This is from DC's blog:



In this week’s ceremony, Green Lantern won the People’s Choice Award for BEST MOVIE SUPERHERO, as portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 film.

Giving “fans a chance to honor their favorite entertainers” according to the official website, the People’s Choice Awards allows audiences to determine the nominees and winners. This year’s live telecast aired on January 11.

Congratulations to Ryan, and to everyone involved in bringing GREEN LANTERN to the silver screen!

Really? Wow...

WTF?

Are we talking about the 10 year old fans? Duh.

We're also talking about all the chicks who went to see that movie for Ryan Reynolds alone. All the have to do is show that guy with his shirt off and it's on. The travesty is that completely DUMB movie beat out Captain America, which was about as close to perfect as a superhero flick could have been. All this award does is prove K completely right. "A person is smart, people are dumb panicky, dangerous animals."

Did people actually go to see Green Lantern, or as the Onion dubbed it, 'Greg Lantern'?

I did see it in the theater. I don't think it was as bad as a lot of people say, but it certainly wasn't without its flaws. There were some bright spots in it though.

Still, it was most definitely the worst comic film of 2011. How anyone could put it ahead of Thor, Captain America and X-Men: First Class is beyond me.

Man I could go off at extended length at how bad the Green Lantern movie is. I mean, was it mildly entertaining on the most basic of levels? I guess. I mean it wasn't bad enough to want to make me want my two hours back...but it also had so many gaping plot holes a 4th grader could have noticed. And I'm certain it's because we've been spoiled as fans in the last decade or so. I mean put the GL flick up against something like any of the Burton Bat-flicks after the first two, Spawn, that sort of thing and you have Oscar material in comparison, but on the shelf against Captain America, the first Spiderman movie, or dare I say the Nolan Dark Knight and this thing isn't even a shade of an 80s Saturday morning cartoon we thought was awesome when we were 10 but then realized how bad it really is watching it as an adult.

Holy crap.

I did go to see it in the theater.

My name is Greg.



It wasn't great, but it had brilliant moments that I enjoyed and was full of great fan service for GLC nerds at times. Everything on Oa was great and they should have just spent more time there.

It's a good time to be alive where a bad comic book movie has millions of dollars poured into it and visually arresting depictions of the characters and worlds you read about in the comics. Instead of a low budget Cap with rubber ears.

Glad to see Green Lantern getting some love. Even if it was rough, I'm holding out hope they march on with the sequel and it has a better story, better depiction of the Corps, and has more cool aliens.

I'm sick to death of your anti-rubber-ears agenda Greg. Ears have feelings too you know, even rubber ones.

In all seriousness, the first 10 minutes of that movie, the 90's Cap, imply this may be a good movie. We have the kidnapping by the German guards, the experiments and the rat flesh and skull creature that looks really cool.

But then...hoo boy, does it take a turn for the awful.

I want my two hours back....make it three and I'll stop complaining about this thing.

I want my two hours back....make it three and I'll stop complaining about this thing.

Yeah, the Corman superhero movies were more and exercise in licensee rights squatting than honest efforts to bring our favorite heroes to the big screen. They could have done well with money behind them.

Heck, Roger Corman - add a budget, X-Men license, and Pam Grier as Storm? That would have been a thing of beauty.

It's a good time for comic fans. We're beyond Comic Scene rumor sections of James Cameron directing a Spiderman movie starring River Phoenix / Johnny Depp / Christian Slater like back in those days.

I suspect Hollywood also loves comic movies because it is a natural fit for the PG-13 mass market dollar they love to rake in. You get your big action spectacle with none of the scary real violence.

YOU MUST BE TRIPPING



Having accidentally rented the Green Lantern CARTOON with the live action cover last
week-released close to the time the REAL GL movie was coming out-a bait and switch ploy from
DC I'm sure, I was not in a positive frame of mind for this movie. But I wanted to give it a chance.
One thing I've noticed about DC movies as opposed to Marvel movies is the crowds. In a Marvel movie the
crowd is reacting to what's happening. In a DC movie the crowd just stands there while a green flying guy
you know, shoots magical beams that stop a crashing heli and saves a girl from a falling structure with
a FORCE FIELD. Even after the FLYING GREEN GUY shoots skyward, no one says a word. Also, they're evenly
spaced. It's like the director said ok you guys stand here here and here etc then forgot about them.
Dumb, man. No one says "WHO IS THAT DUDE? HOW CAN HE FLY?" or even "OMG!"
Also, the debut of GL was dumb. A heli starts to crash-heads for the crowd, all this times passes
before FINALLY GL does something about it. He watched it all go down, like everyone, but just, I don't
know, reached for another drink.
Also we have Sinestro- the GL leader(the guardians don't say or do much of anything-they kinda remind
me of Michael Jackson on propofol. Dumb). So Sinestro tells Hal how inferior and unworthy he is
cause he's human. If I was Hal I would have quipped 'Hey Goebbels-what's with the racist attitude,
man? Haven't you ever heard of diversity? Seig Heil, dude.'
The film plods along with the usual stupidities. No one recognizes Hal because he's wearing an
eye mask. To test this I bought a same size domino mask and put it on. I walked around to various
friends and acquantances and guess what-every single one said 'Hey Kav-what's with the mask?' Dumb.
I also don't like the lantern. It's obviously a lightweight cheap plastic prop and looks somewhat
like a 60's hippie lamp. Dumb.
Then we have the scene kyped from the original Superman movie where he flies up to Lois Lane I
mean Carol Ferris's penthouse. He even steals Superman's line
'are you ok?' And why does everyone in the movies live in penthouses??? I
guess Hollywood thinks since they and all their friends live in penthouses, so must the rest of
America. Out of touch, boys? It bugs me that the average 17 year old can spot these gaffes yet no
one on a multimillion dollar movie set can. Hollywood: I'M AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION! I'LL
WORK FOR FREE! Christ.
OK finally Carol recognizes it's Hal. Why it took her 3 minutes of staring to come up with this
when my friends didn't even take 1/2 a second is a mystery. PS can't the actor at least shave if he's
gonna be in a multimillion dollar film? These and other questions I have. The beard stubble is distracting.
Hal's OA GL mentor explained the mask appears when he's among his own kind so he can go unrecognized.
The fact that beings as dumb as this have such powerful weapons scares me.
And the romance scenes really DRAG, man. They could have just as effectively put up a sign
that said 'ROMANCE SCENE HERE" instaed of having the 'actors' go thru the painful motions of
speaking such lame dialogue.
Then there's the scene where Hal's old schoolmate now turned toad-style kung fu lookin dude
battles GL. He keeps launching oxygen tanks at GL and GL keeps trying to block them with his ring.
Of course several slip past and knock him senseless. Hey, dummy-just make a friggin force field.
Christ. Then we have to hear the cheesy villain 'moogie-ha-ha' laugh. Corny, guys. Weak
characterization. No one is 100% evil-Hitler liked dogs. But that's too deep for these writers,
no-they went with the formula villain. In fact this whole movie could have been written by a
computer. I'm not kidding. There are actual programs that do this. So then the villain starts
MONOLOGUING. Guys-go see 'The Incredibles'. That movie MOCKED the weak character device pretty
effectively.
Then we learn that Hal is AFRAID. He has the most advanced weapon ever devised and he's
AFRAID. Give me the freakin ring and I'll handle it dude. I'll defeat the menace because I'll
ATTACK it instead of staring at it with gaping mouth. Double Christ. Hollywood-it's not a good
sign when a viewer keeps waiting for the movie to be OVER. But that's how I felt. And everyone
else I talked to. Even teenagers HATED this movie. PS the actor that plays Sinestro is great-
it's too bad he got pulled into this suckfest.
We also have the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom rip-off where the evil guardian
sucks the souls out of his victim's eyeballs. Lame. The Hal gets half his soul sucked out but
he's still ok. I guess a half-wit can operate with a half-soul. This movie is a real tragedy
it could have been so good-GL has the most interesting super power. But Hollywood formula
writing prevails and we have suckfest instead.
Hal lures the creature into the asteroid belt, which is strangely close to Earth, and is chock
full of asteroids. Science note-the actual belt is so sparse if you passed thru it you would't
see a single asteroid. The entire mass of asteroids circling the Sun at a circumference of billions
of miles would constitute a small moon. There's not much there, folks. Sorry. If the actual
belt was this crowded Earth would be struck so often that no life, not even bacteria, would have
time to evolve.


So therefore I am re-naming this movie 'Green Latrine'
That's a wrap.

To be fair, with the Marvel movies, people act the same way.

None of this...oh my God, how is he able to lift a car, swing from webs, shoot lasers from their eyes, claws from their hands, set himself on fire, she just controlled the weather...etc

The only super hero movie where people are like 'Holy jeez, he's flying and he's holding a helicopter, and a woman at the same time' while totally astonished was Superman(1978) and that was 34 years ago. Since then, no matter what people see on screen, there is no astonishment anymore.

Look at the whole Spider-man movie, where people were seeing this hero fighting crime and swinging from webs, yet nobody cared. There was no growth either with his powers in the three films, and he had shown all hs tricks by the end of the first one.
On the other hand, Hellboy 2 actually showed a great deal of growth and changed over the course of the two films, and when people see Hellboy, in the flesh, for the first time, they are astonished and shocked to see he is real.

Now that is a proper comic book movie. At least when it comes to introducing the hero to the citizens.

YOU MUST BE TRIPPING! watch Spiderman 3 for example-the crowd is going NUTS as the sandman
venom, spidey and gobby battle! They are REACTING! Now, watch GL....the crowd doesnt say a PEEP.

PS here are ten good reason's the "people's choice' is a meaningless award, in fact it means the
exact OPPOSITE of GOOD. Spread the word folks: PEOPLE'S CHOICE = BAD...REALLY BAD

4. The following Favorite New TV Shows (aka, the “We Love This Show So Much, It Will Be On Forever!” award; from 2008 on, I defy you to remember a single one of these programs):

2011 - $#*! My Dad Says
2009 - Gary Unmarried
2008 - Moonlight
2007 - The Class
2000 - Stark Raving Mad
1999 - LA Doctors
1998 - Brooklyn South
1996 - Murder One
1992 - Homefront
1991 - Equal Justice

Ah, you are talking about the battle scenes. I see. I was thinking more along the lines of when the hero first appears.

To be fair, the people of Gotham are roaring their heads off in Batman Begins at the end, and in Dark Knight when shooting starts, as they are in the big fights in Superman 1 and 2. Then there is the big battle in Superman 2 where people are panicked and screaming. Superman Returns, which sucks, also has folks running around like headless chickens when the Earth is seemingly going ape.

There are parts of Spider-man where the crowd are just standing there (note the part of the first movie where the kid is just standing there as the balloon is about to fall on him. The mom also does nothing. Even Kirsten Dunst, on the commentary for that film, said it was dumb.)

I missed the people reacting in Spider-man 3, mainly because the irritating reporter (another model turned actress) was distracting me with her atrocious acting. That is why that never registered with me.

If you look at the Burton Batman movies, or even the Schumacher ones, the crowd is also going crazy at alot of times of the film.

I understand what you mean about the crowds not reacting. That is just down to terrible direction. I mean, Spider-man one is littered with scenes where nobody does a darn thing during the various fight scenes. Alot of those scenes also don't make a lick of sense.

I remember Moonlight, mainly because it had the most wasted potential I had ever seen in a show over the last number of years. A really awesome premise, wasted by terrible scripts, terrible writing, a lame love subplot, some bad acting, formulaic plotting, an irritating set of background characters, etc. It was like the TV version of Twilight. Only with bloodsucking.

I just remember watching a few episodes and finding myself increasingly dissappointed.

It could be like Terminator 3- There's a firetruck ripping up LA and there is no music and no people to react.

I remember several of those actually. 2011's was the Shatner comedy and it was terrible. Moonlight, I actually knew someone that worked on that. It did have promise, but the star is now starring in a much better show. And The Class was actually pretty good.

But point taken and agreed with.

As for Green Lantern, it wasn't great, I'll give you that. But it wasn't nearly as bad as some say. For instance, it wasn't Green Hornet or Spawn. It just had some major flaws here and there sprinkled throughout.

And just to make sure my opinion stays the same, I'm watching it again this weekend. Why? Well, for one, because I couldn't find anything else that I hadn't seen yet, and two, just because. There were elements of it I liked, and if they improve on those elements for the sequel and focus on Sinestro as the credits scene hinted at, it could be a much stronger film.

Back to the awards, I agree with whoever said it's because of Ryan Reynolds. He's a big star right now and the kids love him. So there you go.

I'm holding out hope for a sequel with a better script and more Lanterns. If Ryan Reynolds bails out they could always do a Guy Gardner / John Stewart buddy space cop movie.