Green Lantern

Personally I thought the movie was pretty good... I don't know why it gets such a bad rap online... Not every Superhero movie can be like the Infinity Saga... They're based off of Comic Books and Cartoons...I don't think anyone, who is living a carefree life, dubbed with superpowers at age 30, is going to all of a sudden know how to be a Superhero...I feel they should have made a Sequel instead of just dropping it... Sometimes the 2nd movie explains why the first movie was the way it was and people end up having a lot more respect for it, but they just canceled it instead...Oh well, it still makes the list when we're in a Superhero movie mood...

Ryan does a great job too , this needs a another follow up Please 🙏

(This review is about both the Theatrical and Extended Cut versions)Ah, the Green Lantern movie. It's somehow ironic that a movie that contains the theme of rooting for the underdog ended up being the underdog that got constantly bullied by critics. As I do sometimes in my reviews, first, a little history.THE COMIC:Green Lantern, the character (and universe) that gets adapted in this movie, is a DC comics franchise that was originally the reboot of a previous franchise by the same name but with different elements (the original Green Lantern was alone and not a member of a group, had nothing to do with space, wore a different suit and had a different weakness). Later the original character was brought back to share the universe with the new one. If you think it's confusing to have two characters sharing the same name, try 3600. Then double that. Plus 1.You see, Green Lantern is not just the story of one character, but of a vast universe of them. Hal Jordan, pilot, who works at Ferris Aircraft with his girlfriend Carol Ferris (yup, the owner's daughter), is suddenly and unexpectedly summoned to the crash site of a spaceship by a dying alien, Abin Sur, who bestows him with a ring, which has chosen Hal as his successor. Abin Sur is a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic peacekeeping force armed with power rings that have the ability to create any physical object its wearer can think of, and it's powered by will. Every construct created by the ring is made of green, hard energy, and its strenght is either magnified or diminished by the user's willpower or lack thereof. The rings also grant the ability to fly and since they're advanced technology, they can translate other languages and provide its user with information. The rings' energy has to be recharged periodically by a lantern that's given to each member of the Corps. Hence the name, Green Lantern.The GL Corps are managed by their creators, the Guardians of the Universe, an ancient race of aliens who harnessed the power of will in a giant battery located on the planet Oa, the center of the known universe. Then they divided the universe in 3600 sectors and asigned a guardian to each one, powered by a ring. The guardians don't choose the recruits, the rings do. Unfortunately, the rings have a weakness. Due to an impurity in the central battery, caused by an entity named Parallax, a being of pure fear that was imprisoned in the battery by the Guardians, who couldn't destroy him, the rings can't directly affect anything of color yellow, since it's the color of fear. That means, if the Green Lanterns want to attack something/someone of color yellow, they need to attack him indirectly. For instance, they could create a giant fan that makes wind to blow the object away, or use the ring's energy to lift a boulder and throw it at the guy in the banana suit. The Green Lantern ring is the most powerful weapon in the universe, but just like any weapon, it's only as good as its user.Hal Jordan's first real challenge is to overcome being the replacement of Abin Sur (even though he didn't chose to be), who was a loved member of the Corps, specially before Sinestro, Abin's friend and one of the top GL members. Then, he later proves himself to the group by defeating a powerful enemy and is finally welcomed to the Corps as one of their own.THE MOVIE:As you probably expect by knowing the story, this is a pretty hard concept to get in a movie. It's less a regular superhero tale and more of a space opera, like Star Wars. The entire concept is really, really different from most stories out there, and it's quite a lot to take, so, when word got out that they were going to make a Green Lantern movie, fans were both excited and worried for the film. Why? Because making a film faithful to the comic it would mean a lot of people would consider it too bizarre, so the filmmakers had a hard choice to make. If they focused on making a good adaptation, they'd be subjected to bad reviews from people who thought the thing was too crazy. If they focused on making a good film, they'd leave the fans angry. Unfortunately, they didn't focus on either and instead they tried to go the easy way by going with a tried-and-true tale, thinking that would give them leeway to make a good adaptation without the need to focus too much on story. It... didn't work very well.The movie is, in general, a pretty good adaptation of the basics of the story. We have Hal Jordan being brought to Abin Sur's crash site and being given the ring and lantern, we have him being taken to Oa to be trained and we have him proving himself to the Corps by defeating a seemingly invincible enemy on his own. We have two classic GL villains in this film, Parallax, and Hector Hammond, a biologist who gets infected by Parallax and becomes deformed but gets granted telekinetic abilities. So yeah, the basics are there but... the details and execution leave a lot to be desired.This movie got a lot of hate from critics, most of them calling it bad. But, if you take your time to read a few reviews, you'll notice that critics really want to hate the film, but are unsure why. The criticisms are different in every review, and some praise what others criticize. In general, when a movie is actually bad, it's easy to pinpoint why (most critics agree on what they didn't like on, say, The Phantom Menace, for instance). The problem with Green Lantern is not that it's bad, it's that it's GENERIC. Sometimes to the point of being infuriating. And, as you know, average is usually much worse than bad when it comes to entertainment.For instance, instead of actually focusing the story in space and making this an original superhero tale, the story is mostly relegated to Earth, making it like pretty much every other superhero movie. Instead of focusing on what makes Hal Jordan an interesting character in the comics, they go for the old "I am in doubt about me, and I don't think I can do this job" trope. Instead of making Hector Hammond the central villain (who could have been a fantastic sympathetic villain), the film focuses on Parallax, who has been transformed into an strictly one-note villain in this story. Instead of making the protagonist a sympathetic character, they make him a jerk (note this: unlike for every other comic book power fantasy, here the nerd is the villain and the jock is the hero). The Guardians of the Universe are kind of jerks in the comics, and the GL's opinions many times clash with them. Here, the GL's blindly follow their commands no matter how ridiculous. And the film ignores the color yellow weakness.Plus, there are some problems with the film's visuals. The effects are pretty good for the most part. GL's suit is made of pure energy, so it makes sense for it to be made with CGI instead of clothes. But the problem is the central villain. For a villain who's supposed to be the personification of fear, he's really not scary. At all. He looks like the giant octopus from that awful Titanic animated movie that pretends no one died (yes, that movie exists, and it even has a sequel with that stupid octopus as protagonist). I understand what they were going for, but it just wasn't a good idea. For instance, the SFX makers claim they made Parallax look like a smoke cloud because having him spread around the buildings would bring people memories of 9/11 and the buildings crashing, which was scary... Am I the only one who thinks that's a really stupid reason? I mean, smoke is not scary by itself. Sure, 9/11 was terrible, but we're talking about the physical representation of fear here. It should be something primal, something elemental, not something that MIGHT remind some people of a particular situation that happened years ago and very few people witnessed personally.Also, and this is something that might sound strange, but the score... is not good. I mean, it's not just that you won't find yourself humming the GL theme (you probably won't, though), but the music just doesn't fit the action on the screen. Sometimes it's so terribly distracting that you will find your inmersion completely broken. Which is strange, because the composer is not bad. I don't know what happened here.So yeah, the film has problems, but... is it really bad? No, of course not. Generic is not bad. Plus, the important thing about the movie is that, well, it's fun. A lot of fun. Yeah, sometimes there are some misses and groan-inducing moments, specially when it comes to really tired cliches, but when the movie hits, it's always bullseye. The action scenes are exciting, every moment that happens outside the Earth is a treat, the comedy bits are really funny, and, I can't stress this enough, the actors do a great job with their parts. You can feel Carol's frustration at Hal's inmaturity. You can feel Hector's self-loathing and disdain for his father. You can see Hal's real feelings behind the ones he shows, and the movie does a good job of showcasing the constructs he creates under pressure. So yeah, while I wouldn't call it a great film, it's definitely an entertaining one, if you give it a chance.THE EXTENDED CUT:This cut is not much longer than the theatrical one, it only adds less than ten minutes of scenes, and a few of them are repeated in flashbacks later in the film (the theatrical version only shows the flashbacks), but some of them are quite important, and I fail to see why weren't they shown in theaters. We get mostly more scenes with Hal as a child, and some more time with his nephew, which adds to the characterization of both (even though later scenes with the nephew were removed from both cuts).But the most important scene shows Hal, Carol and Hector together as children with their parents. It already establishes their personalities and shows they were friends as kids, which is an important pillar in which the rest of the movie should stand. It's easier to understand Hector's grudge and Hal's life once you see it, yet for some reason it got removed. Go figure. In any case, the extended cut is the way to go. It's not much longer, but it's clearly the superior version.THE EXTRAS:Unlike the regular version, the Extended Cut comes with a few extras. There's a very interesting video that talks about Green Lantern's history in the comics which should be watched by anyone who's not familiar with the character before watching the film. There's a short one that shows the filming process and how Ryan Reynolds became Green Lantern, which is interesting as it shows how passionate the team and actors were about the project and the characters, but it's curious, since a lot of the things they rightfully praise did not make the transition into film, so I don't know who's to blame for this movie's problems.There's also an interactive feature-length extra which shows information alongside the film while its being played. A lot of interesting things are said and shown here, and it, again, shows the passion the cast and team had. There are also a bunch of deleted and extended scenes. Some are interesting, some not. Some you can easily see why they were cut, and some I'm puzzled as to why they did it. The last extra is a digital comic: the first issue of the New 52 JLA comic (for those not-in-the-know, this is the first issue of the reboot of the Justice League comic that occurred a couple of years ago). The art is great (Jim Lee is one of the best comic book artists), but I've read the story arc in its entirety, and I'm absolutely not a fan. They kinda really, really screwed up the characters. That being said, the first issue is the least damaging, and it has some funny dialogue, so I see no reason not to check it out.All in all, a good film held back by some poor decisions, but pretty entertaining nonetheless. The Blu Ray picture has fantastic visual and audio quality, so go for it.

I missed the chance to see this in theaters and finally got the chance to see it, and as a person not usually interested in Superhero movies, I find myself astonishingly blown away. This movie was a lot of things that I, as a writer, find highly effective in the portrayal of storylines within cinematic productions. Aspects such as the portrayal of characters, development of the storyline and overall lessons drawn from that storyline which just about anyone can relate to instances within their own lives are played out in such a manner that truly seems to fit the mold of what DC comics laid out so many years ago.As a die-hard Ryan Reynolds fan, I found his portrayal of Hal Jordan to be so well fine-tuned so that it was a refreshed version of the character portrayed in the comics, and above all else was the kind of character every person can relate to in one way or another. In seeing Reynolds' previous works from dramatic comedies like 'School of Life' and 'Chaos Theory' alongside action thrillers such as 'Blade Trinity' and 'Buried', he seems to have intermingled those past experiences together for a nice blend of humor and seriousness which is extremely hard for any actor to pull off. His character as a test pilot so high on life, mostly as a result of his father's tragic death, that he's almost been on the edge of death himself more times than the average person and hardly makes any notice of facing his own death, packs such a suckerpunch in the beginning of the movie. As the story unfolds, this arrogance that is so deeply instilled within his personality is revealed as being none other than the one personality trait he's nearly gotten himself killed over trying to avoid, that being fear itself. Once learning the meaning of the presence of such fear in his life, he comes to find a form of courage within himself much like the one his father possessed, which in turn changes his entire outlook on facing his enemies as the Green Lantern. One powerful aspect of Hal's character is how he manages the prospect of facing his own death, and that transition in facing death as an escape from fear to facing death for the sake of saving the lives of others."Don't risk anymore lives. Just mine."Similar to his portrayal of Paul Conroy in 'Buried', Reynolds nails this perception of death and its reasons right on the money, as it not only draws out the true capabilities of a single individual, but also conveys the value of life, whether it being your own or someone else's. I also liked how Reynolds was able to use his sharp wit and wisecracking sense of humor in a manner which seemed to do justice to the role of Hal Jordan. I also liked his chemistry with Blake Lively, and how she portrays the role of the love interest and the best friend at the same time. Despite Hal Jordan's unique qualities, his character is portrayed as being a person with whom anyone can relate to.Also, from my experience as a writer, I fully understand the reasons for the film being written and produced in the manner which it was done. The key element of writing a story is perspectives, and the two main perspectives in this story was to create a storyline based on the comic books in a more refreshed manner and at the same time convey all that into a storyline which is not so complex that nobody understands it. Overcomplexity within a cinematic production can have disastrous consequences, and there is no other film genre more susceptible to such failure than science fiction. It's a writing style which I greatly admore, and if they get a chance to make a sequel for this movie, I'll be first in line to see it.

This was a great movie to watch as a family movie worth my 12 year old son

Reviews are low but I like it. Rented it twice watched free three time. So, I got the DVD.

Good

The kids begged to watch it and were glued to the screen. They liked it.

Watching now and its great. Something to add to my collection of superheroes

Steelbook muy bonito y resistentes

Martin Campbell dopo La Maschera di Zorro e Casinò Royale ci ha deliziati con un avventura scorrevole e fantastica e visivamente accattivante, Lanterna Verde il film del 2011 tratto fedelmente dall'omonimo fumetto DC Comic fa prendere finalmente vita alle avventure di Hal Jordan!Da Fan DC non concordo assolutamente con chi ha criticato il film in questione che non si dimentica di essere una trasposizione da fumetto e soprattutto non dimentica il fumetto da cui è tratto. Poche variazioni ma necessarie in fase di scrittura della sceneggiatura. Visto il temperamento ribelle di Hal Jordan c'è anche una buona dose di commedia mentre lo stile drammatico viene ridotto al minimo indispensabile per farsi apprezzare da un pubblico più vasto e fare qualcosa di diverso dallo stile generalmente più adulto della DC Comics. Un film che ci regala un messaggio d'obbligo per tutti i film di Supereroi, trasformare la paura in coraggio, il coraggio in forza di volontà per non arrendersi mai all'oscurità e lo fa comunque nel modo con cui viene fatto nella versione cartacea.Cast tutto in parte a partire dal protagonista Ryan Reynolds, il3D garantisce una buona profondità, merito di riprese prospettiche decisamente riuscite, grandiosi effetti speciali e scenografie , il costume delle Lanterne Verdi ha dell'incredibile. Buona la fotografia e i colori. L'azione non mancherà di certo e ci regalerà un'avventura "Galattica" , l'intrattenimento sarà assicurato!Positivi i contenuti speciali, l'eccellente versione estesa in lingua originale con sottotitoli in italiano, concept art/design e making of e la scheda dei personaggi, tutto eccellente e consigliato soprattutto per il prezzo pienamente accessibile!

Wer ist Hal Jordan ? Hätte mir jemand vor einem halben Jahr diese Frage gestellt, hätte ich passen müssen. Ich kenne einen tollpatschigen Clark Kent, den selbstlosen Peter Parker, den selbstgefälligen und überheblichen Tony Stark und noch Bruce Wayne, für den Gerechtigkeit höchste Priorität hat. All diese Typen haben etwas gemeinsam - sie sind Superhelden. Die Geschichte des Hal Jordan war für mich völlig neu, aber deshalb nicht weniger unterhaltsam als die der "Platzhirsche" unter den Comicverfilmungen - im Gegenteil:================GREEN LANTERN================Die Story um den Piloten, der mit Hilfe eines Außerirdischen zum Superhelden wird und damit eine große Bürde zu tragen hat, überzeugte mich von der ersten bis zur letzten Minute. Wer sich auf Filme wie »Green Lantern« einlässt, sollte zum einen keine Abneigung gegen Comicverfilmungen oder Science Fiction Filme haben, zum anderen aber auch das rationale Denken für eine Spielfilmlänge abstellen können. Für mich war es mehr ein Science Fiction-Spektakel, als ein klassischer Comicfilm. Eine Superhelden-Figur á la Batman oder Spiderman wollte Martin Campbell hier sicher nicht präsentieren, was dem Genre etwas Abwechslung verleiht.Der Film ist gespickt mit Spezialeffekten, wirkt aber nicht überladen. Die CGI-Aliens sind meines Erachtens sehr gut gelungen. Diese bilden neben dem Hauptdarsteller überzeugende Charaktere. Auch die Schauplätze haben mir sehr gut gefallen. Ryan Reynolds, den ich seit 2004 aus dem Film "Foolproof" kenne, war nach meinem Geschmack eine erstklassige Wahl, die Figur der "grünen Leuchte" zu verkörpern. Als Kino-Youngster ist der Superheld allerdings noch grün hinter den Ohren. Man darf also auf die Fortsetzung gespannt sein.============STEELBOOK============Der grüne FSK-Hinweis passt zwar diesmal farblich gut zur Hülle, ist aber nur an einem Umleger befestigt. Das Steelbook ist ein absoluter Hingucker und verdient neben Iron Man 1+2, Fantastic Four 1+2, Batman Begins und Batman - The Dark Knight einen Ehrenplatz in der Sammlung (siehe Kundenbilder).=============BILD UND TON=============BILDFORMAT: 1080p HD 16:9 2.4:1MENÜ: Attraktiv, in sich schlüssig und auf das Nötigste beschränktSPRACHEN:Kinoversion: Deutsch | Französisch | Spanisch | Italienisch | Chinesisch - Dolby Digital 5.1 || DTS-HD Master Audio Englisch 5.1Extended Cut: Deutsch Dolby Digital 5.1 | DTS-HD Master Audio Englisch 5.1UNTERTITEL: Französisch | Spanisch | Schwedisch | Norwegisch | Dänisch | Isländisch | Finnisch | Griechisch | Holländisch | Chinesisch || Für Hörgeschädigte: Deutsch | Englisch und ItalienischLAUFZEIT (Extended Cut): ca. 123 MinutenDas Bild ist wirklich sehr gut - würde sagen knapp auf Augenhöhe mit Avatar. Kontrast, Konturen-, Detail- und Tiefenschärfe grandios, sehr guter Schwarzwert - volle Punktzahl. Obwohl hier leider mal wieder keine DTS-HD Tonspur in deutsch vorliegt, ist die Surroundkulisse wirklich respektabel ! Spaßfaktor 5/5 Punkte, Tonqualität 4,5|5 Punkte=========SPECIALS=========Maximum Movie Mode: Green Lanterns Licht | Fokus Punkte | Wie Green Lantern das Universum definiert | Ryan Reynolds wird zu Green Lantern | Nicht verwendete Szenen | Justice League Nr. 1 Digitaler Comic | Vorschau auf Green Lantern: The Animated Series======FAZIT======Auch wenn dieser Film nicht jedermanns Geschmack treffen kann, sollten wir uns darüber freuen, dass es nun eine neue Farbe in der "Superheldenlandschaft" gibt. Grün ist bekanntlich die Farbe der Hoffnung - warten wir also ab, wie sich die Fortsetzung nach all der Kritik präsentiert. Technisch gesehen, ist diese BD ein absoluter Leckerbissen. Kaufempfehlung für Sci-Fi / Fantasy Fans und Liebhaber von Spezialeffekten. Ach ja, Abspann anschauen :o)

tres bien le film