Green Lantern is Worthy of a Sequel

Green Lantern is Worthy of a Sequel

I promised myself I would not get involved with this debate but some people's post are so ignorant that I can not ignore them any longer.

Editorial Opinion
By jadams07 - Jun 25, 2011 11:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic
Source: ComicBookMovie.com

So lets be honest. How long are we going to look at our Comic Book Movies through Dark Knight tinted glasses? Why do we fool ourselves into thinking that just because this is the studio that cranked out The Dark Knight and Batman Begins that we are going to always get the same results. I am by no means a complete Nolan fan boy, but you have to admit that he is the reason the Batman franchise has become a franchise again. He is a prolific film maker and all of his movies have been critically successful (his lowest rated movie on rotten tomatoes is The Prestige at 75%). Is that clear? Chris Nolan Has yet to produce a flop yet. He is the complete antithesis of Uwe Boll.

All that being said, It just mystifies me how so many people do not like this movie. I understand the technical aspects as the reason this movie was panned. I noticed the plot holes and the bad cuts. Yet in spite of all its flaws, this movie is really enjoyable.I don't understand how people on this site can say they liked the fantastic four movies better. Here is a look at comic book movies that have a rotten tomatoes scoring of less than 50%.

First Marvel:

Fantastic Four(94)-20%
Fantastic Four-27%
Fantastic Four ROTSS-37%
The Punisher (89)-24%
The Punisher- 29%
The Punisher: War Zone-27%
Daredevil-45%
Elektra-10%
X-Men Origins: Wolverine-37%
Howard the Duck-16%
Captain America (90)-20%
Blade Trinity-26%
Ghost Rider-27%

Now DC,

Batman Forever-44%
Batman and Robin-13%
Superman III- 24%
Superman IV- 10%
Supergirl-8%
The Return of Swamp Thing-40%
Steel-12%
Catwoman-10%
Jonah Hex- 13%
Green Lantern (currently)-26%


Now does anyone here honestly think that Green Lantern is worse than of the movies that are rated 27% to 49%? Ghost Rider? Both FF movies? Daredevil? Even within the DC Franchise this Film is superior than any on both lists.

Users here are saying, "we want more OA and More Corps Members"...isn't that the point of an Origin Movie? Shouldn't leave you wanting more? This movie surprised me in a lot of ways. I thought that Blake Lively could have been much worse. I thought that they were going to use the stupid weakness to yellow. Instead we get a lively putting forth a serviceable effort as Carol and we get the much better explanation of the spectrum's representing different emotions. Did anyone else not think that it would be cool to see the movies head for a corps war? Or think about Blackest Night when they went past the Lantern Graveyard?

I think that this movie will be alot better with a directors cut. There is no reason why it can not be enjoyed in its current form. I think that if this movie had come out before The Dark Knight than it would have gotten much better reviews. Oh and my least favorite comparison is the Galactus Cloud to Parallax.


Parallax in the Comics






Parallax in the Movie



Galactus (as Seen In Ultimate Alliance)



Galactus in ROTSS




Do I even have to explain which one is more disappointing?
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mk
mk - 6/25/2011, 11:45 AM
Uh.. so we talking about Nolan here and bad movies? You didnt exactly say why its worth a sequel.. and im not even sure if GL is gonna make half of its budget which they say is 300million something
Ethic
Ethic - 6/25/2011, 11:51 AM
I understand you thought it was enjoyable, but thinking it was an incredible disappointment, and more specifically a bad film, doesn't make people ignorant.

I was bored watching the film for over an hour.
I actually felt like leaving the cinema (which I've never done) but stayed because I love the character Green Lantern.
I don't judge films by genre, I judge them by how much I enjoy them, and I thought the film was quite bad.

Personally, even though the films in the above list are crappy, I could gladly sit through Fantastic Four, The Punisher and any Batman film if I was bored and nothing else was on. I've watched Wolverine like 19 times, honestly lol.
But I don't think I could sit down and watch GL again because it was a different type of bad.
It was horribly edited, had very bad CGI for the most part, and there was a serious lack of excitement until the end.
jadams07
jadams07 - 6/25/2011, 11:53 AM
I was in a rush...(about to go hit up some chinese food) But While I didnt get to that part of it, what I am saying is that alot of those movies have sequels or at least secondary movies and I do not believe that green lantern is worse than those movies. I really do believe that it is more the sufficient given the character and his history. I really do think that a sequel would do much better.


jadams07
jadams07 - 6/25/2011, 11:54 AM
I think that some of the critiques are ignorant. I understand and agree with the plot point issues and random scenes.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 6/25/2011, 12:02 PM
Well, that makes us two.

The cast is good, but the one who is great is Blake Lively. That suprise me because I though she will be the worst thing. The graphics are good. The big problem of the movie is that the editing is really bad and we don't have enough OA and Lanterns. He should come back at the end to fight Hammond and Parallax. The movie is the best ok CMB and desevres a sequel because as I see it they didn't know the basic structure of how the movie should be. Now that they do they might make a good one. I give it 6.5 out of 10
Shadow11
Shadow11 - 6/25/2011, 12:16 PM
Green Lantern it is best they reboot the franchise and start over again from scratch, brand new cast, brand new script, everything

If anything for the reboot, they definitely need to make it darker than the Ryan Reynolds movie, darker and show a true origin story of Hal Jordan in him truly becoming Green Lantern

Make it darker

By having Green Lantern go up against the mob, have him foil robberies, etc.

Have the police work with Green Lantern or have them try to catch Green Lantern themselves

Anything to make it darker
Ethic
Ethic - 6/25/2011, 12:23 PM
@ Shadow11



lol
claybo4131
claybo4131 - 6/25/2011, 12:41 PM
@mrsuperheormoviefan 100 million percent WRONG on Blake Lively being good as Carol Ferris. The moment she was cast, I knew she would suck cause the broad can not act her way out of a wet paper bag.

No way can we believe that a 22/23 year old would be a headstrong VP of an Aerospace Company, especially someone from Gossip Girl, that would be like Paris Hilton running the Hilton Hotel Empire, in other terms the company would go downhill.

And Blake Lively is as good of a fighter pilot in that movie as Slippy Toad is in Star Fox, in dummy terms, she was a sorry excuse for a fighter pilot. I know some military pilots I served with that would have laughed at her so called performance in the cockpit of an F-35, she would have gone down that fast in combat.
Ethic
Ethic - 6/25/2011, 2:37 PM
Mmm sh*tty caviar
jadams07
jadams07 - 6/25/2011, 3:36 PM
@Shadow 11 ah yes make it darker that will fix everything. We need dark Superman, Dark Green Lantern, Dark Flash, Dark Care a bears, Dark Darkman.....IF anything can fix a movie its making it dark right?

I didnt think she was great but I did think that she did an ok job. Thats why she surprised me so much. As a female character in a CBM there is only so much range you can have (Just ask Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings).

I think I point out that the movie does indeed have flaws (mostly the darkness and more darkness....quiet you). I also greatly enjoyed seeing it. I hope (like I said) that they release a version of it with more footage. You can obviously tell that warners execs got scared and probably forced a tone on this movie.
jadams07
jadams07 - 6/25/2011, 3:45 PM
My Biggest problem is with the comparison of the galactus cloud and Parallax.
jadams07
jadams07 - 6/25/2011, 3:51 PM
I think that you can chalk up bad CBM to bad comic book characters. I like all the Characters and I own several of the movies in that above list but I can admit that some of them are just silly.
95
95 - 6/25/2011, 6:12 PM
[frick] a sequel!

Leave this film as a parody of the Green Lantern comics.

This is embarrassing for the fans.

Space scenes were awesome though, 20 minutes of them...

Tsk tsk DC...

~rm
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 6/25/2011, 6:38 PM
I'm with you! This film deserves a sequel! It was a helluvalot better than TDK and ((unfortunately)) "Iron Man 2".
manymade1
manymade1 - 6/25/2011, 7:13 PM
^^^^ Oh now that's funny.

My idea is to just have them put him in Justice League and reboot it.
Checkmate
Checkmate - 6/25/2011, 7:13 PM
The movie was pretty good, I definitely want a sequel, but it really needs to stay away from Earth.
TheShadow
TheShadow - 6/25/2011, 8:17 PM
SHUT UP MARVEL FANS!
You have had S**t movies, and since you have a couple of good movies as of late, you think you have braging rights.
Do I need to bring you back to V for Vendetta, Watchmen, 300, Batman Begins, and TDK?
All just as succesful as the MARVEL movies. This is DC first major movie in a while, and they made a mistake. Just as MARVEL did with spiderman 3, x-men 3, ect.
TheShadow
TheShadow - 6/25/2011, 8:44 PM
@supersay
You are right.
Dc needs to rebbot all characters and have Snyder's Superman with all other DC Charecters. Then after most characters get a movie make a JLA. People make things SEEM like their nin a RUSH. But DC has what's called TIME, and the ability to LEARN from mistakes. Were going to be blown away by SUPERMAN, and it's just the beggining of a long stream of DC movies.
The PUBLIC likes the DC CHARACTERS better than MARVEL'S. Sure they know Spiderman, Thor, Hulk and Cap, but they don;t know much more tham the name. People know about Batman, theyt know about Superman, and they know anout Wonder Woman. Superman is America's finest. And Batman is a figure that the public relates to.
DC can do it, but they need to take their TIME!
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 6/25/2011, 9:46 PM
@claybo4131 - So, her problem is that she isn't a believable pilot? I wonder what are these standards of yours saying she wasn't believable. Your basic argument is that she wasn't good for 1 minute and that she plays in a bad series.
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 6/25/2011, 9:51 PM
@TheShadow: Dude...calm down.Not all Marvel fans are being rude. I'm a HUGE Marvel fan, but I loved GL and thought that it was better than a lot of Marvel films. I think Marve AND DC have ups and downs.
JBatesyFilmreviews
JBatesyFilmreviews - 6/26/2011, 12:40 AM
firstly, no I thought this film was not good, very dissapointing and boring... cheesy aswell and secondly your evidence for marvel is biased, you choose all the worst marvel films to show and left out the ones that did great eg, the first 2 x men, the spiderman films, both iron man films, thor and first class... just saying.
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