Green Lantern
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Not gonna nitpick or complain, saw it at the midnight showing in non-3d, and I found the film to be quite enjoyable and entertaining. It's been ages since I've read the comics, so I'm not sure how close to the origin story they were, but it was a pretty good film. I do like that they left it open to make sequels should this one do well. :thumbup:
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Stupid fat lady infront of me ruined it though, constantly laughing at nothing. ugh,
I'm honestly surprised, I cannot hate nor like the movie, I'm more perplexed as to what they did with the money. 200M vs the 185M of The Dark Knight...this doesn't look good, and most likely, they won't produce the remaining of the Trilogy they had planned out considering how badly it was received.
In the end, I walked away empty...the only other movie which gave me the same effect? X-Men 3...
Which made it somewhat enjoyable for me, where they spent that extra budget, I don't know.
Don't understand the hate for that film, thought it was great.
I didn't like Ryan Reynolds as Hal much. I think he would have done better as Kyle Rayner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rayner
I liked the Art direction for the aliens, and even the suit I thought was well designed and executed. (For the most part, the suit is good, but the bad shots REALLY stand out.) I felt the Guardians look pretty sweet compared to their source material.
I personally like Ryan Renolds, and Buried is a movie that can show that he can do more then just be Ryan Renolds in a movie, but the script of the movie I feel is pretty god awful. The Action sequences are good, but over WAY to quickly, and the one "action" sequence where he "debuts" himself on earth is embarrassingly bad.
Everything else in the movie was either exposition about the Lantern corps, the Guardians and the Green and Yellow energy, and Paralax (Which I felt where done well enough for a non-fan.) And Hal / some other characters moping around about their life and daddy issues. (Which took up WAY too much of the movies screen time.)
I guess it's because I also like looking up the background of a movie and how or where it came from and what it went through.
When a movies for me has a big budget, and the guys don't try to be organized, I don't like the movie, even if the movies it passable and enjoyable. I like Scott Pilgrim because the adversity of something passable from a very unknown medium and just barely new comic made it more daunting.
Take Micheal Bay for example and the TF3, he actually said that he saw a wingsuits scene in 60 minutes, and liked it, so he decided to put it in his latest movies.
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/06/new-transformers-video-michael-bay-demands-wingsuits-base-jumping?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uproxx%2Ffilmdrunk+%28Film+Drunk%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
This clearly shows he doesn't care generally about the movies, just like X-Men. I mean what was with all the neo-gothic-post-PMS dark outfits? Did colors stop existing magically in X3?
I think people just raised their expectations too high.
I don't understand at all what you are trying to say... what has this got to do with wingsuits. Are you saying that because they all wore black in X3 instead of day-glo yellow, it was a bad film? I thought the story was quite good.
It's clear that we'll have to agree to disagree.
I liked the cg, there were times i couldn't tell if it was cg'd or just vfx on green screen. I liked it much better then thor (not saying thor was bad, just that green lantern mixed in plot and combat much better)
Never read the comics of the Green lantern specifically. I always read justice league comics. the entire time when viewing Sinestro, i thought 'man he looks familiar but different' theeeen it all made sense at the end.
Makes me want to read the green lantern comics now, good job all around. Yes there were some parts rushed a bit like Hal's training but it's a movie, and it's not going to be perfect in that sense with what took years of comic books to explain. For the time frame of the movie (2 hours + i believe) they did well to explain what we needed to know, and show a lot of interesting combat scenes.
4/5 for me. Goes right up there beside Iron Man and The Dark Knight for me personally.
Also, the mask scene , lol.
No after credits scene? Then what is this?
http://gunsjy.blogspot.com/2011/06/green-lantern-after-credits-scene.html