Personally, while I didn't think it was a good movie, I thought Green Lantern was highly enjoyable, and, frankly, fun beats good when it comes to what movie I'd prioritize watching.
Plus, it gave us this hilarious gem of a line:
edited 20th Sep '11 5:07:18 PM by 0dd1
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.I don't remember anyone with the line "an error occured" in the film, although it would've made a GREAT Pre-Asskicking One-Liner!
I fixed it before you even posted that.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Honestly, I would've liked to have seen the "Jack Black comedy" Green Lantern film that was being pitched around a few years back.
Cracked reviewed the script and said it was awful. Also, the lantern became a condom in this version.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/@Buscemi: You realize that Cracked's script review articles are 100% made up for the sake of humor, right?
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.This review was factual (the site is usually a mix of facts and humor). Here is the link to the review (which also includes the draft, written by Robert Smigel): [1]
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They also did a review for the James Cameron's Spider-Man script which actually had them read the script and pointed out much of the script's shortcomings (such as Doc Ock's weblos and his catch phrase of "Okey-dokey").
They also reviewed Superman: Flyby and called it even worse than the comedic Green Lantern.
edited 22nd Sep '11 11:16:48 PM by Buscemi
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/But those specific articles aren't factual.
...and now I just looked up the Superman one and realized that you didn't mean what I thought you meant. I thought you referring to those articles where they make a joke script and claim it's an advance copy of a script they got. I see nothing about the Spider Man one, though.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.The Green Lantern one is real. They have links and everything to prove it.
And here's James Cameron's Spider-Man (with actual pages from the script): [1]
I'm saying I thought you were referring to something else, relax.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.See my aforementioned points you ignored. It was ALWAYS Warner Bros' idea to reboot Superman. The only reason we got Returns, was that they couldn't get that reboot off the ground at all.
If anything another Hulk Vague Sequel maybe in order; otherwise this whole thread just sounds like more internet fanboy BAWWING over a moderately ok movie.
edited 8th Nov '11 9:50:59 PM by JusticeMan
Let's make a TCG!Not really the best comparison. The Ang Lee Hulk move made more money than GL, and a *lot* more proportionate to its budget. Hulk probably broke even in the theaters, whereas Green Lantern is currently in a big hole.
Now, is a vague reboot sequel likely? Sure, WB seems to want to push Green Lantern. But it won't be because the movie was a success by any realistic measure, its because WB *really* wants some new franchises.
Home of CBR Rumbles-in-Exile: rumbles.fr.yuku.comWarner Bros. has The Flash at 2014 and Wonder Woman at 2015. A Green Lantern reboot would be a 2016 release at best.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Have those actually been announced? I haven't heard anything about a Flash movie for more than a year.
( Thankfully. What I did hear was awful. . . )
Home of CBR Rumbles-in-Exile: rumbles.fr.yuku.comIt was announced a few months back (Warner Bros. was trying to decide on making The Flash or Green Lantern 2 and Green Lantern 2 was canceled after a script was submitted).
And Wonder Woman has been confirmed by director Nicolas Winding Refn as the second in a two-movie deal with Warner Bros. (the first, a remake of Logans Run, will begin shooting in late 2012).
edited 9th Nov '11 5:08:16 PM by Buscemi
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I'm not saying the Green Lantern movie was flawless but I really enjoyed it because it stayed so close to the source material and offered what was wanted from a Green Lantern story (intergalactic mythology, omnicidal enemy and loads of constructs). I can't think of any changes that damaged the mythology so bad that they would need a reboot to fix it.
And I agree to an extent about rebooting franchises, I feel it needs to happen when they've taken the current continuity as far as it can go and let it rest for a time. One bad installment doesn't necessarily demand a reboot the next week, but as a comparison Hasbro was feeling the diminishing returns of rebooting the Transformers continuity every few years in the last decade. Transformers Robots in Disguise in 2001, the Unicron Trilogy (which had a loose continuity to begin with) 2002/2003/2004, movies 2007, Transformers Animated 2007) and that's why they are trying to keep some sense of continuity between War For Cybertron and Transformers Prime.