@Bootknife-Jackson: He put's all his weight back on between movies, (not that he's fat, I mean he doesn't stay in super hero physique mode); I read in an Empire interview shortly after Blade Trinity he had a meeting with his agent who was ready to capatilise on his new 'action man body'.
Reynolds just flopped his belly onto the table and his agent nearly cried. #greenlantern
@Tyrunn: haha yeah it's tough to stay in that kind of shape without living in the gym and eating nothing but chicken and protein shakes. i used to be all P90X-ed out. as soon as you stop that kind of routine you soften up really fast.
i heard Jake Gylenhall say that after Prince Of Persia he plans on getting fat, tired of working out all the time #greenlantern
If the focus is on solid acting and solid storytelling, then we will believe a man can fly...with an alien power ring. If the actors create fully realized human beings (or aliens) and not just cardboard "characters" and the director remembers he's telling a story and not just stringing together effects shots, I will excuse bade sfx. On the other hand, bad acting and bad directing tend to call attention to the other problems in the film such as cheap effects. #greenlantern
I still cannot decide if making the ring flashier will make it more or less believable. I could see how a simple signet ring's ability to "form constructs" would be pretty incredible, but a fiery "power up" in a cloud of green could make me have an outer body experience where I float out of my movie seat and travel back in time to my childhood television set where I used to watch Captain Planet. #greenlantern
@madara: i dont get the need to make the plane when the ring itself allows flight. the emerald bubble for space travel to keep breathable air is fine, but why fighter jet? probably teh fuck yeah its awesssssoooommmmeee factor. #greenlantern
i still dont get why ryan reynolds was cast when he was already signed to be another super hero. and also frat bro in space isn't what i want to see. bro. #greenlantern
@GreyHammer: With the super hero genre becoming just that, having an actor or actress play multiple big roles isn't too crazy. If super hero movies were still under the radar type movies I would agree, but these movies have been the biggest money makers for a while now.
Also, kind of creepy "cool kid" in Shakespeare-High School as the Joker, over sexed plastic surgeon as Dr. Doom, murderous skin head as Bruce Banner, albino hitchhiker in desert as Peter Parker, Ice Pirate as Hellboy, crazy coked out dude from Ally McBeal as Tony Stark... all these turned out for the better. Acting is their job and they tend to take it seriously. We should reserve judgment.
EDIT: I also forgot about ginger kid in Bad News Bear as Rorschach. :)
@Dr.Quatermass: lol you associate downey jr with ally mcbeal the most? really? thats silly, you're silly.
frat bro space cop is not something i want to see. you took great actors and slimmed them down to roles you saw them as. ryan reynolds is not a great actor (the guy from nip tuck who played doom is also bad. and please dont mention fantastic 4 ever) he is not:
heath ledger
ed norton
robert downey jr
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ron pearlman
@GreyHammer: C'mon, Reynolds finds those roles easier but that's not all he does - he was quite different in the Nines, Definitely Maybe and the Amityville Horror.
This was exactly the same response the "gay cowboy joker" got. Reserve your judgement and judge the movie on its merits.
Though frankly overconfidant test pilot doesn't sound a long way from frat boy anyway... #greenlantern
@GreyHammer: And I'll go on believing that Hal Jordan is a bit of a douche and is well within the range that Reymolds has displayed in the movies I listed above. #greenlantern
@Dr.Quatermass: All of them except for Dr. Doom
@GreyHammer:
Ryan reynolds is awesome he made blade 3 tolerable and smokin' aces, he's funny sarcastic and enjoyable line delivery, and to say Ron pearlman is a good actor is like saying Harrison fords as Han Solo, is a an exploration into a man torn apart between his friends and his love of FUCKING MONEY! most of these roles are very one sided characters so acting has little to do with it.
@GreyHammer: Dude, he was obviously using crappy parts those actors played to make a point. And fans like you have criticized the casting announcements for like every movie adaptation of any beloved property ever. The twin arguments that Reynolds can't play Hal Jordan because he A) already played a comic book character (actually he's played two already) and B) played a character in a film comic book fans loathe cancel each other out. See the film, then criticize his performance. #greenlantern
@David Alvaro: cool thing about snark and a free country is i can criticize a performer based on precident or anything i feel like at all, ever. im not a huge lantern fan, but i am hopeing they dont xmen origins up the place.
@thorshammer: I haven't been impressed with Reynolds work just yet, but I think he certainly has potential.
The guy took the easier way up by staring in mainstream comedies and romances, but he also has been trying to expand his range as of late by picking up lots of side roles and projects with different genres and credible actors/ directors.
@GreyHammer: The fact of the matter is, I pretty much agree with you but I have spent so much money on lost bets this past year that I can't help but change my ways a bit. Seriously. I was convinced that Ledger as Joker and Young Kirk were going to incite riots.
I was so painfully wrong.
@Dash_Stryker: Fantastic Four sucked. So bad. But Julian MacMahon made it bearable. Still not the Dr. Doom I want to see but at least he got the cold, vanity down. #greenlantern
@GreyHammer: Hold on... Reynolds was AWESOME in Blade Trinity!!! And, like, totally rad in that sit-com Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, until they got rid of the Pizza Place, then it just sucked. #greenlantern
@GreyHammer: @omgwtflolbbqbye: If you would like to be convinced of his range and skill as an actor, I encourage you to watch "The Nines" and/or "Chaos Theory". #greenlantern
If I had a ring that could construct whatever I wanted to bash my foes with, I'd spend my days running around whacking people in the heads with a giant glowing dildo.
I mean, 'cause on the one hand, you're getting whacked in the head.
On the other hand, it's a dildo, so it's like ten times as embarrassing. #greenlantern
@Smeagol92055: Don't forget that GL's a space cop. While humans might be insulted by your giant dildo, you may be taking part in the ceremony of bonding/mating of the Phallusians of planet Schwang 87x. #greenlantern
@Smeagol92055: Isn't it strange how easy it his to make sex jokes about many DC Super-Heroes? Wonder Woman has a lasso, Superman is "the Man of Steel", Batman has a sidekick named Dick, Flash is "the fastest man in the world"
By contrast, only Mr. Fantastic is as easy a target for sexual jokes... #greenlantern
I'm pretty sure Superman, an alien from another planet who protects the planet, is "believable" enough for audiences, an interstellar space cop with a power ring isn't that much further of a stretch.
I love how Hollywood thinks all of a sudden that sci-fi and super hero movies aren't realistic enough. Some of the greatest sci-fi films of all time were made decades ago. Now, years later with huge advances in what would have been considered rather far fetched technology at that time, we start dumbing down science in movies because "the masses can't handle it."
Part of the allure of Hollywood films is the suspension of disbelief. If anything, I enjoy a movie that can take me to another world without everything being necessarily realistic moreso than a movie that restrains itself within the confines of my actual worldview because it becomes that much more fantastic.
I like Ryan Renolds but I am not sure I am sold him playing the latern. I like him as Deadpool. Hopefully both movies are good. Hopes aren't high for this one tho... #greenlantern
"From that ring you can form constructs. So if you got into a fight, you could form a giant fist. Or a fighter plane."
I love when directors explain the premise of a well-known superhero, which they were obviously unfamiliar with prior to their involvement in the project.
"So he's this guy, and he pretends to be this boring clumsy reporter, but really he's an alien from the planet Kryptonite, and he's way way super-strong, and really really fast. Oh, and he can fly, too." #greenlantern
@moifauxmail: Don't know if someone said before but I think David Boreanaz would have been a very good Hal Jordan.
For Hal Jordan I think we need a mature-type guy and of course, NOT Ryan Reynolds.
Edit: Mature as in age, not necessarily attitude.
Why not instead of making the ring believable, try making a world that thatmagic ring which is made by alien galaxy police. I can see that being a more important detail then the ring itself. #magicspacering
@themidnighter: I didn't say anything about making the ring stuff look good or not, first off. Secondly, Alien resurrection looks good but it strayed far from the world which the series existed in leaving you with a crappy movie. Look at a succesful super hero movies and tell me what made them good. Interesting characters existing in a world that while not real feels like it is, due to great writing. Go to bed. #greenlantern
@omgwtflolbbqbye: YUP!! But Hal paid Bats back for that little punch in "GL:Rebirth." However Guy has cernainly come into his own, and I like the character now. He was just annoying before. #greenlantern
@NonElitist: I still have that issue... ever other page... "One punch!" I think it even bled over into a few more issues... with GG grumbling. But he did wake up from the punch with a sissy attitude... very funny stuff. #greenlantern
@omgwtflolbbqbye: Nope no more punches from bats in that story but a few issues later yeah he does. And they pretty much reconcilled from there. #greenlantern
@Moff: Is this Roland Emmerich catastrophic, or just regular catastrophic? If L.A. isn't heaving upwards and tidal waves aren't crashing over the Himalayas, then it's just garden variety catastrophic. #greenlantern
The whole point of the Blackest Night is that it's attacking the issue that death isn't permanent in comics. It's trying to address that issue specifically by making it more public and trying to seal it as a concrete thing. Will it keep? Probably not. It's a good attempt to fix things though. #blackestnight
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Reynolds just flopped his belly onto the table and his agent nearly cried. #greenlantern
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i heard Jake Gylenhall say that after Prince Of Persia he plans on getting fat, tired of working out all the time #greenlantern
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Hal's a born and bred ace combat pilot, so obviously when he thinks 'flight' or 'space battle' he'd envision doing it in a fighter jet.
And that's why Kyle as an artist/cartoonist always comes up with really outlandish constructs/solutions to help him with challenges. #greenlantern
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It's one of the long-established fundamental for how the rings work and are used.
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Also, kind of creepy "cool kid" in Shakespeare-High School as the Joker, over sexed plastic surgeon as Dr. Doom, murderous skin head as Bruce Banner, albino hitchhiker in desert as Peter Parker, Ice Pirate as Hellboy, crazy coked out dude from Ally McBeal as Tony Stark... all these turned out for the better. Acting is their job and they tend to take it seriously. We should reserve judgment.
EDIT: I also forgot about ginger kid in Bad News Bear as Rorschach. :)
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frat bro space cop is not something i want to see. you took great actors and slimmed them down to roles you saw them as. ryan reynolds is not a great actor (the guy from nip tuck who played doom is also bad. and please dont mention fantastic 4 ever) he is not:
heath ledger
ed norton
robert downey jr
or
ron pearlman
he isn't even up to eric bana.
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This was exactly the same response the "gay cowboy joker" got. Reserve your judgement and judge the movie on its merits.
Though frankly overconfidant test pilot doesn't sound a long way from frat boy anyway... #greenlantern
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@GreyHammer:
Ryan reynolds is awesome he made blade 3 tolerable and smokin' aces, he's funny sarcastic and enjoyable line delivery, and to say Ron pearlman is a good actor is like saying Harrison fords as Han Solo, is a an exploration into a man torn apart between his friends and his love of FUCKING MONEY! most of these roles are very one sided characters so acting has little to do with it.
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@thorshammer: evidence? #greenlantern
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The guy took the easier way up by staring in mainstream comedies and romances, but he also has been trying to expand his range as of late by picking up lots of side roles and projects with different genres and credible actors/ directors.
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I was so painfully wrong.
@Dash_Stryker: Fantastic Four sucked. So bad. But Julian MacMahon made it bearable. Still not the Dr. Doom I want to see but at least he got the cold, vanity down. #greenlantern
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I mean, 'cause on the one hand, you're getting whacked in the head.
On the other hand, it's a dildo, so it's like ten times as embarrassing. #greenlantern
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By contrast, only Mr. Fantastic is as easy a target for sexual jokes... #greenlantern
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I love how Hollywood thinks all of a sudden that sci-fi and super hero movies aren't realistic enough. Some of the greatest sci-fi films of all time were made decades ago. Now, years later with huge advances in what would have been considered rather far fetched technology at that time, we start dumbing down science in movies because "the masses can't handle it."
Part of the allure of Hollywood films is the suspension of disbelief. If anything, I enjoy a movie that can take me to another world without everything being necessarily realistic moreso than a movie that restrains itself within the confines of my actual worldview because it becomes that much more fantastic.
I don't know, maybe that's just me. #greenlantern
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I love when directors explain the premise of a well-known superhero, which they were obviously unfamiliar with prior to their involvement in the project.
"So he's this guy, and he pretends to be this boring clumsy reporter, but really he's an alien from the planet Kryptonite, and he's way way super-strong, and really really fast. Oh, and he can fly, too." #greenlantern
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After all he's being interviewed by Empire and not Wizard.
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Too bright, and it's "Highlighters in Space". Too dark and it's "Snot Amongst the Stars"
Still think it should be Nathan Fillion. #greenlantern
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And I'll say that I still think Fillion would make a better Guy Gardner than a Hal Jordan. #greenlantern
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Hell I'd like to see them both sling the green together back to back. #greenlantern
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For Hal Jordan I think we need a mature-type guy and of course, NOT Ryan Reynolds.
Edit: Mature as in age, not necessarily attitude.
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#magicspacering
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Psh. Americans don't care about special effects. They care about convoluted mythology and "galaxy police."
*eyeroll*
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@Moff: Batman disagrees. #greenlantern
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Also I think later in the story Bats gives him another one too...
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As seen in the batman Blackest Night issues.. Thats not the truth.. They are just bodys with living rings on them. #blackestnight
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