Batman wrote:Because nobody outside the fan community has a clue what the Green Lantern Corps is.
I'm going to point to Iron Man, because the same could have been said for him. The argument is equally false.
'Emerald Knights' worked because it was aimed a that community.
Actually, I think it to had its share of flaws. But I'm a jerk that way, and those flaws are relatively minor.
And yes, they ruined Parallax, but as far as I'm concerned so did DC Comics, and again, that's something only the fan community would care (or know) about.
That doesn't really address the nature of the complaint. It's hard to make a villain who
looks like a pile of urine and fecal matter with a face pasted on it credible in any sense of the word. It works in comedy (The Golgotham comes to mind), but not for a serious villain.
He literally looked like crap.
As a standalone movie, to an audience that doesn't know much if anything about the Green Lantern subset of the DC universe, I maintain this movie was okay.
Even in the face of a massive structural flaw, which was just one of several within it? Shit, that's not even a mistake "Attack of the Crab Monsters" makes! I happen to like "Attack of the Crab Monsters" too, but I understand that it is a very bad movie. "So Bad its Good" bad.
Don't let your personal liking of a movie fool you into thinking that it's anything other than extremely flaws or downright bad.
Green Lantern has, from what I recall of my one viewing, an unlikable protagonist which is given the flimsiest and most offhanded humanization I have ever seen. That is the core flaw that sinks the entire picture. There's other problems, I admit, but I really don't want to track them down bit by bit, the unlikeable protagonist is, to me, the core one, and the structural problem created to try and cover for that just exacerbates the problem. There's more problems with the character, but simply pointing out the flaws of the film isn't really going to do much to change your opinion, I think. Hell, I'm realizing more as I think about.
And it's not, in my opinion, limited to the movie. Hal Jordan himself is the sort of character that pretty much died with John Wayne. Modern audiences and modern sensibilities simply cannot accept that sort of hero straight in a modern production. There's a reason I made that last comment regarding Zap Brannigan. Parodies and subversions are more common and acceptable these days. Part of me thinks it's a bit sad in some cases, but that's where we are now.
We need our heroes to be more obviously flawed.