A Green Lantern is an officer of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps, who have the ability to overcome great fear with the might of willpower. They possess power rings capable of creating constructs characterized by their will and strength to use it. Each Green Lantern is given a Sector of the Universe to protect and it is their priority to suppress any threat against their sector.
Because Berlanti and Guggenheim... Berlaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnntiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii and GUGGEN-HEIM.
Two mad little men with their mad little scripts, always scampering about, looking for your favorite characters. Just so they can bind them, and grrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiind them, and CRUNCH THEM INTO itty-bitty pieces, laughing as you cry.
laughing, ALWAYS LAUGHING, LAUGHING EVERY DAY!
i drive the pencils into my eyes, deeper and deeper, BUT IT NEVER KILLS THE LAAAAAAUUUUUGHIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!
No. no i'll be good now. i'll watch arrow like a good little girl. look how much i love arrow. aha. hahaha.
Because DC fans have been waiting for years for something other than Batman to get green-lighted, and after all that waiting they got a pretty lame Green Lantern movie. At the same time Marvel pumps out 4 movies a year and 90% of them were better.
I wouldn't say I hated it. It was just disappointing. It was just mediocre. The two major things they got wrong were Hal's character and using Parallax as a villain. Hal whined too much and quit, which is not what willpower is about. I could understand if he doubted himself at some point, hit a low point, but he should have picked himself up and trudged on. Not outright quit. And Parallax is too big a villain to use in the first movie. And it shouldn't have been a giant space cloud. What's with movies and making villains into space clouds? I'm looking at YOU, Galactus!
I wish, as the first of any Green Lantern film they went more in depths with the origin of Hal Jordan and his early adventures with the Corps and mentor, Sinestro. With the 2nd film being more of Sinestro's Corps and his attack on the Green Lanterns with more in depths of the Guardians of the Universe...and so forth going onto the 3rd film being the conclusion where they depict the "War of the Green Lanterns". The whole thing with parallax being depicted as a dark cloud that appeared from space wasn't really that intriguing. Ryan Reynolds fit Hal Jordan, but needs to be more toned, yet still a classy kind of guy if he wants the role again.
It was fine, people saying stuff like "this movie ruined the comic book genre" and treating it like Catwoman is a complete overreaction, the main problem was the villains and the focus on stuff that didn't need that much focus, mainly the location of Earth, the movie should've stayed in space, and if they really felt the need to put so much Earth in the movie, try Hal have a character arc or some kind of development, try really go indepth to his inner struggles of what he's going through, if not, they just should've kept it in space, it would've been miles better and people would've gotten what they were expecting. Another problem was the use of the effects, not the effects itself, they were REALLY good, but how they used them, a big problem that I always thought when talking about a GL movie was how they were going to show the constructs and the powers without it feeling cartoonish, just because it works in comics and animation doesn't mean it would translate well to the big screen, stuff like the giant fist or a machine gun were fine, but pulling off a hot wheels track? For God's sake!
The casting was great imo, Mark Strong as Sinestro, Ryan Reynolds as Hal (yes, he was good), Michael Clark Duncan as Kilowog (R.I.P.), they were all outstanding, only real problem in this regard was the villains, and everybody knows why.
And the last "big problem" that I had was the post-credit scene, in paper it's awesome! A sequel promising Sinestro Corps War? It would litterally be the perfect sequel, but Sinestro putting the ring came out of nowhere, there was mention of it, but no build up, another problem that would've been solved if the movie stayed in space, that way Sinestro could of had some actual development. In my opinion, a better post-credit scene would've been Hal showing sings of being possesed by Parallax, hell, even a scene with Guy Gardner getting the ring would've been better.
Because it was bad, simple as that. And the worst part is that it wasn't laughably bad like Batman and Robin, Catwoman or both of the Ghost Rider movies, it was plain bad: the most boring variety of bad ever conceived.
It was only a little bit worse than Man of Steel- enjoyable to watch, but not a great flick... but it left you feeling good at the end, so there's that... Man of Steel didn't
I know little of Green Lantern. I have only seen him in the superman animated series. Didn't particularly care for him then.
But it seems everyone here almost hated the movie. So I just wanted to know, what made it so bad for a comic book movie? Weren't the special effects at least good? Usually they directors can get that right if nothing else.
I have not seen it, should I? I have seen "Skyline", and in spite of people bashing it, I thought it was more realistic than "Independence day", and overall a better movie.
Nah, it's not that bad. There are way worse movies in the MCU.
And DC has produced by the past way worse movies.
And for your information, if you want to get into Green Lanterns her would be my recommendations to you:
You should start with the modern age Lantern stories (from 1986 on) :
Green Lantern: Hal Jordan vol.1
Emerald Twilight/New Dawn
Green Lantern by Goeff Johns - it's 3 massive omnibus, or you can only read the following stories (but you'll be missing some interresting stuff):
GL: Rebirth (2005)
Sinestro Corps War
Secret Origin
Blackest Night
In 2011 came a reboot of the DC Univers with the event Flashpoint. Luckilly it didn't much affect the GL univers and Geoff Johns could finish his run (available in the 3rd of his Omnibus), or you can read the main crossovers if you'd like (but they are not mandatory):
Rise of the Third Army
Wrath of the First Lantern
Lights Out
Then you can skip to the following relaunch after the event DC Univers Rebirth in 2016. There was 2 ongoings - You can use this as another starting point:
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (more outer space stories)
Green Lanterns (about 2 new earth Lanterns)
In 2018 some of the DC titles were rebranded a few DC event - Dark Knight: Metal - Justice: No Justice - Doomsday Clock (concludes the storyline started with Watchmen, Flashpoint and Rebirth) - This is also a possible starting point.
The Green Lantern - ongoing - very well written and really explores other planets, by Grant Morrison
In the mean time, if you want to read some good Silver Age / Bronze Age stories:
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