RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Ryan Reynolds is Green Lantern

Hate to break the chain of "surprised" questioning, but those who called this movie to be a bomb... ::cough:: Pro ::cough:: ...hit the nail on the head.

A guy at work who loves Smallville and Michael Bay's Transformer movies said it was shit. Think about that for a moment.

Hey, I've been here for a decade. I was bound to be correct about something sooner or later....

I still liked it.

And I still YOU, First-of-Allans...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warner-bros-pursue-green-lantern-205703

"Fanboy pics"? WTF is that?



I think I see a green trend here.

But, hey who knows? Second time the charm?

Speaking of the Hulk, I smell a "soft reboot" coming, with a new director and possibly a new GL.

I'm still going with Bruce Timm's new GLC toon.

the BTAS/STAS/JLU animated world is gold.

saw GL this weekend. and it was... meh. very shockingly, i hold ryan reynolds accountable for none of this reaction. in fact, i might even go so far as to say he wasn't bad as hal jordan. he wasn't overly jokey or ...y'know... ryan reynolds, at all.

getting the obvious critiques out of the way, the music was entirely unmemorable, and the 3D might have been the biggest waste of 3D in a film, yet.

my main problem with the film is that it was confused. it didn't know if it should follow the iron man path (focus on the character, not the hero), the spider-man path (focus on the mythology), the hulk path (you're a regular story that just happens to have a comic book guy in it), or the fantastic four path (you're a comic book, be fun!). the result was a jumble of each, where the pieces didn't belong. there was a lot of forced plot points, which is a major pet peeve of mine. like, when you're watching the first episode of a TV show, and they try to introduce stories and themes that the on-screen characters should have already known for years. "hi carol, remember we used to date? well we don't now, but i was just thinking about it" type.

oa was very cool. the action and fight scenes were fun. the oath moments were not the cringe-worthy events i (yellow)feared them to be, but were in fact very nerdly enjoyable. the suit was so much better in practice than it was in previews. honestly, the movie wasn't bad. but it very much wasn't good. no reason to see it on the big screen either: it'd be a fine HBO-at-home or netflix experience.

Yeah, I was going to see this the other day but decided it would be better just to wait a couple of months.

the reason the animated stuff is so much better than the live action stuff is because they have people like Timm, Paul Dini, James Tucker, etc. who understand the characters and also know how to make them work in another medium. they know where to strike the balance between the geek stuff and easy access storytelling. this is something that the live action DC films are in desperate need of.

I just saw it and quite enjoyed much of it.

Was it perfect? Hell no. They needed to dump the Hector Hammond/Tim Robbins as Bill Clinton/skinny Amanda Waller plot in its entirety, cast someone who could act as Carol and beef up Sinestro's story to explain the inevitable heel turn.

However, it had some great action sequences, the special effects worked really well overall and there was something really fun about seeing Hal recite the oath and later conjure up the inevitable giant glowing boxing glove.

It really doesn't deserve the bad buzz, especially compared to some other genre movies that are hits.

I actually agree with that. I've seen way worse superhero movies. That being said there was nothing special about this one.

This finally came out here. I liked it for the most part. I thought it was a good sci-fi/fantasy movie with some superhero moments awkwardly thrown in (I liked some of the superhero moments but they came in way too late and felt forced). I actually think Hector Hammond was great, and that was the part that bothered me the most about the trailers (along with Carol, whom I didn't mind either). The way Hammond was introduced felt organic and whathisface did a great job.

The stuff about Hal's dad and family could have easily been edited out. If anything the movie was too faithful to the comic.

Finally saw this today. They tried too hard with all the CGI. That money could have been spent on a better script or acting lessons. I know the extended version makes better sense, but it should have had a better story.

they could have also hired the real seth rogen instead of an impersonator.

Or instead of paying tim robbins to do his jay leno impersonation, they could have hired the actual jay leno.