"Hal Jordan: One of the things a Green Lantern is supposed to be is fearless, and that isn't me"
The summer of 2011 has been scheduled to be filled with a ton of superhero films so far, including, Thor, X-men: First Class and the anticipated Captain America: First Avenger, however, The Green Lantern is the only movie based of a DC comic coming out this summer, and it is one of the best, in my opinion this film was exceptionally good, and I am a big fan of The Green Lantern comic series and the animated films, it really lives up to the hype and is a really fun film, its a very short adaption, but a very good one, the scenes and special effects are really well done, the only problem with The Green Lantern and me? The script seems to be lacking a bit, and by that i mean the cheesy dialogue, there's too much unneeded humor and unnecessary jokes, what we wanted was a solid, comic adaption not a comedy, and it seems to be lacking creativity by covering it up with flashy special effects and animation, and I know it could of been so much better, but its still a good film (in my opinion) even though I didn't think the film was going to be as good as it was, I still went in with high expectations, and I did get my mind blown seeing my childhood hero come to life. The planet Oa was well done, and looked amazing( exceptionally in 3D) and I loved the design of all the aliens, and creatures of the Green Lantern Core, I was really happy to see that done right (at least) and the costumes, and animation was swell too, it's certainly "Eye candy", and if you aren't a fan you certainly aren't going to become one watching this film, I can't diss it because I did enjoy it. The film starts out with Abin Sur, one of planet oa's finest warriors trying to escape "Parralax" (The Power Of Fear) and it scenes he's afraid and he is defeated, and the ring is destined to choose a warrior worth of Abin sur's power, it brings Abin to earth to find a fearless warrior, and that warrior is Hal Jordan, a jet plane flyer who pretends to be fearless, due to the death of his father.
Like I said the production value, and effects are really well done but the dialogue in this film is pretty bad, the story is pretty good, but just has too many complications to it, for example Hector Hammond is in this film as a villain for quite along time while oa and the other Lantern's even Sinestro, Kilowog, and Tomar Re were shortly featured in the film which was disappointing(but Kilowog did call Hal Pooser which is why I rated it 4 instead of 3 1/2) but I really can't be too upset with this film it captured most from the comics, and also shows hal's flashback from his father, I really did enjoy it no matter how many flaws it may have, there is defiantly room for one or two sequels, and I hope they add more action and allot less talking (which I think is going to happen) Cambpell you could have done allot better, but you did at the end of the day make my childhood into a film.
On the last note the 3D in the film is well done also, and is defiantly worth the extra $3.50, since the film is almost completely CGI it is almost all 3-D, but you can still tell its a conversion job, but its the best one I've ever seen, and that also gets the film to 4 stars because I loved the energy off the suit, ring, and the lantern in 3D it was pretty awesome. All in all the film was exceptional and gets a whopping 4 stars from Gabe Hess, Not a surprise because it's very hard for me to dislike a film (especially a comic film)..I say go see it even in 3-D.
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