Audio Reviews - Green Lantern - Audio Review

A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.

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  August 29, 2012 at 7:54 PM, said ...

  Pros: Reynolds is decent in the film, but i liked Sarsgaard as Hammond. Great FX and Mark strong and Geoffrey Rush as Tomar Re

  Cons: Bad writing, the director didn't even seemed to care, and worst editing ever, the editor should be punched in the face for this.

• August 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, said ...

  Fairly new to dis site and all but listen to some old Lets do this on youtube and They were talking about how the 3rd Spider-man movie was Shit and most people dont see it because such fans of Spider-man that dont want to admit it.  Well Co-Host so much of a fan Green Lantern he is blind to see this was Some ol' BullShit the very most Rental if you want to see something as corny comicbook movie since as The Losers and Ghost Rider.

  
  
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  July 28, 2011 at 3:33 PM, said ...

  For those of you who didn't see the movie, or didn't stay after the credits started rolling, there's a bonus scene in which Sinestro puts on the yellow fear-powered ring and suddenly turns yellow and evil. This is a frustrating scene, as various others have pointed out, for a few reasons:

  1) It flies in the face of everything we've learned about Sinestro up until this point, and since Sinestro was the best character in the film, it seems to throw away a lot of what had previously worked.

  2) The whole conclusion to the film was about Sinestro realizing that tapping the power of fear was a bad idea, and Hal Jordan proving that the fear ring wasn't needed to defeat Parallax

  3) There's absolutely no drama or suspense in it — it's just kind of another random thing that happens.

• July 28, 2011 at 8:56 AM, said ...

  @James, are you nuts?? We actually care about the characters in Thor. In Green Lantern...??? FUCK EVERYBODY IN THAT FILM!!! When that film ended I didn't care what happened to anyone afterwards. Seriously...

  
  
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  July 27, 2011 at 10:24 AM, James Davis said ...

  Im not saying this movie was an amazing movie, but how is Thor better besides having Anthony Hopkins? Green Lantern itself was action packed, the powers were cool, inventive and match the randomness of imagination. The visuals looked colorful, fun, and amazing; not everything has to be to grim and gritty. Lots of cheese, but was never bored through the movie. To try to challenge the thoughts Thor was better, let me state... comparing cheese factor, how bad is it when a group of Norse Gods meet in the diner and shoot the shit? Or Natalie Portman turning into a horny schoolgirl ogling Thor's pecks and a romance that was never believable or made sense. Thor turning from being arrogant to humble was completely not believeable... how is that better besides Anthony Hopkin's performance? Just call it Odin. The enemy was a straight rip off from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" a quest unoriginally reminiscent of King Arthur, Thor proving he deserves his hammer. And talking about budget, Green Lantern had lots of 3d. Characters, environments, very inventive and interesting. Thor had a still 3d vista environment as a backdrop and a desert for the most part. with some techy rooms and a couple Asgard sets. Thor had more emotion, lacked in everything else;

• July 10, 2011 at 2:35 PM, said ...

  I won't see this film because it just looks silly BUT I do give WB Credit for planning on continuing this series with a planned sequel regardless of what critics or box office says,

   

  -Greg

  
  
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  June 23, 2011 at 1:42 AM, said ...

  Well they were way more lenient than I was with this film.

   

  IMHO, it was some ol' bullshit!

• June 22, 2011 at 9:46 PM, said ...

  just saw this joint....only thing bad it had going for it was it's superhero movie predecessor ......Dark KNight, Thor and Iron Man were just too good. If it were'nt for those movies being out and them being the "standard" of what a superhero "must"..Green Lantern would have been billion star movie. With that said i thought the movie was damn dope. i'll be getting this on them dvd's and blu ray rays

  
  
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  June 22, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Mark Hazleton Jr. said ...

  AND this is around the only part of the movie that I had hope left for it (flying around Oa...and it did have that Summer movie vibe to it...and then.....KaBOOOOOOM it was all destroyed in the next hour).

• June 22, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Mark Hazleton Jr. said ...

  This is one of them...and its not even that good (sadly one of the better ones).

  
  
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  June 22, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Mark Hazleton Jr. said ...

  Also...I gotta agree on the score, it was pretty damn lame. ALTHOUGH I did love 2 tracks from it (had to find them on YouTube)..."Welcome to Oa" and "We're Going to Fly Now".

  Those 2  had that Summer sci-fi feeling to it. Other than that...it just went downhill.

• June 22, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Mark Hazleton Jr. said ...

  While I did enjoy some parts of it...MAN did this movie suck!!!

  Even right away it felt like a comedy when after all that space action...it doesnt even have a flyover of a city or building or ANYTHING...it just cuts away to Ryan Reynolds w/ some stupid teen music playing and him acting like his romantic comedies.

  In other words...WORST EDITING OF THE YEAR. God....how could they be that clumsy with editing? Throughout the film. The action wasnt great (actually kinda sucked), the Green Lantern Corps was pretty cool..sure...for the few minutes they were shown lol. You guys are right though, this is SUCH a cock tease. wow.

  As much as I didn't even hate the movie...and I want to give it something more, yet something less at the same time...ill be fair and say Rental (im surprised im even saying that...it was pretty bad).

  
  
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  June 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, said ...

  i thought it was ok, id definitely watch the sequel though.

• June 22, 2011 at 1:27 AM, SonicRulez said ...

  It's just so much like WE know Sinestro has to become evil and put on the yellow ring. THEY know Sinestro has to become evil and put on the yellow ring. So why do they not at all explain any of this? The plot progression is so lazy:

   

  Guardians: One of us used Yellow and became Parallax...who killed your bestfriend and is gonna kill us.

  Sinestro: I can save us. What if WE use Yellow. Um...if you're red then Fear works with you.

  Guaridans: Fair.

  *Yellow ring is crafted*

  *Hal kills Parallax before it's used*

  Sinestro: I guess we don't have to resort to fear. Now I can go back to being a great Green Lantern of justice!

  *camera still rolling*

  Sinestro: But....but I don't want to. No, you can't make me, it'll make no sense. I've never done anything remotely villainous. I picked on Hal a bit, but surely.....really? Fine.

  */fear*

   

  So yeah, screw that. They should've done some other GL villain or whoever granted I don't know any other villains really. As for the constructs...I dunno. I agree with Cyrus, the more complicated he does it, the stronger he is. He has to make it a racecar with an engine for no reason instead of just a wall. He has to use a chainsaw instead of a gun. I think as far as Co-Host's creativity I feel like when you have a helicopter coming at you only like 5 feet away he just had to think of the first thing to come to his mind. You, sitting in the theater just watching probably had time to think of a bunch of better ways to do it.

  
  
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  June 21, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Paradox said ...

  I think all together it's an ok film.  I believe with better editing it would have been a lot better.  It has several moments where things will happen that wont really add up, but not enough to ruin it.  The cg wasn't a problem, but it was come and go with the quality.  More importantly Blake Lively's ass is amazing.  Even more important than that is Angela Bassett is still hot.

• June 21, 2011 at 10:53 PM, said ...

   

  @BadAss Knives: Thanks. That actually helps at least a little. P :)

   

   

  
  
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  June 21, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Vyndicate said ...

  I'm still on the fence about seeing this.... I'm a huge GL fan.

• June 21, 2011 at 2:30 AM, the_curator said ...

  It was okay. I wanted to see more of the other green lanterns!

  
  
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  June 20, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Julien Howard Hemmendinger said ...

• June 20, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Jon Garlinge said ...

  My expectations for this film were left at home as i thought it might suck just because the trailers were pretty duff. However, i did think it was slightly enjoyable it never really excited me at any point. The movie seemed rushed as though the director was in a hurry for the hero to take centre sstage and once there was in even more of a hurry to have him leave. There was very little action and what action there was, was over before you knew it and lacked any really bite. I mean this all powerful entity reaches earth only to encounter a flying fuel tanker and enjoy a suntan. What should have been an exciting battle for the earth turned out to be a limp D!(?. I also have to agree with Amil, there were parts of the movie that seemed to have been cut out as you seemed to go from one scene to another that was totally out of sync. An example of this was when Hal and is girl were onto of the air-control tower, you went from a caring conversation to them suddenly floating down to her office with her starting another totally out of sync conversation and walking off crying?? I mean what happened to set that dialogue off? In terms of scoring, i would give this a low rental and just pray that if they make a sequel which they no doubt will, it is done differently and much better than this. As for Ryan Reynolds, he did his best with what he was given and i think he did it really well, when they do do a sequel i hope he continues in the role as Latern.

  
  
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  June 20, 2011 at 5:46 AM, max maushardt said ...

  Maybe its because my expectations where so low, but I liked it.

• June 20, 2011 at 3:16 AM, said ...

  This movie turned out to be worse than Power Rangers

  
  
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  June 20, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Treea Cullen said ...

  I agree with pretty much everything you guys are saying! But I did really enjoy this movie. The only person or should I say character that I think did not fit was Carol Ferris played by Blake Lively. It just seems like they tried to force the romance angle with Hal and Carol. And some of the scenes did seem like they were cut out because twice I was confused by some of Carol's reactions! But other than that, I give this movie a really high matinee! Which would be like 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

• June 20, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Orlando Howard said ...

  @Amil Don't be sorry, it's just your opinion.

  
  
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  June 20, 2011 at 12:08 AM, said ...

   

  Okay, so I just got back home from seeing this film, and I'd really hate to say this. I was so looking forward to seeing this film, hoping that I would actually enjoy it, but I still have to be honest about my overall opinion on it. I regret that I must give Green Lantern a * * 1/2 star rating (out of 4 stars). First of all, I did in fact appreciate what Martin Campbell tried to do with the film, but it was unfortunately as though he were for some reason purposefully trying to cut himself off. I kind of repeating what the Spill crew said about this film by saying this, but they were right. The were several cliches that in my opinion just did not quite work for this particular movie. There were moments for example when Hal first spoke to Dr. Hammond. I really felt like Martin pretty much chucked that conversation out the window and never looked back, and he did that too little too often for my taste throughout the course of the story. The only real reason in fact why this movie gets the extra * 1/2 rating (in addition to the * rating) is because of the CGI and the 3D. I actually appreciated and enjoyed watching both. So, in the end, it was the overall story or lack there of that really got to me and not in a good way unfortunately. I know he would never go for it, but perhaps this film might have been a little better if say Christopher Nolan or perhaps even Jon Favreau had directed it. I do apology to the people who actually enjoyed this film, but once again, I'm sorry to have to say that I just couldn't enjoy as much as the GL film lovers did. Sorry. :(

   

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