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on: July 10, 2009, 10:19:15 PM

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Reply #1 on: July 10, 2009, 10:49:55 PM

Which is is he supposed to be? Fairly drunk article didn't seem to tell.
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Reply #2 on: July 10, 2009, 11:13:33 PM

Hal Jordan, I believe.
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Reply #3 on: July 10, 2009, 11:17:25 PM

Indeed, Reynolds is supposed to be Hal Jordan.
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Reply #4 on: July 11, 2009, 03:30:28 AM

Good enough casting I guess.  I've been looking forward to this movie since Martin Campbell directed the only two Bond movies I've really liked since View to a Kill.
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Reply #5 on: July 11, 2009, 08:42:56 AM

I don't even like Green Lantern.

But Ryan Reynolds? Sign me the hell up.
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Reply #6 on: July 11, 2009, 04:08:37 PM

Not a bad call, when you consider that Justin Timberlake was one of the other choices.

However, I think that Ryan Reynolds would make a better Guy Gardner than Hal Jordan.
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Reply #7 on: July 11, 2009, 04:19:01 PM

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Reply #8 on: July 13, 2009, 12:00:22 AM

Ah, kind of a bummer.

Maybe it's because I never read any Green Lantern, so my only knowledge of the character came from Superfriends and Justice League, but I was hoping they would go with Jon Stewart.  I just loved how he was this militant protector of the galaxy and used his power ring directly.  Yeah, I know they got into the giant green boxing gloves and whatnot towards the end of the series, but the corny stuff didn't show up too much.

That being said, what I DO want to see in this movie is something like the Justice League episode "Hearts and Minds".  That initial space battle scene where everyone but Katma and Killowog died kicked so much ass.  I want to see green lanterns slicing through gigantic space cruisers and a couple guys taking on a whole navy!  I think it's been said before, but this movie shouldn't be mostly Earthbound; it should be a super-hero space opera.
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Reply #9 on: July 13, 2009, 09:15:12 AM

Having the actual Green lanter Corps featuring in this movie would be awesome, throw in some really cool space battles and stuff. I think that would be the way to GL properly but they're probably going to go with the 'alien menace threatens earth' angle and probably have some guidance from the previous GL who dies and and gives Hal the ring. If this were a few years back before they started attempting super hero movies with no thought to the canon I'd have said they probably wouldn't mention the corps at all and just have a guy find a nifty ring that lets him shoot energy, nowadays it's just possible that they'll actually take the character from the comics rather than loosely basing an action movie around him.

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Reply #10 on: July 13, 2009, 10:13:55 AM

I think Nathan Fillion would have been a better choice, but I dig Reynolds, so yeah, we'll go with that. Reynolds would have been better as a Wally West Flash, but with them bringing Barry Allen back as the Flash, I imagine any Flash movie would use that character instead.

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Reply #11 on: July 15, 2010, 02:49:01 PM

Revealed with Comicon was the costume and an upcoming Entertainment Weekly cover:



I still can't believe Ryan Reynolds.. Probably will be a teaser or trailer incoming soon.

And just because it was mentioned on another forum:

Almost turned this into a new thread in Movies, but assumed Trippy can do that.


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Reply #12 on: July 16, 2010, 03:36:38 PM

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/15/green-lantern-ryan-reynolds/

Am I the only person in the Internets not outraged at the costume? Everybody seems to be going "RARRR! Glowing and therefore WRONG!" I'm like, guys, it's green, it even has a big old lantern symbol, and FFS he's wearing a mask that looks straight out of the comics!

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Reply #13 on: July 16, 2010, 03:43:05 PM

The costume doesn't really bother me at all either.
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Reply #14 on: July 16, 2010, 03:49:43 PM

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/15/green-lantern-ryan-reynolds/

Am I the only person in the Internets not outraged at the costume? Everybody seems to be going "RARRR! Glowing and therefore WRONG!" I'm like, guys, it's green, it even has a big old lantern symbol, and FFS he's wearing a mask that looks straight out of the comics!
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Reply #15 on: July 16, 2010, 03:51:56 PM

Pfft, it's fucking green lantern, third string dc spaceman superhero. You're going to need to have a certain level of geekiness to even know more about him than "can make giant green fists" he could be wearing prada and most people wouldnt know so long as it was green.

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Reply #16 on: July 16, 2010, 04:00:01 PM

But if they just wanted people who read blackest night to show up to the theater they could have just you know animated for a fraction of the budget.
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Reply #17 on: July 16, 2010, 04:13:14 PM

I'll be surprised when they make a comic book movie and people aren't outraged about the costume.
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Reply #18 on: July 16, 2010, 05:10:24 PM

I'll be surprised when they make a comic book movie and people aren't outraged about the costume.
This isn't even based of the comic book custom, its like "so our main character is the green latern and wears spandex, bring in the gay fashion designer fast.
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Reply #19 on: July 16, 2010, 08:26:24 PM

I'll be surprised when they make a comic book movie and people aren't outraged about the costume.

Iron Man.

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Reply #20 on: July 16, 2010, 08:37:38 PM

I'll be surprised when they make a comic book movie and people aren't outraged about the costume.

Iron Man.

The Iron Man armor was perfect. 
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Reply #21 on: July 16, 2010, 08:55:56 PM

Yep totally. At least someone got it right. Also Hulk for what it's worth! They even made a point of the purple pants!

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Reply #22 on: July 16, 2010, 10:12:51 PM

I'll be surprised when they make a comic book movie and people aren't outraged about the costume.

Iron Man.

The Iron Man armor was perfect. 

That was my point, yes. Sure there were a couple of people who didn't like it, but for hte most part people were thrilled.

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Reply #23 on: July 17, 2010, 06:01:35 AM

People are pissed about that costume? I'm surprised that it's that close to the traditional look, honestly.
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Reply #24 on: July 17, 2010, 09:31:54 AM

People are pissed about that costume? I'm surprised that it's that close to the traditional look, honestly.

that's traditional.
also traditional
much cooler but its john stewart so..
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Reply #25 on: July 17, 2010, 12:53:28 PM

I'll be surprised when they make a comic book movie and people aren't outraged about the costume.

Iron Man.
Spider Man. 

I don't recall anybody complaining about how it looked (thought it was perfect myself)...

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Reply #26 on: July 17, 2010, 12:57:57 PM


Now that's gay fashion designer. Holy crap, it's even cuter than Brandon Routh's red boy-shorties and little brown booties. No dramatic pose can make a leotard look manly. Ever.

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Reply #27 on: July 17, 2010, 03:27:43 PM

Has anyone seen the animated DCU Green Lantern movie? I hadn't heard about it till recently.

I should get all those. I loved the Justice League series.



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Reply #28 on: July 17, 2010, 04:46:19 PM

DCUA movies have pretty much all been really good, it's nice to see some grown up western animation for once.

Also that costume is horrible as hell, not because it isn't like the comic costumes but because it is. Spiderman and Batman both showed you can do stupid comic book costumes and make them work, what they've gone for (barring the Lantern symbol) just looks really, really generic. There are a lot of different Green Lantern costumes out there and it seems odd that they'd depart totally from them in favour of something that would fit into pretty much any other movie without causing you to blink. Part of that makes me think the movie isn't going to be great just because in these movies things like the costume are so basic that if they've screwed that up it doesn't bode well for adapting everything else well. Or maybe Superman Returns just made me a cynic.

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Reply #29 on: July 17, 2010, 09:59:05 PM

The Reynolds costume looks better to me than all the comic pics being linked.  I like the sharp lines of the mask, it reminds me of the earliest Alan Scott stuff. 

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Reply #30 on: July 17, 2010, 11:36:26 PM

Has anyone seen the animated DCU Green Lantern movie? I hadn't heard about it till recently.

I should get all those. I loved the Justice League series.

The Justice League movie was real good, but nothing like the series you are used to.  Batman was kind of a creepy dude in that one.  I liked the style of the art.

The Green Lantern one was also good.  It has been described as "Training Day" in space.

Public Enemies... not so good.  At all.  The characters looked like total shit - like an 12 year old's scribblings of some bodybuilder's wet dream, and Superman's face makes him look like he's retarded.  The "story" was totally ridiculous and full of plot holes and was just an excuse to get a bunch of characters to fight each other.  Lex went apeshit and acted totally out of character and there was a lame ass faux-sacrifice scene.

I haven't seen the others.
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Reply #31 on: July 18, 2010, 02:42:34 AM


Now that's gay fashion designer. Holy crap, it's even cuter than Brandon Routh's red boy-shorties and little brown booties. No dramatic pose can make a leotard look manly. Ever.


Yes but even something that gay is better than that shit ryan reynolds is wearing.
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Reply #32 on: July 18, 2010, 04:12:26 PM

Costume's fine. It's his hair that bothers me.

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Reply #33 on: July 18, 2010, 08:33:04 PM

Costume's fine. It's his hair that bothers me.

Yeah, with the hair he looks like a skinny Will Ferrel.
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Reply #34 on: July 18, 2010, 08:35:26 PM


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