Green Lantern

[dracula1]

Just viewed Green Lantern the other day,...should this have gone straight to Dvd?

[Dandontdare]

I really enjoyed it - apart from mashing together several different storylines into one plot, I thought it worked quirte well. The lead wasn't too memorable - a bit young and flippant IMHO, but Sinetsro was very good, which bodes well for the sequel.

[JamesC]

Is a sequel confirmed?
I'd heard plans had been knocked on the head after dissapointing box office.

[Colin YNWA]

I've defo seen it announced somewhere, maybe not officially ut there's a general assumption that they really think the 'franchise' can work and so their will be a second that can correct the mistakes of the first apparently.

[dracula1]

Sinestro was superb,...forgotten the actors name  though? 

[Spaceghost]

Mark Strong. Also played the baddie in Kick Ass and very good he was too.

[bluemeanie]

I enjoyed it.
It did suffer slightly from having to work in the origin and introduce the whole Guardians concept for the newbies but it was still fun enough and has set up what could be a rocking sequel. You all saw the post credits bit, right?

[dracula1]

Mark Strong. Also played the baddie in Kick Ass and very good he was too.

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Heroic actor with an equally heroic name. One to  watch, he's a great actor. Is it to late to have him star in DREDD?!

[PreacherCain]

I thought it was awful. Terrible, terrible acting (Strong was ok, and the guy playing Big Head was decent too). One of the worst made films I've seen in a long time too. I mean, the bloody editing was bad!

I was one of the few who actually thought it could have been good too and had hoped they would fix the 'floating head' CGI that was stood out so much in the trailers. It could have been a fun, space adventure film. The opening scene is woefully inept: if you want an example of how NOT to open a filmm, there is it. Badly written, badly acted, badly made.

In hindsight, it would have been a better idea to concentrate on the origin stuff and save OA for the sequel. No reason they couldn't have changed it slightly and have Sinestro come to Earth to train/test Hal Jordan to see if he was good enough to be a Lantern. Then have advanced training in the sequel on the alien planet with all the mad characters. Shame.

[SmallBlueThing]

I wonder if the way i look at green lantern is the way other, normal, people look at comic movies generally. In that i have no intetest whatsoever in seeing it because it looks to be a bunch of barely defined two dimensional characters, involved in a boring story about who's got the biggest special effect. I have no experience of the character, have never read a single gl comic, and because dc werent in my newsagent as a kid, have no nostalgic feelings toward the company at all.

SBT

[chaingunchimp]

dunno i wasnt very impressed with this.
liked the sinestro core uniform at the end tho.

[dweezil2]

I enjoyed it too, while knowing very little about the comic book incarnation that inspired it and I thought it was a far better film than the inexplicably overrated Thor.