First Look at Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern

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he was in wolverine for about 5 mins...i think he had one line

also in Blade Trinity

forgot about that one...you're gonna be really mad when the supposed deadpool movie comes out.

ahhhh hell

Looks weird to me.


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I'll reserve final judgement until we see what it looks like on film and not in glossy press pics for EW.

and serves no purpose.

>
shit he really does

I wonder how final this look is, too. I could have sworn I've seen the ring design already, and it looked nothing like that. Hmm

Looks dorky.
But I approve.

DC is making films for other heroes besdies Batman and Superman.
I think this film has great potential and hopefully most of the film take place in on Green Lantern Corp planet instead of just Earth.

HOPES IZ HIGH!

an actual suit. you can see it on much larger copies.

this looks like a transformation scene, and the suit is building itself
if its not then they gets a WHALE FAIL from me

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but i'll wait for the final product

sorry but if it's not sups or bats i'm not interested
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does not look good so far.

really bad

so terrible. well, we still got Cap to look forward to.

too bad, i thought they were going to take a more serious tone much like the direction of nolan's batman movies.

I don't think it looks THAT bad.

I mean, were people REALLY expecting to have the same tone as The Dark Knight or something?

no...GL isnt Batman so i never expected it to be anything like that but i didnt expect it to be so wacky. i mean the DC animated GL movie wasn't this cartoony...and its a cartoon. anyway, its too early to all out condem it but i'm disappointed in what im seeing so far.

While I want this to be good, I predicted this to be the most likely bomb of the coming big superhero flicks. This works well for my pro-Marvel 'genda.

They don't have an... excess of "popular" characters. (edit: Does any company?)

Hmm... What if they split the Justice League movie into like two parts that were released at the same time, with the option to watch them back-to-back?

So many characters to develop.

>Does any company?

Outside of marvel, Top Cow does.

They've gotWwitchblade, Darkness and Fathom

they can win people over. But, typically, comic book movies are too safe, too compromising.

Hal Jordan sucks and Kyle has more swag.

Kyle at one point had the godly Ion powers.

And frankly, I really just want to see Stewart.

Cause the rest doesn't look very terrible.

mythology for the boys.

+

good looking, wink at the camera lead actor, and hokey storytelling for the ladies

perfected by Favreau.

Am I right?

*not including the batman franchise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJABsJQCZHA&feature=player_embedded

*red lantern*

looks wack.

this isn't a good sign
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not totally convinced it wont suck though

wtf DC?

like the source material is hella nerdy, ESPECIALLY the origin story.
I mean it's clear they're aiming for the tone of Iron Man, which was phenomenal. The difference is escaping from the Taliban is something we can all make a lot more sense of than inheriting the powers of an alien who crash lands in the desert, forcing you to join an intergalactic peace force.

>like the source material is hella nerdy, ESPECIALLY the
>origin story. I mean it's clear they're aiming for the tone of Iron >Man,which was phenomenal. The difference is escaping from the
>Taliban is something we can all make a lot more sense of than
>inheriting the powers of an alien who crash lands in the
>desert, forcing you to join an intergalactic peace force.

well the iron man suit itself is far more plausible and thus easier to relate to, so i agree. gl is much more of a space opera in the line of star wars with a deep mythology.

which, if done properly could have easily made a good feature film so it wasnt totally out of the question that it might be good...but yeah, its kinda out there. not as grounded in reality as a lot of these superhero movies have been lately although i dont think thats a bad thing. they just shouldnt try to model it after those since its way more supernatural.

>The difference is escaping from the
>Taliban is something we can all make a lot more sense of than
>inheriting the powers of an alien who crash lands in the
>desert, forcing you to join an intergalactic peace force.

I'm officially, NOT interested. I'll catch it on video.

I mean it looks almost as well executed as Iron Man or first Spiderman movie.. which would pretty much be good enough for me. Maybe not a complete master piece, but it won't be a Superman Returns or X3.

just look this is how it should have been done


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs

that must have taken some effort. good job to that dude.

As impressive a fan trailer as it was, that shit still looks ridiculous by real movie standards. It barely passes by SyFy movie standards.

to make it but if u say the original trailers better then u smokin. Like somebody said they clearly followin ironman's lead. Gl should have a more serious tone is my point besides he is one of DC's flagship characters they gotta come hard with this. I guess i will try not to pass judgement till i see the movie but the real trailer reminded me of meteor man.

and cgi'd the green latern effect on them. For all sake of argument that looks nothing like Syfy tv stuff.

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Why don't directors of superhero movies understand...you can't go campy.

By the shear nature of it being a movie based on a comic, there's some built in camp. So... you need to treat the subject matter very seriously. If you attempt to inject one drop of camp the campy meter shoots up x 100.

I hope this doesn't suck, because my kid wants to see it and I'd rather not have to sit through some bullshit..

The Hal Jordan in this trailer is kind of going that RDJR Tony Stark route, and I don't think anyone could accuse Iron Man of not working. Green Lantern has FUN powers. It's okay to show him enjoying the perks. His whole power is light based, so you can't go the Batman skulking in the shadows route. I do hope the actual story/conflict will have some weight to it, but so far I like what I'm seeing.

I'm sick of every super hero director thinking the shit needs to be "serious" or "dark" just because Dark Knight did it and made $$$.

it's superheroes, with capes and tights and sci-fi powers and shit, and depending on the franchise it SHOULD be fun, sexy, and stylized. Green Lantern is definitely a franchise that would suck if it went all serious and grim. it's about color and fun and outer space. go overrate another Chris Nolan flick if none of that sounds cool to you.

:T

but IMO the REAL problem always was the tone. To that end, I'll now be looking forward to this.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-Green-Lantern-s-4-Minutes-Of-Wonder-Con-Footage-24011.html

MUCH better.

i can't help but think that RR was the wrong choice. his delivery of lines, no matter what they are, always comes off sarcastic.

>http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-Green-Lantern-s-4-Minutes-Of-Wonder-Con-Footage-24011.html
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i actually have some expectations after that one.

worst piece of trash ever will look good in a trailer with good editing.

>i actually have some expectations after that one.

I forgot Campbell made Casino Royale.

The CGI looks pretty bad. The movements don't loom fluid and it's hard to take RR seriously when we're supposed to. They should have gone for a Nathan Fillion-type since he's too old.

sometimes you can put a guy in a costume and just lay some cg where it needs it

I appreciate the scope that they're going for, and I think that's how Green Lantern should be done, but a bunch of those effects look Phantom Menace-ish.

hope they are still tweaking some of these effects though - I'll be there when it comes out (so I guess they did their job)

I'll probably still end up seeing this, Thor & Cap but won't have very high expectations for any of em.

first class looks like the one that will actually be good.

>I'll probably still end up seeing this, Thor & Cap but won't
>have very high expectations for any of em.

>first class looks like the one that will actually be good.

James McAvoy worries me a bit being in another action flick after Wanted. Fassbender should be the saving grace if he falters again.

These trailers have brought me back to that time

this movie looks like complete shit in this trailer.

>http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-Green-Lantern-s-4-Minutes-Of-Wonder-Con-Footage-24011.html
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>MUCH better.

it just seems to me like everybody here hates all cgi in every movie ever made that isn't a pixar flick.

If the storytelling and the characters are really fleshed out, and the interaction with the animation is spot-on, then some *okay* CGI can seem really good (District 9). CGI has to be something I'm not thinking about during the scene.

I bet if I was solely looking at effects, Battle: Los Angeles would have better effects than District 9. But the interaction with the effects, the execution of the effects, and their incorporation into the story was soooooo much better in District 9 that I felt the effects were *worse* in the movie with the bigger budget and broader scale.

It's hard to judge while I'm watching a trailer if the CGI will work or not. But that scene where he's in the suit interacting with someone else on Oa... it looks like something on Cartoon Network. That scene's success (and the movie's) will depend solely on how well they've built the character and how well the story has been executed up to that point.

>But that scene where he's in the suit
>interacting with someone else on Oa...

....that this is why the suit is a CGI suit. To create synergy since he is spending so much time interacting with CGI characters.

you shouldn't be thinking about the effects too much during a movie, the effects should be there to enhance and help tell the story. that's it.

I'm not sure if i'm sold, but it looks way more appealing now.

The grand scale looks about right.

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This looks pretty damn good now.

I'm excited to see it.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/25/new-green-lantern-trailer

^^^^makes it looks like even more crap than i already thought.

Kinda helped explain the green lantern bullshit. It's still hard to get interested in this shit.

my goodness man

serious question:

who is going to go see this that doesn't read comic books or isn't at least already fairly familiar with the character?


I mean no one is going to willingly go dive into this movie like they would've Iron Man.

these previews make this movie look like total shit, which i'm sure the movie actually is. the cgi work looks awful. worse is ryan reynolds' facial expressions. i just cannot take that dude seriously in that role even if it is a comic book.

this movie look batman and robin level stupid.

>my goodness man
>
>serious question:
>
>who is going to go see this that doesn't read comic books or
>isn't at least already fairly familiar with the character?
>
>
>I mean no one is going to willingly go dive into this movie
>like they would've Iron Man.

.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/review-awkward-uneven-green-lantern-packs-no-punch

They seemed to handicap themselves almost.

Granted I have't read the green lantern books so I don't know if the decision of him taking on the green lantern mantle was such a huge part of the plot or just something they exaggerated for the movie.

Eitherway i'm pretty much not gonna see it at this point

Homeboy plays that smart ass role in everything he does. And the only time it was mildly amusing was in Wolverine, one of the biggest pieces of shit ever.

And he was the calmer, straight man in The Proposal. And he wasn't as cocky in Definitely, Maybe.

But yeah, he has landed in some shitty movies. His agent is getting him in big movies but they all seem to suck. He needs to do more smaller stuff to balance out the sell out shit shows.

I know I shouldn't but I kinda wanna see the switch flick with Jason Bateman

but sadly it looks like the majority of us were right because the reviews are seriously smashing this movie. personally, this movie does not get my $11, i'm waiting for netflix.

and i'll go down with the ship either way.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/green_lantern/

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that shit would be bananas

The problem with both Hal Jordan and John Stewart is that both characters are, to some degree, boring in the hands of all but a few writers.

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I dont want this to be shitty but it looks like it is.

I'm planning to check out a matinee tomorrow after I go with a friend who's planning to try and be an extra for the third batman movie when its shooting out here...

but if it's THIS shitty, i'm going to just hold off and wait for the film on netflix...IF AT ALL.

And, I *LIVE* for Angela Bassett...damn, i hope she got a big check for popping up in some shit like this.

>I dont want this to be shitty but it looks like it is.

I remember when the second trailer dropped, and everyone was on some "the comic con trailer was shitty, but you HAVE to see the new one"

was just as shitty to me.

until i saw the second trailer.

now i'm just like...man just put this movie *OUT* of its misery...

and Reynolds should have done DEADPOOL WAY BEFORE THIS...

i have a strange feeling that he won't even get to do DEADPOOL if Green Lantern flops this weekend

-this wasn't anything resembling a space opera, for starters.
-weak ass love story? check.
-worthless, pointless, useless side stories? check
-weak dialogue throughout? check
-terrible cgi? check, for the most part.
-story that went nowhere?? CHECK.

nope. making that scientist dude a villain was a terrible choice. shoulda went with sinestro becoming paralax and wrecking shop on oa. this movie should have taken place mostly in space. angela was wasted. the humor was all flat. the final battle was boring and i sat there waiting for it to end.

the moments with the guardians were engaging, with sinestro, and sadly these scenes were very far and few between. it was simply a boring story furthered by shitty dialogue and weak effects.

i wanted to like this, desperately so. i yearned, pined, longed to enjoy this. i'm pissed.

when people were in here talking about wow the cgi looks great I was like maybe its me. Hahahaha guess not.

>when people were in here talking about wow the cgi looks
>great I was like maybe its me. Hahahaha guess not.

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I agree that having Saarsgard in there weakens the film, but he gives the best performance! When Hal and Carol talked, I longed for the scientist character.

Having it all in space would've been cool, but the effects were so dark on Oa. Aren't there beams of light around them? It's all blackest night and no brightest day up there.

Also, is it just me, or does Hal take this massive discovery EXTREMELY easily? There's one shot of him at home looking out the window, and that's IT. I'd be freaking the fuck out-- lots of good and bad with that insane knowledge.

just scrap it and do something brand new.

I think Strong would be a kick-ass villainous Sinestro, and Reynolds did well enough with what he was given that I think he could carry a well-written, well-edited Green Lantern film.

But they need to make a looooot more money for this to be a financial success. And with Transformers two weeks away...

The fact that he said "Don't they always get the girl." may not have been the corniest line in the movie was really sad.

it didn't totally suck.

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The problems are easily identifiable. There's also some good.

Good:
- Saarsgard is terrific. Like Malkovich at his hammiest. Perfect.
- I liked Reynolds in the role. The big problem is the writing, not him. He comes closer to making it work than it should.
- Strong and the voices of Duncan and Hopkins are just right. Again, underdeveloped, but the pieces are there for a good sequel.
- the tempo is fast-paced...

Bad:
- ... largely because the editing is atrocious. You can tell damage was done once this film wrapped shooting. Scenes are too short or too long, and whole scenes seem to be missing. I can go into detail later in the post.
- the effects are pretty bad. Some stuff works, like Kilowop and the ring effects... but the suit is terrible. They're wildly inconsistent. Hal in front of the sun looks great, but when Sur's hand goes limp in the spaceship, it's a gratuitous use of CGI. Many scenes feel like they took empty shots of scenery and used them at random for other scenes, as they'll switch from actors to obvious CGI for a meaningless shot and then back to actors. It feels like studio interference, frankly.
- this might be editing again, but the Carol-Hal relationship is SO mercurial that its laughable. She changes her mind on him so freely and often.
- the daddy issue stuff in the Reynolds flashback is super poorly handled. Chuckles were heard in my audience.
- Oa and Parallax look like murky effects. Some shots looked better than others. Really inconsistent.

I think the pieces were there, and it's nowhere close to my worst movies of the year. It's inconsistent-- some good things, but the bad outweighs it. If they got a new director, editor, and FX team, I'd watch this cast in a Sinestro sequel, no question (another moment that seems wildly unmotivated, I suspect because a scene devoted to explaining why was cut).

>Good:
>- Saarsgard is terrific. Like Malkovich at his hammiest.
>Perfect.

COMPLETELY disagree there. he did great with what he had, but what he was was completely worthless to the film. the character was completely unnecessary.

>- I liked Reynolds in the role. The big problem is the
>writing, not him. He comes closer to making it work than it
>should.

well the writing was the worst part to me. i like RR a lot and felt he made a perfect hal. none of this is his fault.

>- Strong and the voices of Duncan and Hopkins are just right.

agreed.

>Again, underdeveloped, but the pieces are there for a good
>sequel.
>- the tempo is fast-paced...

the corp and oa in general were pretty good; no qualms with that. it's eeeeeeeeeeeverything else.

>Bad:
>- the effects are pretty bad. Some stuff works, like Kilowop
>and the ring effects... but the suit is terrible.

i don't trip on that suit personally. it's fine to me. the background cgi, the green bubble, etc... blech.

>Many scenes feel like they took empty shots of
>scenery and used them at random for other scenes, as they'll
>switch from actors to obvious CGI for a meaningless shot and
>then back to actors. It feels like studio interference,
>frankly.

basically.

>- this might be editing again, but the Carol-Hal relationship
>is SO mercurial that its laughable. She changes her mind on
>him so freely and often.

blech. then again, i'm one who has great disdain for love stories in movies as it is. seriously, does EVERY FUCKING MOVIE have to be about a boy chasing a girl all damn movie?

>- the daddy issue stuff in the Reynolds flashback is super
>poorly handled. Chuckles were heard in my audience.

blech.

>- Oa and Parallax look like murky effects. Some shots looked
>better than others. Really inconsistent.

yep.

>I think the pieces were there, and it's nowhere close to my
>worst movies of the year. It's inconsistent-- some good
>things, but the bad outweighs it.

not the worst, but it's not a good movie by any stretch. i'm just geeked that it's a GL flick- but highly disappointed in what we got.

>editor, and FX team, I'd watch this cast in a Sinestro sequel,
>no question (another moment that seems wildly unmotivated, I
>suspect because a scene devoted to explaining why was cut).

i'd still watch a sequel, i like kilwog, sinestro, the corp, the guardians, hal, but that's it. they need a new writing team in the worst way.

>- the daddy issue stuff in the Reynolds flashback is super
>poorly handled. Chuckles were heard in my audience.

*Remembers stuff happened to Dad*
*Forces worried/sad face*
*Repeats*

And apparently, the first draft spent time developing his relationship with his father, how his father was related to Ferris, the relationship as children between Hal, Carol, and Hector, etc. All cut from the film and replaced with? A shittily-edited flashback and a picture taped to the plane console.

Awful.

Yeah, you hung the jacket there, stop making that face.

and the funniest thing about even that six issue run is that it COMPLETELY sticks out in the most recent 60+ issue run of Green Lantern because it's the only story arc that really even deals with Ferris Air at all.

you could see why they would want to include that, though. there's already the comic / script, they can sell the trade paperbacks, and it's the "safe" superhero origin.

in the comic run, though, Sinestro comes to earth to confront Hal about having Abin Sur's ring, Hector Hammond is infected by alien tech from Abin's ship, but Parallax is not part of the deal at all, and Hal barely interacts with the Guardians at all. plus there's a whole 'nother two pretty awesome characters in that arc which didn't make it in the film, the Black Hand and Atrocitus (who they could have used to set up the 2nd film, since Atrocitus is searching for clues on a prophecy that bears fruit down the line).

anyway -- I'm sure you don't really care about any of that. the point is there is a whole, good, decent trade all about Hal, Hal's little brother, Hal's dad, and his childhood relationship with Carol Ferris, but they reduced it to such a point in the film they really should have just left it out.

I attribute this to watching it in 3D....eventhough there wasn't much 3D going on.

All in all if felt very clobbered together. None of the performances were bad....it was just the material they were working with.

It's like the writers knew Reynolds could be funny so the wrote it for him to be funny...instead of writing Hal.

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and for my money, they should have just blown it out with the Corps (see the animated GL: First Flight if you wanna see what I thought it shoulda been -- Hal goes to space, gets trained, then fights off a major opponent with the help of the Corps with minimal earth stuff going on).

I could nitpick some stuff (the constantly animated suits -- blech, and why couldn't they let the inside of the logo just stay static white? that weird filtering green stuff is EXACTLY what people are talking about when they say this film looks hokey), but I really think if they had just committed to either earth or to space, this would have been a lot better.

Blake Lively is not a star. I think Ryan Reynolds suffered most when he had to act heroic, he should have just rocked the cocky, sarcastic prick angle for the entirety, let the heroism come from guys like Mark Strong (who was EASILY the best part of the movie). I'll be sad if there's no sequel, cuz there's enough here to make me interested, BUT ... they need to make a commitment and just go balls out with the cosmic shit. enough of this nancy earth distractions, let's face it, the Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814 is just plain bigger than getting in to alley fights with common thugs.

oh yeah, and Sarsgaard was awesome. losing Hector Hammond seems an impossibility, but that's where they missed -- go earth bound with Hector first movie, goes cosmic with Sinestro and the rest of the Corps next, but don't try to do both in one movie, cuz you just end up feeling short changed on both.

i enjoyed the action scenes, the enemies were good, Sinestro was set up well, and OA was pretty cool. story wasn't even bad, but the CGI was spotty, Reynolds shouldn't have been cast at all, and I rolled my eyes at the dialogue quite a few times.

I know they try to make movies more relatable and widestream, but does it even work more often than not? bad dialogue is bad dialogue. most people sniff it out pretty quickly. this movie really underestimated the audience. when it was in talks i said i didn't think the character was popular enough to justify this kind of budget. while green lantern has had a resurgence in the comics world in the past decade, outside of comic book fans i don't think there are enough people interested to carry this, especially with the bad reviews. if they went all-out on the sci-fi aspect it might have saved this.

the recent run on the comics that pushed the book in to the top 10 sales, a place generally reserved only for the usual suspects like X-Men and Batman, was generally set in space. Hal was basically just an intergalactic cop in the comics, and it didn't focus a lot on the earth stuff like his relationship, it focused more on his tension with the Guardians and the structure of the Corps in general.

of course, Hal has that old school baggage, and you can't realistically make a hero's journey unless you cover the stuff like getting his powers and learning how to fly and stuff. so the movie came off as schizophrenic. they shouldn't have tried to do the same ol' same ol' hero's journey and just stuck to what makes this franchise unique -- SPACE.

I knew exactly how the "Look, I can fly!" scene was going to be played before it started. Jesus Christ that was awful.

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i dont have high hopes for Deadpool being quality....

but Green Lantern didn't do that well roughly 53 million?

Unless it makes it budget back overseas, that's kinda a flop in theory...

so 53 mil isn't that bad as far as recent comic movies are concerned. i have a feeling its gonna be a disasterous 2nd week though.

>i dont have high hopes for Deadpool being quality....
>
>but Green Lantern didn't do that well roughly 53 million?
>
>Unless it makes it budget back overseas, that's kinda a flop
>in theory...

and is an established name as far as movies go. green lantern spent a LOT of money on the first movie in the series. they HAVE to be nervous right now.

First Class: $140-160 mil
Green Lantern: $200+ mil

Plus, Green Lantern obviously spent way more on advertising than X-Men did/needed to.

Green Lantern had fucking AD CAMPAIGNS and shit leading up to this weekend...

the fast food ties in

the public transportation posters, etc.

the multiple trailers the cast doing MULTIPLE interviews, PR, etc.

all of that..and it *ONLY* got 53 mil?

sorry but given that the second week will drop off considerably and the *TELLING* weekend is fourth of july...

if GL is not there that weekend, they better hope the movie makes it budget back over seas

because at the moment, given all the money spent on this film...its looking like a flop.

That's ridiculous.

I started dying when Hammond first transforms and he's screaming like Marv from Home Alone,hahahaha.

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hearing all the negative reviews probably helped since expected it to be shit going in and fuck it, I enjoyed it enough. animation didn't bother me nearly as much as I thought from previews, some was extra cheesy but the 3D was cool for the most part.

If I was 10, Id have loved this much more as my 5 year old thought it was amazing and helped my view of it.

I thought the CGI was awesome in 2D. Like someone said above, he's always gonna be Van Wilder to me, especially when he's always using that "cocky but funny...hey look at my sixpack!" schtick.

- opening CGI scene looked like an intro to a Playstation ONE game (trumped later by Lantern comically zooming out of the building with Lively).
- Reynolds might not have A-list star power, but he was no worse than Tobey.
- Blake Lively cannot act. but I forgive her because she is straight up SEXY, especially with that dark hair. should have been Emma Frost in X-Men.
- Sarsgaard was captivating. Tim Robbins was just there (lmao @ at the crowd standing still like dumbasses as a helicopter comes crashing down).
- smart run time. surprisingly never lagged horribly for me.

it's goofy, instant forgettable and probably a franchise killer when the numbers roll in. will ultimately become a decent cable movie in the afternoon Sunday time slot.

LOL @ Hammond looking like a modern day Rocky Dennis tho, I wasn't ready for that but it was funny

And I actually watched it in 3D because I didn't have a choice. I wasn't disappointed, but then again, I lowered my expectations. What I ended up with was an experience better than the one I had with Thor, which turned me off to wanting to watch anything in 3D ever again. (And I'm a relative Marvel Studios fanboy).

I want a sequel.

Bomb.

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I seriously hope it's a piece of shit also, so that way we can wait two years and get a reboot that does GL justice.

I saw it today and it wasn't as bad as I expected. Could it have been better, yes, but at the end of the day, I didn't hate it.

or take a shit.

i dunno... do you have dishes to wash, a car to detail, some laundry, some old taxes to catch up on or something? i'd recommend you do that instead. the list of things that offer a better time than this movie is pretty long, especially if you're a GL fan.

hyperbole aside, it's got it's moments but it's dead last by a good margin this summer. the movies to come out in the genre have set an excellent overall bar this summer and it's flaws become even more glaring in that light.

if it's free and you're really interested, have at it i say.

the writing, editing, and source material are it's weakest points....why the writing, cause some of the dialoge and character motivations are really weakk...the editing? well, as someone else has said, it felt like pieces were cut out and some of the transitions were sloppy...the source material? hal Jordan is one of THE most boring characters to ever grace a comic, and he a complete douche (two credits he shares with best friend Barry Allen)...the movie does a cool job of making the guy more interesting all the way around, but it had it's work cut out for it...i didn't care about the CGI cause honestly, it's very rare that CGI looks great..people sayin they wanted it to really feel like they were in Oa *LOL*, grow up....

...it's a cool mindless summer movie, but i gotta say that for what they put into it, it's a halfass atempt at what could have been a GREAT movie...

This is the type of movie tailor-made for people who value explosions and (bad! bad! bad!) CGI over telling an actual fucking story.

Everything about it was subpar, from the smarmy acting to the shitty writing, to the overdone narration, to the scattershot editing, to the (bad! bad! bad!) CGI down to even that shitty post-credits scene with Sinestro.

> that shitty
>post-credits scene with Sinestro.

...I draw the line HERE!!

The movie never really shows Sinestro being upstaged by Hal and the only reason it gave for him wanting to use the yellow ring was rendered moot once Parallax was defeated. Comic nerds like myself probably creamed themselves over it, but film nerds and average movie-goers alike were probably left scratching their heads.



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If you've never picked up a GL comic a day in your life, that scene has no resonance to you.

It doesn't have the benefit of having a Samuel Jackson show up out of nowhere to impress the people who don't know who (Ultimates Universe) Nick Fury is.

Sinestro needed to have put on the yellow ring AND have done something diabolical with it for it to register.