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Space Lord, Mutha Mutha: New Green Lantern Trailer Gets Epic

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (29)

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Well, this is certainly a change of pace. For the past few months, we’ve seen a bizarre variety of trailers for Green Lantern — the first one, which made it seem way more tongue-in-cheek than fans were comfortable with. Then there were the special effects issues, since much of the effects work was incomplete for a couple of trailers and looked a little dodgy. The film seemed to be lacking an identity.

To make matters worse around here, things weren’t helped when I wasn’t available to write up a couple of trailers, forcing Dustin to hamfistedly stumble his way through posting about them. One of which led to this exchange after another of his ignorant blatherings:

TK: You just couldn’t help yourself, could you.
DR: I really couldn’t. And from the perspective of someone who hasn’t read the comic — which is at least half the audience — I really did think it looked mostly silly, though I liked the pledge. Too much CGI. And space? This thing takes place a lot in space?
TK: It’s the friggin’ Green Lantern. He’s part of an intergalactic force that defends the universe from evil. Of course it takes place in space, dumbass.
DR: He’s part of an intergalactic force that defends the universe from evil? Really? Oh, no.

And right there, folks is the marketing problem that Green Lantern faces in a nutshell.

Regardless, the folks at Warners have decided to go all in on the whole space opera aspect of the story, and the new trailer is a whole new ballgame. It finally explains just what the fuck is going on to the laymen, who the Lanterns are, where they come from, and what their enemy is. It’s two and a half minutes of Green Lantern 101. And I pretty much dug it. Whether the non-comic fan, or non-genre fan, will buy into it? That’s another question. But I think that the cast will help that along, and I think there’s enough *KABOOM* in the trailer to get people out of the house for it. We shall see. In the meantime, here’s a little space opera for you:









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Comments

Well I imagine a superhero in space must be easier concept for an outsider to get their head around than a Norse god being a space alien, and Thor did pretty well.

Posted by: cockroach at May 23, 2011 10:45 AM

Too much CGI.

Posted by: kerminy at May 23, 2011 10:45 AM

Also, just b/c I found it humorous - you have to watch a commercial with a trailer for the movie The Big Bang to watch the trailer for the movie the Green Lantern. so, now we are forced to watch commercials in order to watch a commercial.

Posted by: kerminy at May 23, 2011 10:46 AM

Team Dustin!

Posted by: Odwalla Imparts at May 23, 2011 10:47 AM

So...
Green = good
Yellow = bad
Did I got that right?

Posted by: Kuub at May 23, 2011 10:50 AM

so, now we are forced to watch commercials in order to watch a commercial.

This has indeed what it has come to

Posted by: Protoguy at May 23, 2011 11:11 AM

Still just a guy with a magic ring....

Posted by: logan at May 23, 2011 11:15 AM

So, new age space wizards who fight and prey on emotions?

Posted by: Robert at May 23, 2011 11:23 AM

logan
Still just a guy with a magic ring....

No, I was wrong, nobody would go see this movie, who on earth would go see a movie about some guy with a magic ring?

No, wait...


Posted by: cockroach at May 23, 2011 11:30 AM

lawl

Posted by: Protoguy at May 23, 2011 11:53 AM

I first had to watch an Attack the Block advert to watch this. Kind of undermines a trailer when you'd much rather spend money to see the film advertised before it.

Posted by: scarecrowprophet at May 23, 2011 12:11 PM

Nah....still looks stupid. And no fear? Jeez that's the qualification? Way to pick every douchebag and sociopath. I am guessing the Jackass cast must be the best candidates ever for this

Posted by: Minto at May 23, 2011 12:33 PM

Not bad. I like how well the trailer sets up the Blackest Night storyline.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at May 23, 2011 12:52 PM

As much as I enjoy being an asshole and being snarky about things, that is definitely the best trailer they have released so far. I know nothing about Green Lantern, and the previous trailers didn't make me want to see this movie at all, much less in theaters. The grand scale of this trailer makes it look a lot more like something that would be best enjoyed in a theater, so it worked for me. I don't think I will be waiting in line on opening night in my Green Lantern cosplay outfit or anything, but I am definitely interested now.

Posted by: Douchebag McGee at May 23, 2011 12:53 PM

As much as I enjoy being an asshole and being snarky about things, that is definitely the best trailer they have released so far.

You, sir McGee of Douchebag, are absolutely right with that sentiment.

However, the weak parts of the other trailers are still too ridiculous to ignore, such as:

-Blake Lively trying to act.
-The laughable oath Reynolds makes on his coffee table.
-A decidedly "Fantastic Four" feeling to the scenes on earth.
-Hector Hammond (I think he looks too much like the dude who got hit with a whole hundred-gallon batch of toxic waste in Robocop)
-The suit
-Flat jokes
-Sinestro looking like a lollipop.

Parallax looks like he could be pretty interesting, but I'm scared other movies have taken the piss out of "amorphous cloud bad guy" characters. Geoffrey Rush is also an extremely welcome edition.

Posted by: D-Day at May 23, 2011 1:05 PM

Okay...that's a damn good trailer. It has made me more interested, i can't deny.

The BF has already declared we're seeing it since The Green Lantern is his favourite comic, so at least now I feel like I can enjoy it a bit more. It did look silly and cartoony and unnervingly like the Fantastic Four in the previous trailers but this captures the more exciting and thrilling aspects and down plays the silliness perfectly.
Yes.
I am excited.

Posted by: Nadine at May 23, 2011 1:07 PM

that is indeed a lot of cgi. i have more interest in seeing this than in seeing thor. that's not saying much.

Posted by: splinter at May 23, 2011 1:59 PM

I'm officially more interested than I was before. That's really saying much at all.

Posted by: Tits McGee at May 23, 2011 2:32 PM

this shudve been the first ever trailer for Green Lantern because there was only one shot of Blake Lively and the soundtrack gave me goosebumps.

The CGI's excessiveness and choice of green is still hurting my eyeballs though.

Posted by: haplo at May 23, 2011 2:51 PM

haplo
The CGI's excessiveness and choice of green is still hurting my eyeballs though.

Better than orange and blue though, surely?

Posted by: cockroach at May 23, 2011 2:58 PM

Better than orange and blue though, surely?

There's no way this green can be better than anything. A-ny-thing.

Posted by: haplo at May 23, 2011 3:05 PM

OK, so speaking purely from the perspective of someone who's completely ignorant of the comic but does love superhero movies and doesn't mind heavy fantasy when done right...well, this just looks silly. I don't know exactly what it is--partly it's that the CGI just looks silly. The CGI characters look really fake and plasticky, the story sounds ridiculous (and again, this from someone who loved Thor!) and it...just looks dumb.

I'll still watch it. I'll be prepared to eat my words, but based solely on trailers...I'm not hopeful.

Posted by: Figgy at May 23, 2011 6:51 PM

figgy, just think of it as the next step in animation and don't think of it as a live-action movie. i'm trying to do that and, who knows, it might help me get past the cgi.

Posted by: splinter at May 23, 2011 7:15 PM

Yeah. I can't imagine why they went with green, of all things, in a Green Lantern movie. It makes no sense.

Posted by: Craig at May 23, 2011 8:10 PM

I always thought it was "Space Lord, Mutha Truckah..."

'Cause. Y'know. Space Trucks.

Back off...I have a power ring and I know how to use it...

Posted by: Green Lantern at May 23, 2011 9:05 PM

Oh and yeah, I LURVED the new trailer. I think TK's right...a little educated nudge might be what folks need to get interested.

I hope the movie becomes even more green with money.

Posted by: Green Lantern at May 23, 2011 9:09 PM

Initially, I had a little inkling of interest in this movie, if for no other reason that I like Reynolds, and I have a lot of friends who love the comic. But with each new trailer that comes out, I become less and less interested. Can this movie just go away now? I'm tired of its marketing.

Posted by: Bistro at May 24, 2011 12:47 AM

It's not so much that it's green, but it's that shade of green. It looks like radioactive puke.

Posted by: Figgy at May 24, 2011 1:41 AM

I will be seeing this, because I love the Corps, I just have a few questions:

-G'nort?
-Rot Lop Fan?
-Mogo?

"From Lantern comes the Gift we give, to shed Light's grace on all that Live." -Eddore of Tront, Lantern of Sector 1419

Posted by: Wintermute at May 24, 2011 6:43 PM