The Official Green Lantern Review Thread

[Mac_Hine]

I thought Your Highness was freaking hilarious and a good movie and it has a 25% RT Score. So I don't care what it scores. I'm seeing this sucker.

 

[mace1]

The lack of reviews is very telling. I'm sorry guys but I'm off of the GL train, I'm not expecting a good movie now.

I'll still probably see it but I'm expecting it to be mediocre or bad.

Have patience,if really want to see a film you should not wait for a review.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

You are correct about the fanboy effect Bubonic.

Listen I hope that my new found leeriness is wrong and I walk out of the movie enjoying it. I don't wish for movies to be bad...ever.

And Mace, I said that I'm more likely than not seeing the film. I said that I wasn't going to see Thor and First Class and I saw them. I almost always go to see these Superhero films.

 

[Willi Berg]

Anyone else annoyed by the fanboy paranoia surrounding this film?

I think of movies like the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels- they never got good reviews, but did well. They're blockbusters, full of spectacle. Even when I don't like certain aspects I find something to enjoy about those movies.

There's a lot of doom and gloom and worry for this movie since it's the first one out. I pretty much know what to expect. I know that it's not going to be perfect and that it will have a lot of critics. But that isn't stopping me from really looking forward to it nor do I think it'll be a bad movie.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Can't wait to watch this trainwreck. Apparently WB put an embargo on reviews. Movie must be a complete turd.

 

[Micromind]

From Twitter -

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Ryan Reynolds is the only reason to watch Green Lantern. The movie was not bad at all. If you're going to see it, finish the credits

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[The Batman]

Well that is reasonable enough.
I just feel that fans unjustly feel the need to blindly support movies based on their favourite characters, as if they owed it to the studio and themselves.

Very few of us are blindly supporting anything. Its just that people are getting whiny over...basically nothing, when what little reactions we've seen of the flick so far have been positive to mixed. People are getting hot and bothered cause there havent been a ton of reviews yet.

 

[SuperDaniel]

I don't think that Time Out review is as bad as people are making it sound.

The reviewer doesn't like the Earth scenes, the human drama, and wanted to see more of the GL action in space.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Earth stuff isn't as exciting, or the human drama element doesn't work as well. That could be something that needs to be worked on for a sequel, or we may be done with that and it goes straight into the space stuff with Sinestro and Carol/Star Sapphire the next time.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Carol Ferris character isn't very drawn out in the movie, and if Hector Hammond is considered too odd to those unfamiliar with the comics. As a fan, I'll probably enjoy those aspects more.

I am not expecting the drama to be as successful as what Nolan did with Batman, because he really took all that very seriously and focused on that. GL has a lot to do and certain aspects may be given short shrift.

I dont think Green Lantern is as emotional complex as Batman so the movies will be very different. This is going to be much more in tone of the first Spider-man. It's an origin movie and im sure it is going to be very similar to Secret Origins just by what I know from the movie and having read the script. The complex stuff happens AFTER the origin. Sinestro turning evil, other green lanterns, destruction of Coast City, etc...

Dont expect something like Dark Knight cause it wont be. The only movie that can be as good as Dark Knight is a Superman movie, imo.

People in this board are overreacting. I dont give a **** about what other people think of any movie. People praised First Class and gave it 5 stars and I thought it wasnt THAT good. X2 was way better, imo. Thor I really liked. The only movie so far I agree with the majority is Hangover 2 because it really sucked. I mean, it was funny and all but too much like the first.

Green Lantern is going to be in 3D so thats a HUGE plus to me.

 

[Motown Marvel]

ugh, i dont know why this is so hard to understand: all movies, particularly major movies, have embargos on reviews! whenever critics go to a screening, they are instructed that they are not allowed to post reviews until a certain date, and that certain date is most often a few days prior to release. this has nothing to do with the studios concern of the films quality. it is standard procedure.

if you see official reviews from critics weeks before a movies release, it means they broke the embargo and run the risk of not being invited to future screenings. the studios want the reviews to be released close to the films release so it is all fresh in the mind of the audience.

 

[SuperDaniel]

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

 

[dnno1]

Robliefeld:

Yesterday prediction RT @robertliefeld Just as the tracking on Super 8 was soft, Green Lantern will open to 60 million more. Big kid factor

 

[Tony Stark]

ugh, i dont know why this is so hard to understand: all movies, particularly major movies, have embargos on reviews! whenever critics go to a screening, they are instructed that they are not allowed to post reviews until a certain date, and that certain date is most often a few days prior to release. this has nothing to do with the studios concern of the films quality. it is standard procedure.

if you see official reviews from critics weeks before a movies release, it means they broke the embargo and run the risk of not being invited to future screenings. the studios want the reviews to be released close to the films release so it is all fresh in the mind of the audience.

You're about 1/2 correct. Yes all movies have an embargo. The embargo is selectively enforced. The studio gets to parse the reviews, so they know if they will be bad or good. If the reviews are good, they usually don't enforce the embargo, because it's free advertising.

It's very unusual for a studio to enforce the embargo this late.

Make no mistake they are doing this, because they have statistics letting them know what kind of numbers to expect, and they don't want a huge drop off.

 

[moviedoors]

Green Lantern is going to be in 3D so thats a HUGE plus to me.

Yeah, converted 3-D. I already bought my midnight screening tickets, but it's for a 2-D showing. If they didn't shoot it natively in 3-D, and there's no reviews for me to read that indicate one way or the other whether the conversion is worthwhile or not, I bow out of shelling out the extra dough. I love 3-D, but I loathe this trend in the wake of Avatar of doing everything on the cheap after the fact. I just won't risk possibly seeing a shoddy, paper-cutout looking, dim conversion for nearly twice the cost of a bright 2-D screening.

 

[SuperDaniel]

I`ll watch it both ways.

 

[Tony Stark]

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

I'm sure they have faith that people will enjoy the film once seeing it. What they don't want is early negative reaction to turn people away from the box office. It's a smart strategy from the studio's standpoint, even if it's frustrating to us.

 

[Bubonic]

I thought Your Highness was freaking hilarious and a good movie and it has a 25% RT Score. So I don't care what it scores. I'm seeing this sucker.

Well you know yourself and what you like better than anyone else, with certain movies it is important to interpret the reviews and see what it is exactly they are criticizing the movie for. All the horror movies I love are consistently panned by critics, and some comedies are also buried but when reading the review you can still see if you'll like it or not based on what their gripes are and if you agree with their line of thinking.

Somethings aren't as malleable though, sometimes bad is bad and it can be clearly stated, if the reviewer goes on about the movie being bad because of the level of violence I call ********, if he goes into detail about the atrocious acting, script and production values then I'm more likely to consider it.

You are correct about the fanboy effect Bubonic.

Listen I hope that my new found leeriness is wrong and I walk out of the movie enjoying it. I don't wish for movies to be bad...ever.

And Mace, I said that I'm more likely than not seeing the film. I said that I wasn't going to see Thor and First Class and I saw them. I almost always go to see these Superhero films.

I think audiences need to be leery, especially with prices these days, one movie ticket get up near twenty bucks and you can add another fifteen if you get concessions. It is ridiculous to blindly flock and turn our pockets inside out for unworthy movies.

Did you like Thor and X:FC?

 

[Willi Berg]

People in this board are overreacting. I dont give a **** about what other people think of any movie. People praised First Class and gave it 5 stars and I thought it wasnt THAT good. X2 was way better, imo. Thor I really liked. The only movie so far I agree with the majority is Hangover 2 because it really sucked. I mean, it was funny and all but too much like the first.

There is definitely an overreaction to this movie regarding the embargoes and people worrying about how it will bomb.

I honestly don't think that the majority of people will be saying that the movie "sucks", once the GA have actually seen it. I am certainly not expecting unanimous praise but I don't think it will be as bad as people are worrying about now ie. hyping it the other way as a trainwreck, bomb etc.

 

[SuperDaniel]

I for one thought Thor was better than First Class as entertainment value. I just had more fun watching it. I had a huge problem with First Class which was in a movie about racism and differences, they kill the only black guy in it. Im not black but that was very weird to me and made no sense whatsoever. The character didnt need to die at all.

 

[Motown Marvel]

You're about 1/2 correct. Yes all movies have an embargo. The embargo is selectively enforced. The studio gets to parse the reviews, so they know if they will be bad or good. If the reviews are good, they usually don't enforce the embargo, because it's free advertising.

It's very unusual for a studio to enforce the embargo this late.

Make no mistake they are doing this, because they have statistics letting them know what kind of numbers to expect, and they don't want a huge drop off.

no doubt they get particularly selective about when to lift the embargo with bad films.

but when i was going to critics screenings and reviewing movies for an online magazine run by my teacher while i was in college, having the embargo lifted on a wednesday when the film was released on friday was entirely standard and not at all indicative of the films quality.

my main point is: y'alls need to stop freaking out about this. its not a big deal.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I think audiences need to be leery, especially with prices these days, one movie ticket get up near twenty bucks and you can add another fifteen if you get concessions. It is ridiculous to blindly flock and turn our pockets inside out for unworthy movies.

Did you like Thor and X:FC?

Thor: 6.5/10

X-Men First Class: 9/10

So I didn't dislike any of them although Thor is on thin ice.

EDIT:

For good measure:

Green Hornet: 7.5/10

 

[moviedoors]

ugh, i dont know why this is so hard to understand: all movies, particularly major movies, have embargos on reviews! whenever critics go to a screening, they are instructed that they are not allowed to post reviews until a certain date, and that certain date is most often a few days prior to release. this has nothing to do with the studios concern of the films quality. it is standard procedure.

if you see official reviews from critics weeks before a movies release, it means they broke the embargo and run the risk of not being invited to future screenings. the studios want the reviews to be released close to the films release so it is all fresh in the mind of the audience.

You have to admit that holding it until 2 days before is unusual. There were Thor and First Class reviews plenty early. The word on Avatar was so overwhelmingly positive that Fox lifted the embargo early. People have seen this one and they're not letting it out just yet. I'm not saying one way or the other what that means, just that I won't be surprised if the reviews aren't as sterling as WB would have hoped. I'm still rooting for it.

 

[Bubonic]

Very few of us are blindly supporting anything. Its just that people are getting whiny over...basically nothing, when what little reactions we've seen of the flick so far have been positive to mixed. People are getting hot and bothered cause there havent been a ton of reviews yet.

It's just nerve racking in a way.
I'm a big comic book nerd like most people here, although I am hardly versed in DC characters I want this to do good, I want more than just Batman and Superman movies to come out of that camp.

A lack of reviews late in the game is a reasonable cause for concern, right now the anticipation is mounting and we don't have much to go on and it would just be great to have confirmation that this will be the third great hero movie this summer.

 

[SuperDaniel]

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.

 

[Motown Marvel]

You have to admit that holding it until 2 days before is unusual. There were Thor and First Class reviews plenty early. The word on Avatar was so overwhelmingly positive that Fox lifted the embargo early. People have seen this one and they're not letting it out just yet. I'm not saying one way or the other what that means, just that I won't be surprised if the reviews aren't as sterling as WB would have hoped. I'm still rooting for it.

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.

 

[Bubonic]

I for one thought Thor was better than First Class as entertainment value. I just had more fun watching it. I had a huge problem with First Class which was in a movie about racism and differences, they kill the only black guy in it. Im not black but that was very weird to me and made no sense whatsoever. The character didnt need to die at all.

I facepalmed when this happened. I really couldn't believe that of all the characters they had to do him in, it just seem so typical, but overall I quite enjoyed the movie and was less bothered that the X-Men won't be part of the Marvel Studios Universe, that place is too busy for mutants anyways.

Thor: 6.5/10

X-Men First Class: 9/10

So I didn't dislike any of them although Thor is on thin ice.

EDIT:

For good measure:

Green Hornet: 7.5/10

I'm only a half hour into the Green Hornet and I must admit that this really seems like a fun, underrated movie, but I knew nothing of the original character and that makes a huge difference.

I guess Thor was too safe for you? It certainly played it safe but it was a hell of a lot of fun for me.