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Green Lantern (2011)

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Nice stuff there.

I love the "oath" scene. Also, Strong as Sinestro, in general. It's almost a pity that he...but then, it'll be so great because you know...:lol: ;)
 
Just out of curiosity, were any of the Lanterns in the crowd scenes from the comics?
 
So does this mean we can expect to start seeing the Green Lantern Oath on pretty much every piece of movie merchandise imaginable?

Drinking Pepsi would be so much cooler if it were Green Lantern Pepsi!
 
Green Bull.

I've still got an unopened can of Buzz cola from the Simpsons movie promotion. Stuff was pretty good, as I recall, if you like really sweet cola drinks.
 
This is interesting - Reynolds talking about Jordan and Sinestro:

What distinguishes Hal from the other Lanterns is that he has the ability to overcome fear, because he experiences it. They see that as a weakness, that he experiences fear. Overcoming fear is the very definition of courage. It's moving on, in spite of it not because of it. It's what makes him the greatest Green Lantern of them all. He harnesses that fear that he's feeling, and he converts it into pure will. It's exciting to play that, but it's also easier to tell that story when you have its opposite next to you. When you're standing next to Mark Strong as Sinestro, who feels no fear and has no fear. And in his performance, you feel no fear. You hear no fear. It makes my job easier to show that contrast.
 
I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time in theaters this summer.

I've read maybe two Green Lantern comics, so I have a newb question. To paraphrase Kirk: why does a Green Lantern need a spaceship? Hal seems to fly through space using just the ring, yet the guy he gets it from is in a spaceship. Or did the ring make the spaceship?
 
Different answers have been advanced for that over the decades.

In the initial origin back around 1959, the whole story is a just-so kind of thing: this happens, then this happens, then that happens based on fairly flimsy - or at least, simplistic - logic. In 1959, spaceships were super-cool and of course they're the way aliens would get around. It's not established for a while after that first story that Lanterns can fly at superspeeds across the Universe using only their rings; the first time Jordan "visits" Oa it's as a "mind construct" while his body remains on Earth (and the Guardians wipe out the memory afterward!).

Alan Moore came along much later and did a story establishing that Sur had developed a fear that his ring would fail at some crucial moment - he stopped trusting it. There was a lot more to the story, of course, and a sinister reason that the fear came to exist, but it provided a rationale for the ship.

There's yet another, as far as I know new, reason advanced in the movie. From what I read it sounds like it makes simple, straightforward sense.

He's headed off on a mission to evacuate a planet, and needs a humongous ship to carry everyone.
 
Re: Green Lantern E.T. Spot!!!

Wow that looked pretty amazing...I was worried it was going to be too Earth bound. Laid that right to rest.

RAMA
 
Thanks Dennis. I like Moore's explanation and the movie take makes sense. It's rather fun to be going into a comic book flick with next to no knowledge of the source material. I almost feel like an "average movie-goer!"
 
^Yeah, that's more or less how I've gone into most of the comic movies that have come out in the last decade or two. Sometimes I have looked up some stuff on Wikipedia before hand, but it's usually just real basic stuff.
Most of the comics that I've read, I've read after the movie got me curious about the characters.
 
The one thing that bothered me is the mask and the short scene of the alien GL explaining that it's there to hide his identity.

Now i'm no DC expert (Marvel man myself) but i always thought that being a GL was a full time job and highly prestigious so if you were chosen it would occupy your entire time and you wouldn't hack it like Superman for example.

Are there more GLs who wish to keep their identities secret so they can have a "normal" life or is Jordan somewhat uniqe in this?

Otherwise the movie is really growing on me.. even the costume which looked very CGI and fake in the initial trailer is somewhat becoming less annoying.. maybe they worked on the SFX?
 
The one thing that bothered me is the mask ...

But I must say, it's not supposed to look real. The mask is a product of the ring's energy, not something made of latex or something.

and the short scene of the alien GL explaining that it's there to hide his identity.

Now i'm no DC expert (Marvel man myself) but i always thought that being a GL was a full time job and highly prestigious so if you were chosen it would occupy your entire time and you wouldn't hack it like Superman for example.

Are there more GLs who wish to keep their identities secret so they can have a "normal" life or is Jordan somewhat uniqe in this?

Well, as far as I know (I may have read many GL comics, but far from all of them) Hal Jordan was the first Lantern to have a private life. Still, even without such a private life, a secret identity could come in handy to protect the Lantern's family. Similar to how a secret agent would fake his own death to protect his loved ones (don't know if this is what really happens, but in fiction, there are a few examples, like Adam Baldwin's character on "Chuck" or Tom Cruise's character in "Knight & Day").

Otherwise the movie is really growing on me.. even the costume which looked very CGI and fake in the initial trailer is somewhat becoming less annoying.. maybe they worked on the SFX?

Not maybe. WB's marketing president Sue Kroll said so very straight forward.

Sue Kroll as quoted by L.A. Times said:
"Part of the reason the response to the first trailer was lukewarm was that the big-scale sequences weren't ready to show, and we suffered for it," she said. "We can't afford to do that again."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ent...rketing-campaign-delayed-by-effects-work.html
 
The one thing that bothered me is the mask and the short scene of the alien GL explaining that it's there to hide his identity.

Now i'm no DC expert (Marvel man myself) but i always thought that being a GL was a full time job and highly prestigious so if you were chosen it would occupy your entire time and you wouldn't hack it like Superman for example.

Are there more GLs who wish to keep their identities secret so they can have a "normal" life or is Jordan somewhat uniqe in this?

Otherwise the movie is really growing on me.. even the costume which looked very CGI and fake in the initial trailer is somewhat becoming less annoying.. maybe they worked on the SFX?
Plenty of other Lanterns wear or have worn masks. Tomar-Re wore one, so did Arisia, Ch'p, Green Man, etc. The majority probably don't, but masks are not uncommon among Lanterns.
 
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