psykomyko wrote:
Wha?! I thought the effects work was fabulous! The amount of detail that went into every Corps member was jaw-dropping. It craps all over the creature effects in Star Wars (all of 'em)! The fact that there were entire scenes that were virtually entirely animated, but looked live-action, is insane. Go back and look at, say, the Spider-Man films. There are definitely rough/fake-looking FX shots in those. But GREEN LANTERN looked really smooth to me!

And the Big Bad (I don't want to get too spoilery) would definitely have scared the pants off me as a little kid, even if it's less scary to us jaded adults.

- Mike Hansen


Mike,

I might enjoy GL more once it comes out on BluRay and I watch it on my home theater.  That said, if Avatar cost less to make, and GL cost more, I still feel that Avatar is the better of the two movies.  Avatar is more epic in scale, longer, more intense and more lush visually (SFX).  By comparison, although there are many cool effects in GL, much of the scenes are fairly dark, cramped visually and overall, compressed in time.  GL seems rushed, whereas Avatar breathes.  I was hoping for a sense of wonder watching GL (i.e. all the space scenes and the GL Corps).  But I didn't get that in my first viewing.  By contrast, Avatar gave me that sense of wonder.  And note, I didn't go to GL planning on comparing it to Avatar.  I'm just making these comparisons from memory after reading KOSH's comments above.  Avatar left a bigger and longer impression on me.  I gave it a 5/5 stars after I saw it the first time.  GL only received 3.5/5.

As I stated earlier up thread, I would have enjoyed GL more if had been a two stage movie featuring more of the Corps in character development and action/interaction.  Although I enjoy the whole Jordan/Ferris history, I much prefer the more cosmic elements of GL to the earth bound elements.  In fact, I would have preferred it if GL 1 had been all done in outer-space in such a way that the ending of my hypothetical movie would have had a teaser about Hal's origins back on earth for GL 2.  I like to break tradition, and I'm not convinced that episode 1 of every superhero movie needs to start out with an origin. 

By analogy, thinking back to Doctor Strange's origins in Strange Tales, his origin wasn't done until after a few issues of his debut.  That may have been an accident, and it may have been intentional.  But the cool thing was, Doc was introduced as a man of mystery.  Then later on we got his origin because the readers were so intrigued with who he was.  I think a delayed origin movie for GL as a cosmic man of mystery would work better than the film we just saw. 

Maybe I'll get my wish when a Doctor Strange or Adam Warlock movie hits the silver screen someday! 

Smile

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