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Quote:There were two, the first, Dr. Who and the Daleks, based off of William Hartnel's first Dalek story. It was quite popular at the time, considering it was audience's first chance to see Daleks in colour!I would not consider myself the most fanatical fan of Doctor Who but I've watched various incarnations of the show for the better part of 30 years now. Even accounting for that amount of "familiarity" with the franchise I never knew they already tried a theatrical movie at some point. *shrugs*
The second film was called Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. based off of the second William Hartnel story with the Daleks, the Dalek invasion of Earth.
That film wasn't very good, in fact I'd say it was pretty bad. Anyway, it didn't do well at all and a plan to made a third film based on The Chase was scrapped.
Of interest, the second film featured a policeman played by a young Bernard Cribbins, who would later go on to play Wilf alongside the 10th Doctor.
Another interesting fact is that many of the Dalek props used in the TV series were actually bought from the movie production. -
Quote:The insects are being lit with lights (likely not deliberately) they don't go behind the white building, you just can't see them in front of it.#1. The "3 lights" move from back to front. Rods (as they are called) don't look anything like that and I don't think any insect we know of does.
#2. While one can argue that it is an insect very close to the lens I can't agree. The idea is that it's close and the contrast messes up a bit so it displays the bug as if it is behind something else when it isn't... But in the video we see the object go behind a bright white structure and then a dark structure and it does it without any sort of composite looking after image type effect. While that happening with one structure would be ok in my book, having it happen behind two structures that are oppositely contrasted seems like it wouldn't happen to me, but i don't mess with cameras much so don't know.
#3. My first reaction to this was that it's a meteorite. The reason I don't think it is a meteorite is because you can clearly see it change it's trajectory from 45 degree down toward the ground to nearly flat with the horizon...
It's like dust in a sun beam, you have a beam of light and a dark background and every bit of dust is lit up. Flood the whole room with light and all the dust becomes invisible.
The "lights" is just the light hitting the wings coupled with whatever frame rate the video was taken at. You get a similar effect with car wheels seems to revolve backwards on film.
Additionally, the second's "flight path" is identical to a lot of insects. -
Quote:I remember on one show, they showed a cave drawing that had a bunch of animal paw prints on it. Loads of different ones. They said it was probably a ritual, someone to secure good luck etc.It's like all those cave drawings that anthropologists suggest were ways of ancient man trying to tell their histories, or whatever. How do we know the kids didn't doodle those for fun?
To me it looked like a teaching aid. Y'know, something you'd show the little ones. "And what animal does this track belong too?".
I'm not saying they're wrong or I'm right, frankly nobody knows, but these experts do seem to have a tendency to really over think things. -
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Well... it certainly looks like Ranma.
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Quote:You are so incorrect about a number of things here.Let me make something clear here, I'm not opposed to him stopping crimes legally (and no, wearing a mask doesn't give you immunity) OR that videotaping it is a bad thing. But guess what, assaulting someone in the activity of a crime is still an assault and unless you have legal authorization to do so, you are still breaking the law. Two wrongs do not make a right.
First of all, what he did was legal, as attributed by the fact that he didn't have to go to court. Second, using physical force is not illegal so long as that it is reasonable. What is reasonable is decided on a case by case basis. In this case, physically getting between assailants and victims and pepper spraying the assailants when they attack you is both legal and reasonable force.
The idea that if you see someone being beaten to death you can't restrain the guy doing the beating because you don't have the legal right is ridiculous. Of course you do!
Quote:As for the video crew, whether they asked first or not isn't relevant. He not only allowed them, but encouraged them. He's putting their lives on the line in addition to his own.
Quote:If there was a 300lb monster in that group looking to pick a brawl,what's stopping him from grabbing that camera and busting it on the cameraman's head? Neither the camera crew nor Jones thought that through.
Quote:Finally, he's been in the media spotlight a number of times, all of which require a disclaimer to be signed, so don't you DARE tell me he's not after publicity.
Quote:All I'm saying that there's better ways to go about it than thoughtlessly charging into a group a group of thugs, camera crew mixed right in there and posting it up on youtube. -
Quote:Bruce has been making a ton of technology and stuff since World War Hulk ended. His most notable inventions include teleporters and energy shields that can withstand attacks from Hulks. All portable of course.T'Challa is the one I always forget about. He needs a bigger role in the Marvel U. I'm not too sure about Banner. Yes, nobody can argue he is intelligent, but what has he done with it aside from one notable creation. And frankly, it wasn't even that special a creation aside from the side effect of creating his alter ego. I haven't really given too much attention to Hulk so I admit I may have missed something. I would move him to the bottom of the list.
It all comes under the title of Bannertech. This is of course from a guy who doesn't have the resources of the others. -
Quote:You can't know his motivation, especially since as we pointed out, the camara crew approched him, not the other way around, and having a camera on hand is just good sense. People are less likely to want to be recorded breaking the law, also it keeps an accurate account of what happened.If he really was doing it only to help people he would have told the camera crew to not get involved. He not only allowed them to record it, but encouraged it. So no, he's not doing it to help his fellow man, he's doing it for the spotlight. Helping out his fellow man is just a side effect.
Of course, on top of all that, who cares what his motivation is? If he helps people, he helps people. -
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Quote:But you're utterly missing the actual situation. It doesn't matter that he's patrolling or not, these events are happening regardless of him. The only difference him patrolling makes is that he is there when someone is in need, instead of not being there when someone is in need. That's the only difference, he doesn't make beatings happen, he just comes across them because he's out and about. No different for a guy just out for a walk.It's interesting how you and Innovator keep invoking the "I hope you never need anyone's help" rhetoric, as though what I said had anything to do with helping people in need.
I'm gonna go over this one more time, just because I'm an optimist, and then I'm done with you. We're not talking about someone who, in the course of a day, ran across a situation in which someone happened to need help, and who then rendered said help out of the goodness of his heart. That is heroic. I have no problems with that.
What we're talking about here is a guy who dressed up in a rubber superhero costume, acquired a camera crew, and went around on "patrol", ergo, looking for trouble. This is not the act of a good Samaritan doing the Civic Thing for fellow-citizens in trouble. This is the act of either a) a delusional fantasist or b) a narcissistic publicity hound. One is pitiable, the other contemptible. In neither case is he providing a valuable service to his neighbors (except possibly by accident) - he's just as likely to make any given situation worse. And in neither case has he anyone to blame but himself if he gets roughed up, locked up, or both. He's lucky he hasn't gotten shot up.
So, to recap: I'm not down on helping people who need help - on the average Joe becoming a hero by circumstance, by being the one who finds himself in the right place at the right time. I am down on people like this guy who think they can arrange their heroic moments themselves and then put 'em on YouTube. That's only one step removed from these rogue firefighters who set fires you hear about now and then.
You repeatedly ignore the basic aspect that there was someone in trouble and he was there to help. It doesn't matter one bit that he was out looking for people in trouble, all that that matters is there was and he was there at the time.
As for the camera, that's just common sense. You get a record of everything that happened, footage can be used to identify criminals, license plate numbers, as well as a perfect witness to your, as well as others, actions. -
Your philosophies are utterly alien and abhorrent to me.
They lack all logic and something one might call "humanity".
I just hope that one day you or your families are never in need of help, only for everyone to ignore you because it's not their problem. -
I don't believe humans have the wisdom to define good or evil on their own, personal prejudices and leniencies will always get mixed up. I also don't believe that we are merely the sum of out genetics, although genetics obviously does play a role, I do believe humans have free will.
So, with those two things in mind, no, no I do not think people should be altered at the genetic level to remove "evil". -
Quote:I remember the recent events in New York where that guy got stabbed and he laid there dying for about half an hour as tens of people simply walked passed him.At least he's making a consious choice to do the right thing, the costume is just a symbol of commitent. If it takes putting people in costume to kick people in the rear to help out whenever they see someone in trouble instead of gawking or doing nothing then so be it, I'll be happy to stand in a corner to hand out domino masks. I've seen the ugly first hand that happens when people they helping others is someone else's job. I'm happy whenever some regardless of attire does the opposite of what is "normal" in this world, cause what is "normal" is crap.
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Quote:Look, I get that you guys think the whole "real life superhero" thing is cool and all, but this isn't about cool. Bow ties are cool. Fezzes are cool. Premeditated intervention in street crime without the proper training or credentials is not cool, whether you're dressed like Night Thrasher or just wearing regular clothes. It's stupid and dangerous. Full stop.Quote:Agreed. It's about time people in this thread came out of their little fantasy world and realized that the only thing comic books have in common with real life is that human beings are involved somehow. "Superhero" stories are pure wish fulfillment.
But hey, look after number one right? If you do anything else then you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
This isn't about being a "super hero" or dressing up in a costume, it's about a guy witnessing a large group of people beating up a small group and saying "No, I'm not going to let this happen right in front of me." and then doing the right thing by helping his fellow man. -
Quote:Wrong.Storming into the middle of a group of people (costume or not) and telling them what to do, then breaking out the pepper spray when they refuse to comply, is something only a police officer in uniform has the authority to do. Anyone else is committing an assault. Period.
In fact, I'd say it's your duty to do the same. Of course, most people won't because they're too worried about themselves.
Quote:This guy had no business sticking his nose in there
Quote:no business dragging his camera-toting buddy down with him
Quote:and no business claiming self-defence when he's the one who barged into a fight knowing full well his options were either take them down or be taken down. -
That's always the difficult thing, you've got power houses like Thor, Hulk and Iron Man next to guys like Hawkeye and Black Widow (and Captain America who's somewhere inbetween). You have to make them all seem valuable without depowering the strong guys or looking like you're patronising the lesser powered guys.
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According to that list, films better than Iron Man 2 include Sky High, Super Girl, X-Men 3, Wanted, Green Lantern, Fantastic Four (which is somehow higher than it's much superior sequel) Superman Returns, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 1966 Batman and Daredevil... I mean, c'mon...
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Batman Forever over Spider-Man 3?
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Edit: Oh hell, it gets worse. -
Aww, just beat me too it.
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Quote:Except that nothing he did was actually illegal. Also, it's not vigilantism.The guy's wearing a mask and having people film him taking the law into his own hands. Hell yeah, they all get run in. Vigilantism is illegal, and it's illegal for a very good reason - this dude is going to get himself or somebody else seriously hurt if he keeps this business up. Even in Seattle, life is not a comic book. Guy wants to enforce the law so bad, let him join the force. 'Course, then he won't be able to wear the cool costume and put his exploits on YouTube, but you know what, that's life in the actual grown-up world.
To quote Wikipedia:
A vigilante is a private individual who legally or illegally punishes an alleged lawbreaker, or participates in a group which metes out extralegal punishment to an alleged lawbreaker.
Members of neighborhood watch programs and others who use legal means of bringing people to justice are not considered vigilantes.
Jones is not punishing criminals. He is breaking up fights and calling the police. This is something that any decent person should do. He's just decided to dress up like a super hero while he does it.
Quote:Sorry to harsh your buzz, guys, but I have zero sympathy for these rubber-clad Walter Mitty types and their dreams of Batmanhood. Well, no, that's not entirely true. I have sympathy for them inasmuch as I'm sympathetic to anyone with mental illness, and if you're dressing up in a superhero costume on days other than Halloween and trying to break up bar fights for great justice - with a camera crew in tow - there is clearly something wrong with you.
It's even and even worse indictment on society when such people are mocked. Jones could well have saved someones life. Street fights aren't like schoolyard scraps between children. -