Green Lantern (2011) - We relish dodgy special effects! - General

The movie was pretty damn good if you ignore all the stuff that makes absolutely no sense. Like making a minigun with the ring, or making the AA guns. [editline]19th June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=SteeleCratos;30549450]I went in with no expectations at all, since im not really that familiar with Green Lantern. I sort of liked it. I loved how they did Parallax as a monster of fear, it actually freaked me out a little bit. But some of the acting was shit and the dialogue was bad at some points. aka its ok but not that good.[/QUOTE] Parallax has always been a monster of fear. Also did anyone else stay after the credits I did, saw what happened next miles away.

Just got back, pretty fun movie.

Watched it last night. [I]Man[/I] was that a dumb movie. First of all, and this is a general complaint with the Green Lantern in general, is that you have to be [I]really[/I] unimaginative not to win any battle almost instantly. I mean, what prevents you from imagining a bomb [I]inside[/I] your enemy? Or what about just imagining an explosion? Can you do that? That other alien was able to imagine a sun, why cant you just imagine an explosion in your enemy's face. Or just imagine a giant impenetrable sphere around your enemy and imagine an atomic bomb inside. Second, why the hell were the Lanterns so god damn dumb? [sp]You've got this giant cloud of evil and the idiot from earth is the only one who could think of throwing it into the sun? The combined minds of the entire universe and nobody even thought of throwing it into a star? Hell, why even bother throwing it into a star when you can just make a star with your ring like that alien did. Just have all the lanterns do that and Parallax is dead. Instead they decide to go and try to use fear AGAIN after they already knew for a fact that IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.[/sp] And last [sp]HOW THE FUCK DO JETS WORK IN SPACE?[/sp] That's almost as bad as the sinking ice from GI:Joe. [editline]19th June 2011[/editline] Though I will admit, it wasn't boring. Just really, [I]really[/I] dumb.

The ring creates constructs.

If I was him I'd just imagine an army of monkeys with razor wire for tails, then let them fight for me. And if the enemy was an evil cloud I'd imagine an army of monkeys carrying vacuum cleaners.

They don't really develop Sinestro much, or really any of the characters besides Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris, the other lanterns are in it for about 5 minutes. Though they did a good job of kind of showing what Abin Sur was like even though he was dead.

Just saw it last night with some friends. It was an alright movie, nothing really special. Battle scenes lasted for like 5mins and they were done with off to a normal scene. One of those movies you can only watch once.

[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;30563570]Also did anyone else stay after the credits I did, saw what happened next miles away.[/QUOTE] What? God damn it. They need to stop adding things after the credits.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;30573660]What? God damn it. They need to stop adding things after the credits.[/QUOTE] It was basically [sp]Sinestro putting the yellow ring on and showing his suit turn yellow and his eyes turning yellow[/sp]

[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;30563570]Also did anyone else stay after the credits I did, saw what happened next miles away.[/QUOTE] Dammit I knew I should have stayed.

[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;30573748]It was basically [sp]Sinestro putting the yellow ring on and showing his suit turn yellow and his eyes turning yellow[/sp][/QUOTE] I watched it on youtube [sp]This made no sense in the context of the way his Character was portrayed in the movie, he only wanted the ring to fight Parallax, he had no need for the ring after he was defeated (maybe curiosity), he had no ill intentions. One person commented on the video had a theory WHAT I THINK: this scene doesn't literally happen after the ending events of the movie,* but rather it comes much later so in the sequel Sinestro's still good then they show how he becomes evil and then show this scene like in the middle of the 2nd film or something [/sp]

[QUOTE=Tuskin;30573798]I watched it on youtube [sp]This made no sense in the context of the way his Character was portrayed in the movie, he only wanted the ring to fight Parallax, he had no need for the ring after he was defeated (maybe curiosity), he had no ill intentions. One person commented on the video had a theory WHAT I THINK: this scene doesn't literally happen after the ending events of the movie,* but rather it comes much later so in the sequel Sinestro's still good then they show how he becomes evil and then show this scene like in the middle of the 2nd film or something [/sp][/QUOTE] Yeah I did the same thing, I have to agree.

I watched Green Lantern: First Flight for comparison today. It was also pretty meh, but I think I enjoyed it more than the movie. :geno: [editline]19th June 2011[/editline] It was a lot more true to the characters, but it wasn't terribly believable... Hal gets the ring before the opening credits and adjusts to being an intergalactic space-cop in a matter of minutes. A bit absurd. But yeah, the characters were actually interesting and there was less pointless exposition, so better than the movie.

The thing about the movie is that you do not see Iron Man bashing up The Mandarin in the first movie nor do you see Batman bashing up Bane in his first movie. I mean, this is the guy who corrupted Hal Jordan in his introduction and in this movie Hal Jordan does not feel tempted at all by the power of fear? And the fact that they shit all over the origins of Parallax even worse, he is now[sp]a corrupted Guardian[/sp] what the fuck man In fact, I will repost my review I made for the other thread [sp] Green Lantern 6/10 Movie is entertaining to watch. Acting is alright. Significant artistic license is taken with characters, like Parallax's appearance and its origins as well as Abin Sur's death and a whole host of other things. While people have complained about the CGI being overly used, the frame rate used to play the movie makes it less obvious as compared to the movie stills. Segments of surprise were used well in the start to grab the audience's attention early on but then the movie begins to dull further on. Parallax's manifestation was disappointing as was the fact that they just killed off two of the Green Lantern Corps greatest enemies but they did foreshadow the plot of a possible sequel, namely Sinestro's fall from grace However it has failed to live up to expectations and in general comic book lore in numerous accounts. Unlike a film like Batman Begins which expanded on the general ideas put forward by Batman: Year One and similar stories, Green Lantern takes the stories put forth and twists them rather than expands upon them. It is understandable that a movie would choose to update the story to be more relevant, to appeal to the tastes of audience, like Iron Man, but having Hal Jordan fight and defeat Parallax as his first enemy is pretty ridiculous.[/sp]

Yeah they really did throw the Mythos out the window with this movie which is a shame because Hal Jordan's origin story from the comics is fucking amazing. There was way too much lovey dovey crap in this movie such a generic hero saves the girl storyline to it even though they put a universally challenging bad guy in such as parallax ( who looked shite anyway ) i mean i wish they could have just put Green Lantern secret origins as the story line it was totally possible to make in one movie and it told the origin extremely well. Also Ryan Reynold's performance as Hal was terrible, Hal isn't a fucking douche who would pose and admire himself in a mirror nor would he sit down with Carol and Tom and discuss things, Hal and Carol weren't your typical movie type relationship anyway and that's what made it interesting in the comics the fact it was different from say.......Lois and Clark. And also...........no talking rings........... WTF!? and they didn't even introduce HALF the aliens they should have ( where the fuck was Salaak's introduction!? ) Where the fuck was Kilowogs Ring Slinging Class 101.........( a 2 minute scene doesn't fucking count! ) Where was Hal and Sinestro's development as Mentor/Pupil which puts them on the collision path when Hal visits Korugar and discovers Sinestro really is a tyrant which leads to Sinestro being booted out into the anti-matter universe and creating the Sinestro Corps?..................where was the fucking plot related to the actual Green Lantern Story AT ALL in this movie!? also no talking rings!? no introduction of hardly any of the alien's Hal speaks to ( where the fuck was Salaak's introduction!? )

[QUOTE=Source;30593261]Yeah they really did throw the Mythos out the window with this movie which is a shame because Hal Jordan's origin story from the comics is fucking amazing. There was way too much lovey dovey crap in this movie such a generic hero saves the girl storyline to it even though they put a universally challenging bad guy in such as parallax ( who looked shite anyway ) i mean i wish they could have just put Green Lantern secret origins as the story line it was totally possible to make in one movie and it told the origin extremely well. Also Ryan Reynold's performance as Hal was terrible, Hal isn't a fucking douche who would pose and admire himself in a mirror nor would he sit down with Carol and Tom and discuss things, Hal and Carol weren't your typical movie type relationship anyway and that's what made it interesting in the comics the fact it was different from say.......Lois and Clark. And also...........no talking rings........... WTF!? and they didn't even introduce HALF the aliens they should have ( where the fuck was Salaak's introduction!? ) Where the fuck was Kilowogs Ring Slinging Class 101.........( a 2 minute scene doesn't fucking count! ) Where was Hal and Sinestro's development as Mentor/Pupil which puts them on the collision path when Hal visits Korugar and discovers Sinestro really is a tyrant which leads to Sinestro being booted out into the anti-matter universe and creating the Sinestro Corps?..................where was the fucking plot related to the actual Green Lantern Story AT ALL in this movie!? also no talking rings!? no introduction of hardly any of the alien's Hal speaks to ( where the fuck was Salaak's introduction!? )[/QUOTE] You mentioned the talking rings and Salaaks intro twice.

So I hear this movie's complete shit. If anyone was surprised by this I'd like to punch them in the mouth, it never looked good. [editline]21st June 2011[/editline] also what is it with rong and the word 'relish', it gets a bit weird, especially when he's talking about the scout

If they ever make a sequel it should be based on the 1970s issues where he teams up with Green Arrow and every bad guy is a Nazi.

Just watched it. I found this bit pretty funny [sp]That raptor green lantern is an actual character from the green lantern comic books isn't he? I remember them doing some advertising with that guy awhile back. Yet in the movie, he literally has 2 seconds of screentime before getting killed off by parallex. You'd really think they would want to make better use of actual green lantern characters for something other than getting across how strong parallex is. Also yeah tricking parallex into going into the sun was fucking stupid ahaha[/sp]

If you are into the Green Lantern lore, I suggest: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights. [IMG]http://gyazo.com/c13873be92c370137c111408156ff67a.png[/IMG] [URL][B]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683043/[/B][/URL]

[QUOTE=postal;30622372]Just watched it. I found this bit pretty funny [sp]That raptor green lantern is an actual character from the green lantern comic books isn't he? I remember them doing some advertising with that guy awhile back. Yet in the movie, he literally has 2 seconds of screentime before getting killed off by parallex. You'd really think they would want to make better use of actual green lantern characters for something other than getting across how strong parallex is. Also yeah tricking parallex into going into the sun was fucking stupid ahaha[/sp][/QUOTE] Which green lantern are we talking about? I can't remember the group of GLs that Sinestro took with him.

[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;30622615]Which green lantern are we talking about? I can't remember the group of GLs that Sinestro took with him.[/QUOTE] google says Isomot Kol

I enjoyed this a good amount, but I felt it was lacking. I felt it was literally too short. There should have been more depth on things and longer battles and more details. Some shit just felt like there was little or no reason to it. I basically love Ryan Reynolds to death, so that alone was a small reason to see this for me. A comedy actor in an action film is iffy, but I think Ryan did good.

[sp]ok if one inexperienced green lantern flinging paralax into the sun was all it took to kill him why did they even bother imprisoning him in the first place so stupid[/sp] this movie was fucking abysmal

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Christopher Nolan should write and direct every superhero movie from here on out.

Correction an actual Comic writer should do it, someone who actually know's and understands the characters and lore and appreciates the fans more.

[QUOTE=Source;30651706]Correction an actual Comic writer should do it, someone who actually know's and understands the characters and lore and appreciates the fans more.[/QUOTE] No. [h2] Both.[/h2]

I bashed the movie and trolled about it on the IMDb board

I haven't actually seen the movie yet, so I'm going off what I've heard here. But I think the creators of this movie should have spanned the movie over the course of three movies (as is the norm these days it seems). For instance, the first movie would introduce the characters and consist of Hal Jordan training to be a Lantern on Oa and Earth. This allows the movie to flesh out the characters more and create bonds between them. All the while Hector Hammond would be the main villain while dwelling more into his personal ties with Hal Jordan. Hammond would be the harbinger of the deadly entity of Parallax. After Hammond's defeat he would tell Hal of the power of Parallax and maybe come to terms with each other in the end (but he would die as by some means of their climactic battle. Hal would then mention Parallax's coming to the other Lanterns leaving it off for another movie. The second movie would be where The Lanterns finally face Parallax, but not on Earth and not as a final battle. Parallax would be consuming worlds and Hal and the other Lanterns would defend planets as best they can from Parallax. This movie would also dwell more into the personal connection between Sinestro and Hal and show more of their story coming towards Sinestro's inevitable fall. This is where Sinestro will be trying to convince the Lanterns to use the Ring of Fear/ Yellow Power against Parallax, fleshing out his willingness to do so. Towards the end of this movie is where Sinestro would be consumed by the Yellow Power and becomes partly the villain we know him to be. The third movie would act as the grand finale to the Parallax story. Parallax is heading towards Earth (or Oa) and Hal is trying to convince the Lanterns to stand united on Earth (or Oa) against Parallax, seeing as before they were never strong enough. However, Sinestro, acting somewhat as an avatar for Parallax while also believing he's helping the galaxy and also believing that Hal will doom the galaxy (as he would think that Parallax would slaughter even a united Lantern Corps.) would be trying to destroy Hal Jordan. The fight would span across space and Earth (or Oa) until eventually Hal gets the upper hand and defeats Sinestro. Here Sinestro can either be killed in the ensuing battle or redeem himself against Parallax and does something helpful. Either way, as this final battle between Hal and Sinestro was going on Parallax is well on his way to dominating the Earth (or Oa). Which, as a side note, could call for spectacular backdrops to the final battle and the battle between Sinestro and Hal. But before Parallax can succeed, however, he is ultimately defeated. Either by [sp]being thrown into the sun[/sp] or some other means. I don't know. Like I said, I haven't actually seen the movie, but I think the idea above is what could have made it better. Albeit a very rough idea. I mean, Green Lantern is one of those movies that can be really dear to DC movie franchises in the same way Batman or Superman is. I think they tried doing too much at once without actually trying to flesh it out.