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Ryan Reynolds was quite good in Adventureland at playing a pretty low-key, unglamorous, bad person (not in a lovable scamp way really) role.
Having no knowledge of the Green Lantern other than it has a ring and is weak against the color yellow, I thought the trailer looked pretty slick/cool/good and I'm interested.
Having no knowledge of the Green Lantern other than it has a ring and is weak against the color yellow, I thought the trailer looked pretty slick/cool/good and I'm interested.
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Jiarn
Hm, haven't seen Adventure Land.
http://io9.com/#!5788299/watch-the-green-lantern-footage-that-tore-the-roof-off-wondercon
New Green Lantern trailer and it looks great.
New Green Lantern trailer and it looks great.
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Jiarn
What a shock! People hate a bit of unfinished footage they saw almost a year ago, then suddenly amazed by the real finished product!
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I stated when I saw the initial footage that I was "unimpressed" but expected it to be better when released. It's looking much better. I still have some doubts about Ryan Reynolds as Hal, but I'm more than willing to see the final product.
(yes, I know that you are poking fun at the "masses" that were all "Worst. Movie. Ever." But I'm just kinda tired and waiting on some warm water for my shower right now... )
(yes, I know that you are poking fun at the "masses" that were all "Worst. Movie. Ever." But I'm just kinda tired and waiting on some warm water for my shower right now... )
Woaaaaaaaaaah...
It's on the list now.
It's on the list now.
figmentPez
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I still think the CGI costume looks fake. The movie might be good despite that, though.
I find myself completely and utterly astounded by the amount of people who frequent this forum who know Test Pilots and the stereotypical personality they should have.
We've all seen The Right Stuff. We are experts.
I think it's more that we know what Hal Jordan is supposed to be like, and what we've seen so far in the trailers really isn't Hal, it's Kyle. They really should have gone with that guy whose name I forget who was a minor recurring character on Ryan Reynolds' old show and hasn't done anything of note, since.
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As a ling time GL reader I don't understand the complaints. He seems pretty spot on Hal to me. Also I think the costume is looking better and better the more I see it in motion. All in all I'm really looking forward to this after the con footage.
A huge part of Hal's character in comics has primarily been about hiding his insecurities by driving himself in public as far as possible. It's why he has a rep in the comics with crashing planes instead of ejecting from them. He's a hotshot pilot because he truly does not give a damn about something as mundane as his own personal safety in light of his internal demons that he doesn't tell anyone about. Becoming Green Lantern was about tempering his impulses to dive head first and ask questions later.
I just don't see any of that in the footage we've seen so far. This version of Hal seems to be practically crippled with self-doubt and tentativeness. The only time we ever saw Hal Jordan like that was after he
murdered billions of people as Parallax, became the Spectre, and tried to find redemption. And those were really not good periods of writing for him.
If they want to do a movie about Kyle Rayner as GL, that's cool. Kyle is awesome. He was my generation's GL. He was exactly the kind of self-doubting, emotionally-crippled, naive little twerp that Ryan Reynolds appears to be playing, and his GL story is about how he forced himself to grow up and step into the ring, so to speak. This just looks like they couldn't make up their minds.
Hey, if they want my $13, it's up to them to convince me.
If you want comic book Hal, go read the comics. If you want to watch a movie based on the Green Lantern comics, then see this movie. It's not what Hal is supposed to be like, it's how the actors and directors hired to do this brought the characters to screen.
Again, that's their case to make.
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By that logic, Daredevil, the Last Airbender, Elektra, Catwoman, and Wanted were the best we could have gotten, and the complainers should have stopped complaining if they wanted to see them brought to screen.
It's almost like this is an adaption of some source material interpreted in a different media... crazy!
But really, this is getting dumb now. If the couple of minutes of footage has someone convinced that Reynolds, Campball and some weird dude they have consulting with them (I mean, who the heck is "Geoff Johns"? Does this guy even know anything about Hal Jordan???) just don't see Hal the way they see Hal then don't go.
Me, I'm looking forward to it because so far, as a big GL nerd, it looks pretty spot on. Except for the mask which still looks weird and fakey.
I dunno, it looks like a GL movie based on comic book source material. Pretty strong case that this is a GL movie based on the comic book. But is is only 3 or so minutes of footage, it could all be leading to a romcom with Reynolds playing a dude named Hal Jordan.
I hear that after he becomes GL the rest of the movie is him dealing with having fallen in love with his best friends girl.
Yeah I just showed the con footage to my wife who didn't care for the first trailer, she thought it looked really good.
Newest trailer:
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly think the movie's special effects looks horrible. Most of that thought is coming from Parallax, the evil cloud...thing; you know, like Galactus in the second Fantastic Four movie! That's not a good comparison they want going into this.
But yeah, I don't know. It's just way too much CGI for my liking. Too much uncanny valley going on.
To respond to the old discussion about Reynolds not acting like Hal Jordan? Well, they could've had the bland, boring, cardboard cutout personality that Jordan has in the comics.
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly think the movie's special effects looks horrible. Most of that thought is coming from Parallax, the evil cloud...thing; you know, like Galactus in the second Fantastic Four movie! That's not a good comparison they want going into this.
But yeah, I don't know. It's just way too much CGI for my liking. Too much uncanny valley going on.
To respond to the old discussion about Reynolds not acting like Hal Jordan? Well, they could've had the bland, boring, cardboard cutout personality that Jordan has in the comics.
If they make Parallax not look like movie Galactus, that'd be a big improvement.
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Personally the uncanny valley is what it needs to make it look like it's an actual RL comic book.
As for Paralax looking like Galactus? I have to disagree with that. All the trailers show Paralax having a face and appendages form in the "mass".
The reviews are rolling in...
and they are brutal.
and they are brutal.
Yeah, the best reviews I've read say that it spends far to much time focused on a laborious interpretation of the Hero's Journey rather than giving us Space Epic, which is often the case with first superhero films, you know, the whole reluctant hero thing blahblahblah.
Well, Ebert only gave it 2.5 stars and said it was better than Thor so... we shall see. Me and the wife already have plans to go see it tonight. I expect to enjoy a lot of it but that I'll agree with the majority on it, that it's not going to focus on the right places, ie, the action/epic GL.
Well, Ebert only gave it 2.5 stars and said it was better than Thor so... we shall see. Me and the wife already have plans to go see it tonight. I expect to enjoy a lot of it but that I'll agree with the majority on it, that it's not going to focus on the right places, ie, the action/epic GL.
I guess if you are a GL fan or a RR fan it's a check it out yourself situation. I always knew GL would be one of the hardest to sell to... well, anyone really, but it will be interesting to see Martin Campbells translation to the screen. I'm still excited because... well dammit, aside from Bats, this is the hero I've most wanted to see on the big screen. I guess I will report back tomorrow and let you know what a big GL fan thought.
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