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Even though they really have nothing to do with one another, is anyone else so bummed out by how bad the Jonah Hex movie looks that they can't help but now be worried about GL? I suddenly feel like its the 90's again and I'm fearful for any DC movie.

Man, I hope GL is good.

I think there's that worry with ANY superhero movie. They're usually all over the map, really.

What's really stupid about the Jonah Hex debacle (from what I hear) is that they really only had to make a good western and nail the character in the process. Maybe a little dark humor and some memorable villains. He didn't have to talk to the dead or face stuff straight out of Wild, Wild West.

I guess they were trying to marry Giffen's futuristic sci-fi version and the horror/Vertigo version of Truman and Lansdale and the GrayPal back-to-his-roots version. If they'd just stuck to the latter GrayPal take, I'm sure the movie would've worked out fine.

Ugh.

Hopefully, Geoff's overseeing role at DC will reign in any temptation to go too far afield with GL.

hmmm i could see Bradley being Barry Alan...now who else could Nathan be....Green Arrow?

Fillion as Green Arrow? I don't know if I could handle the excitement of a "Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place" reunion!

Well, I watch Jonah Hex, and perhaps its the bad download quality that helped it, but other than a rather generic quality to it, it didn't seem that bad to me. I won't say its alist top drawer, but it wasn't as bad as I've seen it made out to be some places.

Still, it did have Megan Fox in it, and that couldn't have helped.

Time to bump this thread since the movie is out. And I saw it. Enjoyed it. More than I figured I would.

Ryan Reynolds is almost great. Mark Strong as Sinestro is delightful. Blake Lively as Carol starts off weak but gets better as the film progresses. Peter Sarsgaard is extraordinary as Hector Hammond. If anything, the movie tried to do way too much, and as a result it feels choppy, constantly going back and forth between earth and oa. But a lot of good stuff.

Saw it just an hour or so ago. It was better than the crappy reviews its been getting suggest, and better than I expected (which, granted, wasn't much).

Mark Strong felt like the only actor *really* on his game. The others acting against him were either heavily CGI'd (Kilowog, Tomar Re, the Guardians) or Ryan Reynolds failing to take anything seriously.

Fans of Ryan Reynolds in his underwear should be pleased. There's entirely more of that than the plot requires.

Blake Lively, on the other hand, manages to keep her clothes on, and tasteful, probably while flipping the bird to Megan Fox behind the scenes.

I give it a solid B+

Lordy, even the WWE is getting in on this--

http://www.wwe.com/inside/wwefeaturepage/wwe-lanterns

Loved it. Well worth the money as far as I'm concerned. Space cloud as a villain only works for sun eater, but other than that, the movie was great.

The scene with Lively as Ferris that everyone said was wooden and lifeless, completely different in context of the rest of the scene. I thought she did very well.

everyone that was bitching about Reynolds ruining it with wisecracking (not here, on other boards) can eat $#!+ . He did great.

The only problem I had with the movie... should have made Parralax be Krona in context of the movie.

Voice acting for Tomar and Kilowog... great. Tom was acted well, and Abin came across as a real Badass in the first few minutes.

Excellent movie, and I suspect that the sequel that will surely be generated out of this will knock it out of the park.

Loved it.

It was just average for me. I wasn't a fan of hector hammond a the villain. squeezing a cosmic entity like Parallax into an Earthly threat Didn't work for me.

I also thought the ring constructs lacked imagination. The movie seemed targeted to a pre adult audience. They are setting up Sinestro as the bad guy in a sequel but wouldn't it more sense to save the cosmic threat of Parallax for a sequel?
on the other hand female audience members agreed ryan reynolds is hot.

It was just average for me. I wasn't a fan of hector hammond a the villain. squeezing a cosmic entity like Parallax into an Earthly threat Didn't work for me.

I also thought the ring constructs lacked imagination. The movie seemed targeted to a pre adult audience. They are setting up Sinestro as the bad guy in a sequel bit to me wouldn't it more sense to save the cosmic threat of Parallax for a sequel?

on the other hand female audience members agreed ryan reynolds is hot.

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http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/green-lantern-makes-3-35m-midnights/

Some highlights:

Expensive, crap, and taking in only half the marketing budget (let alone the actual cost of making the thing) in the opening weekend. And with horrible word-of-mouth going forward.

I thought Green Lantern was much better than Thor.

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I was off work today and saw GL and loved it! It was a whole lot of fun and, in my opinion, the best DC super-hero movie since Christopher Reeve played Superman (I should note that the last Batman movie I saw starred Val Kilmer). And it doesn't hurt that Ryan Reynolds is yummalicious! Hal was almost perfect. Kilowog and Sinestro were spot on. I liked this interpretation of Tom Kalmaku. Angela Basset was a nice surprise as Amanda Waller.

Honestly, I think most of the critics who panned it had never read a GL comic in their lives.

Will it win an Oscar? Maybe for special effects. Was it great cinematic art? Not really. Was it fun and entertaining? Yes, absolutely!

UK box office news:

Well, I saw it today with my family, and we all enjoyed it a lot! Was it the best thing ever? No. Were there some choices that might have made it better? Yes. Is it deserving of all the negative pub it's getting? Definitely NOT!

Sometimes, it becomes popular to bash a movie because everyone else is bashing it. I'm not gonna do that. This was a solid, enjoyable movie that entertained me. And it got a lot of things absolutely right!

I recommend GL to anyone who thinks they might wanna see it. See for yourself before you join the peanut gallery!

Eh. I'd still like to see it. But I'm waiting for it to hit the dollar theaters, because I'm stingy.

I'm going with broke for myself.

Dev, they can hardly complain if you ran out of film money because you blew it all on comics first.

Weekend 2 start :
Flop it is.

I liked this movie. The content was faithful to the comics, while at the same time easily accesible to viewers unfamiliar with Green Lantern. The relationship between Hal and Carol was as detaied and intimate as it was in the original comics. The reason I like Green Lantern is not just because of science-fiction, I also like Green Lantern because it also has romance. While Hector Hammond is not Hal Jordan's archenemy, he first appeared in the earliest issues of the series.

However, I think the harsh criticism is earned. The choice of screen shots and the sequence of said shots were bad at times. The recent moves by Warner executives are more than justified in light of this movie's cinematography.

hmm, haven't seen it yet but, I wonder how bad buzz contributed.

oh yeah, and the fact that there are about 4 big super hero movies this summer, not including Harry Potter ( can't wait)

I'll still see GL, just haven't got around to it, The Beginners and Harry Potter are next on my list. I barely saw X-Men ... which got a lot of really good buzz, and I just thought it was .. ok.

No plans to see Captain America here.

One confusing thing is they keep saying Thor and GL are obscure characters but ... I don't think so, as a kid, other kids not into comics knew the GL and Thor ... maybe times change.