Green Lantern - Ryan Reynolds costume revealed!

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Reynolds is best known for playing smart ass characters, but he's done some pretty heavy dramatic work, too. Anyway, I'm expecting Hal to be played with a sparkier personality, and more of a sense of humor, in the film than in the comics, just as Tony Stark is. That's to be expected. As long as they don't push it too far it should work out fine.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm willing to give him a chance.

 

[Greg Cox]

Martin Campbell has successfully rebooted the James Bond series twice, and made Zorro cool again. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt where GREEN LANTERN is concerned, up to and including the casting.

Besides, I still remember the lynch mobs when Michael Keaton was cast as Batman. People couldn't see past his previous "smart ass" roles . . . until they saw the actual movie.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Oddly enough it was his Bruce Wayne that didn't work for me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

but what we got with Batman was a brilliant script and outstanding direction which any good actor could have ran with. More importantly, that movie was about Bruce Wayne who dressed up as Batman and not the other way around. Keaton playing a tragic and wrecked human being was superlative (The spellcheck suggested that I may have been trying to spell copulative.).

I findit amusing to no end that it's his role as Deadpool which shows Ryan's broody contemplative side because that script and direction sucked ass leaving the Merc with a Mouth with nothing to say.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I don't really care for the costume at all, but that's my opinion. The thing that bugs me most is that the PTB of the film want the suit to look truly alien and organic, yet there is nothing original or alien about it in any way... it's like he's wearing a giant X-BOX 360 on his body... nothing but the same tired cliche of form-fitting rubber and token green accent lighting to make it look "alien", because obviously, aliens like eerie green light, you know.

They could have done something FAR cooler... especially if they decided it was going to be all CG... for instance... why not have an all green or all-black suit, BUT... whenever the actor's body moves, various parts of the suit begin to change color with the lighting, and become iridescent... going from black to green or vice-versa, as he moves... that would keep the green and black look, yet also convey a feeling of a truly alien material, and not just the typical Hollywood black rubber suit look.

And yes, the "mask" looks like a grade-schooler Photoshopped it on.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Hal Jordan was a well-built muscular hero type, which, as Nerys Myk pointed out, was standard for the day-- and which the links to classic artwork supports.

What the links support - as everyone else has noticed - is that he wasn't at all the "square-jawed," mature or heavily muscled type - not when Kane drew him in the early 1960s.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

...and token green accent lighting to make it look "alien", because obviously, aliens like eerie green light, you know.

Well, the color green is rather inherent in the concept, isn't it? It's not there as a token color to suggest an alien quality. It's there because he's Green Lantern.

Also, I think we really need to see the finished suit in motion before we can really judge it. There's a ton of CGI work still to be done on the film and how well this early still conveys what the suit will look like remains to be seen.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yes lets remove the glowing green energy from a character called Green Lantern.

 

[Nerys Myk]

but what we got with Batman was a brilliant script and outstanding direction which any good actor could have ran with. More importantly, that movie was about Bruce Wayne who dressed up as Batman and not the other way around. Keaton playing a tragic and wrecked human being was superlative (The spellcheck suggested that I may have been trying to spell copulative.).

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My problem with the Burton/Keaton Bruce Wayne is that half the time he seem to be more Clark Kent than Bruce Wayne.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I don't have to wait until the movie comes out... I have seen the photo, and made my judgment. It was obviously close enough to what we will see that the PTB allowed the magazine to print it on the cover.

As for the green light on Green Lantern... again, it doesn't have to be a bunch of green accent lighting... why do you even need lights on your suit? All that does is make you look like you're from TRON, or wearing a freaking X-BOX. It's lame, it's gimmicky, and it's silly. They could have done something far more original.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I like Tron.

 

[Skywalker]

Well, if nothing else, this discussion's piqued my interest in the Green Lantern comics. I just picked up Green Lantern: Rebirth at the comic store today.

 

[Guy Gardener]

but what we got with Batman was a brilliant script and outstanding direction which any good actor could have ran with. More importantly, that movie was about Bruce Wayne who dressed up as Batman and not the other way around. Keaton playing a tragic and wrecked human being was superlative (The spellcheck suggested that I may have been trying to spell copulative.).

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My problem with the Burton/Keaton Bruce Wayne is that half the time he seem to be more Clark Kent than Bruce Wayne.

And int he comics he is supposed to be drunken halfwitted whoring hedonist... It was nice watching the Bale try that out for all of twenty seconds before he bumped into Cruises' abductee afterwhich he's all deer in the headlights for the rest of the flick following her around like a pet monkey.

In the 60s there was an episode of batman where Bruce Wayne was kidnapped by one of the baddies (something to do with painting I think?) and (in exposition to Robin, Bruce explained that)he has to try not to escape effortlessly and when Robin finally crashes the party to rescue his mentor "Bruce" has to kick ass at one third power so as not to raise suspicion.

I thought that was really interesting on the realism front that they were actually making an effort with the double identity.

 

[Nerys Myk]

but what we got with Batman was a brilliant script and outstanding direction which any good actor could have ran with. More importantly, that movie was about Bruce Wayne who dressed up as Batman and not the other way around. Keaton playing a tragic and wrecked human being was superlative (The spellcheck suggested that I may have been trying to spell copulative.).

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My problem with the Burton/Keaton Bruce Wayne is that half the time he seem to be more Clark Kent than Bruce Wayne.

And int he comics he is supposed to be drunken halfwitted whoring hedonist... It was nice watching the Bale try that out for all of twenty seconds before he bumped into Cruises' abductee afterwhich he's all deer in the headlights for the rest of the flick following her around like a pet monkey.

In the 60s there was an episode of batman where Bruce Wayne was kidnapped by one of the baddies (something to do with painting I think?) and (in exposition to Robin, Bruce explained that)he has to try not to escape effortlessly and when Robin finally crashes the party to rescue his mentor "Bruce" has to kick ass at one third power so as not to raise suspicion.

I thought that was really interesting on the realism front that they were actually making an effort with the double identity.

I guess I missed that part of the film or it just didn't register.

I prefer the Bruce Wayne who's a lazy shiftless playboy with too much time and too much money. Not a nebbishy guy in glasses. And it is cool when has to be Batman on the "downlow".

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Well, the color green is rather inherent in the concept, isn't it? It's not there as a token color to suggest an alien quality. It's there because he's Green Lantern.

Yep, there's going to be a lot of green lighting in this movie. Otherwise it's not going to be very much like the comics at all.

Also, I think we really need to see the finished suit in motion before we can really judge it.

That's always necessary in order to get a real sense of how successful costume design is - how these things "move" is essential to how well they actually work. That's probably doubly true with superhero movies - offhand I can't think of a superhero costume other than possibly Iron Man that doesn't look kind of dorky in still photos.

 

[Guy Gardener]

And what about the foreshadowing of Sinestro?

Are we going to see him go bad int he first flick of is he just the big bad with the yellow power ring on the horizon?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Dunno. Anyone read the script?

 

[Skywalker]

No, but if I remember right, rumor is that Sinestro will be Hal's sort-of-mentor figure in the first film, with some building toward his eventual turn to villainy.

 

[Gryffindorian]

I don't get it. Are people saying GL/Hal Jordan shouldn't be buff? But Ryan Reynolds certainly is. He's not skinny, average, or fat. The man is muscular, and it's important to realize there are even varying levels of muscularity (not sure if that's even a word)--lean, athletic, average, bulky, bodybuilder...

Further, I imagine that in the DC and Marvel universes, most superheroes have at least Olympic levels of fitness regardless of their super powers or abilities.