Looks alright. Honestly, the generic trailer look makes it hard to give an accurate statement. One minor nitpick, I am a little sad that the ring doesn't "speak".
I was looking forward to hear: " Hal Jordan of earth. You have the ability to overcome great fear. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps"
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I'm glad they kept the oath as "In Blackest Night" instead of changing it to Darkest Night. I'm not usually one nitpick such insignificant details, but that would have been a deal breaker for me.
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This is still a signature.Wow, that was great. I'm sold!
Have we had confirmation of that somewhere?
Is it just me, or does it look like they are mixing the Parallax "yellow fear monster" concept, with that giant cosmic protoplasmic death blob that once tried to devour Oa?
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Home of CBR Rumbles-in-Exile: rumbles.fr.yuku.comI don't think so. I distinctly remember a giant aggressive blob of goo, devouring basically everything ( including tons of Lanterns ), and mostly laughing off everything the collected Corps did.
Home of CBR Rumbles-in-Exile: rumbles.fr.yuku.comOkay, this is pretty cool so far, I was really diggin' the change in Ryan's eye color during his announcement of the oath.
Yes, Ryan, because I cannot see him as Hal Jordan. He's too young and he's too.... "Fun"? Like "We're trying to draw in the same audience that liked Tony Stark".
Anyhow, was anybody else put off by a lot of the CGI? Like you know how there's CGI but you don't care that it is because it just works and there's CGI that you just know is CGI. To me, a lot of this looks like the latter, like nothing is meshing from the stupid and uncanny looking mask to Sinestro who just doesn't look right. I think he looks too young too.
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I could barely get through twenty pages of that because I had no idea what the hell I was looking at. Care to summarize?
And While I am aware that Hal wasn't always a... Cynical Asshole? I thought he was just conservative, dull, and straightforeward. I mean they had the guy using a big machine gun thing. If they wanted Kyle Rayner they should've just named him Kyle Rayner, that's more his style.
The Blog The ArtAt his core he's this noble, if cocky, guy who has his whole world opened up into something much larger, and he jumps right into it. Early Hal and Kyle (and Tony Stark, since that comparison keeps getting brought up) have always been similar. The main difference between Hal and Kyle is that Kyle is more imaginative and mild-mannered than the reckless Hal.
Rawr!Yeah, between that misconception and the whole "Isn't Green Lantern black?" thing, I feel that the majority of complaints about this movie (the non-CG ones, anyway) is just a case of Older Than They Think.
Rawr!Strangely enough, as someone already posted in the Film Green Lantern page, the Conspicuous CG almost adds to the visuals because it looks surreal and out-of-place. That's not an excuse for plain bad visual effects, but nothing so far seems to be an outright Special Effect Failure.
Yeah, JLU probably informed most kids who don't actually read comics about Green Lanterns.
Fight smart, not fair.Hey, DCAU John Stewart was cool. Much better than the comics version. . . and better than any recent Hal Jordan version.
Which is why, IMO, they are grafting a lot of Kyle's personality traits onto Movie Hal. Because strictly by canon, Hal is either cardboard and boring, or destructively arrogant such that even early Tony would notice. Seriously, people complain about Hal's sudden heel turn. . .
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That is starting to look better and better. I find it's giving off a pulp novel-style sci-fi vibe, which is entirely appropriate giving that we're talking about magic rings and alien law enforcement. If it tried to be too Star Trek-y (even though that isn't particularly hard sci-fi to begin with) I think you might lose the suspension of disbelief.
Best line "Speak the oath, like every knows the oath. I, Hal Jordan, do... solemnly swear to... pledge allegiance... to a lantern... that I got from a dying purple alien."