Justice League Portraying Green Lantern's Powers

[thorstone]

Everybody's got a hard on for Idris Elba right now and wants him to be the new Green Lantern, but if that is to happen, two things have to change about the portrayl of the Lantern's powers.

1. The suit has to be practical.
2. The powers need to be more of a plasma instead of a glowing green vapour.

The constructs have to actually look real and by that I mean they have to have a tangible texture to them and they shouldn't glow. CGI can do fluids very well and I think that a fluid texture and particle effects would work best for the Green Lantern's power.

 

[jmc]

The concept of how the suit is formed is actually something I'd like to see retained, it makes sense in the context of the GL that the uniform would be tailored to the anatomy of the ring bearer.

 

[Silvermoth]

Like Flubber?

 

[113]

like flubber?

lmfao

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

I thought they were fine in the movie. They just gave him incredibly lame stuff to make.

 

[DChero]

The way that I always felt like GL's constructs would appear in real life is having the look of glass or diamond. So the light would reflect off of it over it glowing. I feel like it would more visually ground the character into the MoS universe as well.

 

[marcvader]

The suit construct and mechanics is fine but I agree his imagination was really wack and uninspired.

 

[thorstone]

The constructs in the film just looked like fancy glowing cgi-- they didn't even remotely look solid or that the lighting in the environment affected them at all.

Think of how the displays in Man of Steel were fluid but looked like real material.

 

[DChero]

The constructs in the film just looked like fancy glowing cgi-- they didn't even remotely look solid or that the lighting in the environment affected them at all.

Think of how the displays in Man of Steel were fluid but looked like real material.

Exactly. I suggested a glass or diamond look to help mesh it within teh MoS universe, but I'm sure that there are other great ways of doing it. In the GL movie, it seemed like some constructs were meant to look real and some weren't. I think they were good during the final battle, but things like the racecar didn't impress me in the way that it was designed to glow.

 

[dnno1]

There wasn't enough action and very little of the characters we wanted to see (Sinestro, kilowog, and Tomar-Re) in the film. I realize that in Justice League, there will be a lot of Earth-based scenes, but when Green Lantern gets his chance at action, it has to be bad-ass and not silly. Pulling out a Vulcan cannon is pretty cool, but pulling out a Trebuchet at the wrong time might be silly.

 

[DChero]

There wasn't enough action and very little of the characters we wanted to see (Sinestro, kilowog, and Tomar-Re) in the film. I realize that in Justice League, there will be a lot of Earth-based scenes, but when Green Lantern gets his chance at action, it has to be bad-ass and not silly. Pulling out a Vulcan cannon is pretty cool, but pulling out a Trebuchet at the wrong time might be silly.

I wish that they would have kept up with the pace set during Abin Sur's escape. That was my favorite part of the movie.

 

[dnno1]

I wish that they would have kept up with the pace set during Abin Sur's escape. That was my favorite part of the movie.

That was one of the things they got right in the film. They had an action/chase scene within the first 5 minutes of the film. The drama duing the Earth scenes made the film awfully slow, though.

 

[DChero]

That was one of the things they got right in the film. They had an action/chase scene within the first 5 minutes of the film. The drama duing the Earth scenes made the film awfully slow, though.

Yep. I feel like Hector Hammond was the wrong choice and really took away from the energy that was built up. If he wasn't involved, I feel like the movie would have flowed much better and put more focus on him guarding a sector over just his girlfriend (which was the case until the very end).

 

[8Diagrams(WU)]

I wish that they would have kept up with the pace set during Abin Sur's escape. That was my favorite part of the movie.

Most definitely that was the best part of the movie. The suspence in space thing was done really well. The whole movie should have been like that.

The constructs they should keep GL sticking to making energy fields and stuff like that. When it becomes cars in toy tracks and giant fists, etc it gets cheesy.

Also, maybe its time for Hal or whomever to go without the mask in live action.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Most definitely that was the best part of the movie. The suspence in space thing was done really well. The whole movie should have been like that.

The constructs they should keep GL sticking to making energy fields and stuff like that. When it becomes cars in toy tracks and giant fists, etc it gets cheesy.

Also, maybe its time for Hal or whomever to go without the mask in live action.

Eh..no, it should be the opposite. I can see your point about the race track, but GLs as a whole have rarely been represented as making the type of things that an unlimited amount of imagination could make on the small or silver screens.

One of the best scenes from the GL movie was Sinestro making multiple, self-attacking swords and beating Hal from a distance. That's what fighting with one's mind should look like. It shouldn't just be simple reactions to certain situations like laser beams and shields.

In the comics, we've seen things like John Stewart make a squadron of
soliders, Kyle Rayner make a cathedral, and Sinestro making a giant version of Kilowog. With Superman's plethora of abilities and Batman's nearly-limitless array of gadgets, the only way a GL is going to seem like he belongs in the JLA is with a variety of massive, complicated constructs that overwhelm his opponent.