I think we need a reboot.

[bhayes]

In all honesty - we know they messed up. and i think they know they did too.

i fell bad for reynolds. I mean he is a great actor. But this is the 3rd time they've tried to turn him into an action fantasy character and they've failed.

Hanibal King didn't work. Deadpool or Barakapool was a disgrace, and now Green Lantern was awful too.

so i think what they should do is cancel green lantern 2.

they should just focus on doing the Nolan-Superman trilogy.

and basically hire Chris Nolan as producer for all future DC adaptations.

he did an amazing job with batman.

superman will have an all star cast as well as a great costumes.

we now have Flash, Wonder-Woman, Martian Man Hunter, and Green Lantern.

i say they should focus on other heroes and reintroduce Hal Jordan later in a reboot.

just give each DC hero his own trilogy.

i think the NOLAN way of make the superheros seem more realistic is the better formula

 

[The Sage]

Blade 3 and Wolverine's failures have nothing to do with him, those movies would've fallen without him. And GL's script and editing issues weren't his fault.

Instead of a full on reboot, I'd prefer a Wrath of Khan approach, where it continues on but doesn't need really reference the first film. You could use the same cast if you wanted to.

 

[Spade]

Whenever a sequel's made to a movie I've seen, I ask myself "was there anything in the last one that's worth revisiting?" Here, my answer is: "No, there isn't." They would have to change so much for a sequel to work that they might as well start from scratch. And if they did move ahead with one? Look at the clip above. Comic fans would go see a Sinestro Corps movie because they're already fans, but they didn't give enough reason to care in this one for everyone else. Green Lantern hasn't broke even yet. A sequel's not worth the risk, creatively or financially.

The Batman/Superman reboot approach would be best- come back to the franchise after a hiatus, develop a good story the crew can work with, and give this concept the attention it deserved the first time around.

 

[bhayes]

Whenever a sequel's made to a movie I've seen, I ask myself "was there anything in the last one that's worth revisiting?" Here, my answer is: "No, there isn't." They would have to change so much for a sequel to work that they might as well start from scratch. And if they did move ahead with one? Look at the clip above. Comic fans would go see a Sinestro Corps movie because they're already fans, but they didn't give enough reason to care in this one for everyone else. Green Lantern hasn't broke even yet. A sequel's not worth the risk, creatively or financially.

The Batman/Superman reboot approach would be best- come back to the franchise after a hiatus, develop a good story the crew can work with, and give this concept the attention it deserved the first time around.

i just think they tried to do a iron man approach and they really wasted alot of $$$ on CGI.

yeah. i think the spider man & ghost rider as well as wolverine reboots are proof that reboots can work.

So i think the new superman movies will fill the void of dark knight rises being the last nolan batman man film.

Flash is on the way. Somehow they need to get the right talent to work on flash and get it right.

and revisit GL in about 6-7 years.

 

[Metallo]

I'd be down for a reboot. Reynolds wasn't terrible but he wasn't great either. certainly not great enough to ignore the stink of the movie he's connected to. I never felt he REALLY captured that character or became the Hal Jordan I've read about my entire liffe. Felt like Reynolds playing Reynolds more or less. When Reeve played Superman he really became that character in terms of personality. Keaton wasn't the ideal Batman but he made the role his own. Reynolds never did that IMO.

They should just start from scratch because there's a lot of stuff that needs to be rethought. The entire origin didn't seem up to snuff, I wasn't crazy about a lot of the character designs or costumes. Hulk and Superman Returns got rebooted and in my opinion GL was a much more "meh" approach than either one of those two and didn't leave enough of an impression that it would bother me if they did reboot.

First Flight and Emerald Knights captured the spirit of Hal and the Lantern mythos better for cryin out loud.

 

[The Sage]

Most animated features are better than live-action, so that's nothing new.

 

[Metallo]

Not with the kind of creative gulf the DC animated GL movies and the Green Lantern live action movie had between them. It was like night and day.

More or less down to people who understood the material better. I'd take Fillion as Hal in a live action film over Reynolds.

And give me the 2008 Iron Man film over the 2007 Invincible Iron Man animated film any day.

 

[Karelia]

Still think they should just start the sequel off with Hal & Sinestro on a mission. It doesn't have to really tie in to the first film at all. It'd be awesome if he spent pretty much the whole movie in space. It should be action packed. I don't think they should really bother telling the origin story again. They could do a cool credits thing like they did with the Spider-Man movies, showing him get the ring and all that. It'd be awesome if Alex Ross did the art for it, too.

RR wasn't a bad Hal, IMO. And Mark Strong owned Sinestro for the whole 15 minutes he had.

 

[©KAW]

Get rid of the entire cast (especially Ryan Reynolds), the director, the writer(s), Sony Imageworks and start anew. The movie was that awful.

 

[The Sage]

Not with the kind of creative gulf the DC animated GL movies and the Green Lantern live action movie had between them. It was like night and day.

More or less down to people who understood the material better. I'd take Fillion as Hal in a live action film over Reynolds.

And give me the 2008 Iron Man film over the 2007 Invincible Iron Man animated film any day.

It's that but it's also how easy it is in animation to explore the fantasy world than in live-action.

 

[Metallo]

That excuse doesn't really fly in this case or in the case of the two Iron man films i mentioned. When I compare GL 2011 to First Flight the amount of creative freedom they had with todays medium was comparable.

Other films have done better than Green Lantern with far less in terms of filmmaking resources and gotten past the limitations of the medium.

If Green Lantern had come along 20 years ago you'd have a point because it would have been hampered by the film medium but the industry has seen a technological revolution in that time thats made things possible...its made it possible to BRING a comic book world to life.

Iron Man 2008 did that and gave us every bit the character we grew up loving...more so than The Invincible Iron Man. Why did TIIM fail when it had the HUGE advantage of the freedom of animation? Its because the creators went in with a flawed story, they didn't understand the tone, and they didn't really have the right overall game plan.

Thats what happened with Green Lantern as well. Sure you can say Campbell wasn't an "FX experienced director" but was Richard Donner when he directed Superman? Was Bryan Singer when he directed X-men? No...but they understood the material and the spirit of those characters. Superman also had a bloated comical script but Donner hired Tom Mankiewicz to streamline it.

Green Lanterns problems were mostly from the creative end not because of advantages vs limitations of its respective medium. WB went in there and tried to make a movie the same way they did with Batman Forever even though its a different kind of character and its 16 years later.

Brainiac Attacks was an animated film...but its a dog of a movie compared to Superman or even Superman Returns. Lantern could have been more earth based with a smaller budget (there have been GL stories more confined in location) but if the creative braintrust didn't have a handle on what they were doing it still would have been a misfire.

These days the industry has become TOO dependent on the technology and being able to do almost anything to sell a movie instead of hammering out a compelling story and thats what happened with Green Lantern.

 

[enterthemadness]

Not every superhero movie needs to be "realistic". GL is a decent movie with good action. Sequel can still happen...WB has nothing left. HP is over with, batman is over with after new movie, Supermovie will probably flop.

 

[Metallo]

Not every superhero movie needs to be "realistic". GL is a decent movie with good action. Sequel can still happen...WB has nothing left. HP is over with, batman is over with after new movie, Supermovie will probably flop.

Where did I say it had to be realistic? Quality does not equal realism. Lack of realism wasn't the problem with GL. It just wasn't very well put together and in the end it showed.

To early for anyone to say Man of Steel will fail or be a hit. Nolans done directing Batman after TDKR but WB will still keep making batman movies. Do you really think they are going to turn down a chance to make some money?

As for a GL sequel...I wouldn't bet money on it. Not anytime soon anyway. The domestic gross is still at $ 114 million and worldwide its at about $ 160 million. For WB money is a BIG decider on wether a sequel happens. maybe if it does huge numbers on dvd but thats a big maybe. Other films have hoped for that and it didn't pan out.

 

[Metallo]

Get rid of the entire cast (especially Ryan Reynolds), the director, the writer(s), Sony Imageworks and start anew. The movie was that awful.

Totally agree about Sony Imageworks. Don't understand how they keep getting hired on big expensive movies like this after turning out some digital effects work that looks awful.

Some of their work in Spider-man 3 made me groan at how bad it was. But hey some of the movies they worked on made a lot of money and in the end money talks. I guess that answered my question.

 

[rayc1971]

Get rid of the entire cast (especially Ryan Reynolds), the director, the writer(s), Sony Imageworks and start anew. The movie was that awful.

i agree chris pine would have been a better hal jordan not reynolds he should have waited and played wally west flash i think they will use john stewart in a justice league movie then go from there

 

[DaveMoral]

It's going to be interesting to see if perceptions of GL are changed after the 14 minute extended cut comes out. It may not fix problems with the script(or it could, who knows what got cut) but it could very well fix editing issues, as well as all the eye candy we wanted to see but didn't.

 

[Karelia]

Guess we'll find out in about 2 months. Hoping for the best. Chris Pine would have been an excellent pick for Hal Jordan.

I do hope to see GL on the big screen again someday, though.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

It's true...

As big of a star people try to make Ryan Reynolds out to be, his movies never really seem to do all that big at the box office, specifically when he's in a major role..