It's not that I don't get where you're coming from, Spidey. I just don't see how playing a gun toting raccoon is any more prestigious than GL.
Really, I think your dislike of GL and the Reynolds movie is making you exaggerate how beneath Cooper the GL role is.
If anything, now is a perfect time for an award level actor to take a role like GL. Oscar winners and nominees such as Bale, Leto, Hardy, Cumberbatch, RDJ, Amy, Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, Margot Robbie,Will Smith, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Micheal Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, etc. are taking on CBM roles, and boosting/making their careers off those roles.
I'm sorry, girl, but B Coop ain't better than those people, and I doubt he'd really think or act like he's above the GL role.
Just my 2 cents, of course.