Wow, I didn’t know they made a pilot for a live action Justice League America TV show. This was back in 1997 I believe. After watching this clip, I can see why it crashed and burned.

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Comment by Kyle
2007-11-15 12:27:01

y on earth would u even think of putting that where people can see it hawk lol. that is just evil i mean come on

Comment by Hawk
2007-11-15 12:29:06

So you can feel my pain as well.

Comment by Aric
2007-11-15 15:09:00

it was the most painful thing my eyes have seen today

Comment by jessica
2007-11-15 20:48:29

At least you can see! I’M BLIND BECAUSE OF THAT!

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Comment by Ryan Janeczko
2007-11-15 12:27:55

ya know…kinda makes me reallize that the Green Lantern was probably one of the most lazy super heroes lol. At least that video made it seem that way

Comment by wedge
2007-11-15 13:45:59

“hmm, that pepsi can seems to be out of my reach, good thing I have this ring”
“seem to have lost the remote again, good thing I have this ring”
etc.

Comment by Cihan
2007-11-17 02:09:30

“Havn’t gotten any in a while, good thing I have this ring”

 
 
 
Comment by Brennan Todd
2007-11-15 13:04:51

That’s almost as bad as the old The Fantastic 4 movie.

Comment by Dozaloz
2007-11-15 13:48:22

….what. the. hell.

 
Comment by ggl14
2007-11-16 23:49:05

ahhh my eyes, thats it im trashing my comics of F4

 
 
Comment by ladyrazorsharp
2007-11-15 13:17:46

….yeccchhh. XP Reminds me of the live-action Sailor Moon promo I saw on Toonami Arsenal a while back. I needed brain bleach after that one.

 
Comment by ladyrazorsharp
2007-11-15 13:18:47

..and not the live action Sailormoon that ended up being made in Japan. This was in English. Euuugh.

 
Comment by Musicpowered
2007-11-15 14:32:00

That… that was…. I mean…. That… .. ….. oh….. my… O.o My Greenlantern has been turned into and idiot…

 
Comment by Ravenswept
2007-11-15 14:42:48

What that the frick’n Green Lantern show? “Hey, that old Flash show with the foam pecs did alright, right? And Superman and Lois, well, that was just good Television! Can’t put him in tights through, that’s been done…aw snap, there’s more then one of these guys! Hey, this one even has a jacket! Make it out of green latex…ooh! and take that cool looking mask, the old one won’t grab the kids…and bam, gentlemen, we have a show! Alright, next; live-action Jem and the Holograms, only Jem is a drug addict to her holograms! Go!”

 
Comment by bwulf
2007-11-15 15:20:29

Work blocks youtube so I can’t see the clip, but I have this… whoever made my bootleg copy of the 1994 Fantastic Four movie (that everyone pretends never happened) added that pilot as an opening feature. Pray you never see the costume they gave the Atom, it makes the GL suit look reasonable and subtle.

…on second thought, it’d be even better if you never see that ‘94 FF movie, it makes the JLA tv pilot look golden….

 
Comment by mhr
2007-11-15 15:59:11

I saw that once on tv, is as bad as it looks.. but not as bad as that FF4 that was ‘never’ released, but close.

 
Comment by Reynard
2007-11-15 16:14:43

Well, I recognized Miguel Ferrer as the villian…

Comment by ladyrazorsharp
2007-11-16 13:56:09

0_0 No way! Totally did not see that. I was blinded by teh awful.

Comment by Reynard
2007-11-16 23:18:56

Well, I’ve seen enough awful in my time that I can get past it and notice the details. :-)

 
 
 
Comment by Brendan
2007-11-15 17:08:04

Thank goodness, I thought that you were serious for a moment!

 
Comment by JOE
2007-11-15 18:30:34

you never knew!I saw it a while back, it really burned, REALLY BURNED!
the justice league(kinda) on smallville are so much better

 
Comment by Joshua Raddatz
2007-11-15 18:48:54

This didn’t fail, this crashed and burned!

 
Comment by Aegis
2007-11-15 19:20:55

LOL @ green lantern’s l33t ping-pong ball foiling powers!

 
Comment by Jesse
2007-11-15 21:47:12

Wow. Just…wow. That made me sad…

 
Comment by Christin
2007-11-15 22:46:55

Oh, my… It’s like the actors didn’t even bother to try. Bad costumes, bad effects, bad writing; it was doomed. Not to mention casting Superheroes is so difficult. You can’t get just anyone to be the Flash.

 
Comment by redtail
2007-11-15 23:52:54

I’ve seen stills of this show before, but never in action. Just one more bad 90s show that thankfully never made it to air.

 
Comment by Cortana 2501
2007-11-16 02:00:00

Why was it raining ping pong balls, and why was the chick afraid of them? That’s the bigger question here.

Comment by Christin
2007-11-16 02:53:16

Haha, that was my first thought too. I think it was supposed to be hail.

Comment by bwulf
2007-11-16 09:50:17

Yep, it was “hail”. I thought TV execs were dumb, but I never thought they’d be stupid enough to think that the best way to introduce superheroes to the public, was to pit them against the freakin’ Weather Wizard!!??

…oh wait…. dear god, no, “The Weatherman”, a Weather Wizard knockoff. Could you get any worse than that?

 
 
Comment by mhr
2007-11-16 19:40:56

It was ‘Ice’ who has not fully manifest her powers, at least that’s what I remember.

 
 
Comment by Reverie
2007-11-16 16:32:36

Ow… this hurt my comic nerd pride…

 
Comment by TTL
2007-11-16 21:17:39

Oh yeah, saw that awhile back when I was reading up on the JLA via Wikipedia articles. Pretty strange stuff. Still boggles my mind why it’s so hard to just stay true to superhero mythos in live action. If we can make giant robots digitally, why is it so hard to keep a character in . . . well character?

 
Comment by ggl14
2007-11-16 23:58:06

I actually saw the hole movie there was nothing to do or see and it suck I had nightmares, that reminds me there was a flash series back then the costume was ok but didn’t like the story line.

 
Comment by Ian
2007-11-18 04:07:15

AAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!

MY EYES! THE SOUP DOES NOTHING!

DAMN YOU HAWK! DDDAAAMMMNNN YYYOOOUUU!

 
Comment by avatare
2007-11-18 20:22:09

i wanna see this series

 
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