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  • I thought it was OK. I was surprised it got such low reviews.

  • I never thought that Green Lantern would do well on the big screen because there is to much silly stuff in the comics. I think this is the best Green Lantern movie they could of made, the reason I think people hate it so much is because it doesn't do anything special or awesome, but I liked it for what it was.

    PS: If you went to go see Green Lantern thinking it was going to be like dark knight your a dumb ass

  • @BritishGamingNews It sucked because of bad dialogue, shitty fx, a poor villain and poor story pacing. Yeah, don't defend it by simplifying the criticism.

  • the movie wasnt all that sooo a little alcohal required

  • I liked Green Lantern

  • you're to nice, this movie sucked

  • awful movie

  • this movie was hor-ri-ble

  • I thought it was good.

  • I'll admit...it was pretty boring; Oa, the other lanterns, the whole training, that was fun. I didn't care for Hector Hammond in the movie, and I really don't know much about him I mean I only read his bit in "No Fear". It was "okay".

  • I means comics

  • I liked Ryan in the movie but according to the comments he isn't a good Green Lantern.

  • green lantern was by far the most boring film of 2011 how can you say ghost rider was worst than the green lantern, the green lantern was a text book hero film he starts of stupid doesn't know what he is doing and then he saves the girl. ghost rider had action and was something different ghost rider should get at least 3.5/5 and green lantern 2/5

  • finally someone who thinks it was pretty good

  • They aren't like the Jedi. The Green Lantern Corps came first.

    They changed alot with Green Lantern. Parallax was not a guardian who was poisoned by fear. Ryan Reynolds had the aspects to play Hal Jordan but not the look. Or even the voice as superheroes I think should have pretty strong voices. Ryan Reynolds is like he's high all the time. The costumes and rings and their lanterns should have looked more like the comics. Hal wore white gloves and the green in the costume was way to bright.

  • im a huge green lantern fan and it was an ok movie. it just seemed like they crammed a lot of information in this "origin" movie so it sets up for the sequel which will be EPIC!

  • Actually quite entertaining.. I liked the little scene in the credits.. I hope they follow up on that

  • gonna watch it right now.. let's see if it's that bad or ok

  • lol its true about what he said about megan fox

  • This was the worst movie i saw in 2011.

  • @henrik6754 Are you sure? I thought it was good.

  • @henrik6754 clearly you did not see twilight

  • @BoyNamedSue4 Why would i even want to watch Twillight?

  • @henrik6754 fair point. my GF drug me to it

  • @henrik6754 Im geussing you didnt see breaking dawn,season of the witch,new years eve,priest,or jack and jill...

  • They should just make a REALLY good sequel. Directed by Zack Snyder (after superman)

  • i loved it and can't wait for the second movie. 3-4

  • lol your version of parralax looks bette rthan the movies version m8. hahaha

  • Why was this movie bad? Because that was not Hal Jordan. It was Kyle, and the entire movie they were trying to convince us it was Hal, but it was so Kyle.

  • it was a good movie!

  • i thought the film was acceptable overall when you think that there so much plot and backstory to all of it that they really didnt have time, i can understand that they'd want to get the ground work for paralax done quickly so the next film can be awesome blackest night related stuff, but they should have had a minor villain and focus more on the set up of characters etc. 

  • man green lantern SUUUUUCKED! you're right about the pacing issues i fell asleep watching it. THE STORY WAS WRONG TO BEGIN WITH THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE SINESTRO THE MAIN VILLAIN. GOD I HATE THE GIANT HEAD GUY VILLAIN LIKE YOU SAID HE WAS POINTLESS VILLAIN

  • @VicmelEpres If you waited a bit, you would see Sinestro turning villain a bit after the end.

  • @alexman378 yeah i did see that too bad the movie was so bad that there wont be a sequel

  • @VicmelEpres Are you kidding? Twilight got 5 movies each one worse than the previous, and are planning to go further after it is done. Green Lantern compared to Twilight is an Oscar winner.

  • @alexman378 i read somewhere that they werent going to make a sequel i dunno i could be wrong its just the big forehead guy really annoyed me i mean what the hell was he doing there anyway the movie didnt show at the beginning that hall jordan and the forehead guy knew each other the movie had some BIG continuity issues there was no flow and the climax was lame he destroyed paralax so quick

  • @alexman378 now about twilight you got me i dunno how the hell did that have 5 movies i guess the teen market is big

  • I actually liked this movie. :/

  • Paralax is like the guy from Fantastic 4... which makes it bad...

  • By the way, history lesson for you. Even IF they made a movie with John Stewart, it'd be impossible without including Hal Jordan because Hal Jordan chose him to be his fill-in or whatever when he couldn't fulfill his duties. Stop basing it on the Justice League Cartoon. I like Hal more anyway. But if we wanna be MORE accurate, even Hal was not THE first Green Lantern. The first one's ring was magic not alien tech (from what I know) and he wasn't a galactic cop. Can't remember his name.

  • @118Voyager Alan Scott, plus I hated this film.

  • @118Voyager You mean Alan Scott?

  • I liked it.

  • 1:16 it looks like happy shit

  • i didnt really like this movie.. it was all alittle too fast.. the training, the action, the climax.... defenetly will see the next one tho.

  • I liked the Green Lantern from the Justice League animated series

  • @ReeferInferno yea the black guy, john stewart but the original green lantern is white so thats why they rolled with that in the movie.........................­....................

  • To be honest, I actually didn't think it was that bad.

  • I watched this film and Thor on the same night, and noticed how similar they were. Mythical beings (Asgardians/Green Lanterns and Guardians) on a planet/realm (Asgard/Os) facing an ancient evil (Frost Giants/Parallax) and a traitor among the ranks (Loki/Hammond). A charm that granted power to the worthiest hero to be found. I think I liked Thor a little better because it's concise and Loki was interesting. The most impressive aspect of Green Lantern was the makeup effects for Sinestro.

  • Haha!! Very nice intro with the green

  • They kinda tried to cramp a trilogy into one movie. They should have easily made a trilogy with the villians they had.

    Part 1: Hector Hammond with also introducing Sinestro and then the end credits scene could have made a lot more sense.

    Part 2: Rise of the Sinestro Corps obviously this would be a perfect prequel for Parralax the entity of fear.

    part 3: Parralax

    I know DC wants to start their set up for JLA, but for someoene as Green Lantern they should have taken their time.

  • no ch'p! this movie failed me!

  • The best thing I can tell you is that the Hal Jordan Green Lantern is like the Captain America of DC Universe as far as his personality goes. Ryan Reynolds being the cocky douchebag he always is does not fit the Green Lantern. If anything, he should have been The Flash. The movie is majority CGI and I can't stand it.

  • I agree. What it needed was for him to Fight a little crime. Like a robber

  • The villain was really lame. The doctor wasn't too bad, and Paralax was rather threatening, but once the final showdown started, he lost a lot of his scaryness and was defeated in a way that any of the other Greenlanterns could have done, but there was no push to demonstrate that Hal was more capable of thinking it up or anything.

    Plus, why would they make a yellow ring? They had already established that the GUARDIANS couldn't control it, and so they're going to have one of the lanterns try?

  • I just think it was SO boring! Mostly because they spend so little time with the green lanterns, there is like 1 minute of hal training, and their on oa for like 5 minutes! seriously!

  • I thought it was one of the worst movies of the year (and that is saying a lot). Personally I think the critics were to soft on the movie

    The writing was horrible the dialogue was cheesy,

    The GLs had a huge planet planet with large cool looking buildings and where do they have their meetings on a rock,

    In the opening when they were telling the history of the GLC they just showed space, yeah it's not like it's a visual medium

    They literaly made 5 minutes of the movie into a hot wheels comercial

  • i liked the movie but the 3d was shit

  • Better than that predictable Capt America shit.

  • I just finished watching this movie, I didn't like it. I wanted to, but I just couldn't. What bothered me the most was the storytelling, it was just so awfully done and brought on in very little amounts. It's like the most important part of a movie was sacrificed for the sake of special effects, which were some of the best I've ever seen I'll give it that.

  • I loved green lantern since I was a kid but I liked the black one jon stewart was a n absulute badass

  • black green lantern FTW

  • @HrishiKod str8 up

  • this is the only movie review that i disagree with u. This movie deserves dog shit. NO offense or anything

  • @edrees500 i'd say Watch it if I were drunk because of the TERRIBLE SPEACIAL EFFECTS.

  • meh it so boring..

    most boring superhero move

  • I thought it was very inspirational

  • The main guy looks hot :p

  • wait ? i thought jeremy only calls her sandwiches 

  • @darthvenom305671 no he only calls her sammiches.

  • @ShiningZenith sammiches sandwiches ! what's the diff megan fox still can't act for shit ! she is fucking hot though ! i'll give her that !

  • the movie was pretty good. ryan reynolds didn't make it any worse ;)

  • Not every superhero movie has to be dark and gritty. My only problem was the crappy CG on the aliens.

  • plot holes, dialogs that are retarded, characters that didnt have to be there, evil force guy that i didnt give a shit about. but its alright.

  • I just lost it when I saw his approximation of Parallax. XD

  • the rollercouster is pretty cool

  • What I didn't like was how it honestly didn't feel like it was building up to anything. At least for me. Defeating Parralax was sweet but it didn't really feel like a payoff for some reason.

  • no sir, not the jedi

  • I thought the movie was great. It had a perfect pace it wasnt drug out with too much back story of the other characters. I thought the movie showed enough of the characters to be remembered.

  • Absolutely hated the movie. How Parallax died was a massive plot hole for me (why the hell didn't anyone try that before?) and almost none of the characters really did anything except for Hal. Sinestro's character didn't develop at all during the movie (it's a bit hard to when you're barely on screen) so that's probably going to hurt the sequel, if they make one and one with Sinestro as the antagonist.

  • Is "The Green Lantern" REALLY that bad? I typically share the same views with critics considering I'm very anal about the kind of films that I like. As long as the plot/direction/characters/scri­pt is decent, to me, the film is sufficient enough. Heard the 3D was abysmal.

  • Should have bee more stuff on Oa. And more Sinestro.

  • I love how they flash back to how his father died literally 5 minutes after we see it happen. Fucking terrible movie.

  • I agree Green Lantern wasn't bad but it wasn't very good too. It was predictable, too CGI dependent and the plot along with the editing was so poor that it was a shame. But at the end the it was okay (his suit looked way better than in the trailer) and I had a fun time watching it.

  • "she's so hot it's like stupid" lol hahahaha

  • This movie was bad. Sorry. One of the worst videos in 2011 in my opinion. I would start to point out, that I do not know any Green Lantern lore other then Justice League.

    My biggest problem with this movie was Ryan Reynolds. He's an annoying douche, even though he's supposed to do it, I disliked this so much it ruined most of the movie. I'd like to have seen more from the Green Lantern universe rather than him having fun with it.

    Bad movie.

  • I'd totally geek out if you reviewed the DC animated Green Lantern : First Flight. It's amazing and I wish the real movie had been more like it. It spends more time on OA and more time on Sinestro and why he turns evil. The animation is amazing, even Aeon Fluxian in some parts, which is crazy fantastic to see that associated with Green lantern.

  • @ignominni Think about it. This was an origins movie. The second movie will show sinestro doing his evil thing. After the credits of the first movie had him put the yellow ring on, so we know he will be doing something evil in the next movie. You have to understand this movie was an origins on green lantern. I don't know if you have noticed but in this movie it did explain why he turned evil, he turned evil so he could have more power to defend the core. Just like the yellow blob guy.

  • @XxDeapAbyss I did think about it. That's all you can do while watching a boring movie. You explain why Sinestro turns evil better than the movie. He turns evil for deeply personal and I suspect very kinky/homo-erotic reasons (my opinion), but the movie does not adequately explain. Doing so as an easter egg with the credits wasn't right either and Sinestro never says. He just has this stimulated look on his face. He likes that Golden Sh...Power. I'd rather spend 8 dollars at a bat

  • Didn't like it - Han was dick in this,in comics he take chances and all that, he smashed airplane, he's hotheaded, but he's a good guy, with moral of Superman or Batman - here he forgets birthdays, put other pilot in risk, fly home after first failure on Oa...) Blake Lively... Oh my God, she is bad in this movie. I haven't seen her in anything else, so I can't tell if she's good actress, but she is baad in this... CGI reminded me of SW prequels, didn't like it. Villains meh...

  • I personally liked this movie, it followed the source material mostly, and Hal Jordan was an egotistical douchebag and Ryan Reynolds can play an egotistical douchebag really well, no offense to Mr. Reynolds, all in all, it was good for me and the critics spent way to much time comparing it to the Batman movies, well most of them

  • @Lonewolfjedi eh i think hal jordan is a little less douchebaggy xD

  • @Lonewolfjedi Not quite. Siniestro in the comics was really important to Hal Jordan while in here he appears for like 10 minutes overall, he also becomes evil for nothing. Not to mention Parallax in the comics is not a flart with a face and they skipped when he turned Hal Jordan insane.

  • @Mazmorrero2 Agreed, Sinestro could have had more screen time and Parallax was more than a big yellow fart in space

  • @Lonewolfjedi

    I didn't like it. To me, it seemed like nothing more than a light and sound show with underdeveloped characters and plotholes I could drive a semi through.

    As for basic execution of the movie, it was like twilight. Great cast, but sometimes even a great cast can't save a shitty plot.

  • @Lonewolfjedi dude it was terrible, the FX were shoddy, most of the acting was bad, and the villian was just plain awful

  • @Lonewolfjedi It followed the source material but didn't take advantage of it. The Hal/Sinestro dynamic is one of the best villain/hero relationships in comics and they had MAYBE 10 minutes of screen time together. SInestro turned evil for basically no reason and they spent like 15 minutes on Oa

  • I don't get why all the Marvel fans are hating this one.. I mean I thought the movie was good. I mean it was in no way shape or form memorable, compelling and overall great; but for what it was, (popcorn entertainment) I found it entertaining

  • @nilsen93 What does that have to do with Marvel? Green Lantern is DC. BUT! I did like the movie. It's wasn't the best thing out there but it was cool.

  • hey if u are signed for a trilogy have a deffianant sequal again and your the DC after the dark knight go ahead you can totally make just that one last/only fight it will make the sequal look like Dark Knight to Batman begins

  • I never got to see Green lanturn. It was too late before I could. I felt cheated.

  • So Jeremy means: it's ok, but he won't remember it.

  • this is not marvel k

  • i saw it and i liked it

  • The movie sucked

  • this movie sucked,

  • Am I the only one who thinks First Flight would've been a ten times better live action Green Lantern film than this travesty? It really disappoints me that DC can create awesome animated direct-to-dvd movies, but when it comes to Live Action, they constantly drop the ball. I don't get it. I mean, if that's the way it's gunna be then screw making the animated D2DVDs, just use the exact same storyboard, and tweak the script to fit a live action film, and there you go, instant success!

  • @lilblkboi Ok if you think first flight was a good dc animated movie then you know nothing about green lantern. The story in the animated has almost nothing to do with the green lantern origin and does follow any origin thats been thought of by writers. Alright so go actually read a god damn comic book before you just make assumptions.

  • @StayxXxEdge I'm not making assumptions. Just how a chef doesn't have to follow a recipe to make a great dish, a movie doesn't have to follow comic book lore to be a good movie. First Flight was a good movie.

  • he was funny, he was cool, he was human, he was sarcastic. hahaha. yeah isn't the hal jordan supposed to be of a darker skin tone. Hollywood... tsk tsk tsk. have u ever kept an original idea original?

  • @hawkeye1018 You are thinking of John Steward.

  • @MrThedorkknight You are thinking of John Stewart

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  • Theres was nothing special about this movie at all. It's so painfully average it's just another superhero movie, nothing new, same formula, it sucked. Captain America was the best superhero movie of the summer.

  • fuck no rian renalds sucks as hal jorden

  • is a lot better then superman returns

  • so GL can make kypenit to kill superman

  • this movie was alright it had a few mommonts that just made me

    feel like a ( am i watching a superhero movie or a comady )

    but the movie its self was great! 3/5

  • i didn't like the movie

  • green lantern was great, great movie. it's all about facin your fears. 4.5-5

  • yah i really liked this movie. alot <3

  • Clancy Brown as Paralax just friggin awesome.

    Shame he doesn't get enough credit, his voice was teh awesum.

  • my main complaint was how under developed the characters were and they left out that Sinestro is the epitemy of evil and corruption and that he is GL's Lex Luthor...other than that i had a good time watching it

  • @ecwfanatic93 its a origin movie, he was his mentor. and after creditd he gets a yellow ring and becomes sinestro sinestro

  • Parallax should have been a giant pointy Demon, who should have looked like Cho'Gath from League of legends crossed with a piranha and a cockroach. Instead, he looked like a giant turd :( I enjoyed the movie and thought it was good, but the standard has been set so high with movies like Thor and Cap, that the movie simply wasn't good enough!

  • I actually liked this better than Thor

  • I agree 100% Jeremy

  • Great effects, good dialog, terrible side characters ....I was rooting for the big-head-professor toward his characters end though .....that ...is the mark of a failed movie .....do not make me think that if the villian could get laid the world would be safe but they're all too busy being badly treated by dooch-bags ...1.5 / 5.

  • You know what bothers me is that Geoff Johns was supervising the film, and why on earth would he let them destroy and trivialize his work?

  • The story ruined this for me. They have years of comic book stories that are amazing and this is the result? I'm sorry but what the fuck did they do to parallax. He was meant to be trapped in the green lantern power battery for years and is the living embodiment of fear eventually being released by accident and destroying the corps. They ignored all of this and just made him a tentacle monster thing joined to a guardian at the start? wtf? It was a good film but it could have been a lot better.

  • I think the brief scene with the Green Lantern wasp is a wink to the Green Hornet.

  • @Stablemable2 ahhh, good eye. I wouldn't have ever thought of that :>

  • and this isnt the end of it, Green Lantern is a likely nominee for several razzies this year... it's gonna be humiliating for Martin Campell and Ryan Reynolds... of course they are not gonna be present.

  • @funnguns Razzies? Green Lantern was far from an awful film. Martin Campbell did a good job with what was given to him by FOUR writers, as did Reynolds. Heck, EVEN Blake Likely did a good job (She's a fine actress). The visuals were stunning, as was the makeup, acting was no problem thanks to a solid cast, the art direction was inspired, and the passion could be seen throughout. The only Razzie it could be nominated for is Worst Screenplay, but I don't see it being nominated for anything else.

  • I think the ending of Green Lantern was a little rushed. Actually, a LOT rushed. The movie stars well and sucks at the end.

  • i think that most people that hated it, watched it in 3d. I enjoyed the movie even tough i think the animated movie "Green Lantern - First Flight" is better. But hey im the guy who thinks "Batman Mask of the Phantasm" or "Under the Red Hood" is better than any live action adaptations of batman.

  • I Expect it to be Average, Since this is the only Green Lantern movie.

  • @RCNINJAKINECTFREAK he was white before he was randomly a black guy in the justice league cartoon. and now he's white again

  • @daspoon456 lol it wasnt random...there are 5 human Lanterns. Alan Scott - white, Hal Jordan- white, John Stewart - black, Kyle Rayner - hispanic; and Guy Gardner - white. It wasn't random. Read some comics b4 u give misinformation, dude.

  • @omdway yeah exactly, white white white hispanic......black....

  • @daspoon456 my point is, in the Justice League cartoon the writers and producers were well within their rights to use John Stewart. It wasnt random; He's in the comics. It wasn't just like they created him out of thin air ...is my point.

  • @omdway

    They did chose him because he was black. It's a real shame they had a chance to do a really epic black super hero (of which there are few I guess because of the time most superheroes were created) and he ended up being a fairly bland annoying character who has killed like 2 planets now. Personally I like Kyle the most but Hal should have been in the cartoon he was first and is a lot more interesting than John. Although John is still better than Guy but that really isn't hard...

  • @ImNotSorryInc Chuck Norris. :P

  • ryan reynolds - uberdick

  • If you know nothing about the comics then that suck for you. You're miss a lot of small things and because you don't know shit about you'll never fully understand.

  • I like this movie. I would rate it like 6.9/10

  • Great review! :D

    Could you do a review on The Prestige?

  • No fun time... no story, no character, only one latern guy in action.. only thing that I loved was imaginnative guns...

    So I shall not wait for second part, but I shall wait for hustler version where he imaginnates chicks with guns ! oh yee... xD

  • Well I find expectations really change the way you judge things, because I knew nothing about Green Lantern and it was my friend who wanted to see the movie, so my thought was just like "Well CGI never fails to look boring, I'm sure I'll be amused by the visuals" and for some reason I came out of the movie hysterical, like I just saw the best movie ever. So I think it's because I wasn't expecting anything, that made me really love it. Btw that "We're all human" speach Hal makes was fantastic.

  • Seriously?? This movie apparently has no plot!

  • Jeremy what do you think of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and the rumored Deadpool movie.

  • Decent director, good writers, great cast, and amazing composer....WTF happened?

  • @MrAVEREX I know! If Campbell could handle Casino Royale, its pretty obvious he could've handled this, Ryan Reynolds has already proven that he can work as a dramatic actor, and James Newton Howard, in my opinion, made a decent musical score. I was surprised that despite being the most expensive film of the summer, it was also one of the shortest. I hope people give the extended cut a chance.

  • @MrAVEREX I know! I think it was probably the best Green Lantern movie they could've made. I blame the critics for it's failure.

  • i thought green latern was black

  • @wwesonyfan different green lantern

  • For me this movie was so crap. The Green Lantern Comics are on a high from The Sinestro Corp. war. This story was like 90's superhero crap. The battles were very limited. Characters appeared and dissappeared. Hector Hammond was pointless. Parralex was pointless, and the man without fear, who wrecked a plane to prove a point spends most of his time whining about being scared and quitting his job. It took everything bad from FF42 and Superman returns and ran with it. First Half good Followup suck

  • alright just watched this last night. like you said everyone slamed this movie so i was expecting it to be crap. I really liked it. the Mask scene was perfect. I want more Killawog training. 

  • Paralax reminded me of Galactus out of FF4:rise of the silver surfer

  • @DBSproductions2099 how they gave him a voice

  • Fantastic film.

  • am I the only person who enjoyed this movie?...

  • @klaatu1998 NO Dude Me and some of friends and relatives enjoyed it, So to your question

    NO you are not alone.

    GO GREEN LANTERN.

  • its dogshit