The Official Green Lantern Review Thread

[I SEE SPIDEY]

There are early reviews of plenty of these films. It is strange that this movie's reviews aren't being let out of the gate right now when we had early reviews for Super8, X-Men First Class, Thor and even Fast Five, correct me if I'm wrong on that one.

If the reviews for this movie are decent when not lift the embargo?

 

[moviedoors]

my point is, its NOT unusual. if studios are comfortable with letting early reviews slide because they're getting a good response, thats cool. it happens, no doubt. but just because they dont lift the embargo early, doesnt mean the film isnt getting a good response. so far, everything to do with this embargo is entirely standard.

I disagree for a superhero flick. I can't remember the last time I had to wait this long for a single review this close to a big tent pole release. There's not even any AICN reviews yet. It's out of the ordinary.

 

[Bubonic]

I think its bs to expect this movie is going to be like DARK KNIGHT. It is going to be very similar to Spider-man. Count on it. Corny, fun, adventurous and AWESOME.

I'm happy that directors tackling superhero movies haven't all taken on the Nolan formula. I don't need serious movies, I just need movies that try to take themselves seriously.

 

[Willi Berg]

I disagree for a superhero flick. I can't remember the last time I had to wait this long for a single review this close to a big tent pole release. There's not even any AICN reviews yet. It's out of the ordinary.

Perhaps it mainly the power and influence of WB. Maybe they want to control every aspect of the marketing as much as possible (because of what GL means to them) and critics fear losing out if they break any of WB's rules.

 

[Bubonic]

Apart from Mr. Popper's Penguins the only other movie coming out on the 17th that doesn't yet have reviews is GL.

 

[Micromind]

Some people are getting biased and they are not going to watch it as the Black GL is now White.

tanisha03‎ Green Lantern was originally a black character and I will NOT be watching the movie. Hmph that is some crapola
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jay0him‎ all these years of watching justice league i thought green lantern was blak. but i guess its only his cartoon version. the real one is white
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[SuperDaniel]

mr Popper's Penguins looks like the WORST movie ever. It looks ridiculous and not funny at all. IDK wtf Jim Carey was thinking.

 

[The Morningstar]

YES! In fact, I think its quite the opposite. The studio has a lot of FAITH in this movie.

Don't kid yourself.

If they did have a lot of faith in this movie they wouldn't keep the embargo up until 2 days before release.

They'd do like all the other movies and allow reviews at least a week before, to show it off, build hype etc.

In short, if the reviews were good, there would be no embargo.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm happy that directors tackling superhero movies haven't all taken on the Nolan formula. I don't need serious movies, I just need movies that try to take themselves seriously.

Agreed. First Class wasn't following that forumla and to me it's a very silly and over the top film but I loved it because of the story and characters.

As for Thor, I wasn't lukewarm on it because it wasn't uber serious, I loved Spider-Man 1 and 2 after all, I was luke warm on it because I didn't think the comedy was amusing, I thought that the action scenes were awful, I didn't like the pacing and the movie looked and felt too small for it's own good. My ultimate problem with the movie is that I just couldn't get into the mythology of it all. I thought that the rainbow bridge and frost giants were too silly for my taste and I'm a very silly person.

Those are my two cents.

I love that GL looks silly and over the top but it has to be my kind of silly and over the top or I don't care for it. Hopefully I end up liking it.

 

[moviedoors]

Perhaps it mainly the power and influence of WB. Maybe they want to control every aspect of the marketing as much as possible (because of what GL means to them) and critics fear losing out if they break any of WB's rules.

Yeah, but don't you remember those two agonizing weeks of fantastic reviews before The Dark Knight came out? Again, I'm not trying to say what's going on exactly one way or the other, just that there is slight cause for concern when a studio showed such enormous faith in a previous property and are now playing this one so close to the chest. I hope that these minor suspicions are wrong, but I can't lie to myself and say there isn't the slightest twinge of worry in me now either (and I emphasis "slight"). There's a lot of reasons they need to be careful. It's a very risky property, but I can't totally discount the reticence being because of underwhelming critical response.

 

[kedrell]

Take some solace in the fact this same reviewer gave XFC 2/5.

That's hardly an unreasonable rating for XMFC. Sure, I personally rated it a bit higher but I could totally understand someone not liking the film based on all it's short comings.

 

[SuperDaniel]

Everything i`ve seen from Green Lantern makes me think im going to love it. I think Reynolds is hilarious and the clips they released so far were all great.

 

[Bubonic]

Hehe, I'm easier to please, I just getting so immersed in the Marvel Movie World it is great fun, I found the movie great but not great enough to see more than once.

The action scenes bugged me because they were edited too much, can hardly keep focus on one thing before they switched to the next, maybe it'll be better on blu-ray, less stuff cut out.

GL should be breathtaking, I do expect a lot out of a cosmic epic.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Good early reviews are never a bad thing and can get you some good press. Sometimes good early reviews don't help like in X-Men: First Class's case.

I remember Spider-Man 1 and 2 getting good early reviews, Batman Begins, TDK and other Superhero movies that ended up scoring well with the vast majority of critics. The more WB waits, the more I think that they believe that they have a crappy or medicore film.

 

[Willi Berg]

Yeah, but don't you remember those two agonizing weeks of fantastic reviews before The Dark Knight came out? Again, I'm not trying to say what's going on exactly one way or the other, just that there is slight cause for concern when a studio showed such enormous faith in a previous property and are now playing this one so close to the chest. I hope that these minor suspicions are wrong, but I can't lie to myself and say there isn't the slightest twinge of worry in me now either (and I emphasis "slight"). There's a lot of reasons they need to be careful. It's a very risky property, but I can't totally discount the reticence being because of underwhelming critical response.

True. Reviews give a lot of publicity for a movie but given the abundance of commercials for GL and the influx of tie-ins etc., it seems like WB are doing that all on their own. So they just market the movie their way, and don't look to need reviews to publicise it.

Dark Knight had a prestige element to it. GL just seems straight out commercial.

 

[HighFivingMF]

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Can we just close this until tomorrow when reviews start to show up? There's no sense arguing this when we're less than 24 hours away from getting reviews.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

TDK was yet another Superhero sequel that WB was looking to cash in on. Having the Joker in your film makes it pretty damn commercial.

They aren't letting the GL reviews out early because they obviously aren't as good as they wanted them to be. It's that simple. I'm not saying that they are the worse reviews ever but they certainly can't be good if they aren't allowing them to be released. Thor's reviews weren't fantastic, they were positive but not great and Marvel allowed early reviews to be published.

 

[SuperDaniel]

Good early reviews are never a bad thing and can get you some good press. Sometimes good early reviews don't help like in X-Men: First Class's case.

I remember Spider-Man 1 and 2 getting good early reviews, Batman Begins, TDK and other Superhero movies that ended up scoring well with the vast majority of critics. The more WB waits, the more I think that they believe that they have a crappy or medicore film.

You overreacting.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Nolan formula

What is that?

 

[Willi Berg]

TDK was yet another Superhero sequel that WB was looking to cash in on. Having the Joker in your film makes it pretty damn commercial.

They aren't letting the GL reviews out early because they obviously aren't as good as they wanted them to be. It's that simple. I'm not saying that they are the worse reviews ever but they certainly can't be good if they aren't allowing them to be released. Thor's reviews weren't fantastic, they were positive but not great and Marvel allowed early reviews to be published.

I am not saying that TDK wasn't commercial, but that the reviews did help its publicity because it is the kind of movie critics would love.

I don't think GL will be a critics' favourite i.e. WB aren't relying on reviews getting people to see it.

 

[Sam Fisher]

What is that?

Nolan makes a movie, and the fanboys bow at his feet.

 

[TheMadScientist]

They aren't letting the GL reviews out early because they obviously aren't as good as they wanted them to be. It's that simple.

Not exactly ... the reviewers had to swear to secrecy before they have written and before they have seen the movie, that´s what I heard .

 

[Bubonic]

What is that?

To me it is hyper realism applied to the unrealistic and a dark brooding atmosphere, nothing lighthearted about it, it takes itself very seriously and painstakingly makes everything as real as it can.

 

[moviedoors]

What is that?

Striving for greatness?

 

[SuperDaniel]

I think the big problem is that the movie is not going to have a global release because of the lack of 3D theaters, so for example, a big entertainment site called Omelete in Brazil always publishes some quick thoughts on a movie that is coming out and they wont this time, i believe, because of the August release.