Official Green Lantern News & Discussion Thread - Part 9

[KalMart]

It's the second week that will tell the tale. All of this bad word traveling around about the movie, can kill it. I have friends that already will not see it because they think DC laid another egg.

Not to mention Cars 2 and TF3.

 

[Karelia]

Wasn't it supposed to take place on Oa for half the film?

Swear I heard that too.

 

[KalMart]

Or like 60-40?

 

[protocida]

^ They should've went for the first draft of the Script that leaked back in 2010. It was much better.

 

[C. Lee]

Anyone going to see this again in theaters? I'm unsure as of now. I figured I'd at least see it twice.

I am. I went tonight by myself (my wife hates to go on opening nights)....but we'll go together later next week to see it.

 

[EliteF50]

Anyone going to see this again in theaters? I'm unsure as of now. I figured I'd at least see it twice.

I plan on seeing it again with some other friends on wednesday and my family on friday.

 

[darkseid26]

Not sure if its been posted. Nice little article on IGN

http://comics.ign.com/articles/117/1177116p2.html

 

[RoughNTumble]

This best thing that's going to come out of this movie is the animated series this fall. I really cannot wait.

 

[The Morningstar]

I still can't quite understand how people are cool with being flat out lied to by WB here.

It was supposed to be this sprawling space epic... yet for most of the movie Hal is mooching about on Earth getting pep talks from his friends because real character development is too hard to write.

 

[craigdbfan]

It was being touted as the next "Star Wars" before it was released for goodness sake.

 

[The Morningstar]

Yea, I mean, i know WB had to market it. But ****, this is Fox level lying. Perhaps even worse.

 

[Silver Surfer]

This entire movie was a con job on the fans, they baited us with this epic space opera but proceeded to switch it to something that was anything but that.

 

[dark_b]

just stop it ok? a stuido will always lie. SHH fans every year act like studios and directors dont lie makes you stupid ok ? enough. you have every year at least 3 examples where the studio and director lied to you to market the movie. what do you expect from them? those are 200 million movies. this is expensive as hell. studios are not doing you favours. they are selling a product to the world.

i told you in 2009 and 2010 that dont belive that it will be teh space epic based on their words. but no you had to be naive after years of visiting the SHH forums.

 

[The Morningstar]

Yea, it seems the first trailer we got was an accurate representation of what the film would be.

The other trailers were just propaganda basically.

 

[The Morningstar]

just stop it ok? a stuido will always lie. SHH fans every year act like studios and directors dont lie makes you stupid ok ? enough. you have every year at least 3 examples where the studio and director lied to you to market the movie. what do you expect from them? those are 200 million movies. this is expensive as hell. studios are not doing you favours. they are selling a product to the world.

i told you in 2009 and 2010 that dont belive that it will be teh space epic based on their words. but no you had to be naive after years of visiting the SHH forums.

Yes all film studios bend the truth a bit in marketing.

But in this case it wasn't bending the truth... it was flat out lying. It was propaganda... not marketing.

 

[dark_b]

if the sequel will happen then the studio will lie that they will fix every mistake from the first movie. i will remind you on this in 2- 3 years when the sequel is reaelsed.

its that simple. mark my words. GL is not liked by the majorty fans. so if they make the sequel WB and the director will lie that they fixed all mistakes. like for example Clash of Titans 2. the first 3D was supposed to be an insult to human eyes. but what did WB do? they will again reaelese a fast post-conversion. but the director already started to lie that this time it will be different. this is normal for promotion. WB will also jump in and say that they learned a lot from the first Clash of Titans movie.

i am nto saying that you all should be paranoid when it comes to studios. but never belive anythign from them . never.

 

[craigdbfan]

just stop it ok? a stuido will always lie. SHH fans every year act like studios and directors dont lie makes you stupid ok ? enough. you have every year at least 3 examples where the studio and director lied to you to market the movie. what do you expect from them? those are 200 million movies. this is expensive as hell. studios are not doing you favours. they are selling a product to the world.

i told you in 2009 and 2010 that dont belive that it will be teh space epic based on their words. but no you had to be naive after years of visiting the SHH forums.

That's not the point.

Lying is fine as long as you back it up with your product in the end in at least making something of quality. Something this film didn't do. Not telling people they can't enjoy it, thats all fine and dandy but this will be forgotten by the times Cars 2 is released. That's not what people were expecting, something on the level of XM:FC or Thor is what people had in mind and it wasn't even on that caliber IMO. This is a Dragonball: Evolution type of fumble but at least that only cost 30 million to make and not $200 mil +.

No one expected the next Star Wars, the comparison was outlandish then and sticks out more now with the aftermath of the movie which spells out quite clearly this isn't the next _____ giant resonating franchise period.

People were however expecting a good/great movie based on the director, cast, budget, and time they had. There is no excuse for this quite frankly. I actually don't blame WB that much because they probably had to lie their asses off when the production didn't deliver even when they gave them a giant blank check to turn something of value in.

 

[cryptic name]

Yea, I mean, i know WB had to market it. But ****, this is Fox level lying. Perhaps even worse.

not even close.

 

[The Morningstar]

not even close.

How is it not? All we've been hearing is how this movie is some sprawling, epic space adventure. The next Star Wars.

Turns out, we saw 99% of the money shots and Oa in the ****ing trailers and marketing clips.

Most of the movie was spent on Hal mooching around on Earth getting pep talks from one dimensional characters, instead of you know, going through REAL character development and learning things on his own.

 

[cryptic name]

How is it not? All we've been hearing is how this movie is some sprawling, epic space adventure. The next Star Wars.

Turns out, we saw 99% of the money shots and Oa in the ****ing trailers and marketing clips.

Most of the movie was spent on Hal mooching around on Earth getting pep talks from one dimensional characters, instead of you know, going through REAL character development and learning things on his own.

WB didn't leak the script and tell us it was being extensively rewritten, even mentioning specific scenes that were being added (Juggernaut vs Colossus) only to have the final movie be exactly like the script. WB didn't leak the movie and then claim there we 15 minutes of footage yet to be added that were inseen in the final release. Fox has pulled **** not even comparable to using an allegory you disagree with.

Also, this flick has a lot more in common with A New Hope than most people seem to be willing to admit.

 

[craigdbfan]

The one thing A New Hope and GL have in common is that they were both filmed using devices called cameras.

The comparisons end there.

 

[The Morningstar]

haha this movie is no where near the level of A New Hope.

A New Hope had some heart and soul for one thing. Green Lantern is a basically a 100 minute long toy commercial. It's a sterile excersize in trying to create a franchise, rather than create a great film that can stand on it's own. There was no heart or soul at all.

 

[cryptic name]

I just flat out disagree with you guys, which is fine. The whole WB lied thing is just ridiculous though. I saw the exact movie I got in the trailers.

 

[The Morningstar]

haha yea literally... they showed all the best parts in the trailers. You could just watch the trailers again for the good parts and not have to put up with the horrible "character moments" if you can call them that.

 

[craigdbfan]

I'll say this.

First Flight was a better GL adaptation, far better. IMO

I'll even go as far as to say the Kyle Rayner/Hal Jordan amalgam from the B&SAS origin story had far more character and soul.