In brightest day, in blackest night...The GREEN LANTERN film thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEM6AQgJstY

tbh I didn't know a bit about the Green Lantern character besides what he looked like until I saw this long-form trailer. Is it pretty much otm?

Anyway, this looks much better than I was expecting (and better than Thor ffs and maybe even Captain America).

It might end up another entry in the long history of thrilling trailer = turgid film, but that fills me with genuine excitement. It looks like Reynolds's casting is spot on, the transition from wiseass to gravitas when he speaks the oath was splendidly done.

whoa

okay that looks cooler than any trailer I've seen so far. I didn't realize they were going so far into the origin stuff. And Bill otm, the lantern oath was well played.

I may have to get excited for this. Goddammit, that was SO not my plan.

Yeah, like I said, I have zero history with Green Lantern, but this looks phenomenal.

Green Lantern is my favorite of all the superheroes...I read some of the comics as a kid, and loved tv cartoon, it would mean a lot to me if they could pull this off. I don't know what it is, he always seemed more likeable than Superman, and I always thought his powers were way cooler. Plus he was GREEN.

Just hoping this is made more in the mold of the Batman films by Nolan or the X-Men films, which seem to put a lot of actual effort into the storytelling, and not like Iron Man which, admittedly, is great fun to watch while it's happening, but seems totally hollow after it's over (and I get the feeling that's what Thor and Captain America will be like as well).

I'd honestly be happy with either Iron Man or Dark Knight treatment over X-Men treatment which by now just feels like it's bordering on abuse. Like, I'm even still sort of half interested in the new X-Men but now it's like "Okay I'll see it but I'm NOT fucking paying $$ for it this time"

I agree, but I think they're kind of roped into having a tone in the Thor and Cap movies consistent with the Iron Man movies, since all the characters are going to be brought together for the Avengers picture.
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the Thor movie looks dire

like they go through all that 'what is this amazing talking device?" "we call it an iphone" junk that just...ugh...it's like Encino Man as a superhero movie.

re: X-Men films. I remember seeing the first two in the theater, but I think I saw the third one on dvd late at night and don't remember much about it (and I didn't see Wolverine and probably won't see the next Wolverine film). My X-Men opinion is really based on the first two.

Thor just seems like a dud character anyway.

yeah Thor looks like balls. CapAm looks alright. X-Men First Class is kinda intriguing, and i think GL is gonna be dope. i love the abundance of huge fuckin noggins in green lantern - sinestro, hector hammond, ryan reynolds. i hope its real ~cosmic~

Don't be dissin' The Mighty Thor! He is an awesome character in the right hands - Kirby/Lee Thor is Thor as groovy space god layin' the smack down and in Walt Simonson's hands we got more space god (and alien Thor in Beta Ray Bill), the Frog of Thunder, AND storming hell with machine guns and more. Some of the best comics ever.

Movie looks like pants, though.

The Superman movies were really good about handwaving away the entire galactic community of aliens thing, but if the movie devotes as much time to it as the trailer hints, that's a tactical mistake. There's just way too many whoppers for a general audience to swallow. You could probably separate the nerds from the normals in the audience based on if they cheer or eyeroll when the Green Lantern that's an intelligent planet or that Green Lantern that's an intelligent musical note appears.

This better have Mogo.

xpost -- Those two would make a great buddy cop film, though.

don't forget Ch'p

http://i.imgur.com/fuifp.jpg

also philip's just wrong, i dont see why a bunch of crazy aliens are gonna uh alienate anyone - people went to see men in black didnt they

G'nort for the win!

I never got into Thor...no particular reason, I just never crossed paths with the books ever.

I'm curious enough about the new X-Men to check it out, I'm afraid though that the origin-story and olden-timeyness quality of it will lure me in and they'll be all 'HA! GOTCHA' and it will be balls.

If you want to get into Thor, this is a great time to do it. The Walt Simonson stories are being collected in a honking omnibus at the end of the month - almost 1200 pages of awesome.

But back on topic, I really do hope there is a G'nort cameo in GL. Justice League Antarctica was amazing.

people got mad at the alien ending to AI. if you have more than one fantastic conceit in a movie, general audiences start balking.
I mean, why wasn't Raj as guul an immortal wizard instead of Liam Ninja in the Nolan Batman?

"people went to see men in black"

this hurts my stomach to say, but probably more people would go see this if will smith was hal jordan and his karate kid spawn was guy gardner.

can't we just talk about what we'd like to see from a Green Lantern movie that's good, than worrying about what everyone else in the world would rather see?

I don't mean to sound snotty, but yes I understand what a 'successful, marketable' movie is now and I know how utterly depressing the end result can be when it's superhero related

do we have to go there right now? While we're kind of excited?

yeah! YEAH!!!! shut up philip!!!!!

that's not quite what I meant...but...oh dear

I go back with Ryan Reynolds all the way to Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place, but I guess some people go back even earlier when he was on Fifteen(?). Anyway, I never expected him to move into movies, much less have a franchise built around him, but he seems to have handled the responsibility fairly well so far. I think he's really engaging when he wants to be, and a loveable smartass the rest of the time. Good casting here, imo.

For a while he drove me nuts, with those Waiting? and the college/porkys movie he was in, where he was always winking at the camera...but I've warmed to him.

yeah i like reynolds, hes funny and cool, there was this mystifying period a while back where ilx decided he 'looks like a douchebag' or something, which is weird because its not like you can find pictures of him with frosted tips and a tapout t-shirt - hes just a normal good lookin funny guy, w/e

I find him cuter and cuter every time I see him in a movie now.

I liked Waiting, but it was probably because I'd worked in food service for several years and saw it in the theater with a crowd of people who'd clearly done the same.

he definitely exudes doucheyness, not just in looks but also in demeanor, but he made it work for him as deadpool in that wolverine movie.
maybe the doucheyness of popular heroes have been raised so much now that reynolds seems baseline normal by comparison. jeremy piven seems to have had a similar trajectory.

Piven has always been and always will be a measuring stick for douchiness.

if you have more than one fantastic conceit in a movie, general audiences start balking.

A good principle (see SPIDER-MAN 3), but isn't sci-fi slithery nuttiness implicit in the GL franchise? How is there a clash? You can't just tease Abin Sur (I think that's his name) making that dude from Definitely Maybe a space cop and then dying and then no more aliens.

Don't be dissin' The Mighty Thor!

Yeah!

OH, AND THE OBVIOUS CAGE MATCH:

Ego vs. Mogo

Ego wins. Mogo doesn't even have a face, let alone facial hair.

"Mogo Doesn't Socialize" is cooler than any story involving Ego, though.

Piven has always been and always will be a measuring stick for douchiness.

― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 10:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Was he douchy at all in, for example, Grosse Pointe Blank? Wasn't mid-90s Piven kind of self-deprecating?

The Thor Movie looks like Resident Evil 3 style bad.

"Mogo Doesn't Socialize" is cooler than any story involving Ego, though.

So very, very wrong.

people got mad at the alien ending to AI. if you have more than one fantastic conceit in a movie, general audiences start balking.

THEY WEREN'T ALIENS THEY WERE ROBOTS IT WAS ALL ONE UNIFIED CONCEIT GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

boom, headshot

They killed David at the end of AI?

in the uncut version: AI: HEARTS OF DARKNESS

i'm an off-again-on-again comics fan, and i've read some lantern books in my time, but this looks pretty shitty imo. otoh, i hate fun.

sounds like u do

Might be time for you to step away from the computer for a bit there, Princess.

Coupla weeks!

Some of the tv ads I've seen since this WonderCon trailer have played up the comedic bits, but I'm not too worried.

As long as there's a healthy balance, all will be well. God I hope so.

It must be true. Or, in fact, not:

“This is the movie the fans want to see,” Reynolds said. “We are going to deliver.”

its been getting ghastly reviews

Also, um:

Greg Berlanti, also a producer on the film and one of the screenwriters, has even pitched a nine-film series that would approach the Green Lantern Corps as a Jedi-level story tapestry.

when all of the reviews tend to say things like "style over substance", I think this one's gonna be a clunker

can't wait for the Armond White review tbh

"MOVIE EVENT OF THE MILLENIA"

http://www.theonion.com/video/green-lantern-to-fulfill-americas-wish-to-see-lant,20741/

That was good. So was the throwaway joke at the end.

watched this today w a grim sense of satisfaction that it was indeed fuckin terrible

it wasn't so much terrible as BORING

yeah it was bad, bad, bad.

the audience was cracking up every time they cut to one of the guardians

the opening, with geoffrey rush delivering ponderous table-setting narration, reminded me of 80s schlock like Dune and the Last Starfighter (which this is clearly a remake of) (a really bad one)

3,600 sectors, each with a green lantern... not a single one of which you will care about during the course of the movie

also its really comical how hollywood just grafts the monomyth onto everything now regardless of whether or not it makes sense for the story, so even a character defined by his fearlessness gets a shitty, cynical 'hero refusing the call' scene

definitely.

bah, this is disappointing to read. Now I don't even know if I'll bother seeing it.

bummer, I thought the Oa and the corps looked pretty spot on.

this is getting howard the duck-level bad reviews.

Despite Warner Bros.’ objective to educate John Q. public on ‘Who Green Lantern is’, especially women, they traded images of glossy fave Blake Lively for aliens in their marketing, thus alienating women and making a large gesture toward fanboys.

good thinking, WB. i know i prefer pictures of aliens to pictures of blake lively.

they traded images of glossy fave Blake Lively for aliens in their marketing

aw, so THAT explains the cellphone pics!

This was pretty good, as far as super-hero movies go. My kid bashfully asked me to go even after I heavily criticized the trailer (which we saw before Thor, which is one of the worst super-hero movies I've seen but I pretended to like). I don't know anything about the Green Lantern comic books, but the scenes on their home-base planet were dope, as was the weird, churning, smokey, skull-demon bad guy. The female lead was ultra ws. Green Lantern had a sweet apartment - I liked that he had high ceilings and enough wall space to hang his bikes up there. The dogfight stuff with the drones was cool. I love the military-industrial complex as far as it is portrayed in cinema, you know? The final battle scene with the sun was cool.

I don't know. The only thing I didn't like was his mask. Oh, and the guy who did the voice-overs at the beginning and end was in like, Pirates of the Caribbean or Thor or something else that I've recently watched recently and it was very, very jarring. Like, "Hey! You're an actor!"

this was so fucking boring. Peter Saaarsgaaaard was great though, that character was off in his own, better, funnier movie.

yeah sarsgaard and mark strong were the only good things in this. i also liked the scene where they made fun of batman.

they should've gone with a Training Day-in-space approach, where sinestro shows hal the space-ropes while they work the sector beat and they do space-drugs and fight space-cholos

^^^would watch

have we ever done a Sarsgaard poll? the search function tells me no.

yeah sarsgaard and mark strong the Clancy Brown-voiced Giygas thingy were the only good things in this.

nah I liked all the other Lanterns including Mark Strong. If this had just been GL cosmic world building and ended with Abin Sur's crash and Hal Jordan finding him, it could have been ...something.