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GREEN LANTERN MAKES HIS DEBUT ON THE SMALL SCREEN

post #1 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:20pm
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Daytime just got nerdy.

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post #2 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:23pm
Suit looks like SHIT.
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post #3 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:24pm
I can't watch videos at work but from what I can make out? I'd have to concur with HQ22
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post #4 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:27pm
I don't know how you can conclude that. I could barely see anything in that pixelated mess. I'm waiting for the full trailer to make any judgments.
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post #5 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:29pm
We're seven months away from release, I wouldn't be judging any special effects at this point.
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post #6 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:31pm
HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjL62arXIzU

The suit looks painted on and shitty at this point, but it seems like Ryan Reynolds will make the movie worth watching.
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post #7 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:32pm
God I wish I could care one way or another about this movie.
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post #8 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:34pm
The Clip is...Awe-Inspiring and Awesome! And...Kilowog! Ryan Reynolds is...Perfectly Cast, and I am...Green with envy, of the people that have seen more than this, cool, bit of the trailer.
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post #9 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
I don't know how you can conclude that. I could barely see anything in that pixelated mess. I'm waiting for the full trailer to make any judgments.

How about that HD EW cover?
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post #10 of 93
11/13/10 at 4:38pm
Lets take these pants off and fly some planes is a great line.

Personally I liked it.
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post #11 of 93
11/13/10 at 5:09pm
I thought he said "lets take these pants off and fly someplace"
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post #12 of 93
11/13/10 at 5:20pm
Nope.
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post #13 of 93
11/13/10 at 5:26pm
Looked great. Looked fun, and...big, for want of better term. The shrill mewling whenever a costume is first revealed is hilariously predictable. It's been happening since Black-Leather-Gate when we first saw Singer's X-Men. They have months of post to go. MONTHS. For the love of Jhésu, resist the urge to bleat.
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post #14 of 93
11/13/10 at 5:29pm
The only thing I can say grabbed me in those few seconds is the tone conveyed. It looks like they're going for light and fun, which is nice, but everything else? Yeah, reminds me of the first Spider-Man film; this is a bad thing.
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post #15 of 93
11/13/10 at 5:37pm
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The shrill mewling whenever a costume is first revealed is hilariously predictable.
This is true. I've rarely seen this not happen.
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post #16 of 93
11/13/10 at 5:54pm
Next summer will see a return of the embarassing, campy superhero films. I think First Class might be the one to beat next summer which is hilarious considering that was the one I originally thought was going to be terrible.
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post #17 of 93
11/13/10 at 6:08pm
I don't know if it's going to be that, but it is about a guy who makes giant hammers and vacuum cleaners with the most powerful weapon in the universe, so...
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post #18 of 93
11/13/10 at 6:14pm
Just because the Summer 2011 comic movies have fantasy/space elements and seem to have lighter tones than ultra serious comic movies like THE DARK KNIGHT, doesn't mean they're going to be embarrassing and campy.
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post #19 of 93
11/13/10 at 6:27pm
The comic films I've enjoyed the most have been the ones with the lighter, 1960s Marvel feel to them (the Spidey films, the FF films, The Incredibles). So yeah, light and fun isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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post #20 of 93
11/13/10 at 6:33pm
Surprised there isn't more excitement. It actually looks kinda nuts. Couldn't care less how the suit looks.

And yes... it's got a pulpy tone to it, but doesn't look campy at all. What, just because it hasn't got the prerequisite amount of grittiness?
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post #21 of 93
11/13/10 at 6:37pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
The comic films I've enjoyed the most have been the ones with the lighter, 1960s Marvel feel to them (the Spidey films, the FF films, The Incredibles). So yeah, light and fun isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Have to disagree with bolded. I WANTED to love the Fantastic Four films very much, but the half-assed execution frustrated me to no end. Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis are the only actors cast completely right, and even then they're dealing with lousy material. And Julian McMahon is the worst Dr. Doom EVER.

Otherwise, I agree that "light and fun" doesn't automatically mean "bad". And I like the design of GL's costume here, but the CGI itself definitely needs some work.
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post #22 of 93
11/13/10 at 6:42pm
I want a realistic Green Lantern film, not this cartoon shit. He should be eviscerating war criminals with green lasers of death, and rescuing human females from Sinestro's rape camps because that's what would happen if GL were real. Also, he should never smile. Being in the Corps is serious business.
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post #23 of 93
11/13/10 at 7:00pm
Yeah, I'm thinking something like this:

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post #24 of 93
11/13/10 at 7:15pm
That's what I'm fucking talking about. Have Nolan and Snyder hire Rammstein to remix John Williams' dated score and we're in business...the killin' kind.
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post #25 of 93
11/13/10 at 7:15pm
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Yeah, I'm thinking something like this:
God, we really dodged a bullet there, didn't we?
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post #26 of 93
11/13/10 at 7:22pm
The fact that this is Martin Campbell directing a space opera makes me want this very badly to be good.
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post #27 of 93
11/13/10 at 7:33pm
Beyond the effects (which I know are unfinished), nothing in that trailer really worked for me. Reynolds is fine, but I've never really been on board with the geek love that surrounds him. He just sort of feels like a poor man's Robert Downey, Jr. in this, which he kind of is.

Of course, I'm kind of tired of the whole superhero genre these days, so that could be where the disconnect is coming in for me. I feel like I've already heard this story a hundred times before, so unless it feels fresh and new, I just can't get all that excited about it.

I'm with Justin Clark on this one. I wish I could care about it, but I just can't seem to muster up any enthusiasm.
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post #28 of 93
11/13/10 at 7:47pm
Martin Campbell is what has me on board. Goldeneye, Casino Royale, and The Mask of Zorro buy him a lot of good will from me.
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post #29 of 93
11/13/10 at 7:51pm
how can anyone judge a low res, ET edited clip, with an annoying voiceover? ET edits these clips to cater to their typical viewers... the TMZ type crowd. Obviously the case when they say Lively's name before Reynolds. Real trailer hits in 6 days, I'm waiting till then before I say anything looks like "shit".

I'm sure if ET edited a clip trailer from the film Goodfellas, we'd all think that movie would look like shit too.
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post #30 of 93
11/13/10 at 8:58pm
Nice to see that CHUD is still, comparatively, an oasis of reason and logic amid the nightmarish hellscape of the internet. The weeping, the gnashing of the teeth, the rending of the clothes, the sheer misery, that the trailer's reception has caused in other places actually makes me violent.
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post #31 of 93
11/13/10 at 8:59pm
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Nice to see that CHUD is still, comparatively, an oasis of reason and logic amid the nightmarish hellscape of the internet. The weeping, the gnashing of the teeth, the rending of the clothes, the sheer misery, that the trailer's reception has caused in other places actually makes me violent.
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post #32 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:13pm
WB should've gone with James Marsden for Hal Jordan & left The Flash for Reynolds. Really not digging the tone AT ALL.
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post #33 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:18pm
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WB should've gone with James Marsden for Hal Jordan
You shut your filthy whore mouth!

My god, how shitty could Reynolds be to invite a vacuum of personality into the film like Marsden?
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post #34 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:21pm
I'm not all that knowledgable about Green Lantern, but isn't early Hal Jordan portrayed nowadays as a cocky fighter jock? Seems to me like that makes Reynolds a pretty good fit tonally.
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post #35 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:26pm
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I'm not all that knowledgable about Green Lantern, but isn't early Hal Jordan portrayed nowadays as a cocky fighter jock? Seems to me like that makes Reynolds a pretty good fit tonally.
There is a difference between cocky and smirky. Don Draper is Hal Jordan.
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post #36 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:32pm
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You shut your filthy whore mouth!

My god, how shitty could Reynolds be to invite a vacuum of personality into the film like Marsden?
Marsden is a good actor and charismatic as hell. The X-Men films are not much of a showcase for what he can really do.
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post #37 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:37pm
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Marsden is a good actor and charismatic as hell. The X-Men films are not much of a showcase for what he can really do.
Superman Returns?
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post #38 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:43pm
He's good in that, especially for the small part that was written for him. He's human and he practically gets the most impressive heroic moment in the film. He's great in Hairspray and Sex Drive and I recall him being fun in Sugar and Spice as well. Watch more movies.

Edit: Shit, he's good in the X-Men films, they just don't give him any screen time or proper character beats. Not his fault.
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post #39 of 93
11/13/10 at 9:59pm
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WB should've gone with James Marsden for Hal Jordan & left The Flash for Reynolds. Really not digging the tone AT ALL.
You know, there's a little more to changing the tone of a film than recasting the lead actor.
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post #40 of 93
11/13/10 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by JacknifeJohnny View Post
I want a realistic Green Lantern film, not this cartoon shit.
Yeah, and that right there is your problem.

Honestly, I've found everything except for the concept art on this to look pretty poor. We'll see how it ends up looking, they do still have half a year to finish the effects. Still, I'm cautiously optimistic due to word on the script and the set visits. Plus, having the guy who resurrected the comic series on board has got to mean something.
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post #41 of 93
11/13/10 at 10:06pm
I like how you quoted just that one bit so you could remain spectacularly clueless.
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post #42 of 93
11/13/10 at 10:14pm
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You know, there's a little more to changing the tone of a film than recasting the lead actor.
No kidding, guy.
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post #43 of 93
11/13/10 at 10:31pm
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I like how you quoted just that one bit so you could remain spectacularly clueless.
Wow, been drinking much?

Sorry for scanning your post and leaping to the wrong conclusion. What you were making fun of is what I'm encountering around the intertubes for the most part. I' posted while doing something else -- consider me chastised!
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post #44 of 93
11/13/10 at 10:40pm
Some of you are catty bitches.
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post #45 of 93
11/13/10 at 10:49pm
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Some of you are catty bitches.
Comics, and movies based on them, do tend to get me a little over-excited; hence my posting on something when I was not really paying attention.

I likes me some Green Lantern. The effects are dodgy-looking as hell, though. Still, I've got my fingers crossed!
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post #46 of 93
11/14/10 at 12:19am
Oh yeah. Spose.
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post #47 of 93
11/14/10 at 12:47am
I just hope the film takes seriously the long and important legacy of the comic bo--



Oh.
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post #48 of 93
11/14/10 at 12:59am
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I just hope the film takes seriously the long and important legacy of the comic bo--
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post #49 of 93
11/14/10 at 1:15am
Technically that's from Justice League International.
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post #50 of 93
11/14/10 at 1:30am
Some shots of the suit definitely look better than that horrible magazine cover. Looks closer to the comic. Others make CG from the 90s look good. Just a joke. They've got a lot of work to do in the next 6 months.
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