re: The Green Lantern - Why did you dislike it?

sarsgaard screams like a woman the whole movie. it gets tiring.

I was more interested in the GL planet than any conflict he had with Saarsgard

I thought it was just about average and I really hated the villain. It should have been something smaller and the battle should've been away from earth.

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does it fall off in the 2nd half or something?

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Yes. I liked it up to a point then it was just turrible.

I turned it on at the end of the movie and it was the most pitiful piece of shite I had seen in a while. The CGI was bad. The acting was garbage. I thought it was a joke. My buddy told me the whole movie was like that so I have never watched it.

he only saves his gf, doestn go around the universe or even the world. its also kinda cheesy, like no one is amazed he does all this stuff, they jsut kina believe it

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-Not an accurate characterization of Hal Jordan (although Renyolds was capable of doing so)

too much standardized comic movie-not enough to make it unique, structured to similarly to Marvel movies.

- not enough on GLC, and Sinestro in particular.
- too much green screen, would have been better off using real locations for other worlds
-brought the story back to earth to have run of the mill battle, story should have been away from earth.
-the CGI mask.
-the tone of the movie was trying to capture Iron Man 1 and failed.
-a big giant cloud was a big bad,
-Hector Hammond isn't a "head to head" (no pun) villain with Jordan, it's very much a chess match.
-Sinestro "arc" has no conflict.
-Carol Ferris was miscast
-the ring didn't speak
-This was one movie when inner monologuing by the protagonist would have benefited the film.
-The didn't flesh out the universe and The Guardians role well enough-should have started there.
-Abin Sur should have been a bigger part of the movie.

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Agree with all of this.

I liked casting Reynolds as Hal Jordan. I just think they completely missed the mark. You just cant do a half origin/ half action formulaic movie about the Green Lantern Corps or you'll get exactly what you got. The movie was very disjointed, the villain was not menacing, and the ending was meh.

I don't know anything about the comic book or Hal Jordan. But I know nothing about any comic books and besides Fantastic 4 II, this was the worst super hero movie I have ever seen. And I could tell how horrible it was going to be from the trailer.

#1. No one else has brought this up, so I'm probably on my own here...I remember GL being black. Why not cast a black superhero? I'm not a hippie liberal with a diversity agenda but I think the studio missed it big time on this one by not casting a black person as GL. Will Smith would have been huge, not sure if they could have pulled that one.

#2 And speaking of casting Ryan Reynolds, I didn't want to see GL as Ryan Reynolds. I wanted to see Green Lantern. As I said, I knew nothing going in about the superhero, and I still know nothing, because I got the dick showing game guy from Waiting for 2 hours in a CGI costume instead.

#3 As if the casting issues weren't bad enough, the story was stupid. A couple of lost astronauts allow the biggest threat to the universe to escape simply by being there? WHAT? And that dumb-assed premise sets you up for the entire movie.

#4 I hate making intagible arguments, but this movie just had no soul. I wasn't invested in any of the characters. The villain was a yawn, the movie was just meh. It's like they just didn't try very hard. I think a lot of movies do this. They have to realize at some point how shitty the movie is. Pixar had to completely rewrite Toy Story because the first one made Woody look like a total douche. Sometimes you just have to go back to the drawing board. I find it hard to believe that the writers were really pleased with this movie and didn't just say "that's good enough. We'll just CGI the frick out of it and cast some young hotties and everyone will love it."

When the main villain is a giant turd in space, you are doing it wrong