GREEN LANTERN: Makeup Effects & Concept Art For Hal Jordan's Constructs

should of got Nolan to oversee it. cool art thought, Parallax aside.

The earlier Parrallax design woulda killed it.

bring RR back on JL movie!!!

It's a shame they didn't go with that crustacean-looking design for Parallax. First of all, it looks a LOT closer to the comic version, and secondly, it actually looks frightening (even if it IS rendered in a bright yellow).

Green Lantern was a major fumble in terms of storytelling. I've been over this over and over in my head, and I've come to realize that the biggest problem this film had is that Martin Campbell knew absolutely NOTHING about the structure of sci-fi storytelling. Instead of introducing us to our main character first and slowly introducing the sci-fi elements as Hal became aware of them, Campbell plunged us headfirst into one of the most convoluted and complicated science fiction mythologies in comic history from the opening title sequence-- thus ensuring that anyone who would find the premise silly had no reason to invest in what was happening on-screen from the get-go.

It's a damn shame. Structured better, and with a better script, this could have been amazing (they certainly did great work with the C.G., for the most part). Aw, well... Hopefully Warner Bros. can rekindle audience interest whenever they get around to doing Justice League (if they must).

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Those early concept arts are so badass, why the [frick] change all this? One answer: WB wants a shortcut (saving a few bucks and some efforts...)....

Having collected GL comics since I was kid (Have GL #1) I was really excited when i heard this film was coming out. I have to agree that I think it was a matter of expectations and a couple of characters that were lacking, namely Fartallax, Carroll Ferris and Hal being such a daddy's wimp early on. Once he got the suit and some balls and made it out to space to OA I got chills. This was the Green lantern I knew and to see Tomar Re and Guardians brought a tear to my eye. Was it perfect? No, but not nearly as bad as the rage it receives.

No, We didn't like this movie because 1) the villain was an amorphous cloud that was powerful enough to rip up a whole planet (and squad of GL's) in one scene but inexplicably had to run away from 2 cruise missiles in another, 2) The useless and awkward scenes involving Peter Sarsgaard and Tim Robbins 3) Blake Lively's bland and lifeless performance, 3) Hal Jordan's two minutes of GL training, 4) the complete lack of any meaningful character interaction (along with painful dialogue), 5) a story that made little or no sense and 6) characters who just made bizarre choices (e.g., "I just had an alien die in my arms but I think I want to go dancing all of a sudden."). I really could not have cared less if they stuck to the GL mythos I know in the comics. Doesn't matter to me. All I wanted to see was a movie that adhered to the basic rubric of storytelling and characterization. When you can't even get that right, the rest is inconsequential.

The problem with Green Lantern was the director. Campbell actually says in the Blu-ray extras that he was making the movie just for the money!!!

This is a case where being true to the comics was a huge mistake. The costume is ridiculous. Next time ditch the costume and use some sort of green flame CGI instead

I remember when we got the early Parallax design on good ol' CBM here. That would have been so much better and led to my disappointment that we ended up seeing something from The Mummy pretending to be Parallax versus that awesome design.

I loved the OA scenes in this, truly mind blowing, but comedy crap on Earth and too much Earth, and not made this the space epic it was supposed to be makes me personally sad inside...

Plus not even a Guy Gardner cameo grrrr lol : D


Cool pics!

Mark Strong had some real [frick]ing intensity as Sinestro! He nailed it! All in all...the film wasn't bad...definitely could have been a WHOLE LOT BETTER. Ryan Reynolds was a good choice for Hal Jordan...but he would have been a better choice as Wally West. We would have preferred a different actress as Carol and would have wanted to see the damn space squirrel! Oh well. And We don't know if anyone can replace the voice of Kilowog since Micheal Clark Duncan. Oh well.

We need a sequel to redeem it. If we get a reboot, it will take too long for them to do, to try and add separation between the films. Although that could work too, it reduces the chances GREATLY that Hal will be in JL, and then there is no point to make a movie about Hal if they already have someone else.

@Emeraldtaurus I hope your right, that would be saaaaweeeeeett

Warner Bros needs to sell the rights to DC, to a company who actually cares, and isn't ran by dinosaurs who don't give two shits about the source material, just the money that can be made from the product.

The main reason people were so pissed about GL, was that the trailers portrayed a totally different movie, than the finished product was. As long as WB has the DC rights, we will never reach our full on screen potential.