The Official Green Lantern Review Thread - Part 3

[Sith Scotti]

Super Daniel stop talking as if there will be a sequel . There will not be after this flop[s . Best you can hope for is reboot 6 years down the road

 

[SuperDaniel]

Peter Travers, of Rolling Stone, calls this "Comic Book Movie Hell" and begs us to "Please, please, Please" not see this. Pretty hilarious review:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/...een-lantern-is-comic-book-movie-hell-20110616

That is just ridiculous. Its nowhere as bad as the critics are saying. Maybe people cannot grasp the GL mythology and character.

 

[Denny67]

Went to the midnight show last night. It's a fun popcorn flick, which was what I was expecting. It was kind ashort, and I didnt think Blake and Ryan had any chemistry, which was not due to her age seeing how as to me she looks older than he does facially.

It's better than the F4 movies IMO, but so far to me First Class id the best of the comic films.

As for the after credits scene it was cool to see. Also glad I didnt have to wait like 15 minutes to see it. I probably wont go to see it again at theaters, but I'll buy the dvd.

Strong was the best performance in the movie.

I agree with like 95% if this. I'm going to see it again though. I would like to check out the 2D version with my wife & kids this time.

 

[Tron5000]

Went to the midnight show last night. It's a fun popcorn flick, which was what I was expecting. It was kind ashort, and I didnt think Blake and Ryan had any chemistry, which was not due to her age seeing how as to me she looks older than he does facially.

It's better than the F4 movies IMO, but so far to me First Class id the best of the comic films.

As for the after credits scene it was cool to see. Also glad I didnt have to wait like 15 minutes to see it. I probably wont go to see it again at theaters, but I'll buy the dvd.

Strong was the best performance in the movie.

Word. Agreed on most points, though I can't corroborate your comparison to First Class as I have yet to see that one. And I want a lot more Mark Strong in GL2.

 

[SuperDaniel]

Super Daniel stop talking as if there will be a sequel . There will not be after this flop[s . Best you can hope for is reboot 6 years down the road

Stop talking as if there will NOT be a sequel...

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

No one knows if a sequel will come because we don't have any numbers yet.

 

[FreeRadical]

Why would WB stop at just copying other studio's superhero films...

touché

 

[LostSon88]

Maybe people cannot grasp the GL mythology and character.

Maybe they would have if it wasn't so poorly represented on the big screen.

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

It had pretty good midnight numbers. It needs to have a 60M dollar opening. I don't think it'll get it but it really needs it.

 

[Primal Slayer]

And this is shown?

No they just tell us.

And I like how people seem to forget that Transformers wasnt great and T2 was even worse and still did great numbers. GL has every possibility of doing good at the box office.

 

[FreeRadical]

That is just ridiculous. Its nowhere as bad as the critics are saying. Maybe people cannot grasp the GL mythology and character.

If people can't grasp GL mythology = sequel looks unlikely, depends on the box office.

 

[Shawn Wayne]

It was clear to me from the first trailer that this flick would blow but it will be the box office results, not the critics, that will determine if there will be a sequel. Won't know till sun...

 

[Lobo]

No one knows if a sequel will come because we don't have any numbers yet.

Thank you. I mean if GR can get a sequel I see no reason Green Lantern cannot.

 

[Shawn Wayne]

It had pretty good midnight numbers. It needs to have a 60M dollar opening. I don't think it'll get it but it really needs it.

What were the numbers?

 

[SentinelMind]

Thank you. I mean if GR can get a sequel I see no reason Green Lantern cannot.

IT depends what budget was spent on the first respective movies. GL would seem to require a pretty expensive budget to be done properly, which makes the film riskier. Furthermore, how long has talk of a Ghost Rider sequel been out?

 

[Milkman95]

That is just ridiculous. Its nowhere as bad as the critics are saying. Maybe people cannot grasp the GL mythology and character.

It does seem GL is getting treated unfairly by critics, because there is no way this film is worse than Elektra, both Punisher Films, X3, Wolverine, Blade Trinity, Ghost Rider, DD, Catwoman, and both FF films.

 

[SuperDaniel]

It does seem GL is getting treated unfairly by critics, because there is no way this film is worse than Elektra, both Punisher Films, X3, Wolverine, Blade Trinity, Ghost Rider, DD, Catwoman, and both FF films.

exactly

 

[Denny67]

Super Daniel stop talking as if there will be a sequel . There will not be after this flop[s . Best you can hope for is reboot 6 years down the road

GL was a fun movie. Too many sheeple are getting too wrapped up in what the reviews are saying. Does the movie have flaws? Yeah, but it is far better than any of the X-films (save First Class), Daredevil, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Punusher(s), F4(s), and a hist if other comic films. They all got or are slated for sequels or re-imaginings.

You're trippin if you think they are not making a sequel to this. For Christ sakes, they are making a sequel to G.I.-flippin-Joe and that was a complete turd. And how many bad Batman movies were cranked out?

Green Lantern 2 is coming; you can bank on it. And after that end credit scene, I can't wait to see it.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I don't know what GL is going to do on it's first full friday but I'm betting 20ish million at worst. Calling the movie a bomb before even the early friday estimates is silly.

I'm not saying that the movie is going to be a hit but it certainly isn't a failure yet. For all anyone knows it could do 35mil today. (unlikely ofcourse) We just don't know so we shouldn't pretend that we do.

I remember people thinking that the decently review TIH would open to huge numbers and it didn't or the well reviewed First Class would open huge and it didn't. Bad reviews could hurt this movie and it could not hurt this film, unfortunately we will just have to wait it out.

 

[Steyin]

I'm reposting mine:

I saw the midnight show last night, so here is my review:

First, let me start off by saying that I don't really get all the hooplah from the negative reviews. I think a lot of them really nitpicked things that didn't need to be, but some did make valid points.

To get the technical stuff out of the way, the CGI was pretty good, so it seems Sony has really stepped up their game on this one. The visuals were great, and in fact I have more complaints about the practical stunt work than the CGI (mainly the helicopter scene). The score, of which I listened to in full two days prior, was enjoyable. I liked it better along with the film than I did by itself. Its not the greatest, but it fit well with the film.

As for acting, the worst jobs here are by Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins. Ryan Reynolds was just fine; I don't really see the Van Wilder or whatnot comparisons. Blake Lively was also good and had the right emotional balance when it was called for. I remember one review pegged Abin Sur as "cocky", but in no way is that ever evident. Temuera was fine with what little scenes he had.

I'm still not comfortable with MCD as Kilowog, but Geoffrey Rush was perfect for Tomar Re. Mark Strong makes a great Sinestro, and I wish he had more scenes. Skarsgaard as Hammond was great also, and perhaps a little underutilized.

As for the tone of the film, it struck the right balance of humor, action and emotion that was quite enjoyable. The thing that hurts the film really is the editing; we jump from space to earth, scene to scene just a tad too quickly. There are a good number of plot elements going on, so I understand how it could be confusing or irritating to people and the critics. However I was able to follow just fine and felt ok with the pacing. The movie definitely should have been about 15 minutes longer (it seems a good number of scenes were cut/edited down).

Aside from this the biggest upset of the film is really the lack of focus of Oa, the corps and development of Sinestro. However, seeing as how this is Hal's film, I can perfectly understand not concentrating on other corps members at this time. The buildup with Sinestro could have been more fleshed out, but I think given the after credits scene, a sequel has plenty of room to do all of this. We don't need to be on earth for long, hell even at all for a sequel, and this is where I think GL can really shine. Should it have happened more so in this film? Sure, of course there could have been more in space, but it didn't seem necessary for the plot. From a purely marketing standpoint yes, but I digress.

For a sequel, if it happens (which I sure hope it does given how much I enjoyed the film), the after credits scene becomes null

Spoiler

if it is used in the middle of it. The beginning could easily build upon Sinestro and his frustrations with the Guardians and "rivalry" with Hal, then in the middle he turns. I view the after credits scene as a set up to what will happen, not what has just transpired after the first film.

It's a pretty simple set up if done in a sort of non linear fashion.

All in all, I loved the visuals, acting was good, tone was right, and there were slight things that needed elaboration, but it can be easily made up for/focused on in a sequel. I know a lot of people will argue that the sequel shouldn't be needed to do such, but to focus on so much, more so than what already was in the film, would have been absolutely terrible.

Now, if you ask me to compare this to say Iron Man, Thor and First Class, I'd say its right in the middle/second for me. Thor was great, but I enjoyed GL a bit more. FC was also good, but it suffered from a rushed second half, and to me it was because it went from originally being intended as a Magneto film to FC, and I would have much preferred a Magneto film (which I think would have been a lot stronger in the end.) Its nearly equal to IM, but with IM edging it out slightly more as film, but GL beating it as an experience and being more enjoyable.

8/10 from me.

 

[Scandalous]

Best superhero TV movie I've ever seen.

 

[jmc]

It had pretty good midnight numbers. It needs to have a 60M dollar opening. I don't think it'll get it but it really needs it.

Relative to the budget it needs way more than $60 million because over half of the world wide release don't happen for 4 weeks. It's not gonna do it, this film is destined to fail or at best severely under perform.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I just dont see how Geoff Johns adivising on the film helped which is surprising since he does great on the comic.

 

[jmc]

That deadline article that was posted was an interesting read, John sounds like he's got something to answer for.

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Super Daniel stop talking as if there will be a sequel . There will not be after this flop[s . Best you can hope for is reboot 6 years down the road

Probably much longer than that.


The failure of this film could bury the non-Nolan DC properties.


This could be the end of the road if this think is the colossal box office poison we're expecting.

That deadline article that was posted was an interesting read, John sounds like he's got something to answer for.

Indeed.