Official Green Lantern News & Discussion Thread - Part 10

[The Morningstar]

Has there been interviews with anyone involved with the movie recently?

 

[KalMart]

Has there been interviews with anyone involved with the movie recently?

Is the movie even relevant enough to request interviews anymore...aside from asking why it did so badly, which I'm sure the ones involved would jump at the chance to speak about?

 

[jmc]

Reynolds is coming down here in a couple of weeks to promote the film. I'd love to see someone ask him what's the point of him coming down here is.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Reynolds is coming down here in a couple of weeks to promote the film. I'd love to see someone ask him what's the point of him coming down here is.

 

[KalMart]

Reynolds is coming down here in a couple of weeks to promote the film. I'd love to see someone ask him what's the point of him coming down here is.

 

[jmc]

He's coming down for GL, That comes out a couple weeks after.

 

[DaveMoral]

So why didn't he have that hairdo, which is Hal Jordan's do, in GL? That's what I want to know.

 

[KalMart]

He's coming down for GL, That comes out a couple weeks after.

But he might be better off talking about The Change-Up.

 

[mace1]

Here are some more interesting comments i just read.

by batnbreakfast

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Marvel chose more wisely. They
took a C-lister with Iron Man and build up
their reputation because the audiences connected to the more human story.
Who knows what would have happened if they had done Thor first? Without
the credits of IM would the masses have wanted to see that mythological take
on the superfolks?
Warner should have made a 50-million-dollar-playing-it-safe Green Arrow/The Question movie
(from the studio that gave you the Dark Knight on the poster or something),
build a rep with the more conservative characters, then try a Green Lantern, Flash or Wonder Woman.
They started on the wrong foot.





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by paul-2219
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That's a good point about Stark. Audiences need to buy the character's motivation and character development. I think one danger with GL and Superman is that these characters are so powerful pretty much from day one, it's hard for viewers to empathize with them as easily as we did a powerless Stark imprisoned in a cold cave. Thor did something smart with removing his powers to teach him some humility. With GL, we aren't really emotionally invested in him or his choices. His ring is pretty much all-powerful, and so we just kind of wait around for him to decide to act and beat the bad guys up.

I know it might have seemed to be mimicking Thor, but they could have fallen back on the old "lose the ring" plot twist, and make him work for a longer time to recover it, and then save the day. I dunno. There just never seemed to be that much urgency, particularly when Hal defeats the "ultimate evil" all by himself in five minutes. I think that ending left the audience feeling cheated. "That was it? That's all it took to beat the big bad guy? What was all that doom and gloom from the billion-year-old Yodas?"


source
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/board/flat/185553648?p=1

 

[The Morningstar]

They should have had this movie show more of Hal training, growing into the Lantern role. Have the majority of the film set on Oa and other space sectors. He goes on this epic space faring adventure and we're along for the ride. We see him grow as a person and lantern as the movie goes on. That would have helped the audience connect more with the character.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

So why didn't he have that hairdo, which is Hal Jordan's do, in GL? That's what I want to know.

I wondered that myself after seeing a commercial for that movie. I also wondered why Reynolds in that movie acts exactly the same as Reynolds as Hal. Reynolds must be the comedic Tom Cruise... exactly the same in every movie.

 

[HighFivingMF]

I also wondered why Reynolds in that movie acts exactly the same as Reynolds as Hal.

He doesn't..

 

[dnno1]

He's coming down for GL, That comes out a couple weeks after.

Then I guess you just answered your own question.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Then I guess you just answered your own question.

He didn't ask a question.

 

[BlueLantern]

I think DC/WB should've definitely gone with a more human character initially to build the interest in the universe before diving into GL.

Do another neo-noir film potentially with the Question as mentioned, or even go a bit team like and do a badass version of the Doom Patrol.

Better than the A-Team or the Losers hopefully though.

 

[Son of Coul]

This movie could've been great, they just ****ed up so much. Such basic stuff at that. This movie is probably the biggest violator of the "show, don't tell" general rule of writing in recent memory. I understand it's difficult to achieve with high concepts like this, but it can be done in a half/half way. That's where audience surrogates help.

In Thor, for example, they have Odin explain the celestial race becoming known as Norse Gods while informing the plot at the same time. When he explains, it's presented to us in action before our eyes and revealed to be him telling the story to his sons, also impacting the story.

Green Lantern starts in space, then just Rush's voice- "The Green Lantern Corps protects the universe. There are suchandsuch sectors in theuniverseandtheyfeedoffgreenlightwhichiswillpowerandyellowisfearandtherewasAbinSurwhofoughtthisbigcloudnamedParallaxandasbiugohirsypjtkou'il9y73gohi" with some vague images to accompany. Like a fan describing it to his friend before the movie starts off the top of his head.

Then, later, Hal realizes he has all this knowledge because of the ring, so you think "oh we don't have to go through the explanation again" but they still recap in the same scene once they start flying around. This all could've been solved along with another problem, which was the progression on Oa with Hal. It's widely acknowledged that the training is one of the best parts of the movie and it's glazed over so quickly that when he quits you're like, "Dude? What are you insane?! If that's all it takes for you to quit, give ME the damn ring."

Even just looking at a movie as silly and over-the-top (fun though!) as Wanted, Wesley's quitting is more believable. He gets the ever-loving **** beaten out of him over the course of time, and he's not even being given as sweet an opportunity as Hal. Have Hal spend a few days, maybe have one of the other Lanterns like Kilowog do sort of a "ride-along" with him in his own Sector to get him familiar with the duty. In this span, we can finally solve the whole "hitting the audience in the face an absurdly detailed explanation before a single character is shown" thing (hell, even Star Wars just gives a brief background of what's going on in the scene as a throwback to old serials, rather than explaining the concepts of lightsabers, jedi, the sith, etc.). Hal can spend the night sitting on Oa with Tomar-Re and after the vagueness of the earlier material Tomar-Re can use his ring to illustrate, through constructs, the history behind the rings and the different colored energies, along with the story of Abin-Sur and Parallax.

This would only be solving two of the script's problems, let alone the overall film's.

And whoa, this post turned out way longer than intended.

 

[Karelia]

I think DC/WB should've definitely gone with a more human character initially to build the interest in the universe before diving into GL.

Do another neo-noir film potentially with the Question as mentioned, or even go a bit team like and do a badass version of the Doom Patrol.

Better than the A-Team or the Losers hopefully though.

I think Question or Green Arrow would have been awesome to see. Shoot, I was looking forward to the Lobo film then they scrapped that.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Tom Cruise... exactly the same in every movie.

Tom Cruise was the same in Magnolia as he was in Collateral. Yup.

 

[BatmanInc]

I think Question or Green Arrow would have been awesome to see. Shoot, I was looking forward to the Lobo film then they scrapped that.

The Question would make a great TV show.

 

[chiefchirpa]

... And a not so engaging movie. C'mon moviegoers expect a better spectacle and cooler surprises than comic book readers, who are content to read 4 monthly issues of a comic run before calling it quits. The Question is unspectacular, and story could only help so much before a movie is less than well received. Remember Watchmen?

I'm okay with GA. Action speaks louder than words.

 

[Marvin]

In Thor, for example, they have Odin explain the celestial race becoming known as Norse Gods while informing the plot at the same time. When he explains, it's presented to us in action before our eyes and revealed to be him telling the story to his sons, also impacting the story.

Green Lantern starts in space, then just Rush's voice- "The Green Lantern Corps protects the universe. There are suchandsuch sectors in theuniverseandtheyfeedoffgreenlightwhichiswillpowerandyellowisfearandtherewasAbinSurwhofoughtthisbigcloudnamedParallaxandasbiugohirsypjtkou'il9y73gohi" with some vague images to accompany. Like a fan describing it to his friend before the movie starts off the top of his head.

see star wars movie intros
including the first one.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

I watched Hal fight Parallax again and enjoyed it way more than before!

 

[EliteF50]

I loved it the first time, second time and the third time I've seen it

 

[S.A.A.D.]

The camera work is definitely the unsung hero when it comes to certain scenes. It was partially responsible for the epicness.

 

[Son of Coul]

see star wars movie intros
including the first one.

...see the rest of my post?