Green Lantern (2011)

[Captain Craig]

Well, unless one of us is supposed to see it in preview before Friday I think we might as well wait a day or two.

My sneak is tomorrow. If nothings up(Grading/Review thread) by Thursday then I'll start one. My work schedule is 'loose' on Thursday so aka 'net time is more likely to happen.

A majority of people about the net on the various boards I hit, including the DC boards, have been the most skeptical of GL so these early unembargoed unimpressive reviews are not shocking. Is it fair to read into Warners keeping them suppressed when all the other summer tentpoles to date had reviews out at this point with a RT score already building?

Like the rest of us I want this to be good for a variety of factors, I'll tomorrow night.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

My sneak is tomorrow. If nothings up(Grading/Review thread) by Thursday then I'll start one. My work schedule is 'loose' on Thursday so aka 'net time is more likely to happen.

Sounds good.

A majority of people about the net on the various boards I hit, including the DC boards, have been the most skeptical of GL so these early unembargoed unimpressive reviews are not shocking. Is it fair to read into Warners keeping them suppressed when all the other summer tentpoles to date had reviews out at this point with a RT score already building?
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Sure, it's fair. Warners has an enormous amount riding on this movie. They're unwilling to take any chances if they expect or know that the critical reception is going to be soft. And it's not like there's a big downside for them to playing it safe with negative press - we may forget that most people have no idea about review embargoes and so forth, so it doesn't contribute to a negative vibe about the movie with the general audience.

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[Captain Craig]

So the film is likely to have price tag of $300m (some guess work on promotion costs it seems).

So if you're Warner Bros, you have to be worried that the world now knows that, reportedly, "Green Lantern" cost $300 million. That's not meant to be impressive; the pre-release discussion of a number that big is meant to signal that your movie is probably in trouble.
Yes, it's all about expectations. If the Reynolds experiment pays off and "Green Lantern" is huge, nobody will remember how much it cost to make. But if it tanks, we'll be hearing that $300 million figure over and over again the rest of the summer. The studio is offering the film in both 2D and 3D. They're probably praying everybody picks the latter option.

 

[Dream]

It would be funny as hell if this movie ended up making like 100 million for the first weekend and got like 96% rating at Rottentomatoes. I guess that probably is too much to hope for.

I remember how shocked the fans were when Iron Man accomplished all that.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Well, unless one of us is supposed to see it in preview before Friday I think we might as well wait a day or two.

My sneak is tomorrow. If nothings up(Grading/Review thread) by Thursday then I'll start one. My work schedule is 'loose' on Thursday so aka 'net time is more likely to happen.

A majority of people about the net on the various boards I hit, including the DC boards, have been the most skeptical of GL so these early unembargoed unimpressive reviews are not shocking. Is it fair to read into Warners keeping them suppressed when all the other summer tentpoles to date had reviews out at this point with a RT score already building?

Like the rest of us I want this to be good for a variety of factors, I'll tomorrow night.

I will also be at an advanced screening for GL tomorrow night.

 

[bryce]

judging by the trailers and promos...I'm just....underwhelmed. The movie looks silly and cheesy to me - and I'm a die-hard scifi fan, so it takes a LOT to make me lose my ability to suspend disbelief.

I'm not really impressed by Ryan Reynolds - when they overlooked actor more suited to the character like Nathan Fillion, for the 'young, hot' brainless douchbag actor, that pretty much colored my impression of the film right from the start - so I was already jaded before the first trailer...so the phony CGI suit and cartoon aliens and alien planet scene...just...bored me. (Even avatar didn't overwhelm me...this...this just looks like video game cut scenes...)

Movies are expensive - especially if you have kids - and there just aren't that many movies I can *afford* to see first-run in theaters anymore (most often we wait until they hit the cheap theaters, where we see them at a * early bird* matinee - so I can afford to take myself and up to 5 kids!)...so a movie has to really look great for me to spend out the money to see it in theaters at all - and it has to be something along the lines of Harry Potter good for me to fork out the mega-$$$ to see it first run the week it comes out...and this...just ain't that.

 

[Broccoli]

Whether this movie is good or not, doesn't make much of a difference to me. I'm really not much of a GL fan, so I'm not all that invested in it.

However, I do hope it makes a ton of money at the box office, as I have a feeling that GL's success will open the door for other DC superheroes to get a movie.

Basically, I want a Flash movie.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Whether this movie is good or not, doesn't make much of a difference to me. I'm really not much of a GL fan, so I'm not all that invested in it.

However, I do hope it makes a ton of money at the box office, as I have a feeling that GL's success will open the door for other DC superheroes to get a movie.

Basically, I want a Flash movie.

I would like that.
But, I don't need no stinkin' Speed Force spoiling it.
(By that I mean, not EVERY bit of the Flash needs to be in there... a simple strong story is what I want.)

 

[JD]

I'm really shocked that there hasn't been a Flash movie yet.

 

[Broccoli]

Whether this movie is good or not, doesn't make much of a difference to me. I'm really not much of a GL fan, so I'm not all that invested in it.

However, I do hope it makes a ton of money at the box office, as I have a feeling that GL's success will open the door for other DC superheroes to get a movie.

Basically, I want a Flash movie.

I would like that.
But, I don't need no stinkin' Speed Force spoiling it.
(By that I mean, not EVERY bit of the Flash needs to be in there... a simple strong story is what I want.)

Oh, I agree. I'd love to see a Barry Allen Flash movie with Jay Garrick in an supporting mentor-type role. Maybe introduce Wally and/or other speedsters in later installments if the story calls for it.

Honestly, (and this would never happen) I can see a movie revolving solely around the Rogues. I think that group is interesting enough to support their own story.

 

[Dream]

Come on, a movie about a guy that has the power to run super fast? How popular would that really be?

 

[Broccoli]

^ Only if it was done in slow motion!

 

[Professor Zoom]

I'm really shocked that there hasn't been a Flash movie yet.

I don't know...

... there WAS a TV show, it only lasted a season. It was fun, but no ratings winner... maybe that was a part of the decision to go with GL first.

OR, GL had a script in a better shape than a Flash script.

Whether this movie is good or not, doesn't make much of a difference to me. I'm really not much of a GL fan, so I'm not all that invested in it.

However, I do hope it makes a ton of money at the box office, as I have a feeling that GL's success will open the door for other DC superheroes to get a movie.

Basically, I want a Flash movie.

I would like that.
But, I don't need no stinkin' Speed Force spoiling it.
(By that I mean, not EVERY bit of the Flash needs to be in there... a simple strong story is what I want.)

Oh, I agree. I'd love to see a Barry Allen Flash movie with Jay Garrick in an supporting mentor-type role. Maybe introduce Wally and/or other speedsters in later installments if the story calls for it.

I don't know if I even need Jay...maybe. I get nervous when they add and add all this mythology to a story to appease... someone... not sure who... rather than a strong story one can expand on. I fear things (the story) could get weighed down with so many things needed to be explained in order to be in the movie.

Honestly, (and this would never happen) I can see a movie revolving solely around the Rogues. I think that group is interesting enough to support their own story.

DC should do a cartoon movie of them.

^ Only if it was done in slow motion!

Calling Zack Synder....

 

[Broccoli]

^ Re: Jay. It depends on what the story calls for. I can see using the mentor trope if the story needs a mentor character (like Ra's in Batman Begins - except not evil; or, to a lesser extent, Uncle Ben). If anything, I can see Jay being the one who explains to Barry (and the audience) what is going on with the super speed.

Then again, I am a big Jay Garrick fan, so I would welcome his addition.

 

[Dream]

Two mixed reviews from Variety and the Hollywood Reporter.

An attempt to infuse an earnest piece of comicbook lore with an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek sensibility yields decidedly mixed results in "Green Lantern." Starring a ripped, wisecracking Ryan Reynolds as the greenest member of a mighty intergalactic league of superheroes, helmer Martin Campbell's visually lavish sci-fi adventure is a highly unstable alloy of the serious, the goofy and the downright derivative. Sans Batman/Superman-level name recognition, this risky DC Comics franchise launcher will rep a real test of Warners' marketing muscle, though it functions well enough as eye-popping spectacle to appeal to summer moviegoers beyond its core constituency of salivating fanboys.

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117945442/

At least for some members of the public, Green Lantern will prompt the question of how many more comics-based superheroes with awesome powers and responsibilities we really need. Dramatically tart in certain scenes but more often just spinning its wheels doing variations on similar moments from previous episodes in the lives of likewise endowed relatives in the DC and Marvel universes, Warner Bros.' attempt to launch a major new fantasy action hero franchise serves up all the requisite elements with enough self-deprecating humor to suggest it doesn't take itself too seriously. But familiarity may begin to breed creeping signs of contempt, if not in immediate negative box office results then in a general fatigue with such enterprises that's bound to set in sooner or later.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/green-lantern-film-review-201389

 

[trekkiebaggio]

Review from Empire

2/5 stars

Martin Campbell made Zorro and Bond work as contemporary heroes, but doesn’t quite have the feel for poor old Hal Jordan. Green Lantern is dazzling in pieces, but we’ve seen too many sharper versions of the superhero origin story in the last few years. It’s not Jonah Hex, but the battery runs low too quickly.

 

[Dream]

Yikes! A very negative review from Hitfix.

First, there's no way my boys are seeing it. The movie in general appears to be written for eight-year-olds, which is appropriate, and a smart move. But Parallax and Hector Hammond, the villains of the film, seem to be in a different film, a much more inappropriate film about a giant weird turd cloud with the head of the Wizard Of Oz that sucks the skeletons out of people before they explode, and his human assistant who grows a disgusting Elephant Man head in scenes where he screams in pain and writhes on the floor like it's a David Cronenberg film. Second, I don't think is the first building block of a world I want to spend more time in. Unless there are some big choices made behind the scenes on a second film, I don't have any faith in this as a franchise, much less step one in the DC Universe. Third, this is not the role for Reynolds, and it's not his fault. The marketing is more successful than the movie, and made promises the movie just can't fulfill. Martin Campbell is as wrong for this film as he was right for "Casino Royale." In general, I was deflated and depressed by the film I saw.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/review-awkward-uneven-green-lantern-packs-no-punch

 

[Captaindemotion]

As I said in the Thor thread, I think the underwhelming, though solid, takes for Thor and X-Men FC suggest a degree of fatigue with comic book movies on the part of the public. Given the generally postive reviews for those movies (X-Men in particular), this doesn't bode well for GL, who has less recognition and whose previews aren't overly favourable. Having said that, I'm definitely there unless it starts getting Battlefield Earth type reviews - I think it looks great.

 

[trekkiebaggio]

^Although, I think the draw of Ryan Reynolds will help balance out the low recognition of the Green Lantern name. I know a fair few people who are going to see it just because of him, including my sister who has little to no interest in superheroes.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

This film is the kind of crap that is passing for sci fi entertainment. I really miss the days when real thought was put into sci fi films, and I come away with an experience utterly unforgettable, because of all the innovation that was put into the story and execution. Now it's all C G friggin I.