The Green Lantern

ryanjoachim

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/green-lantern/feature-trailer

Actually looks like a decent flick. I think Ryan Reynolds is an awesome actor.

hockeyboy

This looks really good. Green Lantern is a great comic book with terrific stories. The only way it works in film though is big budget and cool effects.

thesurfer

WOW, really??

fatchowmein

Promising start but never really takes off. Okay movie for a family Netflix night in but in this day and age of Pixar and X-Men movies providing entertainment value for the entire family it's inexcusable. Dull but not bad like Daredevil.

Rental.

Ron-P

The reviews are beating this thing to death. Looks like a RedBox rental for me.

Uilleann

Went tonight with my 8 and 10 yr olds. We thoroughly enjoyed it. No, it wasn't the best show ever made - but it is what it is, a comic book story made into a feature length movie. We were entertained, and found the pacing, storyline and acting to be fine. We'll be buying this on Blu when it's out as well...certainly gonna be fun at home!

Ron Temple

I was set to see this today, but the wife has strep...

Gatecrasher

The reviews pretty much all say it was designed to be "family-friendly" and totally sucks but I haven't seen it yet (and probably won't in the theaters) so I'll reserve my own judgement for whenever.

danz1906

It looks like it will have great sound on Blu-Ray.

kuntasensei

Saw it today. Above average but not in the same tier as the best of the comic movies. Still, this is coming from someone who loves Punisher: War Zone, so maybe I'm just really easy to please. Should have a monstrous soundtrack on Blu-ray though, which I will definitely pick up when it comes out (mostly so I can watch it at full brightness instead of that 3-D crap).

Gatecrasher

I liked Punisher War Zone too even though it received lousey reviews. My favorite part is when the police want to take the bad guy (cop killer) in and Punisher blows his head off with a shotgun. lol

That's why I take the "reviewer's" evaluations with a grain of salt. A think lot of the movies they rave about suck and love some of the ones they hate. They do affect my decision somewhat whether I'm going to pay to see it in the theaters though sometimes...especially if there are other good ones to choose from.

20hz

previews look good , most all the comic book to movies are very entertaining
(iron man, ghost rider, fantastic 5, spider-man )
these days with the awesome special effects and the big budgets great stuff is coming out .
I look forward to seeing it but since I got a great system at home I rather watch it here , nothing beats being able to pause it rewatch a scene to understand somebody mumbling , home theatre is the greatest toy I EVER bought , and polks fine line of speakers just makes it better !

cfrizz

It racked up at the box office this weekend.

fatchowmein

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3190&p=.htm

Weekend Report: 'Green Lantern' Not the Brightest Bulb

This weekend, Green Lantern's light was more red than green, but the comic book adaptation still drew an estimated $52.7 million on approximately 7,200 screens at 3,816 locations.

Green Lantern's start landed behind X-Men: First Class's $55.1 million and Thor's $65.7 million, and its Friday-to-Saturday drop of 22 percent was steeper than those movies' eight percent. The gross was also less than The Incredible Hulk and the two Fantastic Four movies, and the attendance disparity was only greater. Green Lantern's estimated attendance was even lower than Daredevil and Ghost Rider.

Green Lantern continued the tradition of B-list superheroes failing to soar to blockbuster heights (with the exception of Iron Man), despite an enormous marketing push that tried to pound people into submission. But an onslaught of ads is not necessarily the same thing as an effective campaign. The bottom line is that Green Lantern simply didn't have that appealing of a premise with its distancing sci-fi fantasy angle, and no amount of ads could make it look less awkward.

3D presentations at 2,711 locations accounted for 45 percent of Green Lantern's gross. The 3D share was close to Kung Fu Panda 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides but down from Thor's 60 percent. Distributor Warner Bros.' exit polling indicated that 64 percent of Green Lantern's audience was male and 63 percent was over 25 years old (19 percent was under 18).

In second place, Super 8 had a decent hold, retreating 40 percent to an estimated $21.3 million (it has a bullish projection for Father's Day) for a District 9-matching $72.8 million haul in ten days. Its percentage drop was much smaller than District 9, Battle: Los Angeles and Cloverfield among others and was on par with Knowing.

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Strong Bad

Just got back from seeing this. I'm not sure why the critics are beating this up. I thought it was pretty darn enjoyable! Ryan Reynolds nailed it as Green Lantern / Hal Jordan. Blake Lively is hot and does well enough. Mark Strong was great as Sinestro. I hope it does well enough at the box office for Warner Brothers to (no pun intended) green-light the sequel.

For those that go and see it, sit through the credits for a little extra.

Definite Blu Ray buy for me!

Gatecrasher

Strong Bad wrote: »

For those that go and see it, sit through the credits for a little extra.

I haven't seen it but just about all of the Marvel Comics movies are like that. If you leave before the end of the credits, you miss-out on a glimpse.

shack

Strong Bad wrote: »

Just got back from seeing this. I'm not sure why the critics are beating this up. I thought it was pretty darn enjoyable! Ryan Reynolds nailed it as Green Lantern / Hal Jordan. Blake Lively is hot and does well enough. Mark Strong was great as Sinestro. I hope it does well enough at the box office for Warner Brothers to (no pun intended) green-light the sequel.

For those that go and see it, sit through the credits for a little extra.

Definite Blu Ray buy for me!

I agree John. I went to see it this afternoon and enjoyed it. It was what I expected...which was a couple of hours of suspension of reality after a crappy day at work No acadamy awards...but a fun to watch with lots of action and CGI...and a little eye candy from miss Lively. I too hope there are some sequels.