The Official Green Lantern Review Thread - Part 2

[Silver Surfer]

DC basically has Nolan, other than him their cinematic future and present is in a dump.

 

[Godman]

Problem with Burton is the 'making a good movie' part, though. He has visual style, sure....but style doesn't seem to be the troubling issue with GL.

burton has made many GREAT movies so what are you talking about? he just needs complete creative freedom and its his baby all the way and we trust his vision which normally gets us the best results. POTA and ALice where heavily studio involved movies hence the underwhelming results. His batmans were GREAT stories overall and taken very seriosuly as far as the character developments and what not. Green lantern visuals are revolting and ver disspointing for $300mill. like WTF????? the suit has never sold me.

It seems the color correction or key scheme of the movie doesnt suit the compositing style they used...remember in sin city how the entire movie was stylized? watchmen (saturated film noir gamma), Speed Racer (overly exposed color saturation), Sucker punch (extra gamma, flim noir), Transformers (hot key), Sky Captain (nuff said) etc have a look to them that fit and blend the FX well. GL seems like Campbells average filming style was applied to a movie that needed a LOOK

 

[jmc]

Want to be it's better than GL?

Don't be childish. It might end up being better than GL, but that doesn't mean it'll be a home run by any means. You said Marvel have dished out great films, Capt Am was in that list, truth is we don't know. So yeah, lets not get ahead of ourselves.

 

[KalMart]

Hopefully you'll see this message before it gets buried

Studio's believe the negative buzz of the film comes from Comic Con.


Studio's also aren't getting the money they invested back from promoting at comic con. People find out the movie's going to stink and don't go to the theater.

So the studio's pull out of comic con.

Studios need to make better comic-based movies....then maybe they'll see better returns from comic-con down the road.

 

[Godman]

DC basically has Nolan, other than him they're cinematic future and present is in a dump.

agreed. they should have learned to approach very styalistic directors who have very surreal story telling skills. Darren Arnofsky was going to give us one hell of a Wolverine

 

[KalMart]

burton has made many GREAT movies so what are you talking about?

He's made a lot of striking visuals, but not a lot of great movies. He made two good ones in Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands, but that's about it.

It seems the color correction or key scheme of the movie doesnt suit the compositing style they used...remember in sin city how the entire movie was stylized? watchmen (saturated film noir gamma), Speed Racer (overly exposed color saturation), Sucker punch (extra gamma, flim noir), Transformers (hot key), Sky Captain (nuff said) etc have a look to them that fit and blend the FX well. GL seems like Campbells average filming style was applied to a movie that needed a LOOK

Iron Man, X-men, and Spiderman didn't have overly stylized 'looks'...they were all good and did really well...so....

Looks are just looks...they're styles....the movies need more than that if they're actually going to be good.

But hey, once you get your GL DVD/BluRay...crush the shadows and pump the gamma on your TV, throw in some virtual grain and run a bleach bypass filter and LUT for good measure....and voilá!

 

[Dr. Teols]

assuming someone comes back from a midnight showing, is it worth the extra few bucks to see it in 3D? was this shot in 3D or was it converted in post? the only solid thing that i have heard this movie has going for it is the CG/Special Effects, so i was wondering if it is worth the extra money to see it in 3D

 

[Godman]

I'm one of Snyder supporters but this would have been a career ender for him.
Just look at the script. I'd he escaped.

If Snyder had Goyer or JJ ABRAMS who have proven to deliver GREAT screenplays for sci fi/comic booky type movies behind him then there would have been no issue. The entire movie would have kicked ASS

 

[Spider-Fan]

If Snyder had Goyer or JJ ABRAMS who have proven to deliver GREAT screenplays for sci fi/comic booky type movies behind him then there would have been no issue. The entire movie would have kicked ASS

Goyer is a mediocre writer. He has worked on great films, but films where he did most of the work tend to suck. He is great at plotting how a movie should play out (outlining how things happen) but when it comes to development and dialogue, ugh.

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

Goyer is a great screen writer but he is bad at dialogue. He needs someone to keep him in check really.

 

[Marvin]

If Snyder had Goyer or JJ ABRAMS who have proven to deliver GREAT screenplays for sci fi/comic booky type movies behind him then there would have been no issue. The entire movie would have kicked ASS

that would be great, what I'm saying is that if he had signed the dotted line a few years ago, he would have been in Campbell's position now, ie, a bad script and no where to go.

Goyer is a mediocre writer. He has worked on great films, but films where he did most of the work tend to suck. He is great at plotting how a movie should play out (outlining how things happen) but when it comes to development and dialogue, ugh.

if I remember correctly, all nolan did to goyers Begins script was spell check it and direct it as subtle as he could.

 

[Spider-Fan]

if I remember correctly, all nolan did to goyers Begins script was spell check it and direct it as subtle as he could.

I don't know what rewriting work was done on BB. But, I have seen many movies he worked on, and dialogue and development are common problems for him. Even BB had points I didn't like. But, at least with BB, he had a great director working with his material and improving it. Snyder I don't think is a great director.

 

[Godman]

He's made a lot of striking visuals, but not a lot of great movies. He made two good ones in Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands, but that's about it.

tho this is all subjective lets go look at the tomatoe meter which i agree with as far as burton...here ure being really unfair. even though u didnt like some other ones of his he has had a pretty damn good career overall...


Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 86%
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride 84%
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 82%
Big Fish 76%
Sleepy Hollow 67%
Ed Wood 91%
Batman Returns 79%
Edward Scissorhands 91%
Batman (1989) 71%
Beetlejuice 81%
Pee-wee's Big Adventure 92%

not too shabby...id trust him if he got creative control as with all these movies he did

 

[KalMart]

tho this is all subjective lets go look at the tomatoe meter which i agree with as far as burton...here ure being really unfair. even though u didnt like some other ones of his he has had a pretty damn good career overall...


Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 86%
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride 84%
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 82%
Big Fish 76%
Sleepy Hollow 67%
Ed Wood 91%
Batman Returns 79%
Edward Scissorhands 91%
Batman (1989) 71%
Beetlejuice 81%
Pee-wee's Big Adventure 92%

not too shabby...id trust him if he got creative control as with all these movies he did

To each their own...I really don't consider him a very good filmmaker outside of his visual shtick, which in and of itself gets pretty tiresome as well.

By the way....Iron Man 2, which you panned, had a higher tomato than Burton's Batman.

 

[RoughNTumble]

I think it's surprising batman 89 has only a 71%. I personally consider it to be in the top 5 superhero movies of all time.

 

[RoughNTumble]

and batman returns scored higher! that's a laugh

 

[Spider-Fan]

I like Batman Returns more personally.

 

[MadVillainy]

I really disliked BR. Id actually rather watch B&R

 

[KalMart]

I think it's surprising batman 89 has only a 71%. I personally consider it to be in the top 5 superhero movies of all time.

I put it in the top 10 out of respect for its success/popularity and for being the only real comic-based franchise of its era...but as a film, it doesn't break the top 10 for me. I remember when it came out and I really wanted to like it....but it was like WTF?

 

[RoughNTumble]

I put it in the top 10 out of respect for its success/popularity and for being the only real comic-based franchise of its era...but as a film, it doesn't break the top 10 for me. I remember when it came out and I really wanted to like it....but it was like WTF?

lol maybe it's just my nostalgia

but I did watch it recently and I really just dig the personality and the look of it

 

[spanish39]

Well, fire down any reason I have for why people are looking down on it, fact is it was fine and I enjoyed. People are just too damn picky. There are FAAAARRRRR worse comics films then this. Hokey, space, writing, characters...whatever, I didn't expect much of that anyway so the I wasn't let down. The film could have easily been worse. I don't get why people want every damn comic film to be absolutely perfect, then rip it apart cause they didn't think a few things were right. WB had 4 writers on this so it was bound to get a lost little, but it was good enough.

If you want to read into everything then fine, build a f'n bridge and get over it and go see Mr. Poopers Penguins or Kung Fu Panda 2. Just quit the whining already cause it can go on forever. Why waste the enregy to post 15 times about what you hated and then argue with people over it. I'm sure you have been pissed off far more after paying $ to see worse film s in a theatre. HELL, I paid to see Driven and Van Helsing in theaters...biggest mistakes of my life, lmao!

 

[JP]

BR is awesome.

 

[KalMart]

lol maybe it's just my nostalgia

but I did watch it recently and I really just dig the personality and the look of it

I actually did find Keaton to be an intriguing Bruce Wayne, even though I didn't dig Batman in it, and didn't like Nicholson being Nicholson just in makeup for Joker.

 

[Rock Sexton]

You know what is laughable? It's you continuously being a tool by talking down to a friggin' movie that you haven't even seen yet.

Have you seen it yet? If you haven't, I get the feeling that even when you do you're going to defend the ever-living crap out of it like your life depended on it. Probably will be the most tainted review ever. I can't picture you writing an honest review if it turns out you actually deep down inside don't like it.

 

[RoughNTumble]

jack joker is probably my least favorite part of the movie

not because he isn't entertaining, because jack nicholson is always entertaining to watch

just because I don't find it a very exciting interpretation of the character.