GREEN LANTERN. TRAILERED.

I worry that it sounds like lame fanboy whining to say the Green Lantern's CGI suit looks shitty. But you know what? The Green Lantern's CGI suit looks shitty.

The CGI on the trailer is pretty bad. But it's almost a year away. It will get much better.

I think it's ok. They are definitively trying to capture Iron Man's funny lead man tone with Reynolds.

I know next to nothing about the comic, but... the suit is made of out green outer space energy, right? So then, please describe in detail exactly how it should look if not how it looks there.

Seemed to live in an awkward place in between serious and fun, combining the worst parts of both tones, being neither funny nor weighty.

As for the CGI, remember the first Iron Man trailer? No doubt it will get MUCH better.

This is bullshit. It should look like it obeys the physical laws of the universe, otherwise it's just an annoying distraction. Watch the neckline at 1:40. There's some weird, fake-lookin' shit going on there.

Tati is right, though. It'll get refined every day up until the movie is released and should look much better by then.

Reynolds looks like he's having fun. As it should be.

The trailer is all over the place, but this shot kind of won me over.
Nothing like a cackling evil guy with a giant, veiny head.



And about the costume, I like Sinestro's better than Hal's.

Nothing about that trailer raised my pulse. But I hope Sarsgaard is fun to watch.

The art work on the updated GREEN LANTERN website is better than any shot in the trailer:

The bad suit can improve in a year.

Blake Lively's line delivery sure can't.

I have no faith that WB will get the CGI right between now and release. Sinestro looked good. Tomar-Re looked well enough. Abin Sur was a bit off but I still thinK Reynolds was a poor choice if they go with Hal Jordan/Test Pilot.

I don't need gritty from this but I would prefer a little less "fun". More serious, less smirky.

And there were at least four recycled shots from other comic book films. I want some original framing.

And, yes, Ms Quinn hits a winner. Lively sucks. That isn't Carol Ferris at all.

There's nitpicking, and then there's this. What a silly thing to get hung up on.

"This ensemble drama is using an over the shoulder shot! THEY ALL DO THAT! God!"

Hey, I have said something similar in another thread somewhere and I will admit it again now:

I will outgeek anyone with respect to Green Lantern.

I am trying my best not to be completely fanboy down on the film. It's a tough road but I am going to speak my mind and hope that things get better.

They need to reshoot that locker room scene and get Lively some acting lessons though.

I kind of wish they'd held off on a trailer a little longer. At least until some of the CG didn't look like a shitty screensaver. It's hard to get pumped for a big effects film when the effects look so artificial and cheesy. That said, I'm not a GL fan so I'm not going to be as forgiving of this as I might be for a Batman or Marvel film.

Reminds me a bit of Kingdom Of Heaven, where everything in the movie will work & look incredible but the lead is woefully miscast. Who knows, maybe Reynolds will be great.

Also, "Let's take our pants off... & fly some planes!"

Really?

Despite the dodgy CG, this looks like a helluva lotta fun....and that is all that matters.

Eh, looks okay.

Blake looked everything but lively in that trailer.

OA WOW! Green Lantern looks...Awe-Inspiring and Awesome, just like the comics! Ryan Reynolds is...Perfectly Cast, as Hal Jordan, and Blake looks not only beautiful, but very...Lively! Mark, will be quite...Strong, as Sinestro! I cannot wait to see this. I am glad that we actually got to see a full trailer and not a teaser. Green Lantern hopefully will pave the way for other DC Superhero Films.

As far as I'm concerned, Reynolds can do whatever he wants. In the comic, none of the main Green Lanterns (Hal, Kyle, John, Guy) have ever held my interest.

There are always alternate takes.

Movie looks fun and epic.

The trailer actually starts out great until we get to "generic badass riff #37" (right after he sees the spaceship). When you're watching a trailer and trying to figure out what trailer that music was in before, you're not doing too well, at least not for me. The footage for the most part seemed pretty spiffy, though. And calm the fuck down bout the suit. You can see the quality of the CG shift from really good to bad, so just give them time to work it out. Oh, and will all future DC titles end with colored fire shooting towards the screen? Not an annoyance per say, but just weird.

I only saw two instances of yellow and it didn't seem to be affecting his powers in anyway. I doubt the weakness will be utilized. The two shots of yellow seemed to be fanboy pandering only.

I just rewatched to see and most of the yellow in the trailer is prior to his becoming the Lantern. There is a quick shot of who I presume to be Hal Jordan bursting out of a large yellow ... something ...

But the yellow weakness is so intrinsic to the character, isn't it?

Meh, looks okay I guess

There was him busting out of the yellow something and then Hammond's eyes. Other than that I saw no yellow that was anything other than normal coloring.

Yellow was thought to be an impurity in the metal and eventually retconned into the fear demon Parallax. Once Parallax was removed from the central power battery then there was no weakness or the weakness can now be overcome because Corps members can recognize what causes it and overcome it.

Personally, I see where tossing it brings up a host of issues such as why does Abin Sur crash if there is no weakness? What can stop a Green lantern if there is no weakness? Does the ring just sputter as fear drains willpower?

I have never thought the yellow weakness was silly, it seemed a logical match against the color of green and with Gl's being fearless and the "yella" being a cowardly turn of phrase it fits quite well. Don't make it a fear demon, just make it a "necessary impurity" in the metal rings are created from or a Guardian induced mechanism to stop rogue Lanterns.

Speaking of rings. I like the one in the movie although in several places it looked different. From Abin Sur it appeared to have a good deal of silver color. When Reynolds closes his hand around it it appears to be solid green. I need a new ring. Hopefully there will be an officially licensed one that isn't crap.

*EDIT* At :30 Carol Ferris's helmet has a Star Sapphire logo on it. Sequel foreshadowing or fanboy nod?

I didn't beam, but I smiled. I have a feeling we might just be surprised by this one.

Aren't the rings also useless against wood?

Heh.

See: Falling marriage rates vs. Increasing infidelity rates

1940's Alan Scott. Different ring. The power was based on magic and not science fiction. The Starheart was a mystical meteor that fell to earth and was fashioned into a lantern first then a ring carved from the lantern material. For whatever reason couldn't effect wood. I'm not sure I have ever seen an explanation for why wood.

It was, okay? There's not enough to see how it'll really be.

I wonder how much of this movie takes place on Earth. Seems like it'll be most of it.

There's still that 24 Hr Recharge thing. But I really hated that Parallex idea.

I want Atrocitus the Red Lantern. Stat!

It was artificially induced.

"Power ultimately corrupted [Yalan Gur], as he attempted to rule over mankind, which forced the Guardians to cause his ring to manifest a weakness to wood, the material from which most Earth weapons of the time were fashioned."

One solar cycle of your planet still has two different explanations now. The original 24 hour(Earth, obviously) charge was infinite power up until that 24 mark. There were reminder "alarm" warnings from the ring.

The new 24 hour charge, which I believe has been in place since Raynor's introduction, is that of a finite power supply of which heavy use could deplete the ring prior to a full solar cycle.

The reserve power is still intact to protect a Lantern with a force field in case of power loss.

Maybe. But it looks like it handles it better than THOR (from what I've seen/heard).

Aha, yes! I do believe reading that some years ago. Yalan Gur was a man-dragon sort of character. I recall that he was exhibiting conduct unbecoming a Lantern and was attacked by peasants. I believe that explanation though was a total retcon to include the Guardians as the Starheart was a mystical power source.

You really know your Green Lantern stuff Tzu.!

I used to be a big fan when i was a kid. Got back during the Sinestro Corps War and the Different Lantern Corps things. I've always wondered why they always kept the Guardians with such esteeem. With the exception of Ganthet, most of them seem kinda guilable really.

Looks like fun. What really caught my eye were the shots that hinted at some comic-book space action. Way too many comic book movies lack that epic scale, stuck on Earth, when things can really open up.

That's what I find most appealing about the premise of this flick. I'd really like more films to go outrageous and have some fun with it.

It looks better than Thor, I'll give it that. But the first shot of the Abin Sur will get laughs in the theater, no doubt. He looks awful and cheap.

Yes but will it be outragous and have fun with it or will it basically be a superhero film answer to Men In Black?

That's honestly where I first got interested. The cocky Hal Jordan stuff seemed like a riff on Iron Man. Once Abin Sur appeared, with his fucking purple skin, I sort of realized they aren't going to be trying to shy away from their pulpy roots.

Abin Sur looks like someone skinned Kelsey Grammer.

Can't see the hate here. This looks fun as hell. My reservation is with Reynolds, but that's likely because I mixed him up with Dane Cook for a few years. Until the end of the trailer, I forgot this was in 3D. Post converted or shot?

Wow, just realized that the music is from The Last Airbender trailer. Hopefully that's not a bad omen here...

Meh.

It doesn't look outstanding, but maybe I'll be surprised.

However, that crashing helicopter gave me bad Along Came a Spider flashbacks.

I want to smash grown men crying about how the trailer concerning the outer space superhero with the magic ring looks "fake." No shit? I can reach across the aisle a little on this one.

The gamble here is that Martin Campbell seems only capable of "awesome" and "awful." I haven't seen him do a solid middle ground.

I also like that the GLs all have their own costume variants.

It's not that it looks fake, it's that it looks flat and lifeless. Obviously, there's plenty of work still to do, but right now, as presented, a lot of the space stuff looks like some of the more egregious CG shots from the SW prequels. I'm thinking of that sweeping shot at the close of Episode 2 showing all the clone troopers lined up in front of the early Star Destroyers and similar moments like that. The suit and Abin aren't great either, but they don't feel quite as disconnected from the tone and look of the trailer's early moments.

Again, the movie may work just fine, but as a 2-minute trailer it's not very strong.

Bet you we get at least one "this didn't look great in Quicktime, but in theaters it really worked" comment before this thread dies.

And it seemed as if the last two or three iterations of the character in animation had just ditched the yellow weakness thing. Only the comics seem obsessed with rationalizing that detail over and over.