I’ve never really heard of the Green Lantern comics before and no way am I a Green Lantern fanboy. And I was scared; scared I tell you when I saw all the negative reviews online and the mediocre ratings by my friends who have watched it. But I vowed to watch all the super hero movies this year, hoping to find a gem. And two hours later, I believe I’ve found it.
There has been so much negative hype surrounding the movie, I’m afraid people have made up their minds before they gave it a chance.
The movie’s prologue narrative lays out the Green Lantern fictional universe. The Guardians are the immortal founders and leaders of the Green Lantern Corps, a sort of intergalactic police force which is headquartered in the planet Oa. The Corps divide their jurisdiction among 3600 sectors throughout the universe.
Now in this comic book, the power of the green lantern is harnessed from ‘will power’ of the universe’s population through the use of a Green Lantern ring. The colour of will power is represented by green, hence the whole green concept. In this movie, there is a rival force fuelled by fear represented by the colour yellow. One of the guardians experimented with this new force but was somehow turned evil by it. He became Parallax, who sucks the life out of entire planets, before Abin Sur a Green Lantern hero entrapped him. Parallax broke out of his prison and attacked Abin Sur. Gravely injured, Abin Sur went to the nearest planet, Earth for the ring to find its successor.
I don’t know if you agree with me but I think this is the best superhero movie since Ironman 1. Despite the critics’ countless blows at its storyline I think that the story is the Green Lanterns strongest point. I must admit this is among the most sci-fi oriented comic books on the shelf. And the general populace may not be so accustomed to hearing weird concept about ‘will-power’ and fear thrown about and quarter of the movie taking place on an alien world.
Beware of spoilers below.
I don’t know what people expect of The Green Lantern, but I can tell you, it’s not a story about a team of intergalactic policeman, it’s not super villain movie like The Dark Knight because it’s centred on one man. Hal Jordan is that man, a maverick pilot a human who had been chosen for a great role. At first he was overwhelmed, then he grew afraid of the enormity of his job, and actually tried to quit.
But then Parallax turned its sights on Earth, Hal found out about this and decided to save our home planet from being annihilated. He manned up and sought help from the Guardians to save Earth, but no help came, they resolved to tactically sacrifice Earth. So Hal was alone against Parallax.
So the whole movie is about stepping up to the responsibility. I know it’s more popular to choose an underdog-to-superhero story but this one is different. And he was chosen because he thinks outside the box.
There is a lesser villain in the story and somehow related to all the main characters. This sub-villain Hector Hammond became super powerful when he got infected with some remnant of Parallax and ultimately became its subordinate.
I liked the story; it’s a good comic book adaptation, but mostly because they related to human values like courage and rejection and jealousy. A couple of friends disliked it for a couple of reasons; one was because there was no big battle scene involving a team of Green Lanterns. Who says all superhero stories need big battle scenes? The final battle scene was short but I think it was impactful. Why would you want a long battle scene full of useless action? It’s supposed to be about Hal being the greatest Green Lantern after all, not a team of X-men.
And the second reason was apparently Parallax was depicted as a giant intergalactic tentacle armed cloud like beast with a big ugly head. It is what it is. Nothing wrong with that, I say.
The expectations of the audience are this movie’s Achilles Heel. They should have revealed less in the trailers, like Super 8. Super 8 wasn’t that great, the monster sucks as well, but they marketed it by making it one big teaser.
From what I’ve heard, this movie follows the spirit of the comics pretty closely. I guess fan boys and sci-fi fans like me like it. But seriously, don’t come to the cinema expecting X-men or Spiderman. I know there are a slew of superhero movies this summer, too much for some to take, but my rating is 9/10, my movie of the year so far.
There has been so much negative hype surrounding the movie, I’m afraid people have made up their minds before they gave it a chance.
The movie’s prologue narrative lays out the Green Lantern fictional universe. The Guardians are the immortal founders and leaders of the Green Lantern Corps, a sort of intergalactic police force which is headquartered in the planet Oa. The Corps divide their jurisdiction among 3600 sectors throughout the universe.
Now in this comic book, the power of the green lantern is harnessed from ‘will power’ of the universe’s population through the use of a Green Lantern ring. The colour of will power is represented by green, hence the whole green concept. In this movie, there is a rival force fuelled by fear represented by the colour yellow. One of the guardians experimented with this new force but was somehow turned evil by it. He became Parallax, who sucks the life out of entire planets, before Abin Sur a Green Lantern hero entrapped him. Parallax broke out of his prison and attacked Abin Sur. Gravely injured, Abin Sur went to the nearest planet, Earth for the ring to find its successor.
I don’t know if you agree with me but I think this is the best superhero movie since Ironman 1. Despite the critics’ countless blows at its storyline I think that the story is the Green Lanterns strongest point. I must admit this is among the most sci-fi oriented comic books on the shelf. And the general populace may not be so accustomed to hearing weird concept about ‘will-power’ and fear thrown about and quarter of the movie taking place on an alien world.
Beware of spoilers below.
I don’t know what people expect of The Green Lantern, but I can tell you, it’s not a story about a team of intergalactic policeman, it’s not super villain movie like The Dark Knight because it’s centred on one man. Hal Jordan is that man, a maverick pilot a human who had been chosen for a great role. At first he was overwhelmed, then he grew afraid of the enormity of his job, and actually tried to quit.
But then Parallax turned its sights on Earth, Hal found out about this and decided to save our home planet from being annihilated. He manned up and sought help from the Guardians to save Earth, but no help came, they resolved to tactically sacrifice Earth. So Hal was alone against Parallax.
So the whole movie is about stepping up to the responsibility. I know it’s more popular to choose an underdog-to-superhero story but this one is different. And he was chosen because he thinks outside the box.
There is a lesser villain in the story and somehow related to all the main characters. This sub-villain Hector Hammond became super powerful when he got infected with some remnant of Parallax and ultimately became its subordinate.
I liked the story; it’s a good comic book adaptation, but mostly because they related to human values like courage and rejection and jealousy. A couple of friends disliked it for a couple of reasons; one was because there was no big battle scene involving a team of Green Lanterns. Who says all superhero stories need big battle scenes? The final battle scene was short but I think it was impactful. Why would you want a long battle scene full of useless action? It’s supposed to be about Hal being the greatest Green Lantern after all, not a team of X-men.
And the second reason was apparently Parallax was depicted as a giant intergalactic tentacle armed cloud like beast with a big ugly head. It is what it is. Nothing wrong with that, I say.
The expectations of the audience are this movie’s Achilles Heel. They should have revealed less in the trailers, like Super 8. Super 8 wasn’t that great, the monster sucks as well, but they marketed it by making it one big teaser.
From what I’ve heard, this movie follows the spirit of the comics pretty closely. I guess fan boys and sci-fi fans like me like it. But seriously, don’t come to the cinema expecting X-men or Spiderman. I know there are a slew of superhero movies this summer, too much for some to take, but my rating is 9/10, my movie of the year so far.
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