You know, although I'm not actually keen on superheroes using guns, I'm glad to see he's actually creating something with his ring instead of just shooting energy blasts.
Green Lantern (2011)
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You know, although I'm not actually keen on superheroes using guns, I'm glad to see he's actually creating something with his ring instead of just shooting energy blasts.
Nah. Katma Tui was the hottest all Green Lanterns. (As a marginal Lantern character better served when she's not in it, Tora doesn't count, right?)
You mean Arisia after she was retconned not to be jailbait because 1980s Hal Jordan is the proto-Neelix? Yeah, that's grokkable.
And as much as I hate to give this impending disaster any credit, Tomar-Re--and the background Lanterns in general--look spectacular. And I will give them points for being creative with Hal's weird costume.
Kai "the spy" said:
Personally, I don't care if former Air Force pilot Hal Jordan uses a gun. That's normal. If he flew around in a green B-1B and hit people with emerald SRAMs, it'd be charming and visually interesting. But how does Hal make a yellow muzzle flash with green plasma? Is it real gunpowder? Is Parallax in the gun? This is a nerdy question, but I just want to understand the thought process behind a deliberate decision like that which immediately throws you out of the image because it can't help but be questioned.
You've read the comics right? Because thats what GLs do.
I'm wondering this too.
Tomar-Re is cool. I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this movie.
It could be a matter of which shots are more finished. My guess, though, is that Jordan has more character interaction with Tomar and possibly Sinestro than with Kilowog. We'll see Kilowog in his capacity as boot camp training sergeant.
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Yep, saw those commercials during Wipeout and the NBC comedies (though the sound in the latter was kinda muted for some weird reason). They really hit the space stuff hard, which I thought was interesting.
This is a big deal because... ?
This is a big deal because... ?
He's allergic to the color yellow.
For a long time the "yellow weakness" was a very literal Big Deal in the GL mythology. Geoff Johns has retconned that, most explicitly in his "Secret Origin: Green Lantern" series. In that story, in a desperate fight Jordan uses his power against something yellow and afterward can't duplicate the event nor convince Sinestro (who is also a skeptic on the subject of the "yellow impurity") that it happened. Things Are Not As They've Been Told. This movie may or may not be referencing that.
Years later (with the current GL continuity) the Lanterns find out the truth behind the whole "yellow weakness" put-up job on the part of the Guardians.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern
Yellow is a well known Green Lantern weakness. It's referenced in most of my Green Lantern comics. What is evidently Parallax in the film looks yellow. It's reasonable to wonder about a yellow effect on Hal's power field.
One of the first moments in which Sinestro regards Jordan as anything other than a waste of time is when Jordan asks "Why yellow?" and points out that the limitation doesn't make any sense. Sinestro concedes that he's of a similar opinion and has gotten into trouble with the Guardians for suggesting that they deliberately built it into the rings for some reason.
Maybe this has something to do with why the ring chose Hal.
Oa smells funny because the Guardians adopt all those damned cats.
I guess they didn't want the "ancient aliens" to look like a bunch of hobbit-sized Ben Gurion clones...but I hope they can pry "Baris" away from the Bingo table long enough to save the Universe.
I guess they didn't want the "ancient aliens" to look like a bunch of hobbit-sized Ben Gurion clones...but I hope they can pry "Baris" away from the Bingo table long enough to save the Universe.
I notice that there's a consumer warning on some of these toys indicating that they're not for kids under three years old: "Warning - Small Parts May Be Generated."
What an indirect, obtuse way of saying "If a little kid plays with this, it'll break."
What an indirect, obtuse way of saying "If a little kid plays with this, it'll break."
Gotcha. I can see why the fearless thing is so important: wetting yourself could cause a serious wardrobe malfunction.
Well, forgetting the yellow impurity, it's just weird that he's generating yellow light. And it's not like it's a proper mistake, that they forgot to green up an actual blank being fired. That's all CGI, right? That means someone made a considered artistic decision to make it yellow. Now, personally, I don't attribute to foreshadowing what can be explained by stupidity, so I don't really think he's shooting Parallax at his enemies, just that it's a VFX error.
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