Re: Green Lantern-the Movie
How much Green Lantern have you read though? I think this movie will likely suck, but I don't see how that reflects badly on the character, instead of reflecting badly on the film makers. The Punisher and Fantastic Four movies have all been terrible, but they are still good characters in the comics, same thing with Green lantern.
I've read a lot of JLA and other DCU stuff, saw JUSTICE LEAGUE and what not. You can't get into DC without reading Green Lantern and I think he is a rubbish character.
You are quite right that someone can take a rubbish property and transform it into something incredible, but to do that they often fundamentally change it in some way. Hickman added the Future Foundation to FANTASTIC FOUR, Miller added Elektra, Bullseye and Kingpin to DAREDEVIL and turned it into a hard-boiled film noir, Moore changed the entire backstory of SWAMP THING and MARVELMAN to make them work, Wein and Cockram essentially created the X-MEN by adding Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Colossus to the team, and on and on it goes. I think maybe Spidey is the only one who, out of the gate, worked well. Batman and Superman both needed retooling in their early years.
And then you get things like IRON MAN or Ennis' PUNISHER which just did what everyone has been trying to do for 40 years and just do it properly. And certainly, adding stuff to a character can ruin them; Punisher killing for Heaven for example, or Spidey being a clone, and so on.
So yes, I'm sure it's possible to make Green Lantern awesome. Either because he's awesome and no one has done him right, or because someone looked at it sideways and redesigned it.
But I'm not surprised that the movie supposedly hasn't done either.
That said, I think what's unnecessarily harsh about my statement earlier, and what you're reacting to is that I said it was "good" that the movie sucked as if to say, "I don't want Green Lantern to exist anymore in any medium", which is not only what I meant, but stupid. I shouldn't take that much pleasure in his failing when I know I would prefer it if he were awesome.
So; I think Green Lantern is rubbish but I retract my earlier sentiment that it's a good thing his movie is apparently a failure.
Oh Lord Overlord, don't try to argue with Bass, he'll quote lots of stuff that's been infused with opinion and he'll think it's BASSFACT and then end it with him being right.
Don't be a douche.
