Green Lantern: The Motion Picture
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intothevoid
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Yeah I hope so too.
And yeah I agree that the only person's who's opinion should matter is yourself! If you enjoy/love the movie, the critics can go to hell haha. But the only problem with that is that this movie needs to make money for the sequels to get the green light - I hope it makes enough money for that to happen!
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yeesh, 27% on RT...
That's possible. But they didn't seem to dumb down Iron Man, or Thor, or First Class, or Batman Begins/Dark Knight for movie-goers, and yet they all got pretty good reviews. In fact, movies where the creators did seem to dumb down movies so kids and fans of "Eddie Murphy in a fatsuit" fare could enjoy them (GI Joe, Fantastic Four, Schumacher Batman) seemed to get pretty bad reviews on the whole. My fear with this film would be almost opposite of yours--that bad reviews come, in part, from the fact that the creators tried to hard to please people with special effects and corny jokes at the expense of a well-made film (a la Michael Bay's Transformers abominations).
In fact, I'm trying to think of a movie that got bad reviews because it tried to cater too much to the geek crowd, and I'm drawing a blank.
I agree karamazov80, universally panned comic book movies seem to be those that are afraid of their source material and try to make it dumb and funny so people are laughing with them and not at them. It almost always has the reverse effect.
Before Iron Man was released Jon Favreau mentioned in an interview that he was trying to follow in the footsteps of Peter Jackson and Chris Nolan because they weren't afraid of their respective source material and refused to make stupid silly spectacles. He obviously succeeded and critics and audiences alike agreed.
Before Iron Man was released Jon Favreau mentioned in an interview that he was trying to follow in the footsteps of Peter Jackson and Chris Nolan because they weren't afraid of their respective source material and refused to make stupid silly spectacles. He obviously succeeded and critics and audiences alike agreed.
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If Geoff Johns is as high involved in this movie as they made it seem, I can't see how they are afraid of the source material. Based on the trailers, the sheer amount of characters and concepts they touch on in one movie is impressive.
Again, I haven't seen it, so I can't rightly say. One thing, though, is that GL as a concept is much further away from reality than most superhero movies have gone before.
We'll see...
You're right, who knows. I see one reviewer stated that its:
all set-up and no payoff so I wonder if they tried to cram in TOO much comic source material and didn't allow for a proper resolution.
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Is Hot Toys making anything from this movie? The designs are amazing.
I'd love that fish/chicken alien guy...
I'd love that fish/chicken alien guy...
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IGN just panned the hell out of this movie.
"Its not Star Wars, or even The Last Starfighter. Its Flash Gordon but without the cool tunes or cheesy self-awareness."
"Worse than X-Men: The Last Stand and Wolverine: Origins."
Yikes.
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Superhero Hype hates on it as well.
All the reviewers are trying to out do themselves describing what an epic fail this is.
Yeah I hope so too.
And yeah I agree that the only person's who's opinion should matter is yourself! If you enjoy/love the movie, the critics can go to hell haha. But the only problem with that is that this movie needs to make money for the sequels to get the green light - I hope it makes enough money for that to happen!
I always think that regardless!
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Thankfully the awesomeness of a GL figure by HT can and will transcend this celluloid train wreck...unless it stinks so bad that it scares off HT as well.
intothevoid
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Thankfully the awesomeness of a GL figure by HT can and will transcend this celluloid train wreck...unless it stinks so bad that it scares off HT as well.
Well - you haven't seen it yet have you?
Still optimistic that it will be good... it would really really have to try very hard to be worse than The Last Stand and Wolverine
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Well - you haven't seen it yet have you?
Are you referring to the movie or the figure?
If you refer to the former then do I need to take a hit on a crack pipe before I can say that's bad as well?
Strong anecdotal evidence usually suffices for passing judgment on movies.
intothevoid
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Most of the time yes - but from the reviews i've read it seems this may be a movie that can only really be appreciated by those already well versed in the GL mythos, which I am. So it may still be good by my personal POV
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I will be waiting for Blu-ray. This has always had too much of a Power Rangers vibe, and the bad reviews just confirm my lack of interest in paying for movie tickets to this one.
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Warners publically admitted that this cost $300 Million total to make, produce and post. That means this thing has to do Avatar type money in order to ensure a proper sequel since it is in the range of the cost of that movie. It's completely possible that this film will do alright but it's going to be an uphill battle especially in the slot it will premiered in. I love GL, always have and still will after this film.
To me the big question is what will Warner's do? They were so happy with the film that they greenlit and had writers draft the sequel already which is one of the reasons why Campbell already bowed out. If this flops out to doing Ridley Scott's Robin Hood type cash, will Warners toss out a sequel that is already in active pre-production? They've already told Reynolds not to accept any work in a certain timeframe as he is contractually bound but will all that disappear?
Tron: Legacy was universally panned and is getting a sequel no problem, I'm wondering more what Warner's plan is.
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