Official Green Lantern News & Discussion Thread - Part 9

[JAK®]

That's not true either. The effects in the trailer were not finalized and many people (fans especially) criticized the hell out of them. I don't understand how anyone can deny that

Make your mind up. I thought we were talking about the public.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

To be fair, the trailer had to work with the footage available. Considering the state of the film itself, blaming marketing feels a tad bit off.

In hindsight the trailer shouldn't have been blamed at all actually. It represented the tone of the movie well. A mediocre trailer for a mediocre movie.

 

[The Morningstar]

To be fair, the trailer had to work with the footage available. Considering the state of the film itself, blaming marketing feels a tad bit off.

At least with the first trailer it was an honest representation of the finished product.

All the other trailers were just flat out lies.

 

[JAK®]

Remember how people defended the trailer saying the negative reaction was exaggerated?

Yeah, I was one of them. Although I haven't seen the movie yet, I still maintain that what was presented in the initial trailer was no indication of a bad movie.

From what I hear, the problems with the movie are down to poor writing, bad pacing and just a sub-par effort altogether, which you can't really judge in a trailer.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

At least with the first trailer it was an honest representation of the finished product.

All the other trailers were just flat out lies.

the worst thing about this film is you could see the potential, and it feels like 90% of the time the film is running away from that potential.

 

[Poni_Boy]

Make your mind up. I thought we were talking about the public.

Make up my mind... about what?

Maybe this is a bit clearer: Fans and the general public were very vocal about disliking the first trailer to the point that Warner Bros had to make a statement apologizing for releasing it.

Do you feel better now? Doesn't change anything

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Yeah, I was one of them. Although I haven't seen the movie yet, I still maintain that what was presented in the initial trailer was no indication of a bad movie.

From what I hear, the problems with the movie are down to poor writing, bad pacing and just a sub-par effort altogether, which you can't really judge in a trailer.

What's funny is that, like I said above, it accurately represents the movie. The trailer had a collection of superhero cliches, awkward tone, bad CGI, and very little OA, just like the movie.

 

[JAK®]

What's funny is that, like I said above, it accurately represents the movie. The trailer had a collection of superhero cliches, awkward tone, bad CGI, and very little OA, just like the movie.

That's hindsight.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

That's hindsight.

Not really. Plenty were saying that when the trailer came out.

 

[Poni_Boy]

Remember how people defended the trailer saying the negative reaction was exaggerated?

Yep. This entire film from November till release has been a debacle. I will never hold my hopes up this high for a film ever again.

 

[The Morningstar]

the worst thing about this film is you could see the potential, and it feels like 90% of the time the film is running away from that potential.

Definitely. It does seem like they were almost... scared... to go all out.

But when you think about it, going all out would have helped the movie. Showing more of the cosmic adventure, showing more of the Corps and Oa.

Instead of spoon feeding us with moronic exposition dumping.

I mean, if the movie spent more time in space, we as the audience could have learnt all about the Corps as Hal did. We'd be along for the adventure.

Seems WB didn't have the balls to do it that way.

 

[Octoberist]

Remember how people defended the trailer saying the negative reaction was exaggerated?

Dude that that teaser was just bad and just left a bad taste in the mouths of Joe Average ever since.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

That's hindsight.

True. But that would've been the verdict if they didn't change the direction of its marketing campaign to suggest a more solemn and serious space opera, which it isn't.

 

[Spideyfan93]

Yes! When I think about it now...I hated the ridiculous exposition!


Where's the sense of discovery? We could of had 20 minutes on Earth to establish characters then discover the world of Oa and all it's amazingness for the rest of the film. Let the audience discover Oa instead of having Tomar Re teach everything to us in minutes like the theater is a college classroom.

There are other SFX companies that could have created more than 30 minutes of cosmos for less than the amount WB spent. Quite sad...the potential...

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I wonder if it would've done better with John Stewart; simply because of the novelty of having the first black comic Superhero (f*** Hancock).

 

[Tony Stark]

Yes! When I think about it now...I hated the ridiculous exposition!


Where's the sense of discovery? We could of had 20 minutes on Earth to establish characters then discover the world of Oa and all it's amazingness for the rest of the film. Let the audience discover Oa instead of having Tomar Re teach everything to us in minutes like the theater is a college classroom.

There are other SFX companies that could have created more than 30 minutes of cosmos for less than the amount WB spent. Quite sad...the potential...

The problem was the explanation was too long and made little sence. It worked in Thor because the explanation was simple and too the point.

Thor: "Long ago mankind accepted a simple truth. That they were not alone in this universe...."


Green Lantern: "An anient race of immortals gathered the Green energy of will and divided the galaxy into 6342 sectors, giving each a green ring, bla, bla, bla, bla..."

 

[S.A.A.D.]

I cant believe that people from WB asked Geoff Johns if the movie could be made without the power ring.

 

[Octoberist]

I cant believe that people from WB asked Geoff Johns if the movie could be made without the power ring.

link?

 

[S.A.A.D.]

link?

*shrugs

I can buy into it considering how WB didn't seem to be bothered by Tim Burton's aborted Superman movie. And yes, I know that some of the stuff that was proposed wasn't his idea.

 

[Raiden]

Yes! When I think about it now...I hated the ridiculous exposition!


Where's the sense of discovery? We could of had 20 minutes on Earth to establish characters then discover the world of Oa and all it's amazingness for the rest of the film. Let the audience discover Oa instead of having Tomar Re teach everything to us in minutes like the theater is a college classroom.

There are other SFX companies that could have created more than 30 minutes of cosmos for less than the amount WB spent. Quite sad...the potential...

I think the decision to CGI the suits was a terrible idea. Instead of the money & resource spent to render each GL suit, they could've used that money for more scenes at Oa. Just a thought.

 

[The Morningstar]

Definitely Raiden. Especially when it all boils down to it, the CGI suit was nothing but an attention seeking gimmick. A "hey look at this superheroes suit! We're using state of the art tech just to make his suit! Cool or what!"

I actually liked the suit. But it was pointless. They should have done it like Tron. A real, physical suit touched up by CGI.

 

[TheMadScientist]

link?

That was eleven years ago...


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/trivia

 

[TheVileOne]

Actually, a lot of the people who didn't like the movie (or thought it was mediocre) said Reynolds was fine, they just didn't think he had enough to work with.

Not that you would care of course. I'm sure you were praying that it would get bad reviews the moment you heard Reynolds was cast.

U mad?

 

[dnno1]

The latest TV ad spot:

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

I liked Reynolds well enough, but I think I'd have liked him alot more if he actually played him like Han Solo... since he compared Hal to him in every interview.