Amph Green Lantern Movie: NOT THE GREEN HORNET, ZAZ

I take it all back. THAT LOOKS FRAKKING AWESOME.

Sorry for the shouting. Excited.

 

It definitely looks better than Batman & Robin, Daredevil, Elektra, and other superhero tripe that's been trotted out over the past ten years.

 

I don't know, I'm not sold. It honestly looks like just another Ryan Reynolds comedy vehicle with sci-fi elements. Seems like it's trying to be Iron Man, except there's a severe problem with that approach. RDJ >>>>>>> RR.

 

Everyone pretty much agrees the CGI still needs work so I won't be surprised to see that fine tuned. That said, it looks promising. Kilowog and Tomar Re look quite nice. Sinestro looks like Sinestro. Abin Sur looks appropriately alien. Hector Hammond looks creepy and crazy without looking goofy. And Oa looks spectacular. Considering the movie is still several months away, I think the CGI will improve. Reynolds as cocky hotshot pilot Hal Jordan seems to work from the shots shown. I'm not however sold on Carol Ferris quite yet.

 

When it's being serious, I quite like it. It's the jokey moments that throw the tone off. While they may work in the context of the film, they're not really what I'm looking for in a superhero movie trailer. It's not turning me off the film, but as a trailer it's just too tonally dissonant and is overemphasizing the wrong stuff.

 

Saw the trailer at a Harry Potter showing. Pretty good.

 

So if this is not The Green Hornet, does *he* have a thread?

 

Anytime.

 

I liked the first trailer, but this footage was sooooo much better. I thought the humor in it struck the right tone it didn't seem campy to me. In fact I think it would how most of us would proably react. I thought the effects were better polished. I'm looking forward to it.

 

I HAVE A BONER

 

With the humor toned down and the epicness turned way up, it definitely works for me. I'm sold.

 

"Ryan Reynolds explains the relationship between Hal Jordan and Sinestro in Green Lantern

Ryan Reynolds explains the relationship between Hal Jordan and Sinestro in Green LanternOn Friday, we were lucky enough to sit with the ring-slinging superhero himself, Ryan Reynolds, and talk about Green Lantern with a group of other reporters. And he explained how Hal Jordan sees Mark Strong's Sinestro as a father figure.

Plus we've got a ton more super high-res screencaps from the four minutes of new footage that came out over the weekend! Minor spoilers below...

So you might think of Sinestro as Hal Jordan's arch nemesis ? but fans of the Green Lantern comic know that Sinestro starts out as Hal Jordan's friend and mentor. And indeed, Ryan Reynolds talked a lot in interviews at Wondercon about how much Hal sees Sinestro as a father figure.

Green Lantern, the film, is full of "daddy issues" due to Hal Jordan's long-dead father and all the new father figures he takes on in the film, explained Reynolds.

[Hal Jordan] needs mentors. I mean, this is a guy that's out of control at the beginning of our film. He's out of control in a more realistic way. He's not like in the band Poison and falling asleep on an oven which is turned on. He's out of control in a kind of a more realistic sort of a way. He's a rudderless guy, he's arrogant and misguided... He's shepherded by these guys. Mark Strong, who's such an immense talent and an immense presence, serves as a bit of a mentor. You have Kilowog, who's sort of a mentor. Then you have Tomar-Re, who's inducting Hal and really showing what this world is.

We asked Reynolds how he went about portraying a hero whose main strength is the ability to overcome fear ? how do you dramatize feeling fear but overcoming it? And Reynolds explained how the utterly fearless Sinestro makes it possible to show Hal's struggle to overcome fear:

What distinguishes Hal from the other Lanterns is that he has the ability to overcome fear, because he experiences it. They see that as a weakness, that he experiences fear. Overcoming fear is the very definition of courage. It's moving on, in spite of it not because of it. It's what makes him the greatest Green Lantern of them all. He harnesses that fear that he's feeling, and he converts it into pure will. It's exciting to play that, but it's also easier to tell that story when you have its opposite next to you. When you're standing next to Mark Strong as Sinestro, who feels no fear and has no fear. And in his performance, you feel no fear. You hear no fear. It makes my job easier to show that contrast."

 

That new footage looks INCREDIBLE, and the interview with Reynolds gives me hope and confidence that he and the producers have really understood the character. I'm really looking forward to this film as the spark that ignites the DC line of comics adaptations, the way Iron Man ignited the Marvel line.

 

According to Four Dot, this movie is very bad indeed.

 

It's not particularly bad, just...okay. It kind of falls flat in a strange way.

 

too bad they banked on it being a hit and saved sinestro for the second movie, which would've been awesome.

 

In the end it didn't matter whether I could tell them apart or not; they both sucked.