Escape to the Movies: Green Lantern

[Locutus9956]

If you were only put off Pirates by Bob's review I'd recommend watching it, personally I thought it was ok, not as good as the original film but far FAR better than the complete rubbish that was Pirates 2 and 3. I find generally when Bob LIKES a movie I nearly always find myself in complete agreement with him but he seems to go off the deep end far too easily when a movie is anything short of stunningly brilliant.

 

[Swmystery]

Given Bob seems to have hit his personal equivalent of Defcon 1 over this (seriously, the level of rage on display here eclipses both that of his hatred for the Transformers movies and that The Expendables beat out Scott Pilgrim in the box office), there had better not be a sequel or he'll probably pop a vein. As a couple of other people have mentioned, it's probably because this movie offends Bob both in his capacity as a film critic (i.e. it's an awful film) and in his capacity as a comic-book geek (it's an awful film that butchers something he cares out very much).

Thanks for the warning, Bob. I'll pass on this one.

 

[Madara XIII]

hopefully this will scare Reynolds back to deadpool

It better Goddamit! We need DEADPOOL and his 4th wall breaking powers of awesomeness

 

[Yojoo]

If you were only put off Pirates by Bob's review I'd recommend watching it, personally I thought it was ok, not as good as the original film but far FAR better than the complete rubbish that was Pirates 2 and 3. I find generally when Bob LIKES a movie I nearly always find myself in complete agreement with him but he seems to go off the deep end far too easily when a movie is anything short of stunningly brilliant.

Except for people like me, dropping 12.00 on a movie that is only going to be mediocre isn't going to happen. I'm not poor, but I'm not so rich as to toss money at the theater for a movie that isn't going to be memorable. Pirates 4 and Green Lantern may not be the atrocities against the film industry that Bob makes them out to be, but I'm sure as hell not going to spend money watching them. I didn't find the first Transformers to be utterly terrible (hated T2, though), but I'll never get the 25$ I spent on those movies back. I could use an extra 25$.

If you want to shut off your brain and enjoy mindless entertainment, watch youtube for an hour. Or porn. Or browse lolcats, or whatever. Recent additions to the action genre have proven that a movie can be primarily all about action while still being deep and powerful, like Dark Knight, Inception, the LotR trilogy, The Town, etc. If a movie like Green Lantern isn't coming anywhere near that quality, I'm skipping it. I don't pay to watch "ok" movies.

Thanks for your review, Bob. I still think you cost me 12$ on First Class, which I hated, but I still trust in you almost all the time.

 

[pandasaw]

The question now is if it's bad enough to become good-bad.

No! It is just plain bad. At least with most of those other bad superhero movies Bob listed (I say most because I liked Daredevil) there was a lot of stupidity in the movies to keep the viewer guessing how they could get any dumber (I would recommend those movies a thousand times before Green Lantern). Green Lantern is worse than that because it is not as stupid as those movies. Green Lantern will bore you with how bland it is. Everything that happens is uninteresting because of how bland it is. The plot is bland, the action is bland, the acting is bland, the writing is bland, the effects range from average to awful instantly, the direction is bland, the score is bland, the editing is awful, and worse of all, the movie about the Green Lantern, a superhero who is part of an alien organization that fights evil using their imaginations, was bland!



AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lightslei]

Wow people are ranting and raving because they take things way too seriously.

I saw it with a bunch of friends, it was a decent time-killer and fun to go watch if you're not "OMG THEY AREN'T DOING IT RIGHT!!!!" and just relax and enjoy it. Fans are impossible to please, because they always have their own bias as to how it should go. If anything it's a silly hero movie that is there if you want to see it.

 

[pandasaw]

One question MovieBob.

Did you not see the Greenlantern trailer with Deadpool spoof? That pretty much highlighted exactly why this will be shit. The trailer on itself (the first one at least before the spin doctors got their hands on it) smelled like shit.

At least I look at this in a positive light. Every single reviewer on the internet MIGHT post a video ripping Green Lantern to shreds. That will be highly entertaining for the coming week.

The Cinema Snob already did one.

http://thecinemasnob.com/2011/06/17/midnight-screenings-the-green-lantern-and-mr-poppers-penguins.aspx

You should check out the review to Mr. Popper's Penguins while you are at it. Hilarious.

 

[theguiltyone]

And yet The Last Airbender got a recommendation from him.

Bob's reviews have gotten a little less reliable as time goes on, though it's still fun to watch. When he isn't bashing on movies or like or giving undue praise to crap. But he's a critic, right? All he's got is his opinion, and opinions are funny things.

I had no interest in seeing this movie to begin with, but I'm almost curious now, due to Moviebob's previously mentioned unreliability, to go and see if it really is THAT bad.

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

Yea, I think Bob was off on this one. I actually found it rather enjoyable. Good fun!

Also, I don't know what kind of insane CG expectations MovieBob has, but I honestly find it ridiculous. The CG was good and on that note, I thought the CG was amazing for Thor and he didn't Thor's CG the "best".

 

[scorptatious]

Um... Wow.

I personally didn't think the movie was that bad at all from what I've seen. In fact I actually liked it. Although I never read the Green Lantern comics, so I wouldn't know too much about how much they've changed.

I can agree with you on one thing though, I kind of wished we saw more of the Green Lantern Corps. They seemed like an interesting lot.

 

[krellen]

Based on Bob's recommendation, I skipped this movie and instead rented a nice little indie superhero flick called "Sidekick". I had a good weekend.

 

[oathblade]

Please do take the time to pull apart the awful Bob. Use it as a 'what not to do' and maybie they wont do it?

 

[B Goy]

Do you honestly think this movie isn't going to make $200 million or more back over the rest of the summer?

Actually, yes - there is a pretty good chance that, with an opening weekend well under $60 Million, it will not make $200 Million back by the end of the summer. In any case, that's somewhat beside the point since it needs to make MUCH more than $200 Million to not be a net-loss for the studio. And that's theatrical money, BTW - DVD sales are tanking across the board, and toy retailers were buzzing that the GL-branded merch wasn't moving before it opened.

I could be wrong. I'm not a professional boxoffice analyst - but in this case, I don't think I need to be. It's basically dead-on-arrival opening weekend, it's going to TANK next week (60-70% drop, easy) against Cars 2, Harry Potter and Transformers are after that, not a hard call to make. Plus, the industry/audience buzz is uniformly pretty bad - it's going to be a movie-news punchline by the end of the summer. It's DOA. The main players will be towing the "oh yeah, part 2 totally coming!" line for about a year or so, but nothing will come of it and eventually we'll stop asking. (For comparisons sake: Daredevil, the 1998 American Godzilla, the Super Mario Bros. Movie, Ang Lee's Hulk and Superman Returns ALL had sequels "still greenlit" for YEARS after they'd come out that were never "officially" called-off.)

So Renolds wouldn't be distracted from a Deadpool film?

 

[AbstractStream]

I knew it. It's not that I don't like Ryan Reynolds as an actor, but when I found out about him being Green Lantern...I knew the movie was gonna go down hill.

Don't plan to see it. And seeing the trailer every 5 minutes on tv puts me off even more.

 

[shadyh8er]

A-ha! I knew it! Ryan Reynolds playing the Green Lantern was just a ploy by Marvel to sabotage the movie and make Deadpool look even better! It makes sense!

*serious face*

Seriously though, really feel for Reynolds. He's just such a cool guy it sucks to see him go down in flames like this.

 

[rsvp42]

Wow, hyperbole much? At least it was better than Thor. Didn't have to sit through characters I'm not made to care about with a one-scene main character arc that they never sell me on.

Green Lantern has a lot of redeeming qualities. Not as good as it should be, but not NEARLY as bad as this piece of nerd rage would lead you to believe. Doesn't deserve its 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, should have at least a 50% if people were being honest.

 

[Siberian Relic]

Just saw it, and all I have to say is this: MovieBob, if you honestly and sincerely think this is as bad as 'Batman & Robin' or 'Steel', you've severely dropped in credibility.

This isn't a review, this is just pure hate for DC. Go back to worshiping Marvel.

 

[Zachary O'shea]

So my roommate and I went to see Green Lantern this afternoon. Afterwards he turned to me and said, did moviebob watch the same movie we just did? That pretty much sums up how I feel about this hate-filled review. At times it didn't even seem that Bob, who I respect as a critic, was even paying attention to the movie. The review felt like he went in wanting to be angry and just got more and more so as the movie went on. Yes the score was iffy, yes the trailer pretty much shows all the alien bits, yes it hits all the points a standard super hero movie does.. why? Because it's a super hero movie.

No it's not as bad as Steel, nor Daredevil.

Was it up to Marvel snuff or Nolan's Batman movies? No. I didn't expect it to be. I think anyone that goes into a new franchise from a studio who's only out out 2.5 good movies in a totally different 'genre' of super heroes over the last decade is foolishly setting themselves up for a fall.

 

[Scarlet Mongoose]

I actually enjoyed this film.
It reminded me of the days of the first 2 Chris Reeve "Superman" movies.
You know? That long-lost time where super hero movies didn't HAVE to be dark and grim all the freaking time?!

Movie Bob says:
"I sit here before you today a sad, tired, shell of a film critic."

Yeah. He does.
But he doesn't have "Green Lantern" to blame.

 

[gally912]

Sooo I take it you didn't like it?