Greg Lantern the Movie

[Gothamite]

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That is a bit true but I think and intergalactic police force should be a little more serious. Either way I saw none of that exploration or mysticism in that trailer to make me like this movie in the trailer

Well that one shot of Oa seemed pretty promising (again, they probably don't want to spend too much time on that in the trailer), coupled with Reynolds' earlier comments regarding the plot of the movie (which he claimed was going to be steeped in the mythos).

Though this is all based on that one trailer.

Yep.

 

[Bass]

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Are you talking about the animation of the suit? Becuase that reads directly from a light suit Reynolds wears so it follow's reynold's movements precisely.

I assume they're motion-captured, but they look all wrong. I might be getting exactly what's wrong with them wrong; i.e. I might be blaming the timing when it's a lighting problem, I'm not an animations expert so I can't say. But they look very fake-looking, much like the Na'vi.

 

[DIrishB]

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Okay, don't see it. I mean, this is a character who's known for creating things like giant boxing gloves and stuff. So if you strip all that away, and make it this ultra serious, no sense of wonder movie, then it's NOT a Green Lantern movie. Even through alll of the Blackest Night, the sense of wonder and imagination is there.

After seeing the trailer, I'm more open-minded about this movie.

However, I can see where MWoF is coming from, at least in terms of worn out tropes. As said, the goofy friend/roommate, the one-liners, the womanizing bachelor, overcoming bullies with his powers as an early display of his powers. They're small things which overall probably won't ruin the movie or anything, and are probably true to the Hal character and his mythology. I can't say, as I'm very unfamiliar with GL in general.

I do think those somewhat hokey elements will be balanced well with the more serious aspects, and at the very least Sinestro looks great. Again, I understand that's part of the identity and charm of the character, so I agree not addressing or using those elements would be a mistake.

After that full trailer, I'm much more confident in how this will turn out.

 

[Dancanread]

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Also posting this in my own thread, but this week I talk bout the trailer in my column.

 

[Bass]

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This sums up my feelings about the trailer.

I hope the movie is good, but it all relies on Hector Hammond (action movies are generally won or lost on the villain) and I seriously doubt Hammond will be remotely interesting. If it does well enough, maybe we'll get GL2 and it will use Sinestro to good effect.

 

[DARKKNIGHT]

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This sums up my feelings about the trailer.

I hope the movie is good, but it all relies on Hector Hammond (action movies are generally won or lost on the villain) and I seriously doubt Hammond will be remotely interesting. If it does well enough, maybe we'll get GL2 and it will use Sinestro to good effect.

I dunno, I think he might be interesting. Peter Sarsgaard is a good enough actor. Besides, both Batman Begins and Iron Man have been two of the best comic book films to date and neither of them had the greatest villains. Both relied on the acting of Bale as Batman and RDJ as Iron Man. When it comes down to it, this movie will live or die based upon how Reynolds does as Hal.

As for that link, while humorous, some of those connections are pretty frail. I mean you can't really blame the filmmakers that the Green Lantern has some similarities with other superheroes. And the #2 complaint about this villain was just ridiculous.

 

[Jaggyd]

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All arguing aside, I'm a long time GL fan, I'm optimistic about the movie. Whether that's dumb of me or not, I've decided a while back that I'll try to give everything at least an open minded chance.


With that said, this is the Corps movie I'd love to see this made.

 

[mike3717]

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This sums up my feelings about the trailer.

Have to say I pretty much disagree with everything in that link. Seems like it was written by a guy who doesn't really know anything about the character. When he says "It should be pointed out that the Jordan character from the comics isn't some kind of playboy -- he's a space cop." that just gives away how little he actually knows about GL mythos. Jordan is a womanizing playboy, and he was one well before Tony Stark/Iron Man even existed.

 

[ultimatedjf]

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I like that this thread was started by Mavericker.

 

[The Overlord]

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This sums up my feelings about the trailer.

I hope the movie is good, but it all relies on Hector Hammond (action movies are generally won or lost on the villain) and I seriously doubt Hammond will be remotely interesting. If it does well enough, maybe we'll get GL2 and it will use Sinestro to good effect.

There are no bad villains, only bad writers. Almost any "lame" villain can be made compelling in the hands of the right writer.

 

[bluebeast]

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Seeing the trailer in front of Harry Potter on the big screen made the effects look a lot better. I think it'll look good in theaters.

 

[Random]

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Have to say I pretty much disagree with everything in that link. Seems like it was written by a guy who doesn't really know anything about the character. When he says "It should be pointed out that the Jordan character from the comics isn't some kind of playboy -- he's a space cop." that just gives away how little he actually knows about GL mythos. Jordan is a womanizing playboy, and he was one well before Tony Stark/Iron Man even existed.

I agree, it seems he wrote this without really doing any research except googling poor resolution pictures. While there are some tropes that belong to a lot of movies should negate this one.

 

[bluebeast]

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I agree, it seems he wrote this without really doing any research except googling poor resolution pictures. While there are some tropes that belong to a lot of movies should negate this one.

Which is sad because most cracked articles are genius writing.

 

[Bass]

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I felt the article (obviously since I linked to it) to be very accurate.

Even if Green Lantern was the original playboy before Tony Stark (by four years), he still appears like a crappy carbon copy. In fact, GL, to me, looks like IRON MAN + TOP GUN = ARRGH. When I saw the first trailer for IRON MAN, another character whom I thought was iffy at best, I thought, "It'll be fun until he discovers a conscience" and I was wrong only in that it was fun all the way through. But the trailer looked like fun. It looked fresh and entertaining. GREEN LANTERN, on the other hand, looks like a terrible cacophony of cliches from other blockbusters. IRON MAN was predictable from its trailer but it had these moments that were just endearing; "Some call you the DaVinci of our times" "That's ridiculous I don't paint" and other lines that made you go, "RDJ is awesome!" while nothing in the damn GL trailer makes you go, "Hal Jordan is so cool!" Or "interesting" or anything. It's just, "Well, it looks right, so maybe it won't suck".

Now, it's entirely possible the film will be awesome and the trailer is just terrible. The people who make the trailers are not the people who created the movie. I'm not saying the movie is/will be bad, but that the trailer makes it look like a mediocre snooze-fest. And the cracked article was about how the trailer is just awful.

I'm hoping it'll be good. I'm hoping that it'll work out right, but I doubt it. And that's the trailer's fault because it just showed us the basic cliches of the origin story without showing us why GREEN LANTERN is different from all the rest. The next one might be incredible and they just didn't want to give away any important plot points in this first trailer.

Here's another way to look at it; the writer, Dan O'Brien, is wrong to think GL shouldn't be a playboy or what-have-you, but if he's someone who doesn't get GL, shouldn't the trailer make him go, "Wow! GL is cool!" instead of going, "Why did they make GL a crappy Iron Man?" The notion that he's wrong because he doesn't get GL is precisely why the trailer sucks. It should've made him go, "Wow" and not "Ow".

I'm copyrighting that "wow-ow" thing, btw.

 

[Ultimate Houde]

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When Bass posts long winded articles about his opinions, it makes babies cry and puppies run away whimpering.

 

[Captain Canuck]

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apparently there have been some photos of Parallax online. But it seems like WB has done a decent job of getting them removed.

 

[DARKKNIGHT]

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I saw them. It was just some artist sketches. If you missed them you didn't miss too much.

 

[Planet-man]

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I avoided watching it online because I was hoping it would be shown before Harry Potter, and it was.

In general:
I think it looked really cool.
The costume looks more or less how I hoped it would turn out after seeing the first picture of it.
I don't understand the goofiness vibe people are attributing to it.
Some of it looks like a cliched origin movie. Ghost Rider, to be precise. A lot of it does not, especially with the foreknowledge of the mystic space corps stuff.
The shot of Hal and another Green Lantern hovering on Oa made the whole trailer and was surreally cool, like stuff I've always imagined.

Bass may have made a good point about the trailer failing to sell it to people who aren't familiar with the character(however a bunch of people I know posted facebook statuses about how psyched they are, including a hot popular girl, out of nowhere), but as speaking as somebody who is familiar, I'm excited.

Also - and this is the most important thing to me and bizarrely not mentioned in the trailer - it's a Martin ****ing Campbell film. The Mask Of Zorro. Casino Royale. Edge Of Darkness. He's a miracle worker, and I have trouble believing he won't come through again.

 

[Gothamite]

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I avoided watching it online because I was hoping it would be shown before Harry Potter, and it was.

In general:
I think it looked really cool.
The costume looks more or less how I hoped it would turn out after seeing the first picture of it.
I don't understand the goofiness vibe people are attributing to it.
Some of it looks like a cliched origin movie. Ghost Rider, to be precise. A lot of it does not, especially with the foreknowledge of the mystic space corps stuff.
The shot of Hal and another Green Lantern hovering on Oa made the whole trailer and was surreally cool, like stuff I've always imagined.

Yes. I have a feeling that 60% of this film is going to be a space opera and the rest of it is going to be set on Earth, dealing with the origin and stuff. I think the trailer may be trying to trick mainstream audiences into thinking that this is just a paint-by-numbers origin story, when in fact it's a lot more and a lot bigger than that.

Bass may have made a good point about the trailer failing to sell it to people who aren't familiar with the character(however a bunch of people I know posted facebook statuses about how psyched they are, including a hot popular girl, out of nowhere), but as speaking as somebody who is familiar, I'm excited.

Yep. As someone on the Batman-On-Film podcast mentioned, part of the casting of Reynolds probably had a lot to do with how much he appeals to female audiences (is it any wonder the first shot of the trailer showed him topless?).

I certainly agree that the trailer didn't really show anything that would excite mainstreamers who'd never heard of GL before. It featured a shocking under-use of what the power ring could actually do and broke the "show don't tell" rule by having Hal just talking about it, rather than using it. Instead of seeing a bunch of cool ring-constructs, we just got one fist. Green Lantern has the most original superpower ever. Show us why.

Also - and this is the most important thing to me and bizarrely not mentioned in the trailer - it's a Martin ****ing Campbell film. The Mask Of Zorro. Casino Royale. Edge Of Darkness. He's a miracle worker, and I have trouble believing he won't come through again.

And then there's this. The biggest thing going for the GL film (that has a star I wouldn't have casted), for me, is that Campbell is directing. He's already proven that he can take unlikely stars (Daniel Craig) and make them into icons.

The only problem is that for every Mask of Zorro there's a Legend of Zorro (which was entertaining, but very, very corny and lazy) and for every Casino Royale, there's a GoldenEye (which is probably the most over-rated James Bond film this side of Sean Connery).

 

[Bass]

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I've not seen EDGE OF DARKNESS, and THE MASK OF ZORRO was fun.

But I would surmise that the main reason for CASINO ROYALE's brilliance is that it was written by Paul Haggis who also wrote IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, CRASH, and MILLION DOLLAR BABY.

I sincerely hope the marketers ****ed up the trailer for what will be an awesome GL film. We'll see.