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I get that but, for me, the question is how graphic that body horror will be. The Fly is great but I can never, ever watch that film again no matter how much I love Jeff Goldblum precisely because of that body horror.
I'll keep an open mind but I'm wary at this point.
I've meant to look him because I also thought he looked familiar so thank you for answering that question. He was great in that episode.
Yeah, I have to admit I have also been a little shocked by the direction they've gone with some of their stuff. When you say DC Comics shows and movies, I definitely would not immediately think of a gritty True Detective style crime drama starring a couple Green Lanterns, or a body horror movie focused on Clayface.
I dunno, it feels consistent with how DC comics (particularly Batman comics) have spent the past few decades striving to copy the dark and gritty tone of Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, and Batman Year One, out of a self-conscious need to prove how Serious and Mature they are, or just ride the coattails of their biggest successes. And onscreen, they've been doing stuff like that for a while, with the Nolan movies and The Batman in cinemas and the adult tone of cable shows like Titans and Doom Patrol. Even Arrow strove for a Nolanesque tone, though the Arrowverse that grew out of it was willing to embrace the lighter side of DC and became far more fun and lively as a result.
There's nothing wrong with having a range of styles and tones to appeal to different tastes, but lately it seems that DC isn't offering much that appeals to my tastes.
Strange to give a C list Batman villain like Clayface his own movie rather than just putting him in a Batman movie.
Normally, I would call it a Sony decision but I trust Gunn's instincts on this film and I can see it working. There's enough drama in the psychological horror for it to stand on its own.
No stranger than giving Venom a solo movie. I've always said, the Sony Spider-Man-adjacent movies would've been better if they hadn't tried to push them into the superhero mold but had just embraced the potential of the characters to drive standalone movies in various different genres. Taking a character like Clayface and building a body-horror movie around him is just the sort of thing I was thinking about.
And "C-list" doesn't matter. Iron Man was at most a B-list character before 2008; the Guardians of the Galaxy were probaby D-list before their movie. The movie audience is literally thousands of times bigger than the comics audience, so most people who see a superhero movie will never have read the comics it's based on. So the character's past is irrelevant; all that matters is what the movie does with them.
And then they're mad or disappointed because the actual movie isn't the movie that internet rumors and speculation "promised" them . . . .
Is this poke at a certain Tolkien franchise or do they not know there’s a corp?
As I understand it, there's normally only one Lantern per species, so more than one human having a ring is an anomaly. Maybe the arc of the series will start out with that "only one" rule in effect, but show how John Stewart earns the right to be a second human Lantern. (Except, wait, no, this is the same universe where Guy Gardner is also a Lantern, so I guess that doesn't work.)
Whoever she’s playing, Adria Arjona is sure getting in shape for the role:
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That link did not go to her workout video for me. Though I did find it elsewhere.
It was a link to her story, rather than a specific post, and stories are time-limited. Could be it’s expired.
No, it was still there. The link didn't work for me but I clicked on her profile picture (which is where stories are located) and it popped up.
There are currently seven humans in the Green Lantern Corps in the comics.
Hal Jordan
Guy Gardner
John Stewart
Kyle Rayner
Jessica Cruz (also currently leader of the Corps)
Simon Baz
Sojourner Mullein
Eight, if we count Keli Quintela, the Teen Lantern, but technically she wears a gauntlet instead of a ring.
I think he's probably more well known than that, he's appeared in Gotham, Pennyworth, plays a big role in Arkham City, and has appeared in a shit ton of animated series.
It's not one per species, each Lantern has a sector of space that they're assigned too. I'm not quite sure how Earth has ended up with so many Lanterns though. I'm not positive, but I think Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and Kyle Rayner started out one at a time, because their predecessor has died or quit, but then over time they all came back and then they introduced even more while the others were still active. I just counted on Wikipedia and there are now 8 active Earth, or Sector 2814, Green Lanterns.
EDIT: Oops, looks like Kai and I were writing out posts at the same time.
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