Green Lantern: The Early Reviews Are Bad. Really Bad.

So sad. Well maybe they're all wrong.

I read the paper and they are horrible. In the Baltimore Sun, they said the GL makes Thor look like a Masterpiece...that is just sad.

Just a feeling I get from the trailers; everything in space and on Oa will be breathtaking, amazing, classic GL and wonderful. In contrast, all scenes on earth look terrible.

Still hoping I'm though, GL is one of my favorites

I'll see GL but probably not till it hits the dollar theatre. The review said that CGI was everywhere but the live scenes was just so bad.

Also, from the scenes, GL was uninspiring about applying his mind to the ring.

Well I had classified it as "wait for netflix/Pay per view" and I've not heard anything to upgrade that

Funny the critics said the same thing as one of my co-workers. He liked GL but thought Thor was much better. He saw it via press release preview last night. I'm sure I'll still see it in theater though.

I got to see it last night and it was ok. I am a big DC and GL fan but still it was ok. What makes GL great is the GL Corps and all the supporting aliens.

The movie focused more on Hal and his relationships, which is ok, but took over the movie. They should have toned this down and made the movie shorter or added that to provide more about the rest of the Corps. I can see why they did it because sci-fy dosen't apeal to a lot of people, and they wanted the star to get more screentime.

If you look at Thor another comic that has a big supporting cast and has a sci-fy element they got it right.

I dont think it will be as big as DC hoped, maybe thats good for us DC fans as this may help crash their big reboot plans.

I will still go see it in the theater. I have very little respect for critics, most of them are not even journalists and calling them hacks would be an insult to real crappy writers.

Ow. 24% on Rottentomates...

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Remember that terrible first trailer? Apparently that captured the essence of the movie perfectly.

Well, I'm going to go see it. I'm an old-school comic book nerd and GL's trailers haven't been so horrible that it doesn't get an automatic "You will buy ticket NOW".

What I'm expecting.

Due to the basic color palette of the movie (black and green) and the fact that we're going to have a lot of heavy-duty CGI, plus the fact that this film is also debuting in 3D), we're going to see a rather underlit film.

This is a Ryan Reynolds film. So snarky will be the watchword for humor in the film.

It's an origin story. But they're also trying to impart portions of the overall current mythos. So expect it to be a mash-up that doesn't really conform to either the canon origin story OR the mythos particularly well.

Also, as the speed of plot varies wildly between comics and movies, I expect the film to be rushing over certain points which don't push the film forward (but are important for GL back-story) and plodding through things that don't mean much to the overall GL story, but push the movie forward.

In short, it's probably going to be a mess of a film. But I go in with both eyes open on this.

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One of the more detailed discussions I've read... that ends with a "skip it" recommendation. I was never a GL fan, but until a month or two ago this was on my list to see in theater. The trailers and these reviews have dropped it to rental status.

On the bright side, this may lower my expectations and enable me to enjoy the film more, whereas with X-Men: First Class I was expecting it to be awesome on an epic scale throughout because of all the positive feedback.

But my big question is...where can I buy my personal GL ring so I can pick up the women in the bars? I'm working on my lines now If the movies was going to be a hit I might be able to use it for two weekends but I might barely get a weekend out this movie(friday night, maybe...saturday night)

Looks like I'm skipping this one. My expectations were pretty low to begin with, but a 24% on RottenTomatoes tells me my $7 is better spent elsewhere.

21% rotten now. Skipping it.

Are you surprised? It has "Ryan Reynolds" as the main character!!!!!

He's like Mr. Shallow, he couldn't even keep Scarlett J. and she is almost 10 years younger than him. If you can't keep a clueless young woman like her...you are pathetic.