There’s quite a few topics for upcoming films. There’s even a few for superhero films. But for some reason there’s none for my most anticipated superhero film featuring what just might be my favorite superhero, Green Lantern!
Yes, I know. The original trailer was pretty terrible. But they’ve learned their lesson over at WB. The new footage they’ve been rolling out is just wonderful.
I’m excited beyond reason after seeing stuff like this sizzle reel from WonderCon.
And this tv spot sent chills up my spine!
Not so much this one though…
I think the reason I love GL so much is because I can relate to the Corps more than I can most other heroes. Though I’m a bit odd. I can actually imagine a person like Superman existing a bit more easily than I could someone like Batman or Iron Man. I think it has to do with their personalities. I know more good-intentioned self-righteous “aw shucks” types of folks than I know super-geniuses who build hi-tech suits by themselves or are the best ninjas in the world.
The same thing kind of goes for the Lantern Corps. They’re primarily just ordinary folks who just happen to have wicked powers. They’re the people who run into burning buildings and think up clever solutions to save everyone. They just happen to have hi-tech power rings given to them by an alien race. And they all possess traits that I think everyone should admire, great willpower, incredible imagination and the ability to overcome their darkest fears. As a writer/creative type that sort of thing really speaks to me more than pretty much any other superhero out there who all pretty much get by by being bada** or smart in a way I can’t ever really comprehend or so gotdang rich that it doesn’t matter either way. Not that I hate those heroes. I still love them quite a lot. They just don’t mean as much to me as the GLC.
Anyway, I hope you’ll get pumped for this and tell all your friends about this. I’m really hoping for a franchise. I mean space opera meets superheroes? How can you lose?
I guess I’ll watch this movie. I have always liked Ryan Reynolds. But I was never a fan of Green latern.
My only real investment in Green Lantern comes from the animated Justice League/ JL Unlimited version (John Stewart)- perhaps the greatest animated DC series of all time. While my favourites were Batman, Flash as well as having the greatest version of Superman I have ever had the pleasure of watching I did find that version of GL interesting (though no doubt this will be different). He sometimes did bad stuff but that made him interesting in a way (plus all the characters made mistakes anyway) and the series wouldn’t have been the sam without him (plus loved him as the straight man to Flash on occasion). Plus I liked his two love interests there- Vixen and Hawkgirl and the fact they weren’t you know sterotypical mean girls to each other. They were realistic.
Only experience with the Green Lantern was that version but overall it was good.
I’ll be watching this even though it will clearly be different. It seems better than Thor or Captian America anyway (can’t say I’m all that keen on those ones,).
Overall with the cooler trailer I admit the mask looks a bit odd to me and the ‘chant’ with them all was kind of… unintentionally creepy to me. Just a bit anyway. Plus I’m not sure what to think of the villian they’ve got lined up what with it seeming he is controlled- though yellow is supposed to be fear in the Lantern Corps isn’t it? And hopefully they’ll be conflict in you know fighting someone not fully in control if that’s the case. But overall the main character seems not too bad at all and while it may go down the typical lesson I already know (bravery isn’t not having fear it’s overcoming it and doing the right thing) it could be good- plus too many writers seem to utterly fudge the bravery idea completely anyway so it will be nice for someone for once to actually GET IT RIGHT. (Sorry pet peeve here, so many who try for bravery things in media suck at it- not having any fear ever from the beginning makes you an idiot or ignorant, not brave).
Plus this shows some promise. His first try at the ‘vow’ is well… definitly something I would do and say probably.
Hopefully as someone with only one (or for others no) previous experience with GL beyond the superfical this will be a good movie and I’m definitly looking forward to this much more than Thor or Captain America.
I’m still looking more forward to the Dark Knight Rises but this will be interesting in a different way.
I’m not really into Green Lantern (Granted, the only comics I’ve really read are All-Star Superman and the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle, at the suggestion of a certain amazing internet comic reviewer) but I might see this. It seems kind of cool, and its nice to see a comic book movie accepting it lives in a fantasy world of aliens and monsters and not a “dark, gritty reality.”
I love DC Comics characters, and Green Lantern is no exception, I am looking forward to watch this film in theaters, and buy some merchandise related to this superhero, 
I’m not sure what to think of this movie yet, particularly after seeing that monstrosity that is Hector Hammond’s face. It looks like it’s on the cheesier end of the superhero spectrum, which is probably unavoidable. Martin Campbell is a competent helmer, so maybe it’ll surprise me.
Still, that face… 
I hope to be surprised, I really like Green Lantern, but the film is clearly using too much CGI, however this is one of my most anticipated films of the summer,
after Casino Royale, I can only expect great things from Martin Campbell, I guess
Still…the main character is supposed to be a Black guy…
It doesn’t seem like anyone else on PP has seen this movie yet.
I saw it with my dad on Friday. I was so excited for this movie because Green Lantern is one of the best superheroes ever created and there has been so much good work with him done in the comics lately.
Unfortunately the film was a complete disappointment. It was so boring and… lame. I truly think lame is the best way to describe it.
I also think Ryan Reynolds should not have been cast as Hal Jordan.
I also heard a lot of negative reviews about this movie.
I didn’t think the plot was all that mind bowing. Could you elaborate?
I think maybe that because I am already familiar with Green Lantern due to reading the comics, I was not taken aback by some basic elements of his mythology like others may have been who are being exposed to him for the first time through this film.
What did you like about it dude?