Green lantern Movie

[SpectacularWebHead]

I am unsure of what people were complaining about in the Green Lantern movie. It's widely regarded as a crappy movie, but I honestly couldn't find any major flaws in the story, performance or visual effects. It could be an uncommon premise to the layman, but seriously guys, GL was an alright film. It wasn't perfect, but it was quite good.

Thoughts, explanations etc?

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I still want to see it.

No way it can be worse than Ghost Rider 2.

 

[Zhukov]

Really?

I thought it was absolutely pathetic.

It didn't make me angry or anything since I don't give a damn about the comic character it's based on, but you'd have to pay to get me to watch it again.

 

[Soulrender95]

It probably doesn't help that they made Hal Jordan closer to Kyle Rayner in personality but otherwise an enjoyable popcorn flick.
that and being way too similar to batman begins in narrative to be coincidence and that is part of the problem combined with a weaker story, weaker actors and way too much CGI, CGI is a great tool unfortunately bad film makers use it as a crutch for the story instead of an aid to it there really is no excuse for the green lantern suit to be CGI instead of a practical wearable suit, though I loved the twist on the domino mask and Carol recognising Hal.

 

[Quaxar]

They must have filled your cinema with THC smoke or something.
As someone who thinks Daredevil and Star Wars Ep I-III are all nice films I still say it was the worst comic turned into film ever made.

Out of internest, did you read the comic storyline and/or watch the fantastic animated version First Flight?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

A superhero movie where they made the main message as 'Nerds can't be superheroes only bro-dudes can.'

Yeah that is going to be really successful....

I don't really like my superhero movies to make the villain more sympathetic than the hero. You actually want the bad guy to win here.

 

[Marter]

Did you see the costume? 'Cause there's your first major visual flaw.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I think Webhead's looking for slightly deeper reasoning than "It sucked because it sucks"

I'm no comic buff but apparently they were completely unfaithful to the character of Hal Jordan (as Soulrender said, but many GL fans were not as forgiving as he was) Much fan rage was had about it.
The GL suit just looked off, as did the other CGI characters and locations, it wasn't necessarily bad, just not good enough that it hit the uncanny valley, giving the whole movie an air of weirdness.

Besides that I think it's biggest crime was that it didn't bring anything new to the superhero movie table. We'd seen it all before, done in better films. It seemed more like a rehash of half a dozen other superhero movies rather than its own stand alone film.

 

[bobmus]

I still want to see it.

No way it can be worse than Ghost Rider 2.

Well, I agree that's hard to beat. But 'better than that' is a pretty poor standard to use for 'movies I should watch'!

OT: I got half an hour in, then gave up all hope. It was dire, and I'm normally a big Ryan Reynolds fan.

 

[MasochisticAvenger]

If you like the movie, fine, but please don't act like we should have to love it just because you do. I could go into why the movie is bad, but fortunately I don't have to. Just watch this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/3557-Green-Lantern

 

[Thaluikhain]

IMHO, there were lots of things wrong with it. Not read the comics until after seeing the movie, mind.

You have your stock angsty hero, because every superhero movie needs one. In this case, he's angsty because he's got a great job, well paid, can be as irresponsible as he likes and everyone still loves him. Um...? As well as that, there was far too much angst. The main character just wasn't interesting at all.

The pacing was all over the place, you had lots of scenes that went nowhere at all, and big slabs of blather not broken up with anything.

The most interesting thing in the movie were the other lanterns, which is why they were in the ad. In the movie you get one panning shot of them in the middle, and one at the end, lasting seconds in each case and about 5 of them actually do anything. Had some good bits where he fights Sinestro and Killowog, and that lasts only a few minutes.

The 3D elements, like most 3D stuff, was stuck on as an afterthouht, a few bits almost at random made 3D, the rest left alone.

 

[Don Savik]

I think my major problem with it was the terrible villain. Change that villain and the costume and I think it could've been a lot better than what it was. It was alright I guess, but nothing special. I had the same reaction as watching Punisher Warzone, "Hey that was pretty fun, now I'm never watching it again".

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Now I think the only reason I liked it was because I never read or liked the comic. I found the character cool, but I never was huge about it.

I like Renolds as an actor himself, and I have full hopes for the Deadpool movie, but this was meh to me. I just can't see him as Hal Jordan.

It wasn't bad in any way, just was meh.

 

[Misterian]

I am unsure of what people were complaining about in the Green Lantern movie. It's widely regarded as a crappy movie, but I honestly couldn't find any major flaws in the story, performance or visual effects. It could be an uncommon premise to the layman, but seriously guys, GL was an alright film. It wasn't perfect, but it was quite good.

Thoughts, explanations etc?

I actually sort of concur, granted, the most of Green Lantern I know of comes from that 1 episode in the Superman animated series, I found it somewhat enjoyable to watched.

Yeah, I had problems with how they did the costume too (yeah, care to explain that 'muscle' thing, filmmakers? have problems with standard superhero tights or something?) and I did find the characters pretty archtypical, it was still rather gratifying to see another superhero movie that straight up throws realism out the window (much like Thor, The Avengers, or the Superman films) and just goes all out with what they're working with.

It short, trying to keep everything that's FUN about the superhero genre, even though it might be a hit-and-miss result in Green Lantern's case

 

[HardkorSB]

I am unsure of what people were complaining about in the Green Lantern movie. It's widely regarded as a crappy movie, but I honestly couldn't find any major flaws in the story, performance or visual effects. It could be an uncommon premise to the layman, but seriously guys, GL was an alright film. It wasn't perfect, but it was quite good.

Thoughts, explanations etc?

It wasn't bad, it was so generic that it didn't make me want to know more about Green Lantern.
Reynolds was good and pretty engaging but he's engaging even in crap.
The alien world looked sterile and empty and a lot of that had to do with the bad CGI (which is weird because the CGI in the other scenes was good).
The aliens were bland and had no real distinguishing features, outside of looking different.
It also felt like the original draft of the script was 5 hours long because everything was so rushed and at times, it seemed like there's a good 20-30 minutes of story missing between some scenes.

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

They must have filled your cinema with THC smoke or something.
As someone who thinks Daredevil and Star Wars Ep I-III are all nice films I still say it was the worst comic turned into film ever made.

Out of internest, did you read the comic storyline and/or watch the fantastic animated version First Flight?

I'm a big fan of the comics.

...Yeah...The whole daredevil thing Really doesn't help your argument....

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

If you like the movie, fine, but please don't act like we should have to love it just because you do. I could go into why the movie is bad, but fortunately I don't have to. Just watch this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/3557-Green-Lantern

I'm sorry, I guess liking the film and asking others why they didn't is Totally me telling you to love it because I do. In future don't be confrontational and well, wrong in topics like this, all it does is serve to make you look like a douche.
Also, I'm boycotting Moviebob over the whole Amazing Spiderman review.

 

[saintdane05]

The best part was a building. On it was a sign that said SCIENCE BUILDING. Why? Because SCIENCE! Nope, no need to explain what that is, where it is, what kind of science it is for, just a SCIENCE BUILDING!

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

It probably doesn't help that they made Hal Jordan closer to Kyle Rayner in personality but otherwise an enjoyable popcorn flick.

That's pretty much what I thought of it. It was easy watching really, something Younger kids might love, but still watchable for older viewers. I was surprised by the massive level of hate around it, If people were meh, then that's pretty much expectable, but we were slightly below "Retake Green Lantern" levels of nerd rage :3

 

[Kpt._Rob]

For me it's all about how little it lived up to the source material. Reynolds really didn't pull off Hal Jordan in any satisfactory way, and the GL lore, which I for one celebrate for its labyrinthine complexity, was horrendously dumbed down. In order to start with Parallax as the main villain of the first film (which was a terrible decision) they had to wreck a lot of what ought to have come before anyone even realized he existed.

I guess then the film's biggest problem, for me at least, was missed potential. A first film in a Green Lantern series shouldn't have started so big. Hell, they already had the plot for a much better Green Lantern origin story, if they'd just taken it. Hal trains with Sinestro, Sinestro turns out to be an evil douche taking advantage of his position of power, Hal fights Sinestro. There's your plot for movie #1. Movie #2 should introduce the Sinestro corps, and if you really want to make the fans happy, yes, Hal turns evil (movie #2 should end here). Then as movie #3 unfolds, we realize he was possessed by Parallax, and at this point hopefully they've done enough of the other DC movies that they can bust out the Sinestro Corps wars and everyone can throw down with the Anti-Monitor and Cyborg Superman at the same time as they duke it out with Sinestro.

After that, they could do movies about the other corps too. It would make for one of the awesomest movie series ever.

But instead we got a pile of mediocrity.