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In Brightest Day...

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (35)

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OK, ignore that annoying “Entertainment Tonight” teaser that Dustin showed you last week (and seriously, could he have botched that write up any more? The man has no respect for the classics). Here’s the full trailer, finally released by Warner Brothers.

We all know the story by now, or at least we should. Hal Jordan, a cocky yet talented test pilot, is chosen to become the Green Lantern, part of a sort of intergalactic police force charged with defending the universe from evil. Jordan is tasked with helping the Green Lantern Corps to fight the entity known as Parralax (hush, comic fans. Don’t spoil anything, even though I doubt that the movie is heading in that direction). Ryan Reynolds plays Jordan, Blake Lively plays Carol Ferris, his love interest. Peter Sarsgaard plays Hector Hammond, the eventual bad guy, and Marc Strong plays Sinestro, his mentor. It also stars Tim Robbins and Angela Bassett and is directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale).

And you know what? It looks pretty fucking good. The ET clip played up the goofy humor aspect, but that’s because they’re morons. It’s got a good bit of Reynolds smirk-humor, but it’s hardly a screwball comedy. In fact, the tone of the trailer is pretty serious, with a couple of jokes tossed in here and there, which is pretty much what the modern superhero comics are like (and the best superhero films, for that matter). I’m not 100% sold on Reynolds as Hal Jordan, but after seeing him in Buried, I’m willing to give him a hell of a lot of leeway. The otherworldly footage, particularly of the planet Oa, where the Green Lantern Corps is based, looks gorgeous, and the suit, which many were skeptical of — rightfully so, given it’s being done entirely in CGI — looks pretty sweet, considering that (as the boys from Slashfilm noted), the effects likely aren’t finished yet.

Watch:

I know, right? Pretty effin’ slick. It looks like DC might finally have another bullet in their gun.

Eat a bag of dicks, Aquaman.

Green Lantern will be released on June 17th, 2011.









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Comments

Ummm, that's quite the digital package. Sinestro is going to be pissed.

Posted by: admin at November 16, 2010 11:42 PM

I think it looks pretty cool. And of course the CG ain't finished yet.

Posted by: junierizzle at November 17, 2010 12:02 AM

Aaah I know I'll love it, even if I think the name "Green Lantern" is a bit silly. I mean, Lantern. It sounds so 1800s. Green LED, now there's an idea. Green LAMP. Green...CANDLE. Green...OK I'll stop now.

Also the mask is little silly looking. But still! it looks fun. I'm in.

Posted by: figgy at November 17, 2010 12:09 AM

I agree w/ figgy on the mask. But I guess that a mask really is the best way to shield your identity (Clark Kent can go head and just broadcast his true identity with those glasses. Glasses? I mean a scarf would be more inconspicuous.)

Like figgy tho, I'm in. I sick of spiderman and batman (and will refuse to see the re-reboots.) Bring on the new superheroes.

Posted by: aroorda at November 17, 2010 12:21 AM

im excited for this movie. but im starting to wonder if this movie would be better without a sequel, which would surely ruin the mythology. i guess they could show the further building of the relationship between sinestro and hal, and the eventual downfall of sinestro, and then him becoming hals arch-villain.

and DC only has a few more movies that could be good, Green Lantern (and the inevitable) sequels, and Superman: The Man of Steel. i already know the next Batman movie will be amazing, unless the studio gets to involved and makes nolan do catwoman, which will be a damn shame, because that moron halle berry ruined the character...FOREVER.

Posted by: Taylor K. at November 17, 2010 12:22 AM

I love the clip of Ryan Reynolds reciting the oath for that kid at SD Comic Con!!

Posted by: Amanda at November 17, 2010 12:24 AM

Si es muy bueno, si senor!

Posted by: Marcela at November 17, 2010 12:32 AM

it looks like it will pull off the unlikely translation of things like green spandex, foreheady villains, magic rings, pink aliens and other stuff that is always such great fun in the comic books, but can get really embarassing and groany in film.

I'm in

Posted by: idleprimate at November 17, 2010 1:02 AM

Everything looks interesting except Boobs Legsly.

Posted by: Lauren at November 17, 2010 1:15 AM

@ Lauren

Hah! You must read Go Fug Yourself!

Posted by: Lexie at November 17, 2010 1:54 AM

Eat a bag of dicks, Aquaman.

By Aquaman, did you mean Dustin?

While I always have reservations about comic book properties that aren't as well known as the big 3 (Superman, Batman, Spider-Man), the success of Iron Man at least gives me the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Fredo at November 17, 2010 2:21 AM

Actually, I'm fairly sure Aquaman would love to net himself a bag of dicks...

Posted by: cinekat at November 17, 2010 3:42 AM

Hey, let's not get ugly here people. After all, we all know the Aquaman movie will be AWESOME! Like Baywatch with fish. Sexy fish. Wait, hold on...

Posted by: Aqualad at November 17, 2010 6:18 AM

TK, you made me laugh this morning ... 'Eat a bag of dicks, Aquaman' - too funny!

Posted by: Penniless Bastard at November 17, 2010 6:52 AM

To the haters,

Neener.

Love,
-GL

Oh and lay off Arthur, will you guys? He just found out is wife was sent from a parallel dimension to KILL him, just took on a new sidekick...he's got a LOT on his plate without a bag of dicks atop it. Okay?

Okay.

Posted by: Green Lantern at November 17, 2010 8:13 AM

Sinestro & Kilowog look cool, Hector Hammond does not.

Posted by: the new transported man at November 17, 2010 8:43 AM

I understand now why they used a CGI costume for the character. It would have been a nightmare to fit and tailor that kind of material for all the extras/supporting players that are also Green Lanterns. However, I still think it looks like crap. To me, it looks like poor Ryan Reynolds sat down in a green screen booth where they filmed nothing but his head and neck for any action scene. Everything else on him and around him looks fake. I say he should have had a real costume, the one who teaches the power should have had a real costume, and everyone else should have had the CGI costumes.

If the industry ever wants motion capture performances to be respected, they need to do a whole hell of a lot better than making it look like the head was pasted onto a fully animated body.

Posted by: Robert at November 17, 2010 9:14 AM

NEW SIDEKICK!!! What the hell?

Posted by: aqualad at November 17, 2010 9:18 AM

Has anyone told Dustin yet that Ryan Reynold's is People's Sexiest Man Alive for the year? A belated birthday gift perhaps?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 17, 2010 9:18 AM

...he's got a LOT on his plate without a bag of dicks atop it.

This made me laugh so hard I sharted in my CGI leotard.

Posted by: Sinestro at November 17, 2010 9:31 AM

I would pay five bucks to be a fly on the wall on the studio execs brainstorm for this movie.

"I fucking love CGI so much it makes my balls hurt. If I loved CGI any more, I'd have sex with a computer. BUT we have to have Ryan Reynolds in the movie, so that we can mak the ladies' nethers tingly. My love of money and my love of CGI is tearing me apart, like Tommy Wissau in The Room. How can we possibly find a compromise"

"What if we just paste Ryan Reynolds head on top of waves of CGI tomfoolery. They won't be able to see his abs, but dammit They'll have to compromise."

"You beautiful bastard! You've made me so excited I'm going to go make the sex with a bag of 16th century spanish gold dubloons."

Honestly I'm excited about it. I hope it breeds a whole series of movies about Ryan Reynolds disembodied head doing stuff, like going on vacation, or surfing the big tournament...

Posted by: Blank at November 17, 2010 9:31 AM

Is it wrong that when I saw that People Magazine named Ryan Reynolds the sexiest man alive my first thought was, "I wonder what Dustin will say about this... he'll be so happy!"?

Posted by: Az at November 17, 2010 9:48 AM

Looks cool, but to me it looks a whole lot like that fan-made Nathan Fillion trailer from a while back.

We were so close, god dammit....

Posted by: chayes at November 17, 2010 9:49 AM

"Aquaman, be careful! They're stronger than you!" - Batman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

I love the Green Lantern. He's got probably my favorite power of any superhero. It's too bad he can be defeated by a bowl of cheese.

Posted by: L4NkYb at November 17, 2010 9:49 AM

I'm as giddy as a little school girl! Wait, that's not awkward, is it?


Bag of dicks.... hehe!

Posted by: Mr. Yuck at November 17, 2010 9:50 AM

@AZ

My first thought: Seriously, not Jon Hamm?
My second thought: I wonder if Dustin knows?

If we are wrong, we are wrong together and if we get enough people, or enough loud people, who are wrong together, it almost makes us correct and then our almost correctness becomes a critical mass of quasi-correctness because we are ever more pseudo-correct together. Then, somehow it doesn’t matter if individually we were “wrong” because we can shout louder than Them and sweep Them and their obviously partisan facts away in a tide of angry orthographically-suspect invective and dominate the discourse.

Or so I’ve heard.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 17, 2010 10:29 AM

HAMM!

He's too good for the masses who read "People". Pshaw.

Posted by: figgy at November 17, 2010 10:56 AM

Oh it will be Hamm. I give it under 5 years.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 17, 2010 10:59 AM

Really? Blake Lively?

Posted by: Sara at November 17, 2010 12:41 PM

Seriously? A movie about some tool bag who gets a purdy piece of jewelry that glows??? My sister had one of those things once...I think it was called a mood ring. Came about right after pet rocls went extinct.

I've had more interesting plots in the seat of my pants when bowl-disruptingly drunk. Fucking Green Lantern. Nice Green tights dick. You look like a reject from the Australian gymnastics team who couldn't get his sewing together.

I swear...all this DC potential out there :: coughmecoughcough :: and they go with this. Green Lantern is as useless as a bag of broken dildos. He's the only guys I know who could get his ass kicked by Long John Silver.

But hey...at least it's not Aquaman. Or worse...Lad.

Posted by: Resurrection Man at November 17, 2010 12:49 PM

I'm still Batman.

Posted by: Batman at November 17, 2010 12:51 PM

How's that working out for you?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 17, 2010 12:54 PM

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuughhhh blake lively? really?

Posted by: jvo at November 17, 2010 1:22 PM

Hey Mitch Shelley,

How's that "random powers once you come back from the dead" thing workin' out for you?

Yeah I thought so. Probably why we haven't heard from you for a while until your cameo in "Brightest Day". And you STILL weren't the one Deadman was lookin' for, were ya? Tsk...shame...

Oh yeah and congratulations on your new boo...oh! Yeah! Your book was CANCELED years ago, wasn't it? Meanwhile the GL Corps and I have...what? Three titles out including my own? Yeah. Pretty great.

So anytime you wanna come by and hang out with me and Long John Silver to have some Midori or Chartruse, c'mon by okay? Me and my Australian gymanstics tights will be sure to keep the liquor good and cold for ya.

(I never DID like that guy...)

Posted by: Green Lantern at November 17, 2010 3:41 PM

@ Mrs. Julien: "Over Jon Hamm?" was my second thought. So close!

Posted by: Az at November 18, 2010 1:27 AM