Green Lantern (2011)

[StarTrek1701]

It strikes me as odd so many complain about the yellow muzzle flash, since it's not even directly created by the ring. I'm no expert, but wouldn't the muzzle flash be actually a byproduct of the shooting? I mean, the bullets are ring-created and the gun is ring-created, but they are still bullets and a gun. The muzzle flash is not directly ring-created, but is simply the explosion caused by shooting. If a GL would create a bomb out of ring energy, would the explosion be green?

You fail at Green Lantern 101. Everything the GL's create is by the green plasma / hard light that you see. They don't create any seperate material.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

It strikes me as odd so many complain about the yellow muzzle flash, since it's not even directly created by the ring. I'm no expert, but wouldn't the muzzle flash be actually a byproduct of the shooting? I mean, the bullets are ring-created and the gun is ring-created, but they are still bullets and a gun. The muzzle flash is not directly ring-created, but is simply the explosion caused by shooting. If a GL would create a bomb out of ring energy, would the explosion be green?

You fail at Green Lantern 101. Everything the GL's create is by the green plasma / hard light that you see. They don't create any seperate material.

And you obviously missed the whole point of the muzzle flash not actually being created by the green plasma, but being the visual impression of a physical reaction to what the green plasma is doing (not creating, doing!).

 

[Myasishchev]

I've never personally seen a reference the rings creating chemical substances (that's Firestorm's shtick), but then again they do create black-and-green uniforms.* So whatevs, I guess.

*This always struck me as pretty dumb.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

^ And I've never read they couldn't create chemical substances, so I guess it's a matter of interpretation. Especially with a new interpretation of the character, the movie obviously can set its own rules on such details.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

GL's rings have done some inconsistent things over the decades, to put it mildly. I don't know what the current versions are supposed to be capable of.

At one point in the 1980s they were saying that the rings were capable of anything, limited only by the willpower and imagination of the wielder. As one example, when John Stewart challenged Katma Tui as to why he shouldn't use his ring to simply wipe out racism and bigotry on Earth she responded that since she didn't know what the side effects of changing the personalities of five or six billion people would be that's not something that she would attempt.

More recently we've seen that Lanterns who can sufficiently overcome fear can overcome the "yellow limitation" as well.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

New banner:

http://www.mtv.com/content/news/2011/green_lantern_banner2.jhtml

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And the official one-sheet:

 

[JD]

New banner:

http://www.mtv.com/content/news/2011/green_lantern_banner2.jhtml

Anyone know who the two female aliens and the robot are?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Well, the female on the far left is Boodikka, and the robot's named Stel I believe.

Yeah, these characters each have their own wikipedia page.

 

[Lieut. Arex]

The second female is Ngila Grnt, a character created for the film and named for the costume and production designers. UGO ID's all the Lanterns in the banner here:

http://www.ugo.com/movies/new-green-lantern-pic-lines-up-the-unusual-suspects

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Hmm. Does Grnt have a significant part, or did they just need a second chick for the poster (and poor Blake Lively - I'd put her on the poster!)

Where the fuck is Ch'p? And G'nort?!

 

[Myasishchev]

Where is G'Nort? The world wonders.

Hey, is Mogo in the movie?

 

[Lieut. Arex]

Hmm. Does Grnt have a significant part, or did they just need a second chick for the poster (and poor Blake Lively - I'd put her on the poster!)

Not that I'm aware of.

 

[JD]

On the back of this month's Star Trek magazine is an ad for what appears to be an in universe tie in website for GL. It's called Newton & Dristrict astronomers guild. In it you're supposed to be joining a campaign to get Dr. Amanda Waller and NASA to turn the Spitzer Space Telescope twoards an anomaly that they noticed. I haven't actually been to the site though, because when I try to go to the address it gives in the add, I just get an error.

 

[Myasishchev]

"Doctor" Amanda Waller? At an observatory?

Was Professor Floyd Lawton busy? How about Dean George "Digger" Harkness?

 

[JD]

I was just paraphrasing. Here's the add word for word:

NEWTON & DISTRICT ASTRONOMERS CLUB
HELP US FIND THE TRUTH (Then there is a picture of the Milky Way with a green ring around it, and there are sillohettes of a man looking through a telescope with a woman standing next to him under it)
We're a dedicated team of amature astronomers, and we've recently found an anomaly during our regular survey of the Milky Way.
It's new. It's strange. It needs to be explained.
We know it's important, but the powers-that-be don't want to listen to real people like us. You can change that. Help us convince Dr. Amada Waller to give us access to the NASA Spitzer Space Telescop so we can see what's really up there. Public pressure is what we need.
Do it for Science
And Open Data!
And the Truth!
Join our campaign at: www.newtonastronomers.com
Twinned with: (logo for the) Metropolis Astronomy Society
(logo for the) Gotham Amateur Astronomy Foundation.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

There are a bunch of supposed spoilers up over at Super Hero Hype. Some of these seem a bit much of a muchness, so I'm dubious. Nonetheless, here we go:

Spoiler: Green Lantern

• The Star Sapphire crystal will appear.
• There's a reference to "the prophecy" in the Book of Oa. Probably refering to the war between the Green Lantern Corps and the Sinestro Corps.
• The ring speaks. When Hal first uses it, it says "Voice signature identified. Willpower registed. Ring online."
• Kilowog's power ring makes a cannon-like "BOOM" sound, like in the comic books.
• Hal's constructs include a gattling gun, a giant green hand, a dune buggy, an anti-aircraft gun, a F-18 jet, a sword, giant pulleys and much more.
• Sinestro's trademark weapon is a double-edged Korugarian spear. He also makes a construct of Kilowog at one point.
• The Guardians live in high towers near the Great Hall of Oa. Krona's tower is slightly toppled as a sign of his corruption at Parallax's hands.
• During a battle scene, Hal's and Sinestro's power ring run out of energy, and Sinestro tells Hal to summon his battery from the pocket dimension. Hal says he doesn't know how to do it, and Sinestro asks him if Kilowog never taught him that. Hal says no and Sinestro gruffs before him and Hal unite their rings, opening a small wormhole from where Sinestro pulls his battery. Him and Hal both recharge on it. This is taken almost word-by-word from Geoff Johns' "Secret Origin.
• During the final battle, Parallax tries to possess Hal, but fails. In the process, Hal has a vision of the future, where Coast City has been destroyed and he is the one to blame.
• Hector Hammond tries to steal Hal Jordan's power ring, believing that it can cure his mutation, just as Parallax arrives. It consumes Hammond and tries to use the ring's energy, but fails and then tries to use Hal as a weapon to tap into the nearly unlimited powers of the Green Light of Willpower.

 

[StarTrek1701]

There are a bunch of supposed spoilers up over at Super Hero Hype. Some of these seem a bit much of a muchness, so I'm dubious. Nonetheless, here we go:

Spoiler: Green Lantern

• The Star Sapphire crystal will appear.
• There's a reference to "the prophecy" in the Book of Oa. Probably refering to the war between the Green Lantern Corps and the Sinestro Corps.
• The ring speaks. When Hal first uses it, it says "Voice signature identified. Willpower registed. Ring online."
• Kilowog's power ring makes a cannon-like "BOOM" sound, like in the comic books.
• Hal's constructs include a gattling gun, a giant green hand, a dune buggy, an anti-aircraft gun, a F-18 jet, a sword, giant pulleys and much more.
• Sinestro's trademark weapon is a double-edged Korugarian spear. He also makes a construct of Kilowog at one point.
• The Guardians live in high towers near the Great Hall of Oa. Krona's tower is slightly toppled as a sign of his corruption at Parallax's hands.
• During a battle scene, Hal's and Sinestro's power ring run out of energy, and Sinestro tells Hal to summon his battery from the pocket dimension. Hal says he doesn't know how to do it, and Sinestro asks him if Kilowog never taught him that. Hal says no and Sinestro gruffs before him and Hal unite their rings, opening a small wormhole from where Sinestro pulls his battery. Him and Hal both recharge on it. This is taken almost word-by-word from Geoff Johns' "Secret Origin.
• During the final battle, Parallax tries to possess Hal, but fails. In the process, Hal has a vision of the future, where Coast City has been destroyed and he is the one to blame.
• Hector Hammond tries to steal Hal Jordan's power ring, believing that it can cure his mutation, just as Parallax arrives. It consumes Hammond and tries to use the ring's energy, but fails and then tries to use Hal as a weapon to tap into the nearly unlimited powers of the Green Light of Willpower.

Think they are all just making stuff up from Secret Origins.

 

[Gov Kodos]

There are a bunch of supposed spoilers up over at Super Hero Hype. Some of these seem a bit much of a muchness, so I'm dubious. Nonetheless, here we go:

Spoiler: Green Lantern

• The Star Sapphire crystal will appear.
• There's a reference to "the prophecy" in the Book of Oa. Probably refering to the war between the Green Lantern Corps and the Sinestro Corps.
• The ring speaks. When Hal first uses it, it says "Voice signature identified. Willpower registed. Ring online."
• Kilowog's power ring makes a cannon-like "BOOM" sound, like in the comic books.
• Hal's constructs include a gattling gun, a giant green hand, a dune buggy, an anti-aircraft gun, a F-18 jet, a sword, giant pulleys and much more.
• Sinestro's trademark weapon is a double-edged Korugarian spear. He also makes a construct of Kilowog at one point.
• The Guardians live in high towers near the Great Hall of Oa. Krona's tower is slightly toppled as a sign of his corruption at Parallax's hands.
• During a battle scene, Hal's and Sinestro's power ring run out of energy, and Sinestro tells Hal to summon his battery from the pocket dimension. Hal says he doesn't know how to do it, and Sinestro asks him if Kilowog never taught him that. Hal says no and Sinestro gruffs before him and Hal unite their rings, opening a small wormhole from where Sinestro pulls his battery. Him and Hal both recharge on it. This is taken almost word-by-word from Geoff Johns' "Secret Origin.
• During the final battle, Parallax tries to possess Hal, but fails. In the process, Hal has a vision of the future, where Coast City has been destroyed and he is the one to blame.
• Hector Hammond tries to steal Hal Jordan's power ring, believing that it can cure his mutation, just as Parallax arrives. It consumes Hammond and tries to use the ring's energy, but fails and then tries to use Hal as a weapon to tap into the nearly unlimited powers of the Green Light of Willpower.

Think they are all just making stuff up from Secret Origins.

At a quick glance, and not a GL reader, it comes across like a comic fan's idea of cool stuff to happen rather than ideas for a film's plot or ideas for following films. Certainly nothing a general audience person would go wow over.

 

[Myasishchev]

I was just paraphrasing. Here's the add word for word:

NEWTON & DISTRICT ASTRONOMERS CLUB
HELP US FIND THE TRUTH (Then there is a picture of the Milky Way with a green ring around it, and there are sillohettes of a man looking through a telescope with a woman standing next to him under it)
We're a dedicated team of amature astronomers, and we've recently found an anomaly during our regular survey of the Milky Way.
It's new. It's strange. It needs to be explained.
We know it's important, but the powers-that-be don't want to listen to real people like us. You can change that. Help us convince Dr. Amada Waller to give us access to the NASA Spitzer Space Telescop so we can see what's really up there. Public pressure is what we need.
Do it for Science
And Open Data!
And the Truth!
Join our campaign at: www.newtonastronomers.com
Twinned with: (logo for the) Metropolis Astronomy Society
(logo for the) Gotham Amateur Astronomy Foundation.

No, it's just strange, because Amanda Waller is a hard-ass intelligence community administrator, who runs, among other things, the Suicide Squad, a government-sponsored superhuman strike force comprised of captured villains, such as Deadshot and Captain Boomerang, who've made a deal to fight for America in exchange for reduced sentences.

Suicide Squad would be a pretty good movie. So would Secret Six.