The Official Green Lantern Review Thread - Part 3

[I SEE SPIDEY]

DC has such great characters, I can only hope that WB gives it's non Batman/Superman characters a chance even if GL fails at the boxoffice.

 

[The Batman]

They kinda have to make non Superman/Batman films, which is why im not that worried. GL might be put on the backburner, but WB will still try to have their Superhero franchises up and running.

 

[hame4479]

You thought the Guardians looked like s**t too!! I thought I was the only one who disliked their special effects.

Really bad, like looked like they would fit right in if they had been in star wars episode 1 bad. Some of the cg in this film just looked dated. Really wish ILM or Weta had been hired, it would have made a world of difference.

 

[KalMart]

A friend of mine who does a lot of technical advising for films just posted this in his blog:

Just got back from the movie theater.

Not since I was a kid...in the days of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, and E.T....(no age jokes, please)...have I left a theater with such a giddy and pure sense of satisfaction and gratitude. Even in the cluttered menagerie of computer-generated effects and mind-numbing action that dominates our current mainstream movie climate, it still pleasantly surprises me to find such a gem like what I just watched. From the story, to the performances, to the energy, and oh yeah...the amazing effects...this is the kind of movie that doesn't just appeal to the kids...it reminds us jaded and hardened adults just how much fun it was to be a kid...and how poignant it is to discover that that kid is still in all of us...with eyes wide open, legs bouncing, and an all but uncontrollable urge to shout out with glee.

This is a movie that reminds us that we can all still have fun, because fun is right there in front of us at every turn in our lives. So to all my devoted readers, if you trust but one thing I ever say...trust me on this....you owe it to yourself to see 'Super 8'.

 

[Chewy]

A friend of mine who does a lot of technical advising for films just posted this in his blog:

You had me for a sec

 

[RoughNTumble]

A friend of mine who does a lot of technical advising for films just posted this in his blog:

While I was reading that:

then I realized it was about super 8

still though, super 8 was largely forgettable

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Me too, hahaha

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Super 8 had a pretty messy script but I still perfered it over GL and Thor because of the direction and young actors.

I would have perfered if Abrams had directed GL over Super 8 though. He would have been good for something like this. Provided the script was actually decent.

 

[Doctor Jones]

As much as I think WB wants to get more franchises out there, they could very well do things like Flash, just use their money more wisely.

 

[KalMart]

You had me for a sec

heh.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Is it weird I automatically assumed it was about Super 8 and stopped reading after "Raiders of the Lost Ark" because it was posted by KalMart?

 

[EliteF50]

A friend of mine who does a lot of technical advising for films just posted this in his blog:

S8 was lame.

 

[FreeRadical]

As much as I think WB wants to get more franchises out there, they could very well do things like Flash, just use their money more wisely.

WB/DC should have started of with The Flash, to test the waters out, with a budget of around $100-120 million.

 

[Lestat74]

if anyone cares what this particular lifelong DC fanboy thinks, well... I posted a fairly lengthy rant here: http://www.geekscape.net/green-lantern-a-dc-comics-fanboy-s-movie-review.html

In short though...as someone who read (and loved) the original script, I felt it was butchered here. I loved the cast, but for the life of me can't understand the changes made. It felt like Fox made Green Lantern, not Warners.

 

[Milkman95]

As much as I think WB wants to get more franchises out there, they could very well do things like Flash, just use their money more wisely.

With Harry Potter gone, they will keep trying, and depending on the box office take this weekend, it's either a sequel or an Edward Norton/Henry Cavill/Amazing Spider-man re-boot a few years later...in the meantime, let's see The Flash or that Goyer film about Green Arrow that seemed interesting.

 

[drew643]

Why not just start the movie with Sinestro killing Abin Sur and then tell the backstory of Sinestro's fall from grace and then have him and Hal battle it out.I know its not completely accurate to comics but they wasted the money shot after the credits to set up a sequel that will never happen.Enjoyable but a huge wasted opportunity.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

if anyone cares what this particular lifelong DC fanboy thinks, well... I posted a fairly lengthy rant here: http://www.geekscape.net/green-lantern-a-dc-comics-fanboy-s-movie-review.html

In short though...as someone who read (and loved) the original script, I felt it was butchered here. I loved the cast, but for the life of me can't understand the changes made. It felt like Fox made Green Lantern, not Warners.

Warner's made Catwoman, Jonah Hex and Batman & Robin they are far from a perfect film company when it comes to comicbook films despite TDK's existance. I still perfer their (non-comicbook) films to any other studio out there but they have made some real clunkers.

 

[Milkman95]

S8 was lame.

I wouldn't go that far, but I wasn't as impressed as other people were. Yes, I loved the characters, going back to The Goonies and E.T., but something about it still didn't have that "magic" about it.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

This sums up my thoughts on the movie. Not my review, but the one I agree with. Not a masterpiece, but definitely not trash like its made out to be. Basically a fun, corny movie.


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[Tron5000]

I gotta seriously ask this, why are some fans ok with a poor first film?

I gotta seriously ask this, why are some people unaware that "poor" is subjective?

 

[HighFivingMF]

I gotta seriously ask this, why are some people unaware that "poor" is subjective?

I gotta seriously ask this, I agree.

 

[nocomics]

I just got back from Green Lantern...here are my thoughts (spoilers):

I think this movie is getting too much hate to an extent, but the story is VERY flawed. This is a 2 star script somewhat saved by visual aspects. The characters are very shallow. Hal is the only character with really any depth. Tim Robbins was useless. Hector Hammond was whiny and useless, though he had potential to serve as an effective mirror for Hal. But, in the end, Hammond is tossed aside like a punk and we get no payoff. The mirror aspect is shallow. Blake Lively does very little but bat her eyes and pine for Hal. She was useless. Parallax was defeated far too easily for my taste and I didn't like the design. Killowog does nothing. Tomar Rae does nothing but narrate. Sinestro was well acted, but he had no arc. He sees the power of fear, but the power of fear was defeated by a single Lantern. He showed respect for Hal and seemed to realize how right he was in fighting fear. Then, he takes the yellow ring anyway? Makes no sense.

The visuals were good enough to elevate the film a bit over the script. But, the story had many problems.

3/5 based on enjoyment...but rating it objectively, prob a 2/5

Nailed it I think. I'm not a huge GL fan so I don't know much about his enemies or much else really,but ya you would hope the end fight would be more brutal or not appear so easy of a battle. I thought Ryan Reynolds would be somewhat annoying,but he actually did an okay job with his role.
There just wasnt alot of character development besides Hal and I thought they could of done a little more,but it is what it is.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I gotta seriously ask this, why are some people unaware that "poor" is subjective?

Cause the critics said so, Duh.

 

[Marvin]

if you're going to praise RDJ for playing himself, you may as well be fair and do the same for Reynolds. I don't read Hal Jordan GL but many people are saying this is how Hal is supposed to be...

 

[S.A.A.D.]

I basically just came back from seeing it, and enjoyed it alot. However it's not without it's share of flaws. If the acting wasn't so consistently good in my opinion then I would have thought that the movie was decent overall. I give the movie a 8/10. I would bump the mark up more if it was even more faithful and if it had focused on the cosmic side some more, I sincerely don't understand the hate for the movie, not one bit. At all. By the way, the movie reminds me of Superman, and I like that. It's weird considering how I'm not much of a fan of Superman or his movies. Actually, in my case it's because of the fact that Superman was the first major comic book movie that got the theatrical treatment.