Yes it's another Green Lantern film thread!
Now, im not here to defend the trailer. I am simply here to put across my point of view on many of the common comments made about the trailer.
1:"Blake Livelys performance was wooden"
For starters she had one line in the entire trailer, one fricking line. Yet people seam to find that on line enough to bash her performance already. Now I hate to compare films but I'm going to right now, lets look at Iron Man. Gwenth Paltrow performance was well... Not that fantastic. But because RDJ was so mesmerising most people tend to forget her bad performance.
2:"The CGI suit looks stupid"
I'm no producer or writer or director but I have a theory as to why it's not the classic spandex. They want the audience to realize that the ring has a mind of its own and can do anything the bearer imagine. I also believe that the producers want to make the costume feel more modern (Or maybe Sci-fi-y im not sure). Plus there isn't many Superhero movies nowadays that don't modify the costume in some way.
3:"How can Van Wilder carry this movie by himself?"
Have you seen Buried? One actor for the entire film, it was fantastic. Ryan has shown us that he can play a variety of roles with sucess. In saying that though, it is also hard to let him morph into the role. Everytime he comes onto sceen anyone who dosn't know his name call him "The guy with the awesome abs".
4:"The Thor trailer Kicked GL's butt"
It's hard to compare these two film, because there so different. It's like comparing Star Wars to Clash of the Titans. Sure there both superhero films, but they are opposite ends of the superhero spectrum.
5:"WB doesn't know how to market this film"
The line up of toys and costumes and random merchandise for this film is astronomical! I can almost guarantee that before GL comes out every kid will own some sort of GL mechandise and he will be a house hold name.
6:"How can GL make any money opening amongst the other blockbuster? Like TF:DM, Super 8, Cars 2 etc"
Well from my guess... WB must suspect they have a blockbuster of there own. This will be a major test for GL and maybe, just maybe WB wants to test just how a Superhero films will cope when there are some othe big hitters around. It's my belief that if GL takes off than Flash,WW,AquaM, will surely get there big screen debut. WB don't want to be putting all there hopes into superhero films if they are just going to be overshadowed by other blockbusters.
If there are any other comments that you have about GL that you would like me to share my opinion about, then by all means just put @Ribbonz at the start of your comment and I will be more that happy to discuss them with you. In the mean time what's your thoughts on the current reputation of the GL trailer?