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HaemishM
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That 4 minutes of footage looks fantastic. Lots of material thrown in there. Still not entirely sure about the look of the suits, but I'll give them some artistic license on that.
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Sand
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Big budget, charismatic lead actor, lots of action and special effects, throw in the necessary romantic side plot, etc. Looks like an AAA Hollywood summer movie. Kinda hard to fuck that up.
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SurfD
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The Shadow Hey now, the shadow was pretty good, in a tongue in cheek kind of way. |
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Yeah, I liked the shadow too.
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Sand
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Yeah, I liked the shadow too.
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HaemishM
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Lakov_Sanite
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And the Star Wars prequels. That's a lie. |
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So is the cake.
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WindupAtheist
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Anyone else find the trailers really underwhelming? Ryan Reynolds reciting that lame little Green Lantern poem is howl-inducing and everything just looks plastic and fake.
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I decided not to go see Super 8 (sounds corny) but I will go see GL. Never been a big fan of GL, but I'm pretty interested in the Corps and RR's portrayal. Also want to see if DC can duplicate Marvel's success at the movies.
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LK
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Anyone else find the trailers really underwhelming? Ryan Reynolds reciting that lame little Green Lantern poem is howl-inducing and everything just looks plastic and fake.
The initial ones were when they tried to make it look like Van Wilder is Hal Jordan. More recent ones have made it a "OK, I'll check it out with low expectations." |
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Margalis
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Anyone else find the trailers really underwhelming? Ryan Reynolds reciting that lame little Green Lantern poem is howl-inducing and everything just looks plastic and fake.
Agree. That inspirational poem is hilarious. I'm not familiar with Green Lantern really, is that something they made up for the movie or is that like his official poem or something? |
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They were using it in the JLU cartoon, so it's been around for at least that long, probably longer.
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Anyone else find the trailers really underwhelming? Ryan Reynolds reciting that lame little Green Lantern poem is howl-inducing and everything just looks plastic and fake.
Agree. That inspirational poem is hilarious. I'm not familiar with Green Lantern really, is that something they made up for the movie or is that like his official poem or something? It's how Green Lanterns charge their rings. They recite the oath with their hand held up to the lantern. It's been around in the comics since the Golden Age Green Lantern, which explains why it's so corny. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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Why this movie will suck in two words.
Green jets.
Seriously, are they even halfheartedly trying? Why are jets even necessary, can't the rung make you fly just as fast without creating some elaborate thing? Well, you need toys of course!
DC movies suck, batman begins is simply the outlier.
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LK
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I think it just goes to show how unimaginative Hal Jordan is. Swords, gatling gun, AA Cannon... green jets. I just saw the green jets today. I'm guessing that is supposed to be an awesome / funny moment.
It's whatever you can imagine Hal! Use hormone-guided robot hooker bombs or something!
Shit was that Freudian?
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SurfD
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Isn't that pretty much one of the hallmarks of the Green Lantern series tho? Here you have the Green Power Ring, that can literally make anything you can imagine into solid reality, and then they give it to some schmuck who makes Giant Green Boxing Gloves and stuff with it.
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Margalis
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A typical Green Lantern moment is someone shoots a fireball at him and he makes a giant green tennis racket and hits it back at them. At least on TV it's always been as corny as hell.
Isn't his weakness the color yellow or some shit? The idea of an intergalactic corps of super cops is pretty appealing, I'll give it that.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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SurfD
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A typical Green Lantern moment is someone shoots a fireball at him and he makes a giant green tennis racket and hits it back at them. At least on TV it's always been as corny as hell.
Isn't his weakness the color yellow or some shit? The idea of an intergalactic corps of super cops is pretty appealing, I'll give it that.
It's not so much the color yellow, but the "emotion / feeling" behind the color yellow. In the Lantern Corps continuity, there are "energies" through the universe, which some beings have learned to harness (like the Force in starwars). The major ones are associated with the Rainbow Spectrum. Red = Rage, Orange = Avarice, Yellow = Fear, Green = Will, Blue = Compassion, Indigo = Hope, Violet = Love (and black is death). Fear and Will are seen as natural enemies. |
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Khaldun
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That's a relatively recent twist on the "color yellow" thing, though. For a very long time in the series, it just was that his ring couldn't affect yellow, which of course led to entire alien armadas that painted everything yellow and so on. Or the infamous scene in Frank Miller's All-Star Batman where Batman paints a room yellow, his costume yellow and so on just so he can punch the shit out of Hal Jordan.
The Golden Age Green Lantern couldn't affect anything made of wood, which is equally silly.
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That's a relatively recent twist on the "color yellow" thing, though. For a very long time in the series, it just was that his ring couldn't affect yellow, which of course led to entire alien armadas that painted everything yellow and so on. Or the infamous scene in Frank Miller's All-Star Batman where Batman paints a room yellow, his costume yellow and so on just so he can punch the shit out of Hal Jordan.
The Golden Age Green Lantern couldn't affect anything made of wood, which is equally silly.
It's a like Superman's weakness to Kryptonite or Thor reverting to his human form if he doesn't have his hammer for 60 seconds. They're easy crutches for lazy writers to use to create viable threats for some of the more powerful heroes. |
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SurfD
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That's a relatively recent twist on the "color yellow" thing, though. For a very long time in the series, it just was that his ring couldn't affect yellow, which of course led to entire alien armadas that painted everything yellow and so on. Or the infamous scene in Frank Miller's All-Star Batman where Batman paints a room yellow, his costume yellow and so on just so he can punch the shit out of Hal Jordan.
The Golden Age Green Lantern couldn't affect anything made of wood, which is equally silly.
Well, that's why I mentioned the Lantern Corps continuity. When it was just "the green lantern" and no one had come up with the whole 'galactic super cops team' idea yet, green being weak to yellow could have made sense. Once they branched out into the full on Lantern Teams of different colors, they likely had to change things up a bit. |
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This is why I don't read comics
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Trippy
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If, indeed, it is true there are only seven original stories in this world, surely the super-hero comic genre's got a corner on the market on one of them. Now, even the people behind the mounting of this same-old same-old seem kinda bored by it all. Bored of comic movies.. that's expected by now. The season's noisiest reminder yet that the amount of money thrown at the screen isn't nearly as important as the quality of the story being told. Lots of others echoing this. It's all bang-flash and no story. So it's the Transformers of comic movies. As a superhero origin story, it's a major disappointment, including the surprising revelation during the final credits. This review was a woman who looked to be in her late 50's/ early 60's. Based on that I bet I can guess the "surprising revelation" involves this purple-skinned dude with a yellow ring. |
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murdoc
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I don't get how anyone expected this to get anything but generally negative reviews. I thought all the trailers looked terrible.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Trippy
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I wasn't impressed at all by the X-Men: First Class trailers.
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« Last Edit: June 15, 2011, 08:25:27 PM by Trippy »
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Khaldun
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That's a relatively recent twist on the "color yellow" thing, though. For a very long time in the series, it just was that his ring couldn't affect yellow, which of course led to entire alien armadas that painted everything yellow and so on. Or the infamous scene in Frank Miller's All-Star Batman where Batman paints a room yellow, his costume yellow and so on just so he can punch the shit out of Hal Jordan.
The Golden Age Green Lantern couldn't affect anything made of wood, which is equally silly.
Well, that's why I mentioned the Lantern Corps continuity. When it was just "the green lantern" and no one had come up with the whole 'galactic super cops team' idea yet, green being weak to yellow could have made sense. Once they branched out into the full on Lantern Teams of different colors, they likely had to change things up a bit. The Green Lantern Corps was introduced super-early into the history of the Silver Age character (Hal Jordan) along with the yellow-weakness. The "color yellow is just something that is an issue until you get fully trained" came way, way, way later. The full-spectrum Lanterns of Many Colors came even way laterer than that. We're talking 30 years of stories where the yellow weakness and the "galactic super cops team" were paired together before you get Red Lanterns and all that jazz. |
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Riggswolfe
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I haven't read a positive review of this yet. IGN hated it. All the reviewers at AICN hated it. In fact, the only positive thing any of the reviewers has said is that Ryan Reynolds is trying really hard but the script and direction are too much for him to overcome. I think this just moved to "wait for On-Demand/Netflix/Cable" for me. Maybe it is something about Green superheroes. I was extremely disapointed in the Green Hornet and now it looks like the Green Lantern is going to be a flop. |
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I saw a big problem with "Green Lantern" was that they tried to explain the entire backstory of the Green Lantern in one film.
No-one cares.
You've got a magic ring that does whatever non-pr0n requests you make of it? Great, now make with the awesome. Intergalatic cops who dress up funny is so much background blah blah.
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You've got a magic ring that does whatever non-pr0n requests you make of it? Great, now make with the awesome. Intergalatic cops who dress up funny is so much background blah blah.
I thought First Flight did it pretty good. Hal Jordan without the corps is  . |
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K9
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Shame, I think Ryan Reynods is a quality actor who keeps ending up in shitty movies.
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Shame, I think Ryan Reynods is a quality actor who keeps ending up in shitty movies.
I stand on the side of the fence that dislikes him, as an actor. This might be in large part due to the fact he gets typecast, but once you get your trend going it's fairly hard to break it in casting and in audience interpretations - I'd say Hanks stands out as how to do it correctly, but even he got a lucky break... time will tell, but this movie is definitely not a Reynolds coming out party. |
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Trippy
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It's up to 25%! |
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