Green Lantern: Why Is It So Bad?

Very few movies are as universally loathed as Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern. On paper, it should have worked. Campbell was the director who famously launched not one but two James Bond’s (Pierce Brosnan in Goldeneye and Daniel Craig in Casino Royale), and was a seasoned pro at making action movies. For his lead, he had Ryan Reynolds, who was one of the biggest rising stars in Hollywood at the time but hadn’t quite found the movie that would put him over the top as a superstar. He would soon discover that role with Deadpool, but first, he’d have to suffer through the savaging Green Lantern received from fans and critics alike. Since then, WB has been reluctant about ever giving the character his due on the big screen, but is the movie all that bad? In this episode of DC Revisited, writer, editor and narrator Tyler Nichols tries to explain exactly how this movie went so horribly awry.
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[@TheBHAitken]

The Green Lantern outfit/armor was an energy barrier created by the ring, so I really didn't mind that it was animated in the movie. To tell the truth, I would have been severely disappointed if they portrayed the Green Lantern's outfit as some sort of material or cloth.

[@ChristopherPayneMUA]

Same

[@alejbr4]

what about a regular costume, but enhanced with cgi... so it would have a sense of form but still be energy?

[@loka7783]

@@alejbr4 I'd have to see it but it makes more sense to be entirely cgi, hopefully done much better. (Altho I do think that a real mask might be the way to go. ) 😀

[@ChristopherPayneMUA]

@@alejbr4 I think most people's complaint isn't the CGI suit, but how obviously CGI it is. Definitely somewhere in the uncanny valley

[@trekkiejunk]

I think the problem was more with the execution of said costume, then with the particulars of its lore. They could have easily had a CGI transition to a cloth costume, so you follow the lore, but also make it look good.

[@TheJonboix]

I was surprised by the adverse reactions. I have watched it three times and enjoyed it each time.

[@castielvargastv7931]

Me too

[@patrickortiz6865]

I like it. It's not great but it's not terrible.

[@jfilm7466]

Me 3

[@randallrutherford1384]

This movie is from the Director of goldeneye and casino royale

[@craigh5236]

The villain they had was horrible. Potato head incel guy just is urgh.

[@jasonfitak9521]

Me and my wife both loved this movie. Really loved the suit too. It's armor made from a ring that makes constructs out of green energy, it makes perfect sense that the suit looks like it is made from green energy.

[@JestersDeadUK]

You have seriously bad taste dood and I can't believe you've admitted that in public

[@jasonfitak9521]

@@JestersDeadUK I enjoy movies that other people don't and I can admit that because I have nothing to fear from people like you.

[@Cinetiste]

Indeed ! The costume was well realised and it is only fair for the digital specialists who made the effects to note it. A story like the one of Green Lantern implies a corporation of extraterrestrials fighting in space with the "power of imagination" with constructions made of a green light. How would it be expected to be visually "realistic" ?

[@jasonfitak9521]

@@Cinetiste Well said.

[@markusforsberg6741]

Well then i dont want to see your movie collection i have classic movies not crappy direa movies like green lantern batman and robin super mario brothers movie 1993 jurassic world terminator sequels michael bays transformers ninja turtels

[@Cyril29a]

I don't understand why Lego doesn't have a whole green lantern line. He is the perfect Lego hero, they can sell countless remolds of their sets in translucent green and have those each be his power manifesting.

[@tomt55]

I am a very passive comic book admirer at best. I always liked the Green Lantern for some reason. I enjoyed this movie. I realize there are some flaws but I still enjoy it. I hope to see some more Green Lantern projects in the near future.

[@Sovjetski-]

same here

[@mariareed5238]

I enjoyed the film I honestly didnt think it was that bad - but I also never read the comics.

[@ty_sylicus]

Same. I had only a few issues with this one.

[@jerw1957]

its still one of my favorites compared to the dceu movies, i wish they would do a directors cut where they redo the CG. it was the most accurate comic adaptation in my opinion, plus it did relaively well compared to black adam

[@vilod]

I agree. I never understood all the hate for this.

[@tkskagen]

I am still proud to admit that I own this Movie within my DVD Collection. No regrets at all!

[@powerbadpowerbad]

I own it also,with much regrets !!! LOL.Bought it at a Goodwill store ( had the dvd,blue-ray,etc,etc,.. ) for a $ 1.00,couldn't turn that down.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

You should watch some content for grown ups here 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary]🔥

[@suralos]

Perhaps the real tragedy of GREEN LANTERN was the fact DC did make a great Movie version in animated form GREEN LANTERN FIRST FLIGHT just two years prior.

[@ElMalito187]

Ryan Reynolds played Hannibal King in Blade Trinity.

[@chinortega3]

No way

[@craigh5236]

@@chinortega3 Yes way

[@chinortega3]

@@craigh5236 im playing lol

[@robmcconnell822]

I always thought it should have been that Hal beat Parallax in the beginning and hailed as a hero on Oa when he first arrives. Sinestro being the only one who wasn't impressed. Then have him battle Hector in a more psychological battle that really hit Hal emotionally.

[@williamblakehall5566]

I love the Silver Age Green Lantern and it bugs me that writers refuse to deliver on the original core mission of heroes. Earth's Green Lantern is essentially a "beat cop" within an intergalactic force, as likely to be helping cavemen on Alpha Centauri as us humans, a kind of one-man Starfleet (to invoke Trek). All this "imagine a thing and then apply its power" business, I have no memory of. For that matter, the single best sales pitch I ever heard for the Fantastic Four was that they're a family of scientist explorers, a little like the Robinsons from "Lost in Space" but with quirky superpowers. The right star, the right effects, blah blah blah -- make the CONCEPT work first and you may finally get somewhere.

[@freedone.]

I liked the theme of him facing fear. It has some memorable scenes.

[@dqskymagne2762]

Fear theme. I like it, too.

[@toyboy887]

Exactly, the psychodrama in the film is palpable

[@larrydavis3645]

I enjoyed this film when it was released. I did notice the suit but if you do not try new things then there is very little progress.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

You should watch some content for grown ups here 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary]🔥

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

I thought the Cg and the suit in particular looked great. It is supposed to be made of energy, so if it was just rubber or spandex, it would have been cheap.

[@wstine79]

I didn't think this movie was that bad. The Green Lantern CGI looks fine, especially during the My big fight scenes. PARALLAX was a dull villain and Sinestro should've been it.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

You should watch some content for grown ups here 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary]🔥

[@jasongallagher5464]

Yeah I don’t remember hating this. It wasn’t great, but it was ahight at the time. I was never a huge green lantern guy though so I could understand if some people who were big fans who expected something else though.

[@Michaelengelmann]

The Ryan GL movie is unjustly hated. It walked so other (most) superhero movies could run. If it weren’t for the too blue contacts & Hollywoods weird fetish with big, ominous clouds as the bad guy, it was a good movie.

[@TheRobmcknz]

@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Quit shilling your vegan garbage. No one's interested.

[@MysteryBounty]

I thought it looked terrible, a real suit that lit up when using energy would have been much better

[@wilhelmscream6919]

I've not a single issue with the suit :P the face bit looks a bit awkward at times but even that works for me when His eyes are also changed. Oh but i've no idea how the suit works in the comics- is it supposed to be an actual physical suit and not something that they project onto themselves ?

[@rbourne35]

The ring makes it so CGI isn't a bad idea. Not the best result, but not worth the hate it gets.

[@timreeves8937]

Yeah, that movie had so many other problems the "suit" was way down the list. I actually thought it looked pretty cool and it was a novel change from a guy just wearing spandex.

[@TheRobmcknz]

The suit is created by energy from the ring, so CGI made perfect sense for it.

[@timreeves8937]

They tried to do too much in one movie. Unlike a lot of superhero properties, Green Lantern is not a singular hero, but part of a corps. They did not allow the movie to develop Hal Jordan into a Green Lantern in his own movie before trying to dump an entire green lantern corp universe on top of it and their entire backstory, tried to set up a love interest, then introduced like five other corp members on top of that, had TWO villains, one on Earth and one supposedly galaxy wide, as well as trying to set up Sinestro being the next movies bad guy on top of that. It was way too much and therefore none of those components got any attention and executed poorly. The training montage with the corps also came across as hokey and bad because we did not even know who all those people were. They had like five lines of dialog to try to show Sinestro did not really like Hal, and it came across as arbitrary and forced as how would he even know if Hal was a "good" person or not? That really was the entire problem. The first movie should have been just introducing the concept and making Hal figure out some of the ring's powers and concentrating on his personal life and maybe love interest and establishing he was the new green lantern, and then maybe have an end teaser where he learns about the fact he is not the only one and there is a whole corps. It wasn't the "suit", that was like problem number 50 on the list.

[@jt-bw6qd]

Thank you. You summed it up perfectly.

[@davidmcmahon4633]

@@jt-bw6qd Yep, it should have been Hal figuring out his powers and not knowing much about the Corps, as in the original 60s run of his comics, he got orders from his battery from his unknown bosses for quite a number of issues before he found out about the Corps and the Guardians and their history. And just fighting Hector Hammond. Origin and Hector would have been enough for the first movie.

[@timreeves8937]

@@davidmcmahon4633 When these movies do not do well, the studio or its apologists always try to blame something simple like the "suit" so they do not have to admit the script was hash or the whole idea was bad.

[@jt-bw6qd]

@@davidmcmahon4633 you are a Jedi

[@dejionjefferson826]

majority of people don’t care about plot lines. regular fans want to see amazing cgi. Critic geeks have had a negative influence on film adaptations

[@bradley163]

They marketed the absolute HELL out of this movie prior to release. Unfortunately, it was made post-Avatar, and the mere mortals who weren't privy to the sorcery of Cameron's tech were still stuck with that uncanny valley-esque CGI. Plus, it felt like it was hacked and chopped to death by the studio. Of course, this is only my opinion.

[@tom2point0]

It’s a fine movie. Not the greatest ever but I was entertained and boy did Blake Lively look great! Would’ve loved to see her in the Star Sapphire costume! 🔥

[@gothnate]

I'm glad the Arrowverse paid homage to this film in the Crisis event.

[@Knightfall182]

Garbage homaging garbage

[@jamaalmoses8821]

Ryan Reynolds is not Hal Jordan..personality wise he is more like Guy Gardener.

[@marciofilho2137]

Reynolds was the main choice to play Wally West in a Flash movie written and directed by David Goyer that never saw the light of day, and he fits much more with Wally than Hal Jordan.

[@suedenim]

The thing is, I've always thought you could do Green Lantern pretty cheap, even on a TV budget. The beauty is that the ring constructs... are constructs. They don't have to look ""realistic." Avoid outer space and flying, and it's quite doable with CGI from a generation or two back.

[@scragar]

They tried to make them look unreal in the film and everyone complains it looks fake even though that was the point. It's near impossible to get it to look fake and well done, people take their ability to spot CGI as evidence of it being bad rather than fitting the intended purpose.

[@davidjones8043]

Bruh so avoid everything that defines the comics lol

[@BoyNamedSue4]

I remember the day this came out on DVD target was only charging $5. Back then new movies were bare minimum $25. Told me everything I needed to know.

[@ukaszmozejko9984]

It's interesting how most comments are like "It wasn't really THAT bad".

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

I think it’s one of those cases where it was cool to hate it

[@ricniks4619]

Likely because they grew up with it so they can overlook the problems and just enjoy the film for what it is. However if this movie came out today people would be outraged with how the suit looks, how stupid the plot is and how inaccurate it is to the comics.

[@ricniks4619]

@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 Every CBM is nowadays unless you are doing your own thing and do it well you will find a lot of people to find things to criticize your film even if in some cases (Like Bat Woman) they never get to see it so they can't truly judge how bad it would have been.

[@Kalel2.0]

​@@ricniks4619I grew up with it and I dont like it😂

[@randomdisplayname]

You can see why Ryan is so hands on with Deadpool and it shows his love and respect of the source material. He could have walked away from comic movies after blade 3, wolverine origins and green lantern.

[@tskmaster3837]

5:42 No, that's Guy Gardner. That's literally and figuratively Guy Gardner, the Mouth with a Ring. Ryan Reynolds would have been a great Guy... if he was Free to do what he wanted.

[@anubusx]

Funny how Brian Austin Green played Metallo in Smallville. A green comic book character.

[@larryclowers]

Green Lanterns power comes from will not fearlessness

[@Jhayzer021]

This movie is my introduction to Green Lantern esp. the animated series, too bad that the animation series got cancelled.

[@patrickcharles6983]

The animated film "Green Lantern:First Flight" was a better GL film. Just like Suicide Squad/Assault on Arkham, the live-action Green Lantern film should've used GL:First Flight as a blueprint. Basically make Sinestro/Hal's dynamic like Denzel&Hawke's in Training Day(which is what First Flight did). Training Day in space could've been great.

[@funkydiscogod]

There was also a short-lived computer animated green lantern cartoon series that was canceled because it didn't sell enough toys.

[@patrickcharles6983]

@@funkydiscogod it didn't help that the animated series came out after the GL movie. First Flight came out before the GL film, I think GL:Emerald Knights came out before as well. The Anthology film direction for GL could've worked too, introduce each main Lantern in the Anthology film, then have them all together in a sequel.

[@startingQB]

If this exact movie came out today, it would be considered great.

[@lesvernornvienas8232]

its really funny, its probably still one of the most hated superhero films but as time goes on its somehow one of the best ones.

[@kungfew1396]

I was never a Green Lantern super fan but I loved seeing this in the theater, Morbius deserves the ridicule it gets but this one I don't understand.

[@ZigUncut]

Mark Strong was perfect casting.

[@ShazeemKhan]

Strong indeed 💪

[@theturquoisedream9244]

Well considering the main actor of the movie trashed talked it as he did and was only in it in the first place for the paycheck, I'd venture to say it was doomed from the beginning.

[@base4yrface]

My favorite thing about this movie is that you can tell they wanted Richard Ayoade for Taika Waititi’s role, so they basically just made him do a cosplay of him lmaoo

[@gmcmullins3251]

The full theater I was in actually clapped at the end of the movie. We thought it was good

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

I read a lot of Green Lantern comic books so I knew the background of the characters. I guess the film just tried to do too much too soon. All in one movie.

[@sbcj9]

So I'm not scared to say it. But this movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm not really sure why. Maybe it's cause it was the first superhero movie I ever bought or what but. I don't mind it all that much. I know it's a bad movie and by any means a good film, but I find enjoyment out of it.

[@Lupinemancer87]

I hope for a suceessful Green Lantern series. Cuz he's my favorite comicbook super hero.

[@davidmcmahon4633]

Yeah, I wasn't thrilled by the costume. I think the biggest problem with the movie was that it was too busy for a first movie, bringing in Paralax and the whole Green Lantern Corps. They should have left out the whole Green Lantern Corps and Paralax for the sequels and just gone with his origin and Hector Hammond as the baddie for the first movie. And the big fight between Hector and GL reminded me so much of a Jedi fight scene.

[@dudeyouarecuckie]

The comic clip you showed of Hal being "quippy" or whatever was actually Guy Gardner.

[@TheRobmcknz]

He also said GL's power comes from fearlessness, when it comes from willpower.

[@DonaldTubbs]

Let's not forget Ben Affleck playing three heroes as he's been Daredevil, Batman, and Superman (Hollywoodland)!

[@Michaelengelmann]

The Ryan GL movie is unjustly hated. It walked so other (most) superhero movies could run. If it weren’t for the too blue contacts & Hollywoods weird fetish with big, ominous clouds as the bad guy, it was a good movie.

[@purelitenite]

You can't compare CGI with movies almost a decade apart.

[@SirSmoldham]

THANK YOU! This is a film that should have been a hit but the balance was off.

[@simonbeech6073]

We have MUCH worse movies recently. It looked odd at the time, looks comic book now… but… it’s a comic book character…

[@bjd3707]

I rewatched this movie last week, it is definitely not as bad as I remembered. There's only two big problems really - the villains suck (hardly a unique problem but they are pretty bad) and the wasted potential. I think even to a casual fan it's pretty obvious that SO much more could have been done with the supporting cast, particularly after Hal reaches Oa. If I was James Gunn I'd be giving serious thought to getting Ryan back for the newly announced Lanterns and roping Hugh to be another GL, perhaps Guy Gardener. The show's success would be all but guaranteed. Also, who is to say there will be a DP 4. I doubt Ryan will play the character for another 5 - 10 years.

[@momaw_C1-10P]

The two key issues with this movie (as a years long Lantern fan) it (1) it tried to do way to much so succeeded in nothing, and (2) big giant smoke/sky monster as the bad guy. I honestly don't understand why superhero movies keep falling back on this. It never works. Closest to working was Doctor Strange but only because that was less the sky monster being the big bad and more a commentary on Dr Strange's self journey. I really hope we will soon see the Green Lantern Core done well in live action.

[@RB01.10]

Agreed Galactus’ treatment in ROTSS was a prime example of what *not* to do

[@drewgeraci8434]

I actually didn't mind the CGI costume. What turned me off was, as the narrator said, thin writing. It plodded along and I stopped it twice before giving up completely

[@hugeburger]

personally love the movie myself, i saw it when i was younger and i thought it was awesome, still enjoy watching it to this day. it made me get into dc more as a kid. pretty surprised to see people disliking it honestly. its not perfect or as cool as the comics but still im happy it exists.

[@somebodynowhere]

I remember there was a comicon panel promoting the movie where ryan did the green lantern oath and for a short window between then and when the movie came out it almost seemed like it might be okay

[@danamoore1788]

I thought how they did Sinestro in this movie was perfect. He was a skilled lantern and yes had some moral grey. But he was not the villain here. His requesting a yellow ring was to fight the big bad even better. So the end sequence of him donning the yellow ring and setting up the sequel was well done. What I think was done poorly was too many villains and over cartooning the ring powers. IE making a hot wheels car and track when a simpler 'roller coaster' car and simple track would be fitting and not need to be central. It put art and the effect ahead of the story. With too many villains they should have stuck to just Paralax and Earth itself being out of the bigger fight as Hal learns he can be a hero with the ring.

[@dishansinghmehta8891]

Honestly speaking Green Lantern is my guity pleasure and one of the best guilty pleasures that i have, and I expected Green Lantern to be just like that XD

[@virgil3241]

Ive watched it in the background while working on things over the years, like Superman Returns and Batman vs Superman. I dont do that with all movies, so I must like it some

[@brianpughsley8680]

I always believed that Ryan Reynolds was miscast as the wrong Green Lantern. Maybe he should’ve been Kyle Rayner

[@qdllc]

They tried to do TOO MUCH in this movie. The origin of GL was a big enough plot. The whole introduction of Paralax and ending with Sinestro becoming a bad guy just was trying to do too much. GL learning to be a hero could easily been the sole focus of the story.

[@s1x6x1s]

i don't mind the CGI suit. as i understand it, it's some kind of protective energy field created by the lantern, so it made sense that they would make it in CGI. the problem was the story. it wasn't good. and as it often happens with adaptations of a comic/game that deals with mythology or supernatural, they always go overboard with the villain--choosing the most non-specific entity about which they could spend the littlest time to write, smoke-screening it with a lot of action and devastation, thinking the audience would get along with it. why? because it's supernatural, it's unknown. jeez...

[@carter358]

Corey Reynolds from The Closer campaigned for the role of John Stewart. He wrote a script for the first film and had plans for a trilogy the would bring in Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner.

[@mdpeterson27]

This movie was confused about what it wanted or tried to be. It wasn’t Top Gun It wasn’t a Cop movie. And they had to nerve to believe Green Lantern could get you more then one movie. Why would the alien ask to find someone for the ring if it’s not some type of huge conspiracy inside the Lantern Corp.

[@tecpaocelotl]

Green Lantern had to die so Deadpool can relive.

[@wendelllecroy214]

There were two big enormous problems. Hector Hammond was a thoroughly unlikeable character, even before his mutation, so you could never feel any sympathy for him, and he became really just gross and annoying. Secondly, they made the same mistake made in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: they cast a cloud as the main villain, and overemphasized fearlessness as virtue. The overarching threat never seemed that serious, and many of the secondary characters just seemed childish, so you could say that bad writing was part of the problem. I have to think that if we had somehow ever made it past the first installment, the future struggle against Sinestro would have been far better. Too many special effects and too little character development. That is a pity, because GL was one of my favorite DC heroes growing up. He deserved a better outing than this. I will still watch it from time to time, since that is all that we have.

[@andreasgrothe2183]

It's a shame that Green Lantern 2011 movie never had a sequel, I mean this movie was a masterpiece, why they don't understand true action and art anymore?

[@RB01.10]

The bad box office returns killed any chance for a sequel

[@google_was_my_idea_first]

I’m a comic geek but never read Green Lantern. The movie is not Citizen Kane, but I have always enjoyed it. Never fully understood the hate.

[@rodmoore1577]

The suit is pure energy. It's not like a Batman muscle suit. That's why that was done

[@nybrand]

I loved this movie. Don't know why the hate.

[@mikestanley9176]

Same here. I didn.t know that Mark Strong played Sinestro. He is also known as Merlin in the Kingsmen movies and has one of the saddest deaths in movie. Right up there with Yondu in GOTG2.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

You should watch some content for grown ups here 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary]🔥

[@toganium4175]

Green Lantern: First Flight, a direct to video animated film that came out over a year before this Green Lantern movie, is genuinely a decent movie. Green Lantern: The Animated Series is also very good.

[@funkydiscogod]

iirc Green Lantern: The Animated Series was cancelled for not selling enough toys.

[@gspendlove]

Emerald Knights is pretty good, too.

[@Bubble_0f_d00m]

And while the live action Green Lantern had forgettable music, First Flight's soundtrack was fantastic. Just thinking of it makes me want to hear that intro again.

[@lizardog]

Great video. I only have on tiny quibble and it's a very trivial and personal one. The narrator's vocal affectation, as evidenced in the pronunciation of words such as "written" and "important," jarred me each time I heard it. I told you it was trivial, but hearing written pronounced as "writ'en" strikes me as so strange.

[@biggestnerdalive8476]

I thought the scenes on Oa were fantastic but everything else was either flat or generic

[@KennAKALeo]

I liked it. I own a copy. Comparing a 12 year-old film's CGI to modern gaming is unfair. Alan Scott was never in the GL Corps. Trying to tell John Stewart's story w/out Hal coming first is complicated.

[@jeancaron9325]

Any Ideas on How You can Fix It.

[@bdr113080]

I think any one that was reading DC comics as this was coming out was really excited for this movie. Before this movie came out, DC comics was really on a roll, final crisis, Green Lantern rebirth, the Senestro wars, black as night, DC was kicking ass and a lot of it revolved around the green lantern. I was so excited for this as a diehard DC fan because I felt like at that time warner brothers was scared to death to do a movie in the main DC universe outside of Superman and Batman. The MCU had just gotten started, but no one knew what it was going to be. I think they had only had the Iron Man movie out and may be the Incredible Hulk so no one had any idea what that was going to eventually turn into but there were rumblings that the Hulk movie, and Iron Man we’re going to connect in marvel, was going to do the shared universe thing, so I was really hoping that maybe this would connect to the Batman movies and maybe this would be the start of the DC shared universe, and I’ve actually read some reports that this movie was supposed to be the first movie in a shared DC universe. I was actually so excited for this movie to see a live action Green Lantern film for the first time I can honestly say it was the first time as Chris Stuckmann would put it that I was “ phantom, menaced” he coin that phrase as a way to describe being so excited for a movie and so hyped up for it that you just want to like it’s so bad that the first time you watch it you’re in denial and that you actually believe it was an awesome movie. This was definitely what happened to me with green lantern. I was so excited for it and I went and saw it. I called my brother, told him how much I loved it and later that weekend I went back. The following weekend, my brother in a couple of our friends wanted to go see it because I had already told them a week earlier. I would see it with them again. On the way to the theater to see this movie for the third time with friends is when I was really being honest with myself and kind of realizing that I think I wanted this movie to be good so badly that I was lying to myself. Which was true. I recently during the pandemic re-watch this movie just to give it another shot with older, more mature eyes, and see if it was as bad as I remembered, and it’s not like there are things in it that come off to me as atrociously bad it’s just a boring movie unfortunately. I love Ryan Reynolds as the green lantern. I think he did a great job but there’s just kind of a boring story there.

[@toddnolastname4485]

I don't know why they went for a bestial Hammond. But Parallax should not have been the villain. Parallax was added to explain why Hal became evil when they decided to give the ring to a younger user. Also, unless you're going to have the story set in the 40s, Hal has to be the character for the first movie. You can turn the ring over to Guy or John in the second and/or subsequent movies, but Hal is the first Green Lantern Corps member from Earth, so should get the first movie.

[@chancejohnson9282]

In my opinion, this movie is a great example of how people on social media will shit all over a movie just because it’s the popular thing to do. Yet, people will express how much they think it sucks like it’s a hot take and they’re making some bold proclamation. Anytime a comic book movie is less than perfect, it’s shit and ruined everyone’s childhood. Then more people pile on, and everyone has to keep upping the ante of how terrible it was and how much they disliked it.

[@brianharris7745]

WELL SAID :):):)

[@michelvec]

Please do Ang Lee's Hulk

[@graefx]

Parallax looked like a flying poop monster, but the rest of the CG and casting was pretty great. I dont mind the costume and in the fiction of GL, it makes sense.

[@HamanKarn567]

They should do an animated series based on the comics with the young justice style animation. Have the first season be Hal Jordan and Sinestro teaching him the ropes and seeing Sinestro corruptions. Then have season 2 be Hal Jordan on his own fighting Sinestro now he's a villain and proving himself to be the best green lantern. Have season 3 with him and John steward as a team and guy Gardner cameo. Show some of his lesser known villains maybe sort of a filler season with cameos from other heroes also. Have season 4 shake things up with Mongul and Cyborg Superman destroying coast city and Hal Jordan going crazy and turning into villain parallax. Then with Kyle Rayner as Green Lantern and change things up because zero hour wasn't the best comic but eventually have Hal Jordan be redeemed and the green lantern corpnreturn with Sinestro Corp war stuff eventually. It would never happen and even if it did it would get cancelled just like the one cartoon they already did was cancelled. Lmao

[@antonioaguera4580]

To be honest, I liked his costume, it is after all a green light construct generated by the ring, so it made sense it looked like a projection on his body rather than a power ranger style transformation. What truly killed the movie was the awful script and half-assed pacing, the whole romance thing should have not even been put in. Also the half-assed explanation that it runs on fearlesness? What in the actual hell? It runs on willpower, period. Also puttin Parallax as an antagonist in the very first movie was a terrible idea, for such a big antagonist, they should have focussed on Hal Jordan tackling earthly villains to establish him, then deepen his lore by going for the yellow and red spectrum.

[@Mad_Intalect]

Willpower, not "fearlessness" is what powers the rings of the Green Lantern Corps lol.

[@greendro6410]

Ryan Reynolds be like Green Lantern was one of my worst movie I was ever in, but I glad I met my current wife Blake Lively from that movie.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

BAG from Sarah Connor Chronicles would have been great.

[@lacrartezorok4975]

Update, the GL series will feature Hal Jordan and John Stewart investigating some mystery on Earth.

[@AnarkeeSoundVibes]

I didn't think this movie was that bad as an origin story, but it felt like the people who wrote the story didn't have any clue what they wanted.

[@ShinySephiroth1]

5:39 That's not Hal, that's Guy Gardner

[@dynaguy3]

Why the hell did WB hire Berlanti and Guggenheim again to make the HBO Max Green Lantern show? Didn't they learn their lesson? Good thing Gunn canceled that show

[@GurpreetSingh-db9nh]

The suits of General Zod and all the kryptonians are also cgi'd that too in 2013 , too bad the admin didn't mention it

[@captinthrustmasterpoopoo7735]

I would absolutely love to see a jack black green lantern movie 😂💯

[@ukaszmozejko9984]

You are not the only one

[@discreetlesbian]

The CGI Greenlander suit is the best thing in the movie, it looks flawless, also it is made with energy so that looks is perfect

[@SumDumGy]

I think the CGI suit made perfect sense in context, even if it wasn’t executed well. The suit is comprised of pure energy from the ring after all. I don’t think this movie is horrifically bad. It’s just not good. Standard generic surface level super hero fare.

[@Omar-wq9dz]

The video game tie in, Rise Of The Manhunters, told a better origin story for Green Lantern than the movie

[@powerbadpowerbad]

The animated GL story was much better than the film. LOL.

[@lostcolonyofkekkoslovakia9451]

Should have been Sinestro, with noob Hal Jordan being thrust into a green/yellow lantern war

[@PerfectTroy1]

A big problem was having the movie centered mostly on Earth. I hope the new one doesn't make the same mistake.

[@richardryley3660]

While I will agree the movie had its flaws, I always saw it as a set up for the sequel where the REAL bad guy - Sinestro, obviously - would make his appearance. The problem is that the Green Lantern mythos is so complex that you can't drop someone in the middle of it and expect it to make sense. Unfortunately, the reaction to the "prequel" was so bad that the movie I was looking forward to never got made. Maybe it was a show that would have done better as a TV series.

[@DavesEmpire1981]

Just watched this again yesterday. There really wasn't a strong reason for Sinestro to put on the yellow ring.

[@Garrettsamuel98]

When Ryan doesn't have that CGI mask on I think he actually looks decent in the CGI Green Lantern suit?

[@VincentMcmanus.]

Green lantern doesnt get his power from fearlessness. It comes from willpower, which is different. Fearlessness is just the absence of fear.

[@Lord_necromancer]

Did you see the Green lantern's ring is powered by fearlessness? That's weird - when did they change it to fearlessness from willpower?

[@ZigUncut]

The suit wasn't the problem. It was the gloves.

[@Darksid3c3]

I enjoyed the movie and whoever enjoyed this movie saw the potential of these actors easily I can easily compare this cgi to high scored some superhero movies

[@anthonycerulli1423]

The video game tie in was actually pretty decent

[@kakolicht]

The movie needed a smaller scope: an origin story, characters proper development to set the tone and a small bad guy. When I first saw Parallax I was like " they f*uckd up big time with the movie". Having only Hector Hammond would have been enough. And the excessive use of CGI 🤦🏻‍♂️ But it's ok. For me, Green Lantern is pure guilty pleasure that one the best bad movies can offer.

[@captaincharlie_]

Bright as day, black as night, no evil shall escape my sight. _I wish I may, I wish I might, on the first star, I see tonight._ Thet's where my brain automatically goes when I hear the first part of that monologue. *Every. Single. Time.* 🤣🤣💀