Rotten Tomatoes Release Their Consensus Of Green Lantern

Rotten Tomatoes Release Their Consensus Of Green Lantern

The movie review website released their consensus for DC's latest film yesterday, and as expected, it's NOT good...

By PaulRom - Jun 17, 2011 07:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Green Lantern
Source: Rotten Tomatoes



Originally released yesterday, Rotten Tomatoes has revealed their consensus for the latest WB/DC film, Martin Campbell's Green Lantern. With all the negative reviews hitting the film left and right, the consensus - with the film currently at 21% based on 122 reviews - is anything but a good one.

Noisy, overproduced, and thinly written, Green Lantern squanders an impressive budget and decades of comics mythology.




Despite this, the audience rating on RT is currently at 82% (which is good for a film that's been raped by official critics). For those who's seen the film already, would you agree with the consensus? Sound off your thoughts below.

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ROBBEATZZZ
ROBBEATZZZ - 6/17/2011, 7:26 AM
MAN DC!..OTHER THAN BATMAN THEY CANT GET A BREAK..THIS IS CRAZY!..IM STILL GONNA SEE THIS..
Hellsing
Hellsing - 6/17/2011, 7:33 AM
Certainly not as bad as some of the reviews make it out to be but its certainly not good. The stuff on Oa is good but too short IMO. Earth stuff is well dead,(besides the final battle). The actors try there best (except Lively), but you can tell the script isn't helping and just like Thor 3D is just crap I guess its my fault for going to 3D version of it. I swear most post converted 3D adds nothing to the movies.
JatevinM
JatevinM - 6/17/2011, 7:35 AM
I don't care what movie reviewers say its what the audience says that I care about. You failed to post in this article that the audience has it at 82%
Cross
Cross - 6/17/2011, 7:41 AM
and WARNER bought that website last year. LOL. EPIC FAIL.
EpicMan
EpicMan - 6/17/2011, 7:41 AM
doesnt fox own rotten tomatoes now....
lalosuper3001
lalosuper3001 - 6/17/2011, 7:42 AM
I thought I was gonna hate it after reading the reviews, but I was actually happy after watching it. As long as your expectations are on the floor, they can only go up! LOL.
EpicMan
EpicMan - 6/17/2011, 7:42 AM
fact check Cross
RunDTC
RunDTC - 6/17/2011, 7:42 AM
In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, no bad film shall be in my sight. Let those who think this will be good, beware Hollywood's power, SEE THE LIGHT!
EpicMan
EpicMan - 6/17/2011, 7:43 AM
Rotten Tomatoes sold to Flixter which is a division of FOX
EpicMan
EpicMan - 6/17/2011, 7:47 AM
Actually i am wrong sorry.

IGN Entertainment (a division of News Corp – the parent corporation of Fox) has sold its movie review “aggregate site” Rotten Tomatoes to Flixster for an undisclosed sum, we learn by way of The Hollywood Reporter.

ElBicho
ElBicho - 6/17/2011, 7:49 AM
This review isn't that bad. Check out the one on MSN.

It's painful to read.

They compare GL to Battlefield Earth...
TheDARKestKNIGHT
TheDARKestKNIGHT - 6/17/2011, 8:14 AM
Honestly I'm the biggest GL fan I know and have read most of the comics forthiss character, and I'm a huge DC fan…in saying all that I have to admit with a VERY heavy heart that this movie was terrible. Plot holes and bad writing killed it. I love the character and comic so much that it pained me to sit through it.

To my fellow GL brethren, please don't be biased critics so that we will not have to endure an even worse sequel. DC should go back to the drawing board and hopefully reboot in a couple of years. There is so much potential in GL; think of all the epic space movies that could come from it!
GreenHalJordan
GreenHalJordan - 6/17/2011, 8:33 AM
In my opinion it's not as bad as the reviews say ti is, I actually really liked it!
superdog
superdog - 6/17/2011, 8:51 AM
audiences are rating it at 86%. fandago and flickster are saying that 95% if there users are wanting to see Gl. it has a big midnight opening gross. i sense a movie like transformers or pirates of the carribean where critics hate it but audiences like it and it makes tons of money.
superdog
superdog - 6/17/2011, 8:54 AM
i also think people are underestimating the female component. this movie with reynolds and lively has more female appeal than thor or xmen. therefore getting your wife or your girlfriend to go is much easier. i am seeing it today alone cause the guys who usually go with me are seeing it tonight with thier wives. plus the kids will be more interested than thor or xmen. with fathers day this weekend i can see a bunch of families enjoying gl. we'll have to see but the tracking is pointing to a bigger weekend then most think. although my love for DC and ryan reynolds may be clouding my judgment :)
Draximos
Draximos - 6/17/2011, 9:55 AM
I'm a huge GL fan, saw it last night, and loved it. It was amazing. Only problem I had was the humor, there was a little too much of it, but it worked overall. But I would rather if it were more dark. Still, so much better than First Class and little better than Thor, unlike Thor, the pacing worked a lot better here; didn't feel rushed. Extraordinary film; super accurate to the comics. I am pleased.
Shaman
Shaman - 6/17/2011, 9:58 AM
The women i know loved Thor. Ate it up on crackers! I suspect they'll do the same with GL.
AreTudaEDub
AreTudaEDub - 6/17/2011, 11:55 AM
@Draximos I'm a GL fan...but why are you honestly sitting here and lying to your fellow CBM fans. Why? It was in no part better than first class....Non. Thor was not that great but even Thor was better than this.
AreTudaEDub
AreTudaEDub - 6/17/2011, 12:02 PM
The movie DID NOT feel epic. They way Hal would travel back and forth to Oa so eay (green lantern or nt) just mad the movie feel really small. I HONESTLY and TRUELY feel like I have seen 90's X-men cartoon episodes with better pacing and heart in them.

During the production ...there were a lot of interviews were the cast stated that Martin Campbell was like a drill sargent.....and I believe so because the acting seemed like they weren't really given the chance to feel out the dialoge and own the lines. I mean it was really [frick]ing sad. I'm literally heart broken....NOT at all bitter just heart broken. I have to let my girl take my song because I can't watch this back to back.
Draximos
Draximos - 6/17/2011, 10:30 PM
@AreTudaEDub
I don't think it needed to feel epic, I think the next film should - this one's based off of 'Secret Origin' - which is a personal character driven story, as opposed to most other GL stories. The second one can have the Sinestro Corps War, or the Manhunters, or whatnot and be epic. This was a personal smaller scale origin story, and I think that's what we needed, it was nice. I hope there's an extended version however on dvd that has more depth, still it worked.
And at the very least, if you're talking about accuracy -- Xmen, the films aren't accurate at all, probably some of the least accurate cbms we have gotten. I think the first two were still good, and first class was too, but they're not accurate; and let's be honest, if they were they could've been sooo much better.
GL on the other hand, is very accurate, just feels like it jumped off the page. I REALLY liked that.
I honestly don't know why so many peeps are getting in such a frenzy about this film. Though hey, maybe it's one of those ones where people who don't read the books don't get the film or enjoy it as much. And that's alright.
seamuskeaneart
seamuskeaneart - 6/18/2011, 8:35 AM
as popcorn blockbuster movie its great, an entertaining 2 hours. wont change your world or anything. Saying that tho, of all this years cbm so far Green Lantern is the only one I would watch again.
cgrass5150
cgrass5150 - 6/19/2011, 9:04 AM
Been sayin' it for years...contemporary DC movies and comics are a 1-trick-pony. Take "Batman" out of the DC universe and what you have left is overrated. Unless of course someone gets the wake-up call to finally slap a pair of balls on "Superman" and make a decent action-packed flick. Hopefully, Zack Snyder is the answer...time will tell.

The continuous trend of underperforming DC "tent pole" movies like "Watchmen," "Superman Returns," "Jonah Hex," "Green Lantern" plus the recent "Wonder Woman" TV debacle is eventually going to make studio honchos take a serious moment of pause and step back which doesn't bode well for DC fans. Face facts fan-boys, the DC movie well is dryin ' up. Excelsior!
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