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"Green Lantern" Trailer In Depth Analysis
The "Green Lantern" trailer has been around for a week or so now, and reactions have been mixed. Some say it's great and looks very true to the comics. While some say it's horrible and the CG looks ridiculous. The majority seem to take with the positive side of the argument, but let's take a closer look at the trailer to see why both sides say what they say...
All in all "Green Lantern" looks like it's going to be a very fun, good comic book film. not as good as "The Dark Knight", but still good. It's only the first trailer, but even that fro a first teaser trailer that was a lot of footage. Then again Green Lantern is a hard character to sell while put a trailer with just the Bat symbol for 2 minutes straight and people will be lining out the door. With the heart Ryan Reynolds seemed to have for the role at Comic-Con, and some great actors in this and a great director i think it'll be a combination of Iron Man, and Batman Begins, the fun, and action part of the film and the serious dramatic but still fun part of the film. Now i don't expect any breakthrough performances here,I do however expect some good performances especially from Mark Strong, and Ryan Reynolds. I don't expect a magnificent story with a lot of theme elements but i do expect a good take on one of my favorite and many others' favorite comic book character...
First Watch The Trailer
First of all we see Hal Jordan played by Ryan Reynolds realize he's late for work while some metal music is playing in the background. Already the tone seems a bit off to me. It feels more like a Marvel movie more so Iron Man. I like Ryan Reynolds's attitude though even if he's given lackluster lines at the start of the trailer. We then see him go to work were we see Blake Lively who with only one line said in the entire thing so far seems like she's fucking taking it as a joke. I mean she's horrible it makes me laugh just listening to her say it. No emotion was put into that single line. She has Keanu Reeves syndrome.
We see that Hal is a pilot in training and seems like he's doing a good job until something(we don't know what) forces him to deploy from his aircraft. By the way I just want to point out as soon as the airbag deploys it looks like a CG effect and if it is it looks just really bad it looks to...animated, but judge for yourself. We hear Hal talk about his failure and how somewhere over the rainbow there's hope for him, and who else to show up but Abin Sur, and I like the music in the background here it's Lonely Dusk by Methodic Doubt and I think it sets a different and more preferred mood than what the beginning of the trailer showed us....and we see Abin Sur who looks great not CG which I love, because it looks real and authentic.
We see that Hal is a pilot in training and seems like he's doing a good job until something(we don't know what) forces him to deploy from his aircraft. By the way I just want to point out as soon as the airbag deploys it looks like a CG effect and if it is it looks just really bad it looks to...animated, but judge for yourself. We hear Hal talk about his failure and how somewhere over the rainbow there's hope for him, and who else to show up but Abin Sur, and I like the music in the background here it's Lonely Dusk by Methodic Doubt and I think it sets a different and more preferred mood than what the beginning of the trailer showed us....and we see Abin Sur who looks great not CG which I love, because it looks real and authentic.
Then the Warner Bros. & DC Comics logos appear "Dark Knight" style, as we then see Abin Sur's spaceship land and him dying as Hal holds the ring in his hand and Sur explains that he is the new Green Lantern, that the ring has "chose you". I like the idea of the chosen one and the hero's journey, at the start Hal is a Tony Stark type hound but without the money, but when this duty comes about he takes the role and changes himself. Now as Abin Sur tells him his duties to protect the galaxy and so on they show us all the other Lanterns on another planet, and shots of space and Hal flying. As this is going on we see many characters from the comics
Tomar Re:
Sinestro: (Only in Green Lantern Corp)
There is a very small glimpse of the Power Battery when Hal's in the Hummer.
Even though Hal Jordan has a power that can make him superior to any other male on the face of the earth he still gets punched out and beaten, but he uses the power of the ring and makes up whatever's in his mind and the ring can make that come true. Again we see another character from the comics
Hector Hammond: (Not mutated)
The concept of a "Green Lantern" is to be fearless, as Hal explains to Carrol Ferris (Blake Lively), and that, that's not what he is. I think that's a very well made decision to make Hal a dick at first, than make him serious but at the same time he's human and he's scared as anyone would. It makes his character more human even though the thing he posses isn't human. Again we see another character from the comics a very big character as well.
Kilowog:
Then in big letters the words...
IN OUR DARKEST HOUR
appear and once again in "Dark Knight" explosion type background style this time it's green instead of blue. Now we get Hector Hammond in his regular form which looks kinda silly becuase you know a guy with a 2 ton head isn't silly, but it looks good and I like how they changed a bit of the look while still keeping with the character from the comics.
As in any other trailer there's a montage of action scenes with voice over in the background by Blake Lively who still sounds diagnosed with Keanu Reeves syndrome. Here's some stills:
Again more taglines come up such as
THERE WILL BE LIGHT
It seems the formula with these comic book movie trailer (most of them) is show some of the hero's life before they become a hero. Then show when they become a hero *cut to* montage of scenes and a major catastrophe usually the attack of a villain and in "Green Lantern" they have an Aircraft Fair being crashed by maybe a villain Hector Hammond or Sinestro...
(By the way this is my favorite still of Hal Jordan)
This Is Said To Be A Small Glimpse Of Parallax:
and then........we finally see the transformation of Hal's suit....
I love the suit. i think it looks great yeah the CG might not look perfect but you have to understand the film is still not finished this can still be worked on until the film's release so from what i see it looks great. I am ok with the exclusion of the white gloves because honestly they would look silly they really would especially in CGI yeah green gloves work just fine for me. In the HD trailer if you look closely you see the suit breathing with Hal it's more biological than just a green suit. If anything this is one of the most comic accurate costume out of all the DC films.
But Hal's remarks are sort of stupid, but if I had the power to change myself into a green guardian protector of our galaxy and could fly and create things from my mind to a ring i would be exited as Hal seems to be so it's realistic in it's own right. The "Green Lantern" symbol and words appear and once again in "Dark Knight" style . Even the font is the same as "The Dark Knight's" Let's compare...
Yeah.....there similar, but they both look good on their own. I still don't understand why they didn't use the traditional GL logo, but thinking about it doing it like this makes the film look more serious than having a corny looking flashy logo.
The last few seconds are Hal Jordan reciting the Green Lantern oath:
"In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night"
"Green Lantern" stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, and Temuera
Morrison & is directed by, Martin Cambell
"Green Lantern" comes out June 17 2011
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Comment by Paul Monroe on December 2, 2010 at 12:29pm -
Green Lantern in 3D.
How bad could it be?
I think it's worth a try.
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Comment by Runba on December 1, 2010 at 3:56pm -
Still gonna be shit, no matter how hard you try to make excuses for it.
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Comment by Jaivaramongolid on November 29, 2010 at 9:18am -
I'm gonna wait and see the movie, then judge it. I do agree that Blake seems to suffer from Keanu Reeves syndrome and I really hope that she is a bit better in the movie. I also hope the CG gets fixed a bit, cause as of this trailer they look a bit too CG.
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Comment by Olatokunbo on November 28, 2010 at 7:16pm
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Comment by Caleb Kahn on November 28, 2010 at 3:48pm -
Although I do admit that the CG mask as of right now seems a bit silly, I hope it looks great by the time the movie comes out! It still has like six months of prost-production to go so I don't think we should worry.
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Comment by Caleb Kahn on November 28, 2010 at 3:46pm
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Well, I've learned over the years to find a critic whom I agree with most if not all the time and listen to them to see if I would like it or not and that critic is Carlyle. I believe in Carlyle! If the trailer looks bad and Carlyle says it's bad, I trust his judgment. If it looks bad but is actually good according to him, I will become curious and know at one point I will see it. Personally, the trailer makes the movie look pretty good so far. I trust Warner Bros/DC and the decisions they're making especially after something like The Dark Knight. Sure, Blake Lively doesn't look her best in this trailer but a lot of the time, trailers use alternate shots/takes of certain scenes so for all we know, Blake could be great in this! I mean, she has potential for an Oscar nod for The Town! She can act! Plus, it's a teaser trailer and even so, it's still a trailer. I have high hopes for this and I think by the time the movie comes out, lots of fanboys will be revoking their criticism.
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Comment by Superbadmike on November 28, 2010 at 12:13pm
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Seth Rogen's Green Hornet looks ten times better then this.
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Comment by SpikeGhost on November 28, 2010 at 10:26am -
is it me or does Ryan Reynolds kinda looks like Ben Stiller in some of these stills :O
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Comment by Burn Victim on November 27, 2010 at 7:46pm -
i don't have a good feeling about this is all i'm saying
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Comment by Stephan on November 27, 2010 at 7:28pm -
My problem with it is that they show a few glimpses of different planets, but it looks like he'll be spending more time on Earth. WHY? Green Lantern works best in space, that's been proven time and time again. So make the majority of the film in fucking space!
Hopefully it's not as grounded on Earth as it looks, but right now I'm rather skeptical.
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