# I stopped watching Green Lantern movie about half way through - and I love super hero movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174 "2012-01-30T09:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/1 "2012-01-30T09:17:49Z")
[Oh Jesus Christ what a pile](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_(film)http://)! I love super hero movies and space opera but … my Lord. Ever half assed cliche, and clunky trope that ever embarrassed itself found a home in this awful dog pile of a movie. I just turned it off an went to bed. Woof. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/2 "2012-01-30T09:56:07Z")
I made it to the end, and yh it was a big steaming turd, I too am usually a big fan of thesuperhero genre. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/3 "2012-01-30T15:30:30Z")
Pretty much agreed. My problem was that the movie didn’t seem to have any urgency/danger/conflict to it - I just didn’t care what happened, or care about any of the characters. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/4 "2012-01-30T15:37:23Z")
Not that good. Very poor introduction to a character, and very poor use of the character. Thumbs down. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/5 "2012-01-30T15:39:53Z")
[Movie Bob agrees.](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/3557-Green-Lantern) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/6 "2012-01-30T17:14:42Z")
You name your kid “Sinestro” and it is pretty much a given he’s going to turn evil at some point ya know? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/7 "2012-01-30T17:16:52Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > You name your kid “Sinestro” and it is pretty much a given he’s going to turn evil at some point ya know? Or a mathematician. But realistically, probably an evil mathematician. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/8 "2012-01-30T17:18:42Z")
Major suckage: poorly written, poor choice of actors, going for camp and ended up crap. I didn’t make it past about 20 minutes. Oh wait: I’m thinking of “Green Hornet”. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/9 "2012-01-30T17:20:57Z")
Not a big comic fan and thus don’t watch many of these super-hero movies but I overhear many friends talk about how crappy most of them seem to be. Is this true? If so, why? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/10 "2012-01-30T17:23:06Z")
oddly enough - it was exactly what I expected from a Green Lantern movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/11 "2012-01-30T17:29:04Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Oh Jesus Christ what a pile](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_(film)http://)! Heh: “Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.” That about sums up the movie – multimillion-dollar effort and national release, but not worth a page on Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/12 "2012-01-30T17:46:17Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Not a big comic fan and thus don’t watch many of these super-hero movies but I overhear many friends talk about how crappy most of them seem to be. > > Is this true? If so, why? Couple of reasons. First and probably foremost, the fanbase is sort of a captive audience. There aren’t many superhero movies overall, and the diehard comics fans will generally shell out for any treatment of a beloved character without being deterred by poor quality. They may complain about the quality, sure (see below), but they’ll still spend to see it. Non-discriminating consumers encourage half-assed efforts from content producers. Second, the sort of major characters who are able to attract movie funding at all are usually long-established. Superman debuted in 1938, Batman in 1939, Spider-Man in 1962, Avengers in 1962, X-Men in 1963. They’ve all been through different eras of artists and writers by now, creating a sort of “sedimentary” fanbase composed of different generations of readers who knew the characters under different writers and artists. So what pleases a 50-year-old fan of a given character will be “crappy” to a 20-year-old fan who knows the character as interpreted by a completely different creative team. When a movie is developed, one interpretation of the character must be chosen (or a mishmash blended together, which has its own pitfalls). This leaves the end product (the movie) vulnerable to complaints from every generation of fans except the one chosen by the moviemakers (and perhaps also that generation anyway, of course). edited to add for relevance: Green Lantern debuted in 1940. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/13 "2012-01-30T18:00:40Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > You name your kid “Sinestro” and it is pretty much a given he’s going to turn evil at some point ya know? > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Or a mathematician. > > But realistically, probably an evil mathematician. An evil, _left-handed_ mathemetician. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/14 "2012-01-30T19:07:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Not a big comic fan and thus don’t watch many of these super-hero movies but I overhear many friends talk about how crappy most of them seem to be. > > Is this true? If so, why? “Most”? I don’t know about that. _Thor_ and _Captain America_ were both pretty well-received. In fact, Marvel has been doing pretty well overall lately, also scoring _Iron Man_ I and II, the first two _X-Men_ films, and the first two _Spider-Man_s. DC’s products have been more lackluster, but they’ve still got the two most recent _Batman_ movies, both of which were excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/15 "2012-01-30T19:20:14Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Not a big comic fan and thus don’t watch many of these super-hero movies but I overhear many friends talk about how crappy most of them seem to be. > > Is this true? If so, why? I think in general the last glut of superhero movies have been pretty good, given the source material. Its pretty easy to make superhero films either overly campy or have really convoluted plots that only really die-hard fans care about. But, while there have been some stinkers, they’ve generally been pretty good. I actually keep hoping they’ll start to flop just so the genre stops dominating the new releases to the extent it has been, but the latest X-men and Thor were both good enough that I think we still have a few more summers of super-hero heavy films. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/16 "2012-01-30T19:34:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Major suckage: poorly written, poor choice of actors, going for camp and ended up crap. I didn’t make it past about 20 minutes. > > Oh wait: I’m thinking of “Green Hornet”. Actually I like the Green Hornet movie. Not saying it was a great movie, but it was amusing, and a good take on the lame TV show. I consider it at least 50% parody. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/17 "2012-01-30T20:55:55Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Actually I like the Green Hornet movie. Not saying it was a great movie, but it was amusing, and a good take on the lame TV show. I consider it at least 50% parody. Of course it was parody, but it was really badly done parody. Obvious jokes and stupid dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/18 "2012-01-30T22:30:40Z")
Green Lantern’s himself [wasn’t all that pleased](http://www.youtube.com/user/itsjustsomerandomguy?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/26/h_2n3OTGkuQ). Admittedly, there were some signs early on that things [might not be going well](http://www.youtube.com/user/itsjustsomerandomguy?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/32/GOHI7RS-84k). – Cap respects him, [at least](http://www.youtube.com/user/itsjustsomerandomguy?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/23/r-i7WzCm4YI). ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/19 "2012-01-30T22:37:46Z")
Green Lantern is probably my fourth favorite superhero from the comics. (Batman, Superman, Spider-man, Green Lantern). And I really always wanted a Green Lantern movie but could never figure out how they could do the special effects. But once CGI came along, I thought “WOW, they can finally make a Green Lantern movie!” and then they did… and it was meh… boring. Big disappointment. And they filmed it in my home town. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-watching-green-lantern-movie-about-half-way-through-and-i-love-super-hero-movies/611174/20 "2012-01-30T22:39:55Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Of course it was parody, but it was really badly done parody. Obvious jokes and stupid dialogue. I think I just have a higher tolerance for stupid movies than you. It absolutely sucked as a real superhero movie, just skates by with me as a comedy. I’m not saying it was good, just not a waste of 2 hours like GL was.