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Green Lantern movie - thoughts?
jfglade:
Since I can no longer see new movies when they are released, I missed the Green Lantern movie. I'm not sure I would have attended a showing anyway, since the material could lend itself to a very convoluted storyline or even re-invention. I was relatively fond of the silver age Green Lantern series during its first few years but as the number of super-heroic titles proliferated, I read about Hal Jordan less and less, and gave up on it completely during the Green Lantern/Green Arrow era. The only reason I'm commenting at all is because of the paucity of messages on the subject. Didn't many people see it, or did those who did have small or no praise for the film?
John C:
I didn't bother. I like the character a lot (I jumped in in the early '80s, so my view of Hal Jordan is the powerless guy trying to piece his life back together, but was willing to basically hitchhike across the universe for a chance to help save the universe), but saw Kilowog in the previews and figured it was going to be the revisionist stuff that, to me, just isn't fun, since it treats the franchise more like cops than superheroes and focuses on boring characters like, well, Kilowog.
Add in the apparent mandate that all superhero movie franchises start with origin stories that link the villain to the hero's past (and hey, Green Lantern Sinestro's in the previews, too, wink, wink), and it just sounded like a waste of two hours and, what, fifteen bucks, these days?
bminor:
It just did not have the "heart" that is was needed.
Frankly I had no empathy for the character, for the most part, of Hal Jordan.
I think I remember a story that Alfred Hitchcock once said, "The three most important things in a film are: story, story and story".
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Lady Sky Skipper:
It's not as bad as the movie reviewers say it is but it could have been better. The main problem was that they crammed in too many sub-plots when they should have focused on Hal getting the ring and becoming a member of the GL Corps. I went to see it with my Mom and sister, my sister Holly is a HUGE Hal Jordan GL fan. Ryan Reynolds is a good choice for Hal.
Oh and an interesting thing I found out was that Mark Millar thought it was the worst movie ever :P
Lanfeust:
Seen it this summer, and - well, not much to say. A story on the origins of Green Lantern, packed with lame interpretations of Parallax and Hector Hammond. Geoff Johns knows how to write with these ingredients, but the writers of the movie don't. It's basically the same scheme as the Spider-Man and Iron Man movies, so totally unoriginal these days. Not really good movie.
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