The Official Green Lantern Review Thread - Part 2

[Man of Tomorrow]

Richard Roeper Reviews Green Lantern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4BeNjYXzFs

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"Nothing to feed a franchise, feels like a one and done effort"

 

[Marvin]

Rolling Stone Reviews Green Lantern

"Welcome to Comic Book Movie Hell"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQTFC6ASYM

he's so gangster in this
yes, fall can't come fast enough

 

[Prison Mike]

Rolling Stone Reviews Green Lantern

"Welcome to Comic Book Movie Hell"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQTFC6ASYM

Funny review.

 

[Prison Mike]

Richard Roeper Reviews Green Lantern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4BeNjYXzFs

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"Nothing to feed a franchise, feels like a one and done effort"

"We haven't had a superhero movie for...days. But the drought is finally over!"

 

[JP]

Ouch ouch ouch!

 

[LadyVader]

"And wow, there are a lot of daddy issues in this movie. It's like six seasons of Lost in one two-hour movie. "

That would mean that by the time Hal fights Parallax everybody is actually already dead.

 

[Merkel]

All Snyder has ever done is cast amazingly. And not just names but amazingly.
Butler and Jakie E at the top of this list. Nolans casting outside of Heath is never inspired but always safe.(freeman, neeson, holmes, etc.)
but that's me.

I would say casting Gary Oldman as Gordon or Aaron Eckhart as Dent is really obvious casting. Not to mention Tom Hardy, which we've known for quite some time was cast in TDKR and yet almost no one guessed he would be playing Bane. Nolan doesn't really go for obvious casting, in my view, and always gets great results

 

[Octoberist]

Nolan's casting is a great mixture of left-field (Heath), up-and-commers (Tom, Cillian and Joseph) and glamour (Marion and Leo).

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

And crappy (Katie Holmes)

I'm sorry but I had to write that.

 

[cabel]

Did anyone else spot the copy and paste scene in this movie or was it only me?

Thank God. I thought i was just me.



I'll have my review up later.

 

[Octoberist]

And crappy (Katie Holmes)

I'm sorry but I had to write that.

no one's perfect!

 

[Denny67]

Richard Roeper Reviews Green Lantern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4BeNjYXzFs

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"Nothing to feed a franchise, feels like a one and done effort"

So basically Roper starts out with saying the very premise of GL is stupid to begin with and then just goes on to be dick for the sake of being a dick.

That was not a “movie review” it was an assassination attempt.

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

I loved that Hal had daddy issues about his dead father.


Because honestly...such a thing has never been done before!


Such a very original idea.

Well, in all fairness, everyone praises "The Dark Knight," and no one has bigger Daddy issues than Batman. You guys are making it seem like I'm praising the movie for it's originality, and I'm not. None of these stories are particularly original. Hal has always wanted to be just like his Dad so the movie really didn't do anything different in that vein, than what's been established in the books. I like the fact that he second guesses himself when he's given this "high honor" of wearing the ring. I mean, would you prefer that he gets the ring and says "yep, I'm the right guy for the job because I'm the s**t?" That's just as bad as what you're saying this is.

Just to clarify. I enjoyed the movie, but I still think the character deserves better. Is it the worst comic movie I've seen? Absolutely not. I'd leave that to Daredevil, X3, Wolverine and Spider-Man 3. I still hope they do a sequel and correct their mistakes. The franchise still has potential to be great.

 

[SatEL]

Thank God. I thought i was just me.



I'll have my review up later.

Glad to see I didn’t imagine it, you would think with a rumoured 300 million budget that something like that could be avoided.

 

[Raiden]

Richard Roeper Reviews Green Lantern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4BeNjYXzFs

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"Nothing to feed a franchise, feels like a one and done effort"

I respect both Roeper and Travers, and both of them dislike GL. I think I know where this movie is heading.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

So comic book wise, what other GL comics is the movie like aside from Emerald Dawn and Secret Origin?

Can someone please break it down for me? In what ways that is.

 

[Octoberist]

It just feels like if this version of Green Lantern was releases back in the early 2000's it would have been more accepted.

But for a movie like this to get released post- Dark Knight, Iron Man, Thor and X-Men FS? Not acceptable.

 

[Raiden]

Just to clarify. I enjoyed the movie, but I still think the character deserves better. Is it the worst comic movie I've seen? Absolutely not. I'd leave that to Daredevil, X3, Wolverine and Spider-Man 3. I still hope they do a sequel and correct their mistakes. The franchise still has potential to be great.

I take it you haven't seen Batman & Robin, Catwoman, and Steel then.

 

[dark_b]

now that i think about it WB should have made the most cliched story they could. ring goes to Hal. and Hal becomes the Corps messiah.he is the only one who can save the. he saves the whole universe. the scale would not be Earth epic but galaxy epic. where do you go for the sequel? who the f...... cares.

 

[Majmun]

So wait....Hal resigns from the Corps AND keeps the ring? WTF is WB/DC thinking? The writing just seems so horrible.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Everytime a poster says that Thor was a good movie my head explodes. To each his/her own though.

Anyway, Hal's Daddy issues were handled terribly.

Spoiler

He looks at picture of his father on the jet and crashes it because he has a terribly filmed flashback of his father exploding? God was the whole issue handled in the most inept way possible.

 

[dark_b]

i think the video review from Mark Kermode will be entertaining

 

[Marvin]

I would say casting Gary Oldman as Gordon or Aaron Eckhart as Dent is really obvious casting. Not to mention Tom Hardy, which we've known for quite some time was cast in TDKR and yet almost no one guessed he would be playing Bane. Nolan doesn't really go for obvious casting, in my view, and always gets great results

His oldman and hardy and heath are some of the few I'd celebrate as left field great choices. it kinda stops there.

nothing tops haley imo

 

[Octoberist]

So wait....Hal resigns from the Corps AND keeps the ring? WTF is WB/DC thinking? The writing just seems so horrible.

What they should have done was let Sinestro transport Hal back to earth. There you can get more development for their relationship during the trip back.

 

[LadyVader]

So wait....Hal resigns from the Corps AND keeps the ring? WTF is WB/DC thinking? The writing just seems so horrible.

I don't blame Hal for keeping the ring. heck, he's a human who just had first contact with a highly developed alien species. That ring is the most valuable thing on the planet right now and who knows how much mankind could benefit from it. Or could destroy itself with it but whatever. Let's be positive.

I blame the Corps and the Guardians for LETTING him keep the ****ing thing, unless that's exactly what they wanted.