Green Lantern

[Pinotage]

Enjoyable. Special effects were far better than the story. I just wish they hadn't thrown something as massive as Parallax against a rookie Green Lantern. If you've read any comics, it's just not believable. Worth a watch - I agree with other posters that it had lots of potential and only partially delivered.

Pinotage

 

[Welverin]

The costumes are 100% CGI -- no actual costume was created. I dunno why, but that kind of got me uninterested to start with.

Since the outfits are created by the rings, it's only appropriate that they be CG.

 

[Hand of Evil]

too cookie cutter for me and mostly saw it as a launching pad for the actors into super-stardom...at least a try.

 

[Felon]

Neither great nor awful. This is not a labor of love on the order of Raimi's Spider-Man or Nolan's Batman. Just a very basic, by-the-numbers piece of work with no ambition other than to establish a franchise.

We get all the obligatory components, from the opening scene that offers a "tell-don't-show" approach to serving up backstory, to the climax where the hero's key to beating the villain was based on some tidbit of knowledge learned earlier in the film that seemed like a minor detail at the time. And in between the hero manages to overcome his one crippling character flaw.

The big picture is what's important to me here. Green Lantern does indeed have great franchise potential, and hopefully this prosaic film will drum enough interest with Warner Bros to try something bigger and better.

GL's main problem is that if you do it right, it's such a spectacle that you need an Avatar budget to do it full justice.

 

[Felon]

Since the outfits are created by the rings, it's only appropriate that they be CG.[/QUOTETrue. And I liked the costumes more than I thought I would.

The problem for some folks like me is that I can't buy into what's going on because it's becoming increasingly obvious that there's no interest in even bothering with building sets, but rather just shoot everything on green screen. And in this case, even the actor's clothes are bogus (though his unitard probably was genuinely green). Even if it looks good, it's hard to shake the feeling that there's no TLC. Just "OK, let's just shoot it all on green and then handle the details through post-proecessing".

Anyone remember back when Christian Bale had a coniption over the lighting guy getting in the shot? Seems like a much less egregious offense when considering that Bale in all likelyhood Bale was just poncing around in a little 12x12 foot patch of nondescript green wallpaper and mat.

 

[Kzach]

I think they really fell short of the mark here. It was an ok film. Entertaining enough to quench a couple of hours of boredom. But nothing special.

Where I really felt they dropped the ball was in doing too much, in too little time. I think they could've kept most of the story they had, but instead of Parallax being the primary villain, he should've just been a background threat that was on the rise, whereas Hal's first major enemy should've been Hector. The film could've spent more time developing that relationship and the characters, and then had Parallax as the primary villain in the second movie, with the yellow ring being the third movie villain.

Instead, they blew their wad all in one go and made a mess of it.

 

[megamania]

Finally saw it today.

I liked it.

I'm not a huge DC fan so maybe I don't have a feel for the entire history and the such but I still enjoyed it.

The story was complete yet left room for sequels.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I must say that the Topless Robot 'review' made me laugh

Topless Robot Presents: The Best Scenes from the Green Lantern Movie - Topless Robot