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This is a continuation thread, the old thread is [split]355341[/split]

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, I may still go see it. Maybe a matinee, a few weeks from now. Or if the Bootleg man is at the shop with a good copy I might grab it. But I'm not gonna go see a s**ty movie in hopes that they'll make more. It sucks but, eh, that's their problem not mine.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'll Netflix it if anything. I'm not especially interested in seeing it at all because 1) Hal, and 2) now I know for a fact that it sucks, since the reviews are all but unanimous about that.

 

[Hush]

If your a fan of Green Lantern I would say see it on the big screen because there really are some spectacular visuals. Just don't expect Iron Man, Thor or TDK quality.

 

[Anubis]

Well, to tell you the truth, I'm not a fan of Green Lantern. Not since Rebirth. And even before that, ehhhhh.

 

[Hound55]

What? I missed a discussion about The Question?!?

F***!

*Kicks chair and sulks*

 

[Assassin]

i'll go as far to say that i liked it better than Thor because i know the material. it was off the ****ing chain. the after credits scene was fap worthy.

 

[The Morningstar]

Apparently the after credits scene makes zero sense to the story though. It's just fan service and sequel set up at it's very worst.

 

[Anubis]

i'll go as far to say that i liked it better than Thor because i know the material. it was off the ****ing chain. the after credits scene was fap worthy.

Well, that confirms it. It officially sucks.

 

[Assassin]

Apparently the after credits scene makes zero sense to the story though. It's just fan service and sequel set up at it's very worst.

did you see the movie or read the hype review?

 

[fifthfiend]

More and more all I read is ****ing Manga.

God.

 

[fifthfiend]

Like however ****ty Bleach gets - and Bleach gets well ****ty - at least I'm reasonably sure I'm not gonna go to read an issue and completely random parts of the last 500 comics aren't gonna have not happened, all of a sudden.

 

[Drz]

did you see the movie or read the hype review?

I've read some reviews, but hopefully you can answer:

Spoiler

I mean the scenes Sinestro has is pretty much him giving speeches and whatnot, so isn't the end credit scenes him taking the yellow lantern ring? Why does he do that? Why would he need to do that at all? Yeah i've read Geoff Johns run, but for the sake of the movie why would he do that? It just seems the general audience would feel this is a drastic twist for the sake of it.

Also does Hal Jordan actually defeat Parallax all by himself?!

 

[The Morningstar]

did you see the movie or read the hype review?

I've read all the reviews. They say

Spoiler

Sinestro being revealed at the end makes absolutely no sense with what happened in the movie.

If that is true, it's just fan service and a tasteless set up for a sequel.

 

[Assassin]

I've read all the reviews. They say

Spoiler

Sinestro being revealed at the end makes absolutely no sense with what happened in the movie.

If that is true, it's just fan service and a tasteless set up for a sequel.

Spoiler

Um, nooo there is a reason why he has the ring. it's part of the plot. him putting it on isn't explained but he has the ring because the guardians gave it to him. any regular movie goer will say he was curious. comic people will know better though.

 

[Hound55]

OK, I haven't seen it yet. But that sounds stupid.

 

[Assassin]

I've read some reviews, but hopefully you can answer:

Spoiler

I mean the scenes Sinestro has is pretty much him giving speeches and whatnot, so isn't the end credit scenes him taking the yellow lantern ring? Why does he do that? Why would he need to do that at all? Yeah i've read Geoff Johns run, but for the sake of the movie why would he do that? It just seems the general audience would feel this is a drastic twist for the sake of it.

Also does Hal Jordan actually defeat Parallax all by himself?!

Spoiler

his plan to defeat parallex is to fight fear with fear so the guardians forge a yellow ring and give it to him. just as he's about to put it on, Hal steps in and tells them what it's capable of and convinces them that Will is stronger than fear. Also, it's pretty clear that what they're calling Parallex is just parallex in Krona's body.

 

[Assassin]

OK, I haven't seen it yet. But that sounds stupid.

well obviously they'll explain it in the sequel

 

[Hound55]

It shouldn't need explaining, a film should be able to stand alone on it's merit.

 

[Drz]

Regarding the post credit scene:

Spoiler

Yeah isn't that just silly? Sinestro doesn't go Yellow Lantern until after he's all busted about being a tyrant himself and when he can only rely on himself, if the movie shows him as a a great speech maker and a genuily good guy instead of a tyrant, then does the general audience really need to wait for the sequel to find out what a control freak he actually is?

 

[chamber-music]

To continue from the previous thread chat -

I can understand how people found Constantine entertaining its an ok movie. I have read almost every Hellblazer comic though and its really not a good adaptation at all really.

As Mysti said Constantine is like Spike from Buffy. His a heavy drinking, smoking Con-Man, who will lie, cheat and use his friends and people he knows like human sheilds. He will flip the bird at the Devil, pee on the first vampire and take a poop in the garden of eden just for the fun of it.

He manipulates people like the Doctor from Doctor. Keanu is about as far from the character as you can cast, they took the dangerous habits storyline and ditched everything that really made it intresting and if they were going to set the movie in the U.S New York would of been a better option.

 

[Assassin]

Regarding the post credit scene:

Spoiler

Yeah isn't that just silly? Sinestro doesn't go Yellow Lantern until after he's all busted about being a tyrant himself and when he can only rely on himself, if the movie shows him as a a great speech maker and a genuily good guy instead of a tyrant, then does the general audience really need to wait for the sequel to find out what a control freak he actually is?

Spoiler

it's not silly at all..he could be just trying it on and stay a green lantern, pull it out when he needs to half way through the next movie. why is that hard to understand?

 

[chamber-music]

I also like Punisher 89 and War Zone better than 04 Punisher. Punisher torturing people with ice poles, having slapstick fights with wrestlers and living in an apartment with misfits like a bad 90s sitcom in Florida ain't my thing.

Punisher 89 was cheesey badly acted action b-movie yet I still found it entertaining. Too be honest besides the whole not have the skull on his t-shirt and living in a dirty sewer naked like a nudist Teenage mutant Ninja Turtle it wasn't all that different from how the Punisher was in the comics in the 80s.

The scene at the end in which Doloph Lundgren kills the mob boss in front of his kid and the kid points puts the gun at franks head with frank saying do it is still pretty awesome. The line where he says "your a good kid tommy, grow up to be a good man... because if you don't" is still the most badass thing a Punisher has said in any of the three movies.

Punisher War Zone took elements of Garth Ennis Punisher run and merged them together into a generic action b-movie which is why it failed. It left out the characters background and stories. If they just picked one storyline of Ennis Punishers and adapted that it might of worked.

They left out Franks catholic background (Catholic guilt/ need to punish ect), growing up in a mob run neighbourhood (seeing injustice around him), his experince of war and post traumatic stress disorder. His Rorschach like absolutism morally uncompromising viewpoint which alienates him from the rest of society and having seen the worst depths of humanity in criminals.

All the thinks beyond the surface stuff that make Frank Castle intresting are ignored in the three movies. Much like Bruce Wayne isn't only Batman because his parents died Frank Castle isn't simply the Punisher because his family were killed.

 

[SuperFerret]

I still think that the 04 Punisher was the only time the character was worth anything, and as a plus, he wasn't a complete lunatic.