What prompted me to write up this editorial was that lately I've been hearing people on this site actually say that "Superman Returns" was a better film than "Green Lantern" and others simply compare them side-by-side to one another.
I'm here to say- Green Lantern (despite its flaws) was a much, much better film than "Stalkerman Returns" and down below I will explain why.
1) The Green Lantern film actually had ACTION. Hal Jordan fought.
Oh and get this...Hal actually- 'threw a punch' lol. As the picture below plainly shows...he REALLY punched. Superman didn't even throw a single punch in SR.
2) We had REAL villains in Green Lantern. Paralax and Hammond. The movie version of Paralax was lame but it was leaps and bounds beyond Spacey and Kumar in "Superman Returns"
As opposed to...
SPACEY AND [frick]ING KUMAR!!!!
I mean are you people going to seriously tell me Spacey and Kumar were somehow BETTER villains than Paralax and Hammond???!! Jesus on ice-skates on people, I don't know how much more blunt I must be. Spacey and Kumar were ridiculous in the movie. From that picture I could see them more as a comedy sitcom rather than "threatening" villains in a big budget Superman film.
3) Ryan Reynolds actually had more ACTUAL flying scenes whereas Brandon Routh was CGI'd through most of his flight sequences. He even complained himself in an interview that he wanted more actual flight scenes than the CGI ones.
The CGI was so painfully obvious
3) The lead actor- Ryan Reynolds actually ACTED in his film. As opposed to Routh who didn't even act...
Most importantly, at least the Green Lantern film was more faithfully adapted from the comicbooks than Superman Returns which was simply a Donner Superman 1 remake with even less action. Green Lantern was disappointing and faaar from perfect but at least it was entertaining. At least it kept me awake!
I was not happy with the Green Lantern film myself but to downgrade it to "Superman Returns" level is just petty and sad. I get that "Superman Returns" made big bank at the B.O but what people fail to realize is it only made lots of money because it was a SUPERMAN film. Superman is very marketable for Warner Bros. His "S" shield alone is marketed on shoes, shirts etc- So imagine the name/title- SUPERMAN. That is big bank. Plus adding in the fact that people had waited about 20 years for a new Superman film...so the anticipation was quite high from the start.
So people who keep claiming that Superman Returns was somehow "better" than Green Lantern...
Whatever you're smoking, PLEASE share. Because you guys must have seen a different movie than the one I saw.
One guy even said Superman Returns was equal to THOR. So to people making these odd claims...
Yeah that video above just about sums it up for me...