Green Lantern movie might reboot
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Most character arcs in movies in general, particularly commercial studio movies, tend to be pretty simplistic, or simple, to put it in a non-pejorative form, but simple arcs can still be compelling if done well.
Captain America was a strong character story - it wasn't about Steve Rogers beginning as one kind of person and learning better, as is often the case, but in a sense about him meeting the challenge of growing up while remaining true to who he always was.
It's important, naturally, that who Rogers was from the beginning was someone we could cheer for. That's not the case with either Stark or Jordan. Nor is there any really strong rooting interest in a faux-Norse god.
It's important, naturally, that who Rogers was from the beginning was someone we could cheer for. That's not the case with either Stark or Jordan. Nor is there any really strong rooting interest in a faux-Norse god.
Kyle was a waste of a decade, a mistake that DC finally recognized and that Geoff Johns made right.
Isn't Rayner still hanging around as Third-ring-from-the-left in the Rainbow Lanterns book?
It seems that you and I sit at the complete opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to all things Green Lantern.
Yeah, it's about him always thinking he had more to give and then when presented with the tools to do so not to shy away but rise to the challenge.
Loads. Unless you mean human ones?
Yeah, but that was such an alien environment to Thor that I bought the impact it would have on him. You have to realise that it's not like you or I going to another country or something.
I think if you literally went and hung out on another planet it would change you pretty significantly.
Yes, I mean human ones that have ever been main characters.
Well there was Jade. She's technically meta-human already, but she was a Green Lantern for a time. She apparently no longer exists post New52, though.
There have been plenty of humanoid female Green Lanterns, though. Katma Tui (who was John Stewart's wife until her death,) Soranik Natu, Arisia Rrab, Laira, Iolande, Boodikka, and Brik just off the top of my head. Almost all of them qualify for "main character" status as the Green Lantern Corps book has long been an ensemble book.
Jade is going to have a hell of a time eventually existing in the new 52.
Her dad likes boys.
Her dad likes boys.
Agreed, I thought that was one of the most interesting points of the movie.
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Plus he was disoriented by all the Dutch angles.
Plus he was disoriented by all the Dutch angles.
You really don't understand what turns a modern man on the go on.
I'll grant you the other points you mentioned about Fillion (and I've trimmed), but
Fun fact, Smith is 3 years older than Fillion. Fillion may have other reason's he's unfit for the role of Hal, but age ain't one of them.
As for the direction the next movie takes, I think the problem with GL is that it is a mix of science-fiction and super-heroics. Unfortunately, a film really doesn't have time to embrace both halfs and do it well, which I think is why the first movie fell flat. Either they need to center it on Earth and tone down the sci-fi elements (ie the space stuff) or they need to set it in space and embrace the sci-fi stuff.
As was debated in the New-52 thread, Hal's cosmic villains, especially Sinestro are infinitely more interesting than his Earth-based villains, Hector Hammond included, but especially "winners" such as Polaris, Sonar, Goldface, pre-Johns Black Hand (who's gimmick, aside from a "cosmic divining rod" that sucked up GL energy, was a penchant for cliches), etc.
And I didn't discuss either of their ages - I posted that "Fillion comes across...as way too old," and he does. More importantly, Smith's career positioning and Fillion's are very different.
That is probably true. Makes sense.
And the solution to that, if the producers agree (I do), will be to bring Sinestro here to Earth to directly threaten the planet.
My problem with the Green Lantern movie was the ending. It was just Hal, and it felt like he was just saving a few people, rather than the whole earth. It didn't make any sense that no other lanterns came to help.
What i would have done was have at least a couple of other Lanterns with Hal, fighting Parallax, possibly 1 or 2 dying, sacrificing themselves. What we needed to see was Hal prove how he is the greatest green Lantern. One way would be much more creative ways to use the ring. What should make us puny humans significant is our creativity, and thinking up crazy ideas and solutions.
The ending of green Lantern felt like the 1st half of the recent Flash Gordon series, while the beginning of the movie was the show's second half.
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What i would have done was have at least a couple of other Lanterns with Hal, fighting Parallax, possibly 1 or 2 dying, sacrificing themselves. What we needed to see was Hal prove how he is the greatest green Lantern. One way would be much more creative ways to use the ring. What should make us puny humans significant is our creativity, and thinking up crazy ideas and solutions.
The ending of green Lantern felt like the 1st half of the recent Flash Gordon series, while the beginning of the movie was the show's second half.
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There wan't a big bad.
It was just space herpies.
And no Green Lantern had never used a gravity well as a weapon?
It was just space herpies.
And no Green Lantern had never used a gravity well as a weapon?
Well, there are all kinds of "alien planets," too, and as such environs go this one isn't particularly forbidding. Thor ain't George Taylor, friendless and speechless on a desolate mysterious world where he's caged by apes. Thor knows this planet, holds it in some contempt, and also knows that he can split the skulls of five or six hundred random human beings if at any point he starts feeling a little twitchy. The good-looking womenfolk here adore him, smart folk are fascinated by him and attempts by the primates here to thwart and imprison him are...not terribly successful.
He even likes the coffee.
