I agree with Espy regarding superhero fatigue. Growing up with comic books even I'm getting tired of all the super hero movies. I don't plan on seeing Green Lantern in theaters (did catch Thor and XMen First Class) but if it were the only super hero movie coming out this summer I'd be in line. My problem with DC is their universe. Marvel's characters are rooted in our universe and I can connect with SpiderMan swinging through the streets of New York. With Superman and Batman I get knocked out of the movie when they mention Metropolis or Gotham. And Green Lantern just doesn't relate to me in the same sense that Iron Man did. Make mine Marvel.
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Well it's not even out here yet...
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Chibibar
There is a theater in McKinney that Matinee is $3.50 a flick (new stuff and $2 extra for 3D) and $5.00 for after 6pm. It is awesome.Who did you NSFW to get in for that?
They just refurnish the seat. It is very comfy kinda like those plush leather chair.
I do have to say:
I actually preferred the Parallax origin from the movies to the one in the comics, IE, the "yellow imperfection". It kind of took the origin of the manhunters and the origin of Parallax and smooshed them together. Seeing as Parallax as an entity was only introduced to absolve Hal Jordan of his actions in Emerald Twilight, the creature's origins were always balls to begin with. I like the idea of it being a Frankenstien's monster coming back to haunt the guardians for their hubris (much like the manhunters).
I was entertained.
I did roll my eyes whenever the leader of a multi-billion dollar company wore a Target party dress, and wore her hair like a school girl...
I did roll my eyes whenever the leader of a multi-billion dollar company wore a Target party dress, and wore her hair like a school girl...
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Me too. I thought it worked quite well.
Dave
Staff member
Yes?
Nice review
Thanks.Nice review
I decided I wanted to talk rather then type...so there we are.
I fucking HATED it. I can't think of anything I liked about it. Juuuuust guuuoah. It was TERRIBLE looking. Just awful.
I'm pretty sure he murdered someone by accident and got away with it scott free. Good hero.
I can't even put together how bad of a time I had watching it. Maybe I'll focus some thoughts and try to get together exactly why I hated it.
I'm pretty sure he murdered someone by accident and got away with it scott free. Good hero.
I can't even put together how bad of a time I had watching it. Maybe I'll focus some thoughts and try to get together exactly why I hated it.
Shannow
Staff member
No need. I know exactly what you are saying, and I agree. I am a big fan of GL, but this movie was complete shit.
LittleSin, the only reason I want to see this movie is because of your review.
Aw. That's sweet.
LOL, awesome.
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Philosopher B.
Sin, that hat is totally bitchin'.
One thing that has bothered me about a few comic inspired films lately...
Is how the villains are a lot like the target audience. Megamind and Green Lantern fall into this. Both villains are shy awkward people that dote on the leading lady. That get superpowers then they get revenge on everyone because they were different little flowers...
Thanks for reinforcing the stereotype that the person without the best social skills is going to end up killing everyone around.
Thanks for reinforcing the stereotype that the person without the best social skills is going to end up killing everyone around.
I get what you're saying (although in Megamind that character really seemed like your average 4chan-dweller on the surface), but I don't think geeks are the target audience. They're going for mainstream, so they can make a lot of money.
Fact: I put that hat on to cover up the fact that my roots were showing. I dyed my hair red in May.
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Jiarn
Yet I've mentioned time and again it wasn't the comic tweaks or changes that truly made this a horrid film for most of the people I've spoken with.... seriously can anyone give any reason why he
Seriously that's just TERRIBLE scripting.
1. Had to go to Oa to ask the Guardians for permission to fight Paralaxx?
He was already going to do it, they were already not going to bother stopping him. It seemed like nothing but a platform for killing time and fitting in a speech they couldn't fit anywherelse.
2.He also called them all cowards and told them not to use the power of Fear, yet he had no idea that's what they were plotting as he was nowhere around when Sinestro made that decision and brought it up.
Did they completely miss/forget that during the writing?
3. Don't even get me started on the throw away character they created for no purpose other than to have GL knock him around and get knocked around by him for a bit.
Barely enough character development in this film and they spend HALF the film on that throwaway? Really?
He was already going to do it, they were already not going to bother stopping him. It seemed like nothing but a platform for killing time and fitting in a speech they couldn't fit anywherelse.
2.He also called them all cowards and told them not to use the power of Fear, yet he had no idea that's what they were plotting as he was nowhere around when Sinestro made that decision and brought it up.
Did they completely miss/forget that during the writing?
3. Don't even get me started on the throw away character they created for no purpose other than to have GL knock him around and get knocked around by him for a bit.
Barely enough character development in this film and they spend HALF the film on that throwaway? Really?
Seriously that's just TERRIBLE scripting.
I'd also like to point out that my entire exposure to Green Lantern stuff has been the Justice League cartoon and the animated movies that have been made. I'm not a fan by any means.
This bugged the shit out of me:
This bugged the shit out of me:
When he gets beat up by those guys who's jobs he had cost with his prickishness (or did he? They got the contract anyway, did they lose their jobs? They seemed pretty sure) he accidentally green lanterns one of them through a brick wall. That man is dead. His spine is pulverized. He accidentally murdered someone who was walking away from him.
1. He is a soldier/cop. You pretty much have to ask permission for this kinda stuff...and he wanted to make his intentions clear. What if they saw him fighting Paralaxx without their say so and they just yanked the power ring out from under him?
2. Possible deleted scene. There's apparently left on the cutting room floor from this movie because the producer felt it was running long. To bad they didn't take a gander to see if what they cut was important for future scenes they felt they had to leave in!
3. I think this may be the 20th century version of Tom Kalmaku, Hal's best friend from the silver age. You may know him better as Pie. Albeit he is white washed for the movie. We haven't seen Tom for a while in the comics because, I think, writers are afraid to use him because he's Inuit.
2. Possible deleted scene. There's apparently left on the cutting room floor from this movie because the producer felt it was running long. To bad they didn't take a gander to see if what they cut was important for future scenes they felt they had to leave in!
3. I think this may be the 20th century version of Tom Kalmaku, Hal's best friend from the silver age.
You may know him better as Pie. Albeit he is white washed for the movie. We haven't seen Tom for a while in the comics because, I think, writers are afraid to use him because he's Inuit.
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Jiarn
So then I'm right, that's disappointing. (Though thank you for clearing it up) I really REALLY (as you can tell by my avatar) am loving the Green Lantern mythos. I'm just really disappointed in what could have continued the really great DC films that the new Batman sagas started.
I wouldn't count it out yet. I have recently discovered that only a very small percentage of box office comes
from North America.
Have you ever seen a terrible movie that, for some reason, a few years later got a sequel? The reason is because it did wonderfully in Europe and Asia, thus the production studio makes back more then it put into the movie. The result of this is a sequel that no one really expected or asked for.
In this case I hope that's what happens. Establishing films are always the hardest films to make.
from North America.
Have you ever seen a terrible movie that, for some reason, a few years later got a sequel? The reason is because it did wonderfully in Europe and Asia, thus the production studio makes back more then it put into the movie. The result of this is a sequel that no one really expected or asked for.
In this case I hope that's what happens. Establishing films are always the hardest films to make.
Reading these posts, I'm sometimes glad that I watch all these things at home, where I can enjoy a Blu-Ray perhaps packed with the deleted stuff that they should have left in so we can know what the %#$* is going on.
Plus, I get to continue burning through trades to catch up on all this.
Plus, I get to continue burning through trades to catch up on all this.
Shannow
Staff member
I cant believe that they are trying to say that they are backing a sequal to this crap, especially after its tank at the box office.
And yes, there is over seas money, but this still wont make it up. it had a much too inflated budget, and an even larger advertising budget (talk of way over 300+ million)
And it was such a shitty move, to boot. And no, I do not mind the character changes from comics, that comes with the territory. I expect that, and I love the GL books and mythos. hen I cannot bring myse fo give a shit about the characters on the screen, then the movie fails at the most basic of levels...even more so when Iwent in caring about them!
And yes, there is over seas money, but this still wont make it up. it had a much too inflated budget, and an even larger advertising budget (talk of way over 300+ million)
And it was such a shitty move, to boot. And no, I do not mind the character changes from comics, that comes with the territory. I expect that, and I love the GL books and mythos. hen I cannot bring myse fo give a shit about the characters on the screen, then the movie fails at the most basic of levels...even more so when Iwent in caring about them!
Actually, for #1,
he went to OA to ask the guardians for help in fighting Parallax, and they refused to get involved, even though when Sinestro asked them, they were all gung ho. Course, the fact that everyone but Sinestro got killed would have explained their reluctance to send any more lanterns out to fight him.
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Wasabi Poptart
We saw it last night. I'm not a big GL comic book fan. I think I may have read two GL comic books ever. I had some problems with the story dealing mostly with Sinestro (and it's stuff that LittleSin pointed out in her review). It wasn't a terrible movie. I do think there have been better superhero flicks out there though.
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