hell to the yes and if they ever make another mortal kombat movie I think ryan reynolds would make a good johnny cage

I'm not much of a Green Lantern fan, but I'll probably end up seeing this. Looks pretty cool

Looks really mediocre, to me.
The superhero movies coming up just don't look like a concept that's learned from ten years of successes and failures. Fingers crossed it works out for the best, but it really looks like it'll be a mixed bag that'll spend the pre-planned sequels tweaking.

Reynolds and Chris Evans would both make a good Cage.

That was NOT Hal Jordan.... Ryan is just playing Ryan....again... I was really hoping that he would have shown some range with this film...

On one hand, I like Ryan Reynolds, but on the other... I agree. That's nothing like Hal Jordan. Maybe, maybe Kyle Raynor or Guy Gardner, but not Hal.



I'll reserve judgment until I see it... but Ryan to me was always suited for Deadpool.

Looks exactly how I pictured it. To be honest thought it would be just actors portraying the characters. But the CGI matches and it looks to be like a lot of money was invested. CW8.

I like the guy too, I just think everyone involved is better than this. Ryan had a real opportunity to show his chops as an actor, but instead he's Van Wilder with a power ring. I'm not saying its gonna be a bad film, but I am saying if the tone of the film is entirely the tone of the trailer, it'll be a bad ADAPTATION. There's a difference between a bad movie and a bad adaptation.

If nothing else the effects looked great. And while I saw hints of what Hal SHOULD be in Reynolds, it looks like, as stated above, he's mostly gonna be a joking dick for most of the movie

No range? Are you kidding me? We see him be Mr. funny guy, then we see him nearly brought to tears witnessing a dying alien, and then we see him with his game face on as he flies across space. Seems like range to me.

If you don't like him as Hal that's fine, but he works for me. He pulls off the suave, confident, average joe Hal, and also the serious Green Lantern who has to dig deep to fight. Of course this is just based off the trailer and maybe I'm overly optimistic. Right now I'm more concerned about Carol Ferris. God is her line delivery wooden. I'm also worried that Sinestro will take a back seat to Hector Hammond as the main bad guy. I've never read anything with Hammond fighting GL. I've only seen him as a Hannibal Lector character who helps Hal behind bars.

I think a young Kurt Russel would have made a good Hal.

The trailer plays like he's Van Wilder with a power ring which about as far from Hal Jordan as you can get.

This film needs to be the superhero equivalent to Star Wars not Iron Man 1.5.

I still say this was a better "trailer" for Green Lantern, even though it was fan-made: Fan Trailer

Nah dude....

He was a really good Deadpool. Damn.

I was really hoping for someone that at least had acting skills that were more mature than their actual age for Hal. I even understand how they may be wanting to introduce him. I mean, I get it. But he's not the actor that fits what I expected from a Green Lantern film. He has a face for GL, he can act, but he's not the right guy for Hal Jordan. I would have accepted Ryan for Kyle Raynor (change his hair color to black).

That's about it... not Hal though.



Agreed 1000%.

I think the Reynolds factor is probably a bit easy to blow out of proportion.
This isn't the stern brooding of Batman, or the warm commanding of Superman we're talking about. Hal Jordan's got a bit of a carefree swagger about him, and for the era of his origin, maybe a bit of brash immaturity, too. Reynolds brings with him a very familiar version of that, which might not be 100% in line with versions from the comics, but it's not too far.

The trailer shows a moment of [Jordan] looking up at the stars, and I think that's a moment people should try to take note of. If there's more of that, there might be less to worry about. In that quite snippet [Reynolds] is calm, he's giving over to the character and material, and uncharacteristically endearing and maybe wide-eyed. There might be depth there that we just aren't seeing yet, because, as much as it might not represent the definitive aspects of the character, there's a big summer audience looking for a fun guy with superpowers.

The trailer doesn't feel like a movie coming in with the wisdom of ten years of successes that peaked with Iron Man and The Dark Knight in 2008, but it isn't quite the blackest night just yet. There might be a gleaming green light waiting to pop -- particularly as the film nears release with more polish (six months away).

Ryan is slowly growing out of his immaturity like on his new movie buried I believe hes not the joker he usually is.

Yah I think Reynolds is a good choice, because he has played serious parts before and Hal is a joke maker himself. In the comics he would make jokes as he was fighting. I think the movie will be better than Iron Man because it looks to follow a similiar formula but it has more action.

I concur. Nathan Fllion would have been fantastic.

That guardian/Hammond whoever it was looked like Murderface from Metalocalypse wearing a blue dress.

I have serious fears this thing's going to match Ghost Rider for pure, unmitigated cheesiness.

Here's an interesting article based on the trailer alone from the fine people at Cracked: Green Lantern movie looks familiar

For the most part I agree with the article that this movie takes a lot from other super hero films. To me that's o.k. This is a genre that works best when sticking to the formula. Guy is immature; discovers powers; unsure of self, and then becomes the hero at the end. If they stray to far from the formula it could be a disaster.

The other thing I didn't like about this article is that it assumes that the movie is blatantly ripping off other origins. The origin in this movie is exactly the same as the comics and that is how me and many other fans want it. I also think its dumb how they bitch about Hector Hammond being a rip off of Justin Hammer. We don't know if he will be the main villain or not and they have more differences than commonalities. The Shark would make for a cool fight but there isn't much depth to the character. I bet if this trailer showed Sinestro as the main villain they would probably say he is a rip of Ras Al Ghul from Batman Begins. I also hate how they bitch about GL flying. How can you make a Green Lantern film without him flying? Then they claim that the shot of him talking to Abin Sur is a copy of a scene from Superman, becasue it is an over the shoulder shot. Bull shit. Film making 101 says back and forth dialogue is best for an over the shoulder shot so it is very appropriate.

The one thing I will agree with is the green smoke and font is a clear rip from the Dark Knight. But this is trailer so who gives a shit.

So I went to go see Harry Potter yesterday. They had the Green Lantern trailer in it. I flipped the fuck out when I saw it. Green Lantern looks amazing!

The Batfilms have NEVER stuck to formula ( I'm including burton's fims. ) and arguably the most successful superhero films to date. (Sans Joel Shumacher that is.) Nolan's films broke the mold by injecting a superhero into a crime drama. They should have continued this trend by injecting a proper superhero into star wars-esq Sci-Fi. I expected more from the Warner and the director of Casino Royale.

That's not really true, at all. All of the Batman movies, Nolan's included, have succumbed to formulaic elements that don't directly correlate with the comics. The 1989 Batman is incredibly conventional, and they're all guilty of sentimentality that has never been, or is rarely, a part of the comics they reference. Invented hero/villain histories and romantic interests are bog standard formulas that have played heavily in versions of the movies without great precedent. Batman Begins did it very well, but it's still a First Act origin with a Third Act reversal, and a love interest/human influence that's never been there before.

The Cracked article has some points to make, but at the end of the day, it's all very general. There's going to be a certain amount of overlap that's inherent to the material, and there's nothing especially wrong with that. Superheroes are a constantly iterating, derivative concept and have arguably been just that since 1938, when Superman set the defining standard for a superhero versus the pulp mystery men that pre-date them.

In the small pantheon of classic superhero origins, Green Lantern's is actually one that's stood out over the years as an archetype, often imitated.

- Superman gave us aliens landing from above.
- Batman gave us vengeance, guilt, and dead loved ones.
- Flash was struck by a bolt of lightning, an act of fate.
- Green Lantern gave us a dying alien's gift, an act of influence.

So in terms of dressing, GL at least has that much going for him.
Power ring constructs and an alien army of similarly conceived characters is also going to ensure there's at least a strong vein of individuality to the Green Lantern film and developing franchise. This stuff has rarely been duplicated in comics, and is even less likely to be copied by movies, you'd have to think. Dressing and gimmicks is what's given us thousands upon thousands of these superheroes, and that's fair enough.

Whether or not they live up to the full potential of the material is probably another matter, but at this point I think calling it unoriginal is the criticism that'll hold the least water.

Your right. Batfilms haven't. But that is a bigger pop culture character that the general public knows and loves. To the general public Green Lantern isn't that big and they probably think he is odd. "This guys green, he wears a glowing ring, something about a lantern, and he's hanging out with aliens. What is going on here? I'm not sure if I'm down with this." So sticking with a formula that slowly introduces the character may be the best approach so they don't push away audiences. As far as Nolan goes he's damn good and he can stray. I'm not sure if Cambell is that good. I love Casino Royale and thats about it. I like this formula they just need to bring their own traits to it to make it different and still good.

We also only seen the trailer and not the whole film. So who knows how much is in space. Personally I would like it to be half on Earth half in Space. (Just me). However, I'm really impressed with how many chances WB is taken. I'm surprised they included OA, Tu Mar, Kilowog, and Sinestro all of which looking faithful to their comic book counter parts.