The Official Green Lantern Review Thread - Part 3

[J.Howlett]

Sinestro never said he wasn't the greatest Green Lantern at the end of the film.

 

[J.Howlett]

Hal didn't outsmart the rest of the Lanterns. All he did was give a **** about his home. The Guardians were going to sacrifice Earth and wait for Parallax to come to Oa so they could fight fear with fear.

When the other Lanterns attacked Parallax, they were just unprepared. It's really as simple as that.

Hal's exploits prove to the Guardians that will power is still the best way over fear.

 

[Godman]

I thought Thor's Earth scenes were good. Because they had genuine emotion and actually made sense to the story.

Green Lantern has nothing that even comes close to the scene where Loki visits Thor when he's in the SHIELD facility.

yall are acting as if thor wasnt mediocre SMH...that scene with Loki was meh, nothing special. Lantern training and Oua or whatever the planet is called was better than anything in Thor

 

[TheFuture]

Sinestro never said he wasn't the greatest Green Lantern at the end of the film.

If I recollect correctly he just said Hal was a part of GL legend now, not that he was the greatest GL.

 

[Godman]

Hal didn't outsmart the rest of the Lanterns. All he did was give a **** about his home. The Guardians were going to sacrifice Earth and wait for Parallax to come to Oa so they could fight fear with fear.

When the other Lanterns attacked Parallax, they were just unprepared. It's really as simple as that.

Hal's exploits prove to the Guardians that will power is still the best way over fear.

and after all these centuries these so called GUARDIANS didnt figure that? they lost one to Fear so why would they dare even consider the notion based on how the movie played it out?! its so stupid

 

[The Morningstar]

yall are acting as if thor wasnt mediocre SMH...that scene with Loki was meh, nothing special. Lantern training and Oua or whatever the planet is called was better than anything in Thor

How was it meh? It was emotionally powerful, Green Lantern has NOTHING, literally nothing that is emotionally resonant. Loki just told Thor that his *****e bag behaviour has caused his father to die. It was superb acting from both Hemsworth and Hiddleston.

Nothing in Green Lantern was better than Thor. The Oa scenes looked cool, but that's it. The characters were too flat and the story was too crap to care about how the movie looked.

 

[chiefchirpa]

This is simply not going to cut it with a B-List superhero. The reason why Marvel had success with Iron Man and Thor was because they played up to the strengths of the character and presented a unique take on the genre that we hadn't seen before.

Tony Stark was an egotistical yet endearing wanker, something we had never seen in the genre. Thor was at times buffoonish, aloof and arrogant. Yet at the same time, he had this great honourable and sincere charm, which again, was a pretty unique take on the genre.

And Steve Rogers will be the quick thinking idealistic boy scout who tends to get lost on the unseen pragmatic picture. All unique takes for each character. But Marvel have these nuanced personalities all along as they are defined even in comics form.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Hal took something that Kilowag said and tested it. It happened to work in his favor. Just because you are a rookie doesnt mean you cant be smarter sometimes then the professionals. They are used to doing things a certain way and sometimes you need someone new to see things a different way. And the other Lanterns werent near the sun were they? They tried taking him full force head on which didnt work. Its not that unrealistic. And I am just talking about Hals take down of parallax not anything afterwards. he should get praise for thinking outside the box, saying he is the greatest lantern yet? no.

But they also showed us that Hal takes risks which we saw at the very beginning, and the sun was just another risk that Hal took. He knew he may not live but he took it anyway and luck was on his side. Not that hard to see.

 

[J.Howlett]

Godman,

It's a simple case of uncertainty on the Guardians part on how to fight Parallax. They honestly didn't think the power of will would be enough.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Even in the comics The Guardians goof up enough. So it is nothing new in the movie that they doubted will power. And Sinestro isnt lost yet.

 

[Godman]

No way in hell Green Lantern is as tightly written as the first X-Men. No way in hell.

And i wasn't impressed with the CGI or the action scenes. Well ok, Oa looked awesome. But that's because the whole thing was CGI, so there is no point of reference to telling what is real and what isn't, because it's all fake.

But whenever there was CGI on Earth, Hal's suits, the constructs, it looked like crap. And Hammond's use of telekinesis was laughable. You could just tell the objects he was throwing around with his mind were not real and had no weight or tangibility.

And i've said a million times before... action scenes, no matter how well shot and choreographed, don't mean **** if you don't care about the characters or the story. That's exactly what happened here. The characters were so flat, the story was so utterly terrible... why should i be impressed by the action scenes?

they might as well have shot the enitire movie green screened like 300 and majority of watchmen even earth scenes just to get the entire film to have a constistant "CG is ok" feel. Hal was only cool in the suit away from earth. Almost everything earth oriented was Garbage and i could have done with him never going back to earth for the rest of the movie once he got transported away

He really didnt need a love interest. it felt cliche and put in for the sake of hollywood thinking EVERY movie needs that damsel in distress. When the **** will they break away from that tedious formula?

 

[J.Howlett]

Godman,

Who knows when they'll break that cliche...even though it was nice to look at Blake Lively.

I thought she was fine but yeah, it's a cliche that's got to go. But, I understand Hollywood's position. They don't want to exclude women from seeing something like this so their answer to to put a woman in this film.

Now, having said even that, you have to blame the comic too. I mean, isn't Carol Ferris apart of the Hal Jordan lore? Hollywood's only really following the comic's template.

 

[Sith Scotti]

Thors eath's scenes revolved around Natalie Portman Green Lantern's is Blake lively.


DC/WB needs to take casting the female leads damn more serious


Marvel has cast the likes Natalie Portman & Gwyneth Paltrow in its films . WB/DC is stuck in cw land with Blake Livey , Kate Bosworth & Katie Holmes ( now all be Batman Begins was excellent but she was the weak link.)

Can we get a decent actress in a dc film that ain't Batman

 

[The Morningstar]

they might as well have shot the enitire movie green screened like 300 and majority of watchmen even earth scenes just to get the entire film to have a constistant "CG is ok" feel. Hal was only cool in the suit away from earth. Almost everything earth oriented was Garbage and i could have done with him never going back to earth for the rest of the movie once he got transported away

He really didnt need a love interest. it felt cliche and put in for the sake of hollywood thinking EVERY movie needs that damsel in distress. When the **** will they break away from that tedious formula?

Unfortunately, they won't move away from that formula until audiences vote with their wallets.

I really hate to say this, because i want to see more DC movies, but i hope this movie bombs. It deserves to.

 

[Godman]

Godman,

It's a simple case of uncertainty on the Guardians part on how to fight Parallax. They honestly didn't think the power of will would be enough.

That was a bad move on the script writing as they had not developed the greatness of the guardians yet for them to show their weakness that soon into the movie. Makes it feel that they are incompetent.

Sinestro asks "have you lost faith in us.......we will restore it" then the guardians nod yes. STUPID WRITING!!!!!! We never even got a reason to feel the guardians have ever doubted the lanterns as sinestro stated they had NEVER lost to anyone and it only took one of them to imprison parallax the first time so they proved they were more than capable so at what point in timeline did the lanterns give the guardians EVER a reason to lose faith in WILL POWER? it hadnt failed them yet...smh.

in fact the lanterns were only unprepared because the guardians kept it a secret for so long and finally when they decided to speak they were vague. it really gave them a bad look to the audience which made me despise them. hell, they were willing to sacrifice earth...smh. it seems they had absolutely NO faith AT ALL in **** and went straight for the FEAR suggestion...smh. silly writing

 

[Primal Slayer]

Godman,

Who knows when they'll break that cliche...even though it was nice to look at Blake Lively.

I thought she was fine but yeah, it's a cliche that's got to go. But, I understand Hollywood's position. They don't want to exclude women from seeing something like this so their answer to to put a woman in this film.

Now, having said even that, you have to blame the comic too. I mean, isn't Carol Ferris apart of the Hal Jordan lore? Hollywood's only really following the comic's template.

I think they just need to find a better way to incorprate them into the films and it doesnt always have to end in romance. But with Carol atleast they needed to establish her closeness to Hal if they ever intended to introduce the star sapphires and her becoming one.

 

[J.Howlett]

Morningstar,

Captain America deserves to bomb.

What sense does it make to have this film bomb....or any other film?

You act as if this film personally insulted you.

 

[Godman]

Unfortunately, they won't move away from that formula until audiences vote with their wallets.

I really hate to say this, because i want to see more DC movies, but i hope this movie bombs. It deserves to.

me too...but the studios havent given the audience a chance with a smaller budget and a workable hero to give us a world where LOVE between a man and a woman has to be an excuse for the hero to do ****. There can be a woman in the plot, but it doesnt need to be blatant...smh. They really didnt need her to be his lover in this movie. She could have just been a good friend with hints of it like Batman begins all the way till the end or even in a sequel they could bring that about

 

[Primal Slayer]

That was a bad move on the script writing as they had not developed the greatness of the guardians yet for them to show their weakness that soon into the movie. Makes it feel that they are incompetent.

Sinestro asks "have you lost faith in us.......we will restore it" then the guardians nod yes. STUPID WRITING!!!!!! We never even got a reason to feel the guardians have ever doubted the lanterns as sinestro stated they had NEVER lost to anyone and it only took one of them to imprison parallax the first time so they proved they were more than capable so at what point in timeline did the lanterns give the guardians EVER a reason to lose faith in WILL POWER? it hadnt failed them yet...smh.

in fact the lanterns were only unprepared because the guardians kept it a secret for so long and finally when they decided to speak they were vague. it really gave them a bad look to the audience which made me despise them. hell, they were willing to sacrifice earth...smh. it seems they had absolutely NO faith AT ALL in **** and went straight for the FEAR suggestion...smh. silly writing

See I can basically agree with that. But Hals execution of Parallax made sense.

 

[Godman]

Morningstar,

Captain America deserves to bomb.

What sense does it make to have this film bomb....or any other film?

You act as if this film personally insulted you.

This film needs to bomb so they start taking the movie serious and understand that that Batman Forever LAZY film making formula should have died with the 90s. Thank you Nolan for showing us people want oscar worthy comic book adaptations and even tho The Dark Knight wasnt in the runs, many thought it was robbed royally


and whats most annoying is Green lantern wasnt a shallow movie as far as explaining that world when the chance came. it was so cool how the suit was explained, even the mask, the power of creativity could have been the focal point and the nephew could have been used far more for that development. I LOVED the sci fi elements when they presented themselves but thats all i loved. everything else ruined the movie

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

Imo, Hal and Carol's relation ship was awkward and forced. It just seemed like forced chemistry. Not trying to bring other movies into this, but since several had mentioned Thor, I felt that Jane and Thor's relationship had more chemistry. Unlikely that they fall for each other in a day? That can be said, but the relationship between the two people just worked better than in GL.

 

[The Morningstar]

Morningstar,

Captain America deserves to bomb.

What sense does it make to have this film bomb....or any other film?

You act as if this film personally insulted you.

It deserves to bomb because all crap movies deserve to bomb.

If this movie is a success it will just prove to WB that making a quality product doesn't matter. Which will lead to bad things for other DC movies.

In short, i'd prefer to never see a Flash movie if it's going to be of the same quality as this movie.

 

[J.Howlett]

Godman,

You honestly think that Martin Campbell didn't want this film to be great...or that WB didn't want this film to be great?

I wanted Iron Man 2 to be great and I'm sure Favreau did too but ultimately, it's a **** film, in comparison to the first one.

That doesn't mean they didn't try.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

9/10 people defending this movie, and acting as if their opinion outweighs everyone else's has a DC movie related icon. Lulz.

 

[The Morningstar]

I think they tried. Then I think they realised they had a stinker on their hands. So then the marketing went into overdrive, they changed the tone of the second and third trailers and they had a longer than usual embargo.