Jon Favre directing Robert Downey Jr as the millionaire/ death merchant/ scientist Tony Stark who sees the light and becomes a force fer good despite being troubled by inner darkness and alcoholism?


Except that the film isn't entirely accurate about Stark. It takes a while before he "sees the light". Regardless of the minor inaccuracies here and there, I thought the movie was good. I got a kramer of it off the net, so I'll have to go to the theater to actually enjoy it.

Something I've always wanted to see done with comic book movies might actually take place. Crossing story arcs from one character to another. Since they all live in the same "universe", it only makes sense that the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man bump into each other. Downey Jr, as Stark, makes an appearance in the new Hulk movie from what I've seen. And then there's the hint of an Avengers movie too.

There's only three more movies I really want to see this year, then the way for The Watchmen starts. Man I get impatient about these things.


Iron Man was probably may favorite comic book character as a kid. I hope the movie is good. A lot of the comic book movies have flat out sucked a la The Hulk, The Punisher, Daredevil, et al.


As far as I am concerned, until this summer, no Hulk movies have been released.

As for the punisher, a friend and I always end up talking about it. I have two examples for what The Punisher should have been like. One is A Man on Fire. The other is Boondock Saints, sans holyrollerness.

Daredevil was on the other day and I couldn't bare to watch it. I used to like it, but now Afleck makes my brain hurt.

Ever hear a physics PhD sing?


Mary Chapin Carpenter has a degree in American Civ from Brown.

I think Zack de la Rocha has a phd in Anthropology.

Wow moder8, you're slipping.

Usually, the "small penis" jabs come out right at the start.

You're a fucking idiot. I wish I could tell you that to your face, but I'm sure your mother, father and close family and well just about everyone else remind you on a daily basis. I'd just be piling on, wouldn't I?

Haven't gotten to see it yet.

I'm looking forward to four movies this year.

Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Batman and the new Star Trek.

This has to be the stupidest study done in a long time. What the hell does income have to do with feeling pain?


It doesn't anything to do with "feeling" pain, doofus.

It has to do with poor people not being able to afford the treatment or medication to relieve the pain.


The real poor can't afford crack, Goat. What's OTOH? herm


Uhm. Yeah. If you don't know what you're talking about, perhaps you shouldn't make a comment. If you've never lived in or seen abject poverty, then you don't know what kind of things it can lead you to do.

I'm one generation removed from it. I have family who still live in it. Not because they choose to but because drugs and alcohol are prevalent in their lives. They aren't a special case, either.

Thanks alot Chris. Much appreciated.

A tad bit sensitive? There are respectable Republicans you know. The point is this:


My apologies. The general rule of thumb that human-caused-global-warming advocates use seems to be that us folks who don't buy it one way or another are "uneducated", "stupid" or "waiting for God to start the rapture".

All of which are just as disingenuous as someone who claims that global warming isn't happening at all.

PS: Using the scientific burden of proof, isn't it up the supportors of anthropogenic global warming to prove it is ineed man's doing since there are provable historical cycles of climate change which clearly were not influenced by man?


Sure, but we can't talk about those.

I'm not sure why, but we can't bring up the other ice ages or the other warming periods. We're not allowed to point out that the sun might be a larger factor than what is considered. If anyone mentions that Mar's is warming, they're just deflecting.

Don't forget Goat.

"The discussion about global warming is over."

This is why Creationism is invalid. The counter to GW so far has been akin to "The Theory of Evolution is invalid because Genesis says . . . and I believe Genesis."


Well if you're looking for Goatman to say "we won't become extinct from this planet until God wills it to be", you're looking in the wrong direction.

So what was the point of your post, if not to hint that those of us that don't believe one way or the other must be "bible thumping, backward ass republicans"?

If I hear Go Green one more time or that Global Warming is real I am going to vomit.

Larry Mohr


Going green is the new fad.

Now, I don't have an issue with people purchasing products that have less of an impact on the environment, but give me a break. In a few months or a year's time, just about everything will be "green", and a new catch phrase will have to be invented to make people feel guilty enough to purchase over-priced goods.

Fear mongering works two ways.

Either terrorists are out to kill us because of our freedoms or global warming is going to kill us because of our excesses. I wish someone would clarify which one of these issues is the most dangerous so that I can get on with the business of ignoring it.

Does anyone here realize how racist the prefix Mc (meaning son of) is?


uhhh....shit. someone called the pc police.

How is that racist in any way?

back on topic:

I had considered buying 5 new hard drives for my computer when my check arrives, but I think I might donate it to meals on wheels or something.

THE AMAZING, STUPENDOUS, SUPER-FUCKIN-DUPER GLOBAL WARMING INDICATING SWIMMING POOL!

This speaks volumes about the American citizen.


I would love to hear an explanation from you of what it says about the American citizen.

Why don't you just give us the reader's digest version? I'm not going to watch a 6 minute interview to "find out".


Since you're lazy, I'll do the leg work for you.

Hey says that Obama may be slightly better than the other three in foreign policy, and he may get us out of Iraq. He then says that Obama would just spend the money elsewhere, instead of cutting spending and working for a balanced budget.

If you're on the battlefield and you are engaged in
hostile activities against American forces - guess what?
- YOU'RE AN ENEMY COMBATANT!


So we got that. It's understandable that you would capture, kill or injure someone shooting at you.

On the other hand, if the guy is holding a camera and nothing else, leave him alone. Or if you're concerned about him taking pictures of you, capture him and send him home.

His camera bags better be full of ammunition and C4 before you send him to gitmo.

The point is that Chavez, Castro and Amededpajamas are a hell of a lot more credible than Fox News!! And any one of the individuals named is a HELL of a lot more intelligent than all the talking heads at Fox put together. Even Iran's talking turd.


err...let's work on this.

Being more credible than Fox News does not give you more credibility. If you aren't credible, that's all there is to it. There is no scale. You can't be sort-of credible anymore than you can be "sort of right" or "almost real". Either you are or you aren't.

Neither of the people named in your post has any credibility with me, and it doesn't have anything to do with how vocal they are about their criticism of America or Politics.

The area of south carolina that I live in was a site of several Revolutionary War battles. Port Ferry, Black Mingo and Tarcote. When I was a kid, we used to go to some of the old plantations around these areas with metal detectors.

Found some pretty neat stuff and a lot of junk.

Most of the Civil War battles were fought in Charleston and the surrounding areas, and all of that is either covered with concrete or asphalt or it is part of a public park.

Digging things up in a public park will land you with a fine. They're pretty uptight about everything down there. If you own one of the houses in Ansonborough or on East Bay or on "Rainbow Row", you have to meet with a committee just to get new blinds. They would probably be very upset about you digging up their lawn.

You make enough noise for both of us. What has your noise accomplished?


It's not about the negative things I have to say about it.

It's about the fact that you don't see any issue with scooping up random people and holding them for an extended period of time before releasing them with no charges and no reason to have held them in the first place.


Skip Wellington....aider and abetter to the enemy. He loves them better than his own.


I like playing this generalization game with Celisary. I bet I'll enjoy it with you too. Here's a favorite.

"All republicans are toe-tapping, kiddie diddling, cock sucking, ass-fucking-in-the-bathroom queers who hate themselves because they can't come to terms with their queerness."

Not sure I could do it from the some type of computer.


I have the entire Robo Tech series in pdf format, but I've never bothered to read past the first chapter of book 1 because it's uncomfortable to read a large amount of text from a screen.

Something just isn't right about it.

So, I'm trying to find a complete set in paper back. They are surprisingly difficult to track down.

On the beach of a tropical island, with fresh sea breezes, free medical care, good food three times a day.

Funny, most people see that as "vacation"


Except when I go on vacation there aren't soldiers there "guarding" me. My body isn't subject to routine stress positions to make me "fess up", and I'm there of my own free will. Not because I may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

How many of these people have we let out of Guantanamo without leveling any charges? How many of them have been people turned over to the army by someone with a grudge? How many have been allowed to see the evidence brought against them?

They may not be American Citizens, but they are American Prisoners. As a christian, you should feel there is a moral obligation to make sure these people are not being treated unfairly or unjustly imprisoned.

Alas, since your favorite C student says it's ok, you make no noise.


"VERNON'..You dumb BASTARD you never disappoint, how about if we take you on a six years adventure away from your family, torture your NEO-CON ass an maybe then you may change your mind. Oh hell you may enjoy that anyway, your fucks on the right are just to fucking dumb to be taken serious....


My day would not be complete without reading a post from the dumbest "intellectual" on the retort.

From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

"AXIOM"...The Blue States have been supporting you REDNECKS since the Civil War. If you think that the Confederate Nation would have been more successful than the United States of America, you truly may be even more of an idiot than I think you are......


Right, and before your shit was being made in a factory in taiwan, guess where it was produced. Before your meat and vegetables and clothing were shipped in off of a fucking boat from china or trucked in from mexico, where do you think food came from? From those backward ass, podunk, hillbilly, redneck "Red States" that you conveniently look down your nose at.

It's easy for the enlightened liberal to be condescending toward us simple country folk because you'll never understand us. Sure, we have our problems, but we're tougher and more determined than you could ever dream of being. We know what abject poverty looks like. I live in one of the poorest counties in the state of South Carolina. We are the bottom of the barrel. So don't preach to me as if you have all the answers. We've been going off of your solutions for decades, and still there are downtrodden and poor.

I don't "think" the confederate states would have been more successful. It's something that I dwell on because it's futile. We lost the war. While the idea of separating from the union was admirable because it is what the founding fathers intended, we lost. Whether what Lincoln did in preserving the union was legal or not, doesn't matter now...100+ years later.

I don't know what I'd do if somebody told me I had no right to see my child. Especially if I've done nothing wrong.


You would probably do the same thing that I did, except she hadn't had the child yet, and later decided that she wouldn't have it at all. 15 weeks pregnant and it was as easy as flipping a light switch. What member says is right. We, as men, have no rights. Not because the government hasn't granted any. Instead, because the government, in "granting" special privleges to women, have taken away the rights of men.


Kentucky what else can you say, these Judges like most of the people in that RED State are 50 years behind the rest of the Country when it come to science. Except for the Slavery issue maybe it would have been O.K. for these country bumkins to have seperated themselves during the Civil War...


Just imagine the shape the north would be in should that occur. What manufacturing, textiles, etc that is still in the United States is primarily in the south (cheap labor). Many of the technology companies in business today either headquarter or have satellite offices in the south (texas, anyone?).

So sure. It would be a great thing for the south to leave the union now. Then we'd really get to see what kind of animals the enlightened northern folk are when they don't have food or clothing.

I'll be the country bumkin(sic). You be the dirty mexican.

Age discrimination already exists when it comes to the presidency. So what is the issue with putting a maximum age limit on it as well?

Back when I used to work 3rd shift, I'd listen to coast to coast am. Sometimes, they'd have this guy on.

He never seemed this twisted when he was on the church channel, but boy did he ever let go when he was on late night radio.

Me first what?


I think he is suggesting that you leave his threads so that he can be free to frolic in his own self pity and ignorance.

Way to ruin it for him, Goatman.

I hope that is the good that comes out of the Iraq war. I hope the soldiers that have died in Iraq didn't die without reason. I hope they are the very patriots who will lead to the refreshing of our tree of liberty by dying in a war that has shown both parties for what they are - corrupt and the same. I hope it awakens the masses to the lies and greed of our politicians and the elite that surround them. I hope someday people will stop voting for a party, and start voting for individuals who care to right the ship.


At the risk of being insensitive towards families who have lost a loved one in Iraq, the soldiers there are not dying for my liberties and freedoms.

They aren't dying for your liberties and freedoms either. They're dying in a resource war...Land...Oil...etc.

I don't know why some people think Democrats aren't fond of capitalism. Look at the Clintons.


That's simple.

Democrats are beholden to the terrorists. They'd like nothing more than to see the United States of America fall and become the next USSR. All you democrats are Communists. The only thing that's left is for you to admit it.

/sarcasm

When my friend and I first started running TFC, Counter-Strike and Half-Life servers about 9 years ago, we colo'd our first 3 or 4 boxes at the planet.

That place was awesome back then.