Green Lantern (2011)

[Gov Kodos]

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This didn't make me interested at all. I can't see what would draw in anyone who is not a Green Lantern fan.

The big drawback is the lead, it come across like they got Woody Allen to play John McClane in Die Hard, it feels that kind of miscasting.

 

[SeerSGB]

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Well it's...well it's something. I've a GL fan and was looking forward to this movie. The trailer just feels to Smallville, to CW for my tastes. It might be alright for a TV movie or a series pilot, but I want something...Epic, big, grand, massive in scope for a GL movie. Might check it out on DVD or Itunes but I doubt I'll see it the theater.

 

[Icemizer]

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I really like the look of the costume and feel it captures that made out of light look way better than an actual physical costume ever would. I mean the ring creates his costume out of light and it would look like its just floating over him and the cgi does that perfectly.

 

[Captaindemotion]

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This didn't make me interested at all. I can't see what would draw in anyone who is not a Green Lantern fan.

The big drawback is the lead, it come across like they got Woody Allen to play John McClane in Die Hard, it feels that kind of miscasting.

Of course, there were those at the time who wondered why the lead in DH was being played by a wise-cracking tv comedy actor, who was somewhat skinny when compared to the conventional 80s action men like Arnie and Sly ...

 

[Gov Kodos]

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This didn't make me interested at all. I can't see what would draw in anyone who is not a Green Lantern fan.

The big drawback is the lead, it come across like they got Woody Allen to play John McClane in Die Hard, it feels that kind of miscasting.

Of course, there were those at the time who wondered why the lead in DH was being played by a wise-cracking tv comedy actor, who was somewhat skinny when compared to the conventional 80s action men like Arnie and Sly ...

I was there, I caught him in Moonlighting and the film just seemed like an extension of that character. A better analogy might be Keaton as Batman, though I didn't have a problem with it once I saw the previews, unlike this one. ( Though, perhaps perversely, I think a young Woody Allen would make a better Green Lantern than this guy.)

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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I really like the look of the costume and feel it captures that made out of light look way better than an actual physical costume ever would. I mean the ring creates his costume out of light and it would look like its just floating over him and the cgi does that perfectly.

Agreed.

Reynolds has a likeable personna, an openness, and brings some relatability to this whole thing. That probably means little to fanbois, who tend to throw around "iconic" as a synonym for "stuffy and familiar," but considering the extent to which this film involves interactions between Reynolds and heavily made-up and CG'd characters in weird landscapes it will matter in reaching a broader audience.

 

[Captaindemotion]

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^ I can't understand how some people will say that Robert Downey Jr is exactly like the Tony Stark of the comic books then say that RR is totally wrong for Hal Jordan. The Tony Stark I used to read was much more serious, even sombre at times and had more of an Errol Flynn look to him than RDJ's more lived-in looks. I'd take the RDJ version over him anyday. And while I know little about the Jordan of the comics, I'm quite happy with Reynolds' Downey-esque wise-cracking off-beat charisma.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

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Being a teaser, it all flashed by too quickly for me to get an idea of the tone, but I have to say that for all of the complaints about Reynolds, he seems much more earnest in the role than I expected him to be. He's not winking at the camera or anything like that, which is a relief.

 

[davejames]

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Reynolds has a likeable personna, an openness, and brings some relatability to this whole thing. That probably means little to fanbois, who tend to throw around "iconic" as a synonym for "stuffy and familiar," but considering the extent to which this film involves interactions between Reynolds and heavily made-up and CG'd characters in weird landscapes it will matter in reaching a broader audience.

Agreed. I know a lot of the diehards are complaining right now, but personally I think it's cool to finally see a Hal Jordan who's got some freakin personality, and seems to be reacting to his new situation like any real person WOULD. The noble, square-jawed stiff of the comics and cartoons just never really worked for me.

 

[Gov Kodos]

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Reynolds has a likeable personna, an openness, and brings some relatability to this whole thing. That probably means little to fanbois, who tend to throw around "iconic" as a synonym for "stuffy and familiar," but considering the extent to which this film involves interactions between Reynolds and heavily made-up and CG'd characters in weird landscapes it will matter in reaching a broader audience.

Agreed. I know a lot of the diehards are complaining right now, but personally I think it's cool to finally see a Hal Jordan who's got some freakin personality, and seems to be reacting to his new situation like any real person WOULD. The noble, square-jawed stiff of the comics and cartoons just never really worked for me.

That's the point for me, there is no personality. The actor conveys nothing. In the costume appearance scene the two actors could be interchanged to the same effect. This film strikes me like the Shadow and the Phantom, fans will have a lot to enjoy but there is not enough to bring in general audience viewers.

 

[Lt. Trull]

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its called suspension of belief... if you can't then any movie you watch is going to be lacking.... I can... so this movie as it stands now, looks fantastic... so if you can't handle that I don't specifically care.... this movie looks great... nice special effects... if it has a half way decent story then I think the movie will be a success...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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The actor conveys nothing.

I'm having a different experience.

In any event, I'd pay cash money to see Woody Allen in a Die Hard movie - I was never moved to buy tickets to any of them. Caught a couple on cable.

The trailer's being very well received on Facebook.

 

[JacksonArcher]

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I hear Mark Zuckerberg is a big fan of Ryan Reynolds.

 

[Myasishchev]

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Yeah, I was never for Blake Lively when she was cast, and she didn't really impress me in that trailer. In some circles, she's being described as "Blake Lifeless" which is a pretty apt nickname if you ask me.

That was easily one of the worst line readings, in a trailer, that I've ever seen.

I sort of dig Reynolds' crypto-Kyle Rayner, however.*

And yeah, this movie looks cheap, but that's always been the very least of my worries about it, since crappy CGI is salvageable through the (presumably cheaper) factors good scripting and good acting... but other than Reynolds doing his damnedest, this hasn't shown much of either.

Of course, I withhold final judgment.

*You know, I was listening to the Savage Critics podcast and Graeme McMillan proposed the idea that it would have possibly been more interesting to use Kyle Rayner, not because of the character, but because of the point that represents in the Green Lantern history--everyone is dead, you're the last of the Green Lanterns, and the guy that you're replacing, he's the one who killed them all, best of luck. I doubt most people would dig this, but I thought that idea had a real "A New Hope" feel to it--evil has already triumphed, and the hero is the only one left in the way. Maybe it would play pretty well, after all, Star Wars wasn't unsuccessful, as I recall.

 

[Shazam!]

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Also, is the dude who goes 'Wow!' Pieface?

I demand an answer.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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*You know, I was listening to the Savage Critics podcast and Graeme McMillan proposed the idea that it would have possibly been more interesting to use Kyle Rayner, not because of the character, but because of the point that represents in the Green Lantern history--everyone is dead, you're the last of the Green Lanterns, and the guy that you're replacing, he's the one who killed them all, best of luck.

Why the fuck would the audience care about what had happened to this "Green Lantern Corps" they've never heard of, or what the nature of this "evil" which has triumphed over this never-seen "good" is? Go ahead and waste twenty minutes on some generic exposition. As dramatic narrative, backstory sucks.

Kyle Rayner represents the emo worst of fanboyism. He failed as a comic book hero and there's no reason to think he'd do better in the movies.

 

[ElScoob]

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Also, is the dude who goes 'Wow!' Pieface?

I demand an answer.

I'm virtually certain it is. In the draft of the script I read, Pie serves in his classic role of Hal's confidant/semi-sidekick, though he's been updated from an aircraft mechanic to a video-game playing, SF-loving IT geek type (who is probably more excited by the prospect of alien worlds and technologies than Hal is). I don't know who else it could be.

--g

 

[Myasishchev]

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*You know, I was listening to the Savage Critics podcast and Graeme McMillan proposed the idea that it would have possibly been more interesting to use Kyle Rayner, not because of the character, but because of the point that represents in the Green Lantern history--everyone is dead, you're the last of the Green Lanterns, and the guy that you're replacing, he's the one who killed them all, best of luck.

Why the fuck would the audience care about what had happened to this "Green Lantern Corps" they've never heard of, or what the nature of this "evil" which has triumphed over this never-seen "good" is? Go ahead and waste twenty minutes on some generic exposition. As dramatic narrative, backstory sucks.

Why fuck would the audience care what had happened to this "Jedi Order"?

Or, for that matter, "Sauron"? Or "Pandora"? Or "the Federation"?

That's a profoundly silly objection. No audience is going to have heard of anything until they watch the movie. In media res is a tested and successful method of beginning a story, and technically the only way, except for stories that start with the protagonists' birth*, or even more ludicrously, the beginning of fucking time. Gotta start somewhere, and it seems to me that starting with an identifiable danger already established is probably preferable than trying to toss some random, stereotypically skeevy telepath in during the second act.

*It does work for Superman. But no one wants to see Hal Jordan or Kyle Rayner eat their paste in grade school.

Kyle Rayner represents the emo worst of fanboyism

How about Guy Gardner? I'd watch the hell out of that.

 

[RAMA]

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Just saw the higher resolution trailer for the first time...I LIKE it! I'm glad they introduced aliens of other sectors and Oa because I was worried they were going to think all Earth and low scale.

RAMA

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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The main thing that strikes me about what they've showed this far is that it's almost insanely faithful to the designs and style of the GL comics, from the uniforms to the aliens to the "feel" of travel between worlds, etc. Yeah, it's a lot more specific and has a much-needed injection of "weird" into the look, particularly where Oa is concerned, but they've got the spirit of the thing down...even to the postures in which the Lanterns hover in the air above Oa.