How close did the GL movie stick to the GL comics?

[S.A.A.D.]

Doe's anyone have some sort of definitive answer to this question? What do you guys think? Was the result satisfactory?

 

[EliteF50]

Considering it drew a lot of inspiration from Geoff John's Secret Origin, yeah, it was pretty faithful.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

Considering it drew a lot of inspiration from Geoff John's Secret Origin, yeah, it was pretty faithful.

Even though I don't hate or dislike Geoff's work on GL comics so far, I would say that he came off as being pretty selfish when it came to the movie.

 

[The Sage]

Pretty faithful. Felt like I was seeing Secret Origins' narrative getting pulled off the page in the first half.

 

[Ock]

As much as Sh#t to a blanket.
Which is weird considering they could have taken it anywhere and made it successful like TDK did. Instead they were held down by the faithfulness and didn't branch out into their own world

 

[The Sage]

Faithfulness isn't what held them down, the strength of the story did. Both could've been done.

 

[DarKush]

I don't think it was that faithful to Secret Origin. I recently re-read it after watching the movie and I wish it had been more faithful, because it could've resulted in a better story.

There's no Atrocitus or mention of Blackest Night. No Hal-Sinestro team-up, no Black Hand; Hector Hammond is different and his transformation is caused by exposure to Abin Sur's propulsion system not Parallax, etc. I think the movie takes lightly from Hal's family life and how his father's death affected him, and to some extent, his relationship with Carol, but it's not down the line faithful.

I wish they had just used a mix of Secret Origin and Emerald Dawn. I felt the Hal as screw up was better done in ED (though they kept beating you over the head with it), and I thought the family dynamics were better done in SO. If you could've combined those two Hal's, I think you would've had a character that was ripe with dramatic potential and could've provided more of an emotional anchor for the film. I also have to admit that I liked Legion far better than the movie Parallax-Krona. Parallax and Krona are two good villians that could've carried movies by themselves. Legion is a good villain that you can punch and I wish they had gone with him. Or Atrocitus.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Doe's anyone have some sort of definitive answer to this question? What do you guys think? Was the result satisfactory?

They took all the bad parts and turned it into one diarrhoea covered tapestry.

 

[The Sage]

I don't think it was that faithful to Secret Origin. I recently re-read it after watching the movie and I wish it had been more faithful, because it could've resulted in a better story.

There's no Atrocitus or mention of Blackest Night. No Hal-Sinestro team-up, no Black Hand; Hector Hammond is different and his transformation is caused by exposure to Abin Sur's propulsion system not Parallax, etc. I think the movie takes lightly from Hal's family life and how his father's death affected him, and to some extent, his relationship with Carol, but it's not down the line faithful.

I wish they had just used a mix of Secret Origin and Emerald Dawn. I felt the Hal as screw up was better done in ED (though they kept beating you over the head with it), and I thought the family dynamics were better done in SO. If you could've combined those two Hal's, I think you would've had a character that was ripe with dramatic potential and could've provided more of an emotional anchor for the film. I also have to admit that I liked Legion far better than the movie Parallax-Krona. Parallax and Krona are two good villians that could've carried movies by themselves. Legion is a good villain that you can punch and I wish they had gone with him. Or Atrocitus.

The narrative was there from Secret Origins, just not enough of it. I wish more time had been spent on Hal's family and the Hal/Sinestro relationship, as you mentioned.

Atrocitus could've worked, but with better execution, Parallax/Krona could've worked also, at least based on earlier story details that were seemingly changed.

 

[iGiFF]

Doe's anyone have some sort of definitive answer to this question? What do you guys think? Was the result satisfactory?

Pretty faithful. Which is part of the irony that the film is being panned because it actually is true to the books. I guess people just wouldn't like the books the haha.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I don't think it was that faithful to Secret Origin. I recently re-read it after watching the movie and I wish it had been more faithful, because it could've resulted in a better story.

There's no Atrocitus or mention of Blackest Night. No Hal-Sinestro team-up, no Black Hand; Hector Hammond is different and his transformation is caused by exposure to Abin Sur's propulsion system not Parallax, etc. I think the movie takes lightly from Hal's family life and how his father's death affected him, and to some extent, his relationship with Carol, but it's not down the line faithful.

I wish they had just used a mix of Secret Origin and Emerald Dawn. I felt the Hal as screw up was better done in ED (though they kept beating you over the head with it), and I thought the family dynamics were better done in SO. If you could've combined those two Hal's, I think you would've had a character that was ripe with dramatic potential and could've provided more of an emotional anchor for the film. I also have to admit that I liked Legion far better than the movie Parallax-Krona. Parallax and Krona are two good villians that could've carried movies by themselves. Legion is a good villain that you can punch and I wish they had gone with him. Or Atrocitus.

I totally agree, I really don't see how the movie is faithful to Secret Origin other than using Hector Hammond what else from that series is included in the movie.

 

[Kurosawa]

It wasn't very faithful to Secret Origin and it had nothing from the original John Broome/Gil Kane comics-I think Geoff Johns thinks he created Hal Jordan.

 

[The Morningstar]

It was accurate to Geoff Johns' comics...

 

[hippie_hunter]

Green Lantern was probably too much of a close adaptation of Johns' run in the Green Lantern comics. It felt like I was watching a comic book as opposed to watching a movie.

 

[CConn]

That's a good point.

When I was watching the Batman: Year One animated movie last night, I noticed just how...choppy the comic seemed when it was translated to film.

I think that's actually a pretty big trait of most comics; the flip one one thing to another faster than films normally do. Not to mention, increased campiness, of course.

GL had the same high level of choppiness, plus was ridiculously campy. And I think those were the two primary complaints most people had with the film.

 

[maenalus]

I know the movie's biggest problem, that is the traumatized, angsty, screw-up Hal, comes from the modern stuff like Emerald Dawn.

 

[green blogger]

The movie had a lot of Green Lantern facts taken from the comic and mixed up in the overall outcome. Aside from the fact that Hal got the ring from the dying Abin Sur, I don't really saw much about the Secret Origin in the movie.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I know the movie's biggest problem, that is the traumatized, angsty, screw-up Hal, comes from the modern stuff like Emerald Dawn.

That wasn't the movie's problem. Hal having Daddy issues from his father's death and the trauma caused by it would have been a great way to develop the film.

The problem is that it didn't develop enough on anything. It didn't properly develop the relationship between Hal and various characters like Sinestro and Hector Hammond. It didn't develop enough of Hal's emotional problems. It didn't develop enough on the Green Lantern Corps.

 

[Lord]

In my opinion it wasn't as faithfull as it should have been, a movie about his traumas and becoming a GL with Hal writing all the events in a diary and ending it with Hal showing it to him would have been great.

THere was also no Hal and Sinestro team up, they didn't even know each other well in the film.

 

[Juicy J]

Pretty faithful. Which is part of the irony that the film is being panned because it actually is true to the books. I guess people just wouldn't like the books the haha.

I've only read a handful of GL comics, secret origins being one of the few, and for the most part I enjoyed them.
But I despised the movie. IMO it was on par with the Fantastic Four. There were bits and pieces I enjoyed but overall I really did not like it.