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Why did this flop?

posted 11 years ago by npiazza91
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I understand that not many like this film, but I'm curious as to why not many people saw it. I mean even Captain America 1 and Thor 1 made more, and they were being introduced around the same time. Was it bad word of mouth that hurt it that badly? Was it because it wasn't part of the MCU, which was (and still is) hot at the time? Or did people not like Ryan Reynolds, or didn't know who Green Lantern was? I honestly have no idea. I could understand 300-400 million, but barely over 200 million seems impossible for superhero film in 2011.

[–] tinycatpenis (132) 8 years ago

Peter sarsgaard or whatever his name is. He wrecked it

[–] TexasJack (12516) 8 years ago

I remember the cgi being distractingly bad.

[–] fzane (1190) 6 years ago

Marvel fanboys, and studio bought bots to bring it down. The effects were astounding. I just watched it for the second time, and after 7 years, it had great replay value. Also, there's a sequel on the way, so you lose.

[–] mitzibishi (2013) 6 years ago

Was that with Riff Trax? Its hilariously bad. The only thing that saves it is its not boring and swiftly paced unlike a lot of other bad movies.

It just dumb. Like when Green Lantern does some stupid crap at work, bankrupts the company so 100s of people lose thier jobs.

Then at the bar the script acts like we are supposed to side with Reynolds when he is douching around with his love interest and some guys in the bar who had just lost their jobs, who clearly do have a right to be angry at him step up. Its not even the old bar bully cliche, again he cost them their jobs by being an ass.

Green Lantern just snarkily quips at them and it goes to a fight outside. Then Lantern smashes one of them through a brick wall.

Terrible. But so bad its good.

>Also, there's a sequel on the way, so you lose.

Reboot. Big difference. because they are desperate to wring some money out of the thing they paid good money for.

They release Fantastic 4 movies every other year. Would you call the last one a sequel to Silver Surfer? Or the next one a sequel to the last disaster?

[–] fzane (1190) 6 years ago

You missed the point of what the movie was trying to show you:
How he changed from a reckless childhood damaged nut into more like his courageous father. Also, you didn't pay attention to the dialog, it was later stated that his stunt actually GOT them the contract since they were able to fix the weakness in the drones so they could actually fly higher. So, it ended up that he gave the ultimate quality assurance test for the drones, finding a weakness. When he smashes one through the wall, he didn't even understand that's what would happen. He was still learning the power of the ring. It's not like he wanted to hurt/kill those people.
Even if the movie has it's slight flaws, it's in no way terrible, and is sorta like a saturday morning cartoon i watched as a kid back in the 80s, but with suped up graphics. I enjoyed it for what it was, and it entertained me just fine. It certainly doesn't deserve to be crapped on all day. I'd rate it 6/10, or maybe even 6.5/10 for having a great message for anyone who may have lost their dad early in life.
I don't watch fantastic 4 or silver surfer, but maybe i'll give them a shot, now that you mention them. l8r.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 6 years ago

Refer to this thread for how truly lame this movie was:

https://moviechat.org/tt1133985/Green-Lantern/58c81b972214d80b5cfb3b3d/Green-Lantern-Script-Recap-for-Dummies-All-Plot-Holes-Answered

Probably the third or fourth worst superhero film ever.

[–] fzane (1190) 6 years ago

I'm not reading all that crap, just from skimming the first few points it looks like that person didn't get my two points i mentioned to mitzibishi above. The film was about someone who didn't have a Dad growing up, and was a reckless ahole, but who turned into a man with courage.
I'm guessing there was some people who were supposed to be involved with the film, but then they got released for whatever reason, and now they're so butt hurt, they spend man days writing diatribes about how bad it is, and marvel fanboys eat it up b/c they want to hate d/c so bad. I'm not getting involved. Like i said to mitzibishi, the film entertained me on a 6/10 level. There is no need to comb over all the reasons others disliked it. That would be a waste of my time. See you at the next Green Lantern film. I'm guessing it gets similar or even worse hate from these people who obviously cannot just sit and enjoy a popcorn superhero movie for what it is, instead of pretending it should be judged as the next Godfather.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 6 years ago

lol