The Official Green Lantern Review Thread

[I SEE SPIDEY]

"it ain't Citizen Kane!" is another one.

Yes, thats another awful one.

Glad to see this discussion going on without people tearing into each other and whatnot. Hopefully it stays that way.



Pretty much what I'm looking for in a nutshell.

I like non nasty disagreements. It's what makes the boards go round.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

No he doesn't. I hate this thought policing on the internet. I've actually been trying to remove those kinds of useless qualifiers. They're not necessary. It's implied that what anyone says is their opinion and stuffing your writing with "IMO's" and "to me's" and "I think's" is bloated writing.

I agree with you completely.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The 'it's not suppose to be oscar worthy' comment is the single biggest excuse there is in justifying a poor film. There's nothing wrong with having standards, fans should have standards and are within their right to expect 100% effort put into a character/franchise they love.

Exactly, it a huge lazy excuse that I've read countless times.

And film fans should especially have standards.

 

[SuperDaniel]

I have standards and so far they were met. And even surpassed.

I mean, just watch that Tomar-Re clip! It is perfect GL mythology right there!

 

[GreenLantern1]

I heard its not good from someone I expected to love it.......****

 

[Quasimod0]

"Hal is a pale imitation of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark". Ouch.

 

[solidsnake86]

No he doesn't. I hate this thought policing on the internet. I've actually been trying to remove those kinds of useless qualifiers. They're not necessary. It's implied that what anyone says is their opinion and stuffing your writing with "IMO's" and "to me's" and "I think's" is bloated writing.

Its not thought policing. Comments can be miscontrued in a lot of ways because your reading them on the internet and the tone of a comment can be read in a lot of different ways and have different meanings to different people. Especially on this message board where people tend to think that their comments are fact, filled with hyperbole, and make sweeping generalizations.

 

[Avengers-Report]

Oh man if GL tanks WB is going to give up on everything but Batman lol

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

My standards can't be met by a movie I've never seen before. Believe me i'm going to walk into GL hoping for the best but if I don't like it I'm not going to pretend that I do.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Its not thought policing. Comments can be miscontrued in a lot of ways because your reading them on the internet and the tone of a comment can be read in a lot of different ways and have different meanings to different people. Especially on this message board where people tend to think that their comments are fact, filled with hyperbole, and make sweeping generalizations.

No. I'm sure most perfectly know they are expressing an opinion. You don't have to write "imo" to comprehend that any ideas you express that is not a factual statistic is opinion.

 

[moviedoors]

Its not thought policing. Comments can be miscontrued in a lot of ways because your reading them on the internet and the tone of a comment can be read in a lot of different ways and have different meanings to different people. Especially on this message board where people tend to think that their comments are fact, filled with hyperbole, and make sweeping generalizations.

That's great but, read what any serious writer has to say on the subject, or, say, Strunk and White. Those types of phrasings are just poor writing.

And no one ever demands that people qualify their opinions when said opinions are positive. It only happens when people express an idea that someone doesn't agree with. "Thought policing" is hyperbolic, but an apt metaphor.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Oh man if GL tanks WB is going to give up on everything but Batman lol

Movies have succeeded without having great reviews.

 

[Solidus]

Movies have succeeded without having great reviews.

You mean Transformers did not win best picture?

I will still go see this film, I'm hoping I will be entertained. It will be interesting though to see how it plays out, and how it does BO wise.

 

[solidsnake86]

That's great but, read what any serious writer has to say on the subject, or, say, Strunk and White. Those types of phrasings are just poor writing.

And no one ever demands that people qualify their opinions when said opinions are positive. It only happens when people express an idea that someone doesn't agree with. "Thought policing" is hyperbolic, but an apt metaphor.

Thats fine, but in legal writing you have to be very clear and specific because things can be interpreted very differently. He clearly said, Reynolds wasn't a likeable person. When you are speaking about a movie I couldnt care less but when you are talking about a person who actually exists you should be clear. Sorry but things like that require a higher standard of writing, regardless if this is a message board.

 

[EliteF50]

Movies have succeeded without having great reviews.

Yeah, but WB is a picky bunch. SR had a 72 on Metacritic, made almost $400 million and it was still rebooted.

 

[PumpkinBombxXx]

The original tron, Donnie Darko, Dark City. Just some movies that have grown in popularity over the years that got hit hard by bad reviews. Hell even Star Trek got canceled and now look at it. Im sure Green Lantern will do fine. Its so different then anything anyone has seen b4. Not to mention when was the last time a superhero in a movie saved the world. Um never
Fantastic Four 2 doesnt count.

 

[moviedoors]

Thats fine, but in legal writing you have to be very clear and specific because things can be interpreted very differently. He clearly said, Reynolds wasn't a likeable person. When you are speaking about a movie I couldnt care less but when you are talking about a person who actually exists you should be clear. Sorry but things like that require a higher standard of writing, regardless if this is a message board.

Hey, if you're having trouble seeing that that was his opinion, that's your problem. It was perfectly clear to me.

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Yeah, but WB is a picky bunch. SR had a 72 on Metacritic, made almost $400 million and it was still rebooted.

They were expecting Spider-Man level numbers.

It wouldn't surprise me if they are expecting the same of GL, explains the 300 Million investment.

IMO they're setting themselves up for disappointment.

 

[RoughNTumble]

I just hope it makes enough money that we see green lantern 2 with more lantern corps, flash, and wonder woman

that's all I care about

 

[moviedoors]

The original tron, Donnie Darko, Dark City. Just some movies that have grown in popularity over the years that got hit hard by bad reviews. Hell even Star Trek got canceled and now look at it. Im sure Green Lantern will do fine. Its so different then anything anyone has seen b4. Not to mention when was the last time a superhero in a movie saved the world. Um never

Dark City got mostly good to downright glowing reviews (Roger Ebert was out-of-his-mind in love with it) when it came out. The public just didn't care.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

You mean Transformers did not win best picture?

I will still go see this film, I'm hoping I will be entertained. It will be interesting though to see how it plays out, and how it does BO wise.

I also like seeing how the recpetion of a film and it's boxoffice plays out.

And ofcourse I meant Transformers and the Twilight films too.

Yeah, but WB is a picky bunch. SR had a 72 on Metacritic, made almost $400 million and it was still rebooted.

Yeah but alot of normal moviegoers were meh on what was very expensive film and Singer decided that he wanted to do Valkrie instead and I'm pretty sure that another director didn't want to follow up some of the nonesense plots in the film so...reboot here we come.

 

[solidsnake86]

Hey, if you're having trouble seeing that that was his opinion, that's your problem. It was perfectly clear to me.

It was clear to me, doesn't mean it was clear to everyone else. Not everyone who comes to this board is an english major, is an adult, or in a country where english is their first language.

 

[The Sage]

Thats fine, but in legal writing you have to be very clear and specific because things can be interpreted very differently. He clearly said, Reynolds wasn't a likeable person. When you are speaking about a movie I couldnt care less but when you are talking about a person who actually exists you should be clear. Sorry but things like that require a higher standard of writing, regardless if this is a message board.

Not everyone's going to be that clear, especially on a message board with people of different backgrounds and culture.

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

I just hope it makes enough money that we see green lantern 2 with more lantern corps, flash, and wonder woman

that's all I care about

If it fails, they'll probably reboot and try again sometime down the line.

Flash would probably get screwed in the process. I don't think WW has much of a shot at a movie regardless of how good or bad GL does.

 

[DieSmiling]

I agree, but you know how it is here, a few bad reviews leads to people doubting, which leads to people unable to form their own opinions, which in turn leads to labeling it the worst movie ever. Sad thing is it seems like its a good movie.

I completely agree. Such thinking has led to plenty of quality films being labeled unfairly as horrible.

Everything is either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever when it comes to comic book movies.

I'm optimistic with this film, and expecting lukewarm reviews. Frankly, unless overwhelmingly negative reviews just pour in, I couldn't care less. I think it looks awesome.