Escape to the Movies: Green Lantern
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Should read Blackest Night anyway, everything is better with Blackest Night.Boba Frag said:Now there's the sound of betrayal...
I was getting so stoked for this, but I think I'll delay my viewing of it a bit.
I still want to see it, but I was never going to bother with the 3D.
I think I'll read Blackest Night soon after seeing it,though. I'll probably need it to cheer me up
haha! Absolutely, I just don't own it... YET!messy said:Should read Blackest Night anyway, everything is better with Blackest Night.Boba Frag said:Now there's the sound of betrayal...
I was getting so stoked for this, but I think I'll delay my viewing of it a bit.
I still want to see it, but I was never going to bother with the 3D.
I think I'll read Blackest Night soon after seeing it,though. I'll probably need it to cheer me up
Well, I think this is an issue of Bob REALLY REALLY hoping the film would be good and being disappointed because everyone phoned it in. For me I expected the film to be phoned in when I first read that Ryan Reynolds was going to be Hal Jordan. After the trailers I expected the Maverick rip off and so for me I thought that it was good, you know the same way that Sarah Palin is good as long as she doesn't fall on her face tripping over the bar we set for her.... So yeah, low expectations make an otherwise bad film good.
He lists quite of bit reasons in the review.Zac Smith said:
The CGI is bad.
It's full of superhero movie cliches.
Barely any of the other Green Lantern characters were in it.
It looks cheap.
Ryan Reynolds acting is terrible.
Awful script.
Ect, ect.
I mean....did you watch the review at all?
Well, from the trailers I knew the costumes would be bad (although better than the first draft), the battery designs would be absolutely the worst things ever and the background didn't look too good either.
But now you crushed my hopes of seeing a half-decent GL film. Shame on you for that!
Though I think I'll still go check it out as soon as it finally comes to cinemas in this shitty country. Another fourty-fuckin' days, urgh.
But now you crushed my hopes of seeing a half-decent GL film. Shame on you for that!
Though I think I'll still go check it out as soon as it finally comes to cinemas in this shitty country. Another fourty-fuckin' days, urgh.
Frankly, I didn't mind the special effects, and I found the 3D fun... But again, this is my first foray into the Green Lantern series. I'm pretty sure if someone said "J.J. Abrams Star Trek is the best of the series!" I might have to agree it was a fine movie, but then punch them in the face and force them to watch the entirety of Next Gen so they understand what superb Star Trek really is.Griff Morivan said:
Plus, you can't really judge a movie from its trailer. Trailers IMO are so much fun to watch, because more often than not they show you a completely different movie than what they're advertising.
I don't know. From the people who are Green Lantern fans, what exactly did the film do wrong? How is Ryan Renolds not a good choice for Hal Jordan? How is Parallax being depicted as a giant space... Cloud... A bad image of a villain? How is the Green Lantern Corps not depicted well?
I'll listen to your arguments. I seriously want to know why I liked it but everyone else didn't.
I highly recommend Bioshock myself, It's one of those games that attempts to scare the player with complex psychology instead of cheap popping up monsters.
Yet the sequel is kinda ugly, UGLY, UGLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
Yet the sequel is kinda ugly, UGLY, UGLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
I wanna just post a link of a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance meme and be done here but I gotta say, I can't believe Ryan Renolds is anything other than "that guy in rom-coms".
Which really is where he belongs, are you really shocked? Any of you?
Lets just focus on marvel for a bit and see if DC comics pick up their game for something other than batman to win us back.
Oh and people saying they want too see first class instead of Green Lantern... don't bother. Its not that great, its an xmen movie, even with the recast (and a fanwank cameo) its just an xmen movie.
I enjoyed Thor though even though I got up too pee and missed what I'm told was a badass action sequence.
Which really is where he belongs, are you really shocked? Any of you?
Lets just focus on marvel for a bit and see if DC comics pick up their game for something other than batman to win us back.
Oh and people saying they want too see first class instead of Green Lantern... don't bother. Its not that great, its an xmen movie, even with the recast (and a fanwank cameo) its just an xmen movie.
I enjoyed Thor though even though I got up too pee and missed what I'm told was a badass action sequence.
all i can say was it was boring really really really boring like throw away my 3d glasses in annoyance and waste of my time i want the 2 plus of my life back annoyed. hmmm spending time watching critics is starting to seed my own critical ambitions.
unlike bob i am not a fan of the green lantern comic so much as i am an avid fan of the ring lore, not the green so much as the others (personal favorites being red (rage) and black (death) ) but i was outright insulted. if the deadpool movie were to ever be made ryan renolds would of booted off the project after this bombWalt85 said:
I feel for you bob, I had pretty much the same reaction with Stallone's Judge Dredd.
I'll probably still go to see it though, for no other reason than to finish off what you've talked about for the last few webisodes.
I'll probably still go to see it though, for no other reason than to finish off what you've talked about for the last few webisodes.
Marvel did one with the fucking son of Odin, anything translates well into other forms of media if you don't suck at it.MatParker116 said:
While deeply disappointed at this movie I have to say I was entertained and not upset I spent the $8.50 on the tickets. I sadly watched the review before seeing the movie and was unable to suspend the portion of my brain tallying everything Bob griped about.. .and sadly in most cases I do agree. Reynolds didn't seem to have his heart into the second half of the movie. And Blake Lively has no depth as an actress.... where did they find her? Did she blow her way into the role?
While GL is my favorite DC character (Batman is a close second)I had hoped for a lot more out of the film.... Comic books are like the story boards. 80% of the work is done all the directors and writers have to do is follow the damn story. open the damn comic and use that as a reference point. Stop rewriting the story in order to "make it work" cause it invariably never works. The Latest Batman series is excluded from this statement because they are easily the best Comic movies to date. Thor was really good(I enjoyed it as much as you did, Bob.) Although i really liked the Thomas Jane Punisher movie as well.
in all I'd give this a 3/5 stars I was entertained even with the countless flaws and Bob, you nailed a lot of them in your review and I can see where it would take you three or four to nit-pick the movie to death.
While GL is my favorite DC character (Batman is a close second)I had hoped for a lot more out of the film.... Comic books are like the story boards. 80% of the work is done all the directors and writers have to do is follow the damn story. open the damn comic and use that as a reference point. Stop rewriting the story in order to "make it work" cause it invariably never works. The Latest Batman series is excluded from this statement because they are easily the best Comic movies to date. Thor was really good(I enjoyed it as much as you did, Bob.) Although i really liked the Thomas Jane Punisher movie as well.
in all I'd give this a 3/5 stars I was entertained even with the countless flaws and Bob, you nailed a lot of them in your review and I can see where it would take you three or four to nit-pick the movie to death.