The guy has burned whatever credit he had with me when he put his name on that abortion known as WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO. Tonight, since I was at an absolute loss to find ANYTHING I wanted to watch on satellite, I took a gamble and tuned to the Sci-Fi channel (universally known as home to the the absolute worst films ever made) and watched STAN LEE'S LIGHTSPEED, figuring it would be good for a laugh, if nothing else. Well, it WAS good for a laugh - for about five minutes. Then it just got worse and worse until I was finally ready to pull my eyes out and throw them at the TV. My GAWD, how can a man with Stan Lee's reputation put his name on this pile of excrement and still look at himself in the mirror? The legions of comic book geeks out there consider Stan Lee a god, and while I agree he's come up with many unforgettable superheroes, he's clearly way past his prime. Not being a comic book geek myself, I don't deify Lee like so many others, but when your name is supposed to be a guarantee of quality and you put it on a piece of crap like this, your spitting in the faces of your fans, the people who made you what you are today. I don't care how much money they offered Lee. He sold his integrity and sold out his fans when he put his name on this junk.
"The Ghost Squad"? How the hell these guys got that name is beyond me, since they can't get anywhere undetected and they get killed at an alarming rate. It looks as if total incompetence is the only qualification for admission to his squad.
The bad guy, "The Python" or whatever he calls himself, is the most ridiculous villain I've ever seen. As I'm writing this, he's screaming something about never hurting anyone, how they took his Annie or something, "They made me do this, why did you do this to me???" and the only thing I'm feeling as I watch it is a sense of sickness at the fact that this thing ever got a green light to be made.
And Lightspeed... there's really nothing I can add to the other posts here about him. The character is idiotic, the way he got his suit is moronic, his powers are laughable, the FX used in the movie suck, the acting is horrendous, the deluge is stupid, the script and story are rotten... there just are not enough bad things to say about this movie. It sucked from beginning to end, and Stan Lee should be ashamed of himself.
"The Ghost Squad"? How the hell these guys got that name is beyond me, since they can't get anywhere undetected and they get killed at an alarming rate. It looks as if total incompetence is the only qualification for admission to his squad.
The bad guy, "The Python" or whatever he calls himself, is the most ridiculous villain I've ever seen. As I'm writing this, he's screaming something about never hurting anyone, how they took his Annie or something, "They made me do this, why did you do this to me???" and the only thing I'm feeling as I watch it is a sense of sickness at the fact that this thing ever got a green light to be made.
And Lightspeed... there's really nothing I can add to the other posts here about him. The character is idiotic, the way he got his suit is moronic, his powers are laughable, the FX used in the movie suck, the acting is horrendous, the deluge is stupid, the script and story are rotten... there just are not enough bad things to say about this movie. It sucked from beginning to end, and Stan Lee should be ashamed of himself.