The Official Green Lantern Review Thread - Part 1

[solidsnake86]

Actually, it sounds to me like they kept my least favorite things about the first draft: the formulaic origin story and the unbelievably cheesy dialogue.

I don't remember it all that well, because it was a few years ago but I remember it getting positive reviews. I just think that green lantern's character as a concept might be hard to swallow so we'll see. The original draft was pretty faithful to the comics so I'm not sure how rebooting would solve anything unless they're planning to change the concept drastically.

Right now its more of a wait and see.

 

[The Sage]

So Ryan Reynolds was Ryan Reynolds & not Hal Jordan ?

Depends on the review that's read, from what I gather.

 

[mace1]

It's unfair to the people who made the movie because we are not even giving it a chance. No-one here has even seen it yet, and yet there is already an expectation that this movie is only a "practice run" for the the "real" Green Lantern movie when Christopher Nolan reboots it, as if rebooting is inevitable before the movie is even out.

If you think the odds of this movie delivering are slim, then that is a valid opinion. However, I always get fed up when fans' first reaction whenever something gets negative reviews is that they are entitled to a reboot.

Right,too much panicking going on here,i think i will leave this site until i see the movie.

 

[Donut]

I will be there Friday night. But open minded & just not as excited

 

[kguillou]

This wouldn't have happened if they had used the John Stewart Green Lantern and got Common to play him like they were going to........I kid, I kid, I kid. t:

 

[J.Howlett]

http://incontention.com/2011/06/15/green-means-go-see-it/#more-39869

 

[Sith Scotti]

I just hope thisn't the Batman & Robin of the franchise .... Too start of like thats makes the franchise DOA ( and maybe Flash etcc)

 

[Alientraveller]

It's unfair to the people who made the movie because we are not even giving it a chance. No-one here has even seen it yet, and yet there is already an expectation that this movie is only a "practice run" for the the "real" Green Lantern movie when Christopher Nolan reboots it, as if rebooting is inevitable before the movie is even out.

If you think the odds of this movie delivering are slim, then that is a valid opinion. However, I always get fed up when fans' first reaction whenever something gets negative reviews is that they are entitled to a reboot.

Campbell doesn't want to direct the sequel (Lord knows I can't blame him, getting to grips with CG worlds and characters), so naturally another GL film would be quite different. GL is a concept that means reboots are pointless as anyone can be chosen: you can make a completely different film about John or Kyle. The movie is so faithful a retelling is rather pointless.

 

[SuperDaniel]

I think its going that is being trashed. Once we get to see it and realize its not that bad, it makes us appreciate it more.

 

[Brian Braddock]

I'll be there regardless.

 

[The Morningstar]

So Ryan Reynolds was Ryan Reynolds & not Hal Jordan ?

From what i've read it seems Reynolds doesn't do anything wrong, but he's let down by the writing.

 

[Alientraveller]

I just hope thisn't the Batman & Robin of the franchise .... Too start of like thats makes the franchise DOA ( and maybe Flash etcc)

I sincerely doubt GL is that bad. That's dung, not a disappointment.

 

[Tony Stark]

It will be fair conversation by tomorrow when everyone sees it.

Especially considering how this film could impact the possibility of Flash materializing.

Though, MAYBE Geoff Johns should be kept out of Flash.


I'm starting to think they should have got the Nolan team to "godfather" ALL DC films.

I don't want to see that. There are other good writers besides Nolan. Just because they chose a poor writing team here doesn't mean that they should use Nolan for everything. In fact I'm very skeptical on the treatment of the new Superman movie. We'll see how it goes.

 

[solidsnake86]

Campbell doesn't want to direct the sequel (Lord knows I can't blame him, getting to grips with CG worlds and characters), so naturally another GL film would be quite different. GL is a concept that means reboots are pointless as anyone can be chosen: you can make a completely different film about John or Kyle. The movie is so faithful a retelling is rather pointless.

Depending on how the movie turns out when we see it I don't know if changing the main character is really going to solve anything.

 

[moviedoors]

I don't remember it all that well, because it was a few years ago but I remember it getting positive reviews. I just think that green lantern's character as a concept might be hard to swallow so we'll see. The original draft was pretty faithful to the comics so I'm not sure how rebooting would solve anything unless they're planning to change the concept drastically.

Right now its more of a wait and see.

I'm remember reading all the positive reviews and I just didn't agree. There was a skeleton of a movie there, but I thought it needed a ton of work. The dialogue was just cringe worthy and structurally speaking, it was Raimi's Spiderman to a T.

 

[Donut]

I guess the kids will be the ones that dig this movie

 

[chamber-music]

Yup.

Nolan's team is already relaunching Batman after TDKR, confirmed by Robinov. Nolan will serve as producer.

What
When was that confirmed?

I wouldn't personally mind if Nolans team continued with Goyer and Jonathan Nolan doing the script, Wally behind the camera, Chris and Emma producing and Duncan Jones directing (Nolan was intrested in him directing Superman.

I think Bale and the others would stay on too for a couple more Batman flicks.

I know some fans would not like this idea though as they are tired of Nolans Batman and want either a reboot or new direction with a different cast and crew.

 

[The Morningstar]

Ugh, i hope Nolan isn't doing the next lot of Batman movies. I'd prefer a fresh take, by someone like Fincher or Del Toro. More stylized and noir.

 

[SuperDaniel]

Its been confirmed hes going to be the producer.

 

[Donut]

The WB would rather close down then lose Nolan at the helm of anything. I bet they want Nolan Directing all of their movies

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Ugh, i hope Nolan isn't doing the next lot of Batman movies. I'd prefer a fresh take, by someone like Fincher or Del Toro. More stylized and noir.

Unlikely.

WB has a winning formula with Batman, a billion dollar franchise.

It would be stupid and risky to change things drastically.


And Nolan and his wife producing Batman 4 was confirmed in the Robinov interview from two months ago.

 

[Donut]

The only way Nolan gets off of DC Comic Movies is if he is assassinated at this point. The WB will turn to Nolan if this fails. Maybe not directing but Nolan will play a part in everything

 

[spider-neil]

tickets booked for friday. I'm hoping for 'competent' ha ha t:

as long as I'm entertained that's good enough for me.
I was entertained by;
IM2
SM3
X3

so as long as the level of film making is not below that, I'm good.
please don't let it be as bad as
wolverine
sucker punch
B&R
Ghost Rider
FF2
TF2

movies that I got no enjoyment out of whatsoever and wont ever watch again.

 

[Steyin]

Ugh, i hope Nolan isn't doing the next lot of Batman movies. I'd prefer a fresh take, by someone like Fincher or Del Toro. More stylized and noir.

Agreed. After being pumped for TDK, then being letdown by the film, and walking on shards in terms of anticipation for TDKR, I'd rather Nolan disappear from the Bat world.

 

[Crimson King]

I'm not very well-versed in GL comics, or DC properties in general outside of Supes and Batman, so I've been monitoring this one from afar but not really getting into the hype. When I saw the first trailer, I almost wrote the movie off ("I know, right?!"). Then came the admissions from the studio that the trailer sucked. That was reassuring, but didn't exactly make me feel good about the movie's chances. When the trailer hit a couple months ago, I actually started to get excited. They chose better scenes to highlight and the acting seemed less goofy. These reviews, though, have totally killed any momentum the movie had going for it (with me, anyway). They're pretty much citing every problem I thought the movie might have, which was bad dialog and bad CGI. More troubling, though, is that the story doesn't appear to be any good. How does DC let that happen? With so much riding on GL's success, it boggles my mind that WB/DC would allow a thing like poor storytelling to derail their future. That should've been caught before it started.

Just a perspective of a casual DC fan. The reviews are depressing. I want all major comic movies to succeed, because we need studios to start taking chances on secondary properties like GL, WW, Cap, etc. I don't want to go back to the days of Batman and Spider-Man movies being the only comic representation.