A sad day for DC Comics based movies!

[edventure]

Meh.

Jack Black as the Green Lantern. I thought they said they wanted to make a comedy? Jack Black isn't funny.

You want a comedy? Get Jimmy Fallon, I hear he's looking for work.

 

[robaustin]

I think I shall go shoot myself before I can see this abomination.

--*Rob

 

[Greatwyrm]

P.S. Because pro wrestling is scripted. Not fake, just scripted. Besides, it would look awkward announcing the pairs of Stone Cold Steve Austin & Triple H.

I'd wager figure skating routines are far more practiced than pro-wrestling matches.

 

[Ranger REG]

Green Lantern has always been a big sissy.

Which one?

 

[Ranger REG]

I'd wager figure skating routines are far more practiced than pro-wrestling matches.

True, but you still need to judge manuevers (whether they're high-risk, high-flying, and/or basic fundamentals) for the technical performance category. The artistic is the choreagraphy and the ability to "sell" pain throughout the match performance.

 

[Ranger REG]

Jack Black as the Green Lantern. I thought they said they wanted to make a comedy? Jack Black isn't funny.

You don't think so? Because I find him funnier than Jim Carrey. Heck Jim Carrey is nowhere near funnier than Robin Williams.

You want a comedy? Get Jimmy Fallon, I hear he's looking for work.

Well, there is that Superman project that needs to be finished, even though McG dropped out as a director.

 

[Kesh]

Confirmed?

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=17971

It's AICN. They couldn't confirm who was President of the USA right now.

 

[Fast Learner]

Get Jimmy Fallon, I hear he's looking for work.

There's a good reason for that. Fallon couldn't out-funny the average bunny, imo. 99% smarm, 1% funny.

 

[Agamon]

Dear God in heaven, noooooooo!

They have the potential to create an incredible GL movie, and we get this? It sure as hell better not be true!

I like Jack Black, I like comedies, but I oh-so-hate this idea. GL was my absolute favorite back in the day.

 

[Agamon]

Essential Green Lantern reading:

Green Lantern/Green Arrow
Green Lantern regular series in the year prior to Crisis (and during Crisis)
Emerald Dawn

In these comics we see that Hal Jordan wasn't a Guardians yes-man (he stood up to them quite a few times, and quit the Corps more than once, and didn't go crazy when the love of his life turned out to be Star Sapphire), Guy Gardner wasn't originally a moron with Moe's haircut (he was Ultimate Green Lantern before there was an Ultimate idea around, and he had close-cropped hair), John Stewart wasn't a suave architect (when he got the ring, in the 70s, he gave new meaning to the phrase "Beware My Power")...

And there's something to be said about a man that gets dropped 11,000 feet without a power ring or a parachute and simply relaxes and waits for the inevitable with a serene mind (Hal Jordan is the original "Man Without Fear"... literally).

Wow, couldn't have said it better myself.

I wonder how Hal's doing now that he's back as GL. I mean, quitting and then coming back as GL was one thing. But going insane and destroying the Corps and the Guardians, turning into an 'Event BBG', sacrificing his life to save the world, returning as the new Spectre, and then coming back as GL is a bit different...I'm sure Batman probably still holds a grudge.