I think it's virtually impossible to make a great comic book movie (though a few have come close), because you have to please two entirely different camps. I remember seeing the first X-Men movie and I thought it was horrible, but I could see that it was using all of the stuff that comic book fans want in a movie. Comic books don't make great movies.

So most movies sacrifice the comic book cliches in order to tell a story that might please a general audience.

This is why I think Green Lantern is a superior achievement as a comic book movie. Not that it's a really great movie, but it satisfies the comic geek's need to see certain things in live action, while still giving enough to keep a general audience interested.

Hindsight being 20/20, I think the movie would have worked better if it started in media res--like Showcase 22--and filled in the back stories later.

There's some stuff in this that while well acted and photographed doesn't need to be in this particular movie. I was sort of wanting more of a Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring feeling. Like, we're all getting together and there's this thing out there that scares us s***less, but we're gonna do it. Only Sinestro, Kilowog and Tomar-Re were fleshed out at all--as Hal's Corps pals--and really Sinestro is the only one who appears three dimensional (so to speak). They should have added in at least one other GL--I'd suggest Arisia, since she would spice things up with Hal.

I'm sure more training scenes and fight scenes will make it into the extras for the DVD. I could understand why some scenes had to be trimmed, so the movie would speed along at a nice pace.

I really appreciated almost all the actors in their roles. Sometimes they were better than the script they had to work with.

Really, that a Green Lantern movie ever got made was a miracle. And by the end of this one, I was anxious to see the next one.

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