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Quote:Actually the Hal we got in this movie seemed to be from Emerald Dawn. A bit whiney, arrogant of his abilities, self centered, irresponsible, completely screwed up from watching his father die......Originally Posted by Defenestrator
I'm going to agree with Durakken on something -- "Emerald Dawn" would have made a terrific movie. Not just a terrific Green Lantern movie, but a terrific movie. There's enough there to give you Hal Jordan's angst, the hint of a love story with Carol Ferris, AND would have put Sinestro (you know, Green Lantern's deadliest foe) front and center as the villain instead of a lousy CGI hackfest.
The abomination currently in theaters is a massively wasted opportunity.
Now having Legion from Emerald Dawn as the enemy instead of Parallax would have been cool, and we could have saved Sinestro as the enemy and Parallax for the sequel.
Also Sinestro's comment to Hal at the end of this movie about how Hal is arrogant, outspoken, headstrong, brash, etc etc....and that Abin Sur found one just like him to replace him.......that was what the Guardians said about Hal at the end of Emerald Dawn.
Hal suddenly being whisked away from Earth by the ring to Oa and the first alien GL he meets is Tomar-Re is also from Emerald Dawn. Tomar giving Hal some basic instruction and history of the GLC and the Guardians is from Emerald Dawn. Kilowog being Hal's drill sargeant/trainer is also from Emerald Dawn.
To me this movie borrowed a bit heavily from Emerald Dawn and just cut/pasted Parallax from the whole GL:Rebirth and current GL series into it.
The GL animated movie First Flight also had a nice Emerald Dawn tribute in it: when Hal entered the deactivated CPB and chipped away some of the yellow from the green crystal and then basically became one with the power itself, everyone sees the release of the power on the horizon......like an Emerald Dawn..... -
Quote:Originally Posted by Winterminal
Just offering feedback as I go:
Since I have little interest in the Ascension pieces (they don't fit the concepts of any of my current Incarnate characters), I've dipped into some of the other stuff offered by Astral Christy and Empyrean Michael.
-Despite my negative feelings toward offering generic emotes as rewards for these things, I thought Ultimate Power was cool looking, and Swoon and Collapse are comically fun.
-I also purchased the Ice Block costume change emote, and I am unfortunately disappointed with it. I expected an animation similar to Hibernate in appearance, which is far from it. The gray coloring is very nondescript and boring, the extreme translucency contributes to the former adjectives, and the shape is very odd, reminding me of an overgrown "Fossilize" animation.
While I haven't seen the animation for the Stone Block costume change emote, I am assuming it is the more opaque version of Ice Block, similar to the difference between the "Crystal" and "Slate(?)" customization options for the Spines power set. I would have preferred a bigger difference between animations, but as it is, any way we could add a little more opacity and a little more color to "Ice Block," to not only differentiate it but also make it look more ice-like?
Hopefully more feedback to come later, once I unlock auras and such.
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Quote:Or kinetics that refuse to honor a simple "plz don't SB me" request and begin to SB you for the sole purpose of griefing/harassment.Originally Posted by SisterMimi
Yes, playing kinetics I also approve of Null the Gull because it's not easy to prevent yourself from accidentally SBing a "Waah! Don't SB me!" person in the middle of a huge melee if you cannot use the team bars to target all the time. This way everyone should be happy and you can still buff your team for END and recharge without having someone scream bloody murder at you because he ran between you and your target and got SBed by mistake. I really appreciate the devs' work on this.
I think tonight I'll be sure to park the bulk of my alts next to where Null will be in Pock D so I can begin to switch off SB after the servers come back online.
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Quote:Back in some older issues of GL there were times when Hal would ask the ring to locate danger and it would guide him to the trouble but not tell him what the trouble was. When Hal "resigned" back in the 80's before the first Crisis, John Stewart is promoted from backup GL of 2814 to full time GL. While flying around Earth he asked the ring to locate a source of trouble and the ring formed a green arrow pointing straight up. This led him to a damaged space shuttle in orbit.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I finally got around to seeing the movie this weekend, and personally I thought it was not as bad as the reviewers have been saying. I don't think it was poor quality so much as it was much more shallow than the bar has been set for comic book movies. Even Thor seemed slightly deeper, and I think it had stronger performances overall. But still, given where you have to start, with a guy with a magic green ring given to him by blue aliens, it was I thought appropriate for the material.
I am puzzled by why there is any remotely controversial discussion about this particular point mentioned above, though. First of all, the ring was established in the movie to be able to communicate information to the wearer that it thought was important. It communicated the oath to him, and on Oa it communicated background information about the Green Lantern Corps without specifically being asked.
Why tell Hal about mini-Paralax? Because whatever he told the Corp, the ring chose him to be the lantern of that sector, and the ring was therefore alerting Hal to a threat to that sector that was high enough to be significant to the Corp. It would not alert him to every cat stuck in a tree, but someone wielding Paralax's power on Earth might have registered as a more serious threat. The ring isn't omniscient, so it can't just automatically finger Hammond until Hammond either uses enough power all at once or transforms enough for the ring to classify him as a threat.
And why did Hal respond? Probably the same reason he responded at the party. The ring probably didn't "talk" to him so much as communicate on a more visceral level. Hal got the sense that people were in danger, and Hal is one of those people that responds to that feeling on instinct. When given time to think, when his self confidence is challenged as on Oa, he tends to run away. But when the ring said "fire" Hal ran towards the fire instead of away, which is his nature.
None of this seems to remotely strain reasonable logic. Now, how 3600 Lanterns can patrol the entire universe, good luck with that one.
So yes the rings can detect trouble and lead the GL to it but not necessarily tell them what it is. Also after his first encounter with Hammond the ring may well have detected Parallax energy/influence in Hammond and Hal knew that Hammond was key to getting to Parallax.
As to only 3600 GL's for the entire universe....yeah....that is a bit of a low number. After GL:Rebirth it was increased to 7200 so that two lanterns per sector so that each could back each other up but that still seems a bit low for the entire universe
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Quote:Given that Captain America was created as part of propaganda back in the day and the cover of Captain America comics has him punching Adolph, I can see that slogan being used.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Still find the 'Heroes are made in America' part kind of...ehhh...overly cheesey and borderline facepalm-worthy patronising. I take it no one else is allowed Heroes?
In all seriousness? Do want. Do want NOW. It's nice to see, very clearly, how Steve Rogers is just your average joe who is actually, heaven forbid, human. -
Quote:True he did get that message from his father and pieced together the clues that Howard left behind. As to the alienation, that was more from the fact that he knew he was a dead man walking due to palladium poisoning and the side effects it was having on him driving him a bit crazy.......then getting sloshed at his own party while in the IM armor didn't help.Originally Posted by Mandu
I don't think Tony has bad memories of his father any more. In IM2 he saw the movie from his father telling him that he believed Tony was the real future of Stark Enterprises. Plus he's gotten his own taste of how his obsession with his technology can lead to the alienation of those closest to him.
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Quote:Well I can see Steve meeting Tony and thinking for awhile that the apple fell pretty far from the tree as it were until he sees Tony in action as Iron Man. However given that Tony's memories of his father are a bit incomplete perhaps Steve can help fill in a few blanks.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I wonder if things will be tense between Cap and Tony when Steve gets unfrozen and heaps praise on Stark Sr. when Tony has nothing but bad memories of his old man.
I also wonder if Tony will make Cap's new uniform, and if he does, whether or not we'll get an Iron Patriot easter egg.
I can see Tony modernizing Cap's uniform, part of which would be to make sure the chainmetal alloy integrates the mask with the costume instead of leaving his neck exposed like it was originally.
Wonder if the Cap movie will have a mention of Professor Horton or Jim Hammond?
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Quote:Gosh, gee I'm sorry. I've been avoiding the trailers, silly me.Originally Posted by Zikar
Have you been watching the trailers? Howard's been in them a bit and been referred to by name.
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Quote:Hard to say. Nick remains "young" due to the Infinity Formula which is created from an attempt to recreate the super soldier serum as I recall. Maybe it's a young Nick Fury who gets wounded and Cap gives him an emergency transfusion and the serum in his blood slowed down Nick's aging....Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Hmm, when I saw the latest trailer I was thinking the black guy was going to be a young Nick Fury. Maybe they're just swapping out Nick Fury's WWII role for Dum Dum Dugan's present role.
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Quote:It was always this bad.Originally Posted by Matthew_Orlock
I tried to watch the New Power Rangers Samurai a few days ago and..god..Was the show ALWAYS that bad or has the quality/budget just plummeted over the years? That crap's three rungs lower in quality then PBS programming.
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Quote:Say what? While the assistant was humorous, that movie was not a dropping of the ball by Marvel at all. Elektra and Blade Trinity and Daredevil are examples of Marvel dropping the ball. Green Lantern and Superman Returns are examples of DC dropping the ball.Originally Posted by ZephyrWind
They might have dropped the ball a little with Thor (I'm sorry, but the best part of that movie was the assistant that kept referring to his hammer as "MeowMeow"), but it's looking like they have redeemed themselves with this one.
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Here is the link to the full cast/characters slated to appear:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/fullcredits#cast
Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Union Jack, Sam jackson as Nick Fury in an uncredited appearance so I'll presume that to be the post credits scene after the movie, possibly of Cap being thawed from the ice?
Oh yeah......HOWARD STARK is listed. Given how among Howard's possessions that Tony was given in IM2 was an unfinished Captain America shield, I wonder if Howard Stark will have a hand developing the shields in this movie?
Also given that Hugo Weaving is the Red Skull....I hope one of the Skull's soldiers has the last name of Anderson just so we can hear the Red Skull say "Mr. Anderson!"
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Quote:More like what happened to the rest of Power Customization? Pool powers, Ancillary powers, Patron powers, Kheldians, Granite armor.......Originally Posted by erall
BTW, what ever happened to the rest of PS Proliferation?
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Rather watch Ultraman Leo, but I'm funny that way.
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Quote:Different writers would be nice, but Ryan Reynolds is no Hal Jordan.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
More like please fire the writers.
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Quote:Just as long as Liefeld's Captain Manboob cover isn't used.......Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I hope they come out with a massive poster for this with all of them in their costumes in the classic poses (mainly just Cap in the middle with the shield raised but whatever >.>) or just go ahead and rip off one of Hitch's awesome Ultimates covers.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...lantern-205703
Well it looks like despite the movie's performance at the box office, Warner's is contemplating a sequel.
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Quote:Problem with Nova and Starlord returning is that it's likely THANOS will be returning with them. Still the door is open for them to come back. We never saw what happened and they did have a cosmic cube with them.Originally Posted by Dr_Illuminatis
Honestly I haven't read a Marvel book since Thanos Imperative: Aftermath, and I won't be back til he's back......
Or if someone can get their hands on the Reality Gem of the Infinity Gauntlet then Nova and Star Lord can be easily brought back.... -
RIP, Gene. I met you at the San Diego Comic Con once. You were and are a true gentleman.
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Eric Draven = Eric D Raven = Eric the Raven
They could just use the last name Draven and make a new Crow. Hollywood indeed appears to be ignoring the concept that the Crow isn't just one person. Too bad Marvel applied that concept and created the Ghost Rider Corps that we saw in the last volume of GR..... -
Quote:I think it's safe to say Abin was going to die from the gaping wound before he could have drowned.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Was he going to drown? I just remember seeing him hurt. o.O
If they do a sequel I wouldn't mind part of the plot being about Amanda Waller and the govt. wanting to get ahold of Hal for two reasons:
1. He has alien technology in the form of the ring. You just know the govt. would LOVE to study both the ring and the power battery.
2. He has had contact with other alien races. Show me a scientist or govt. agent that wouldn't love to spend time with Hal chatting about the other races. -
Quote:yes, yes; Ryan the goofball Reynolds gave us Hal the Hero when he dashed to the ship to get Abin out. As to Abin in danger of drowning, I think it was more like he saw someone or something in this case that was clearly injured and went to help.Originally Posted by Veritech
Was it really that big of a deal they didn't take the simulator? Worse if it had, then the government types wouldve known exactly who to look at once GL showed up. The important part is that upon seeing Abin Sur in danger of drowning, he jumped in to help.
As to the simulator, GL: First Flight got it right with it being an enclosed simulator that Hal as the new GL could return and then slip into it to change back to his flight suit while counting on the green glow to mask his appearance as he flew over Ferris air. Then Hal pretends to not know what happened when he asked "Was there an earthquake?"
Something like that could have been done for this movie.
I'm honestly stumped as to what was worse:
1. the overall writing/characterization of the movie
2. Ryan Reynolds as Hal. Would another in the role of Hal Jordan helped salvage this movie? Also this version of Hal we got wasn't just from Emerald Dawn but I also had bad flashbacks to Tom Cruise' character from Top Gun.......ugh. -
Quote:If you want to see a movie that occurred way before the power rangers but is about the same level of cheesy fun, watch INFRA MAN, sometimes referred to as the Super Infra-man.Originally Posted by Nightphall
It might be old news, but I just found out today that multiple series were put on Netflix.
I was 10 when Mighty Morphin first aired. I'm 27 now, and I squealed with glee.....especially when I saw Zeo and Time Force on the list.
If Netflix could only strike a deal with Tsubaraya Productions to get subtitled eps of all the Ultraman series...... -
Long ago I created a Dual Blade/Dark Armor/Mu patron (sith warrior) brute, he does quite well now, but once I wrap up two other alts in terms of incarnation and ish 20 respec, my DB/DA is next. Cardiac Alpha of course as he can use the stamina help.