not sure what the comic says about his power ring in regards to destructive capabilities when fired at something, but if it's "less than an exploding fuel tanker," then the whole spring/cannon thing was just a waste of time, even if he'd just constructed a gun to take the place of his ring-beam.

[ps238principal]

You'd think he'd work in an "I attack the darkness" when being interviewed; it'd be easy to make that sound like a self-help motto. :)

Parallax / Black smoke

[anonymous]

I hadn't connected the movie's Parallax with the Black Smoke from Lost, although I should have. I kept thinking of Galactus from the last Fantastic Four movie, and the enemy in The Fifth Element. Which leads me to wonder why Hollywood can't come up with a better world-destroying threat than "smog". Which then always make me think of this bit from What's Opera Doc? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQlmXU1zqfc#t=5m25s

Re: Parallax / Black smoke

[ps238principal]

Maybe it hits too close to home for L.A. screenwriters? :)

I'm sure every producer for the next few years would look at the otherwise evil-sounding name "Smog" and say, "what, you mean that Dragon from 'The Hobbit?'"