BS: Movie: Green Lantern

Subject: BS: Green Lantern
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 12:49 PM

Always one of my favourites as a kid. The film is on release today - Won't get chance to see it until Sunday. Anyone seen it yet?

Not seen Thor yet either - May go for a double bill :-)

Yes, I am a comic book fan

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Green Lantern
From: Wesley S
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 01:10 PM

I haven't seen it yet but Roger Ebert gave it a B. He says it was better than Thor. I'm sure I'll see it soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Lantern
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 02:51 PM

Enjoyed it immensely. Excellent CGI effects. Not much in the way of character development, but be honest, who goes to see these comic-book heroes going all Hamlet on you?
A few plot holes you drive a bus through, but suspension of disbelief is the order of the day.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Lantern
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 03:08 PM

I like the Golden Age Lantern (1940s); I'll pass on this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Lantern
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 03:10 PM

He gets a mention in this Donovan song.
I always preferred the Silver Surfer myself.

Sunshine Superman
Donovan

Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine

I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene
When I say we'll be cool I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine
I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find

Superman or Green Lantern ain't got a-nothin' on me
I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your velvet throne
'bout all the rainbows a-you can a-have for your own
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine

I'll pick up your hand
I'll pick up your hand

Subject: RE: BS: Green Lantern
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 05:30 PM

I dunno' why the hell I read Green Lantern as a kid but I loved the idiot. Some of the later "super heroes" had some debatable powers but Green Lantern won the contest for dumbest......then Star Wars came along.............But when you're a kid it was pretty cool.................Hey...if nothing else I always loved the oath.

I remember even today the main version of it although I also recall others. The other day a commercial for the movie came on and I did a dramatic rendition, sticking out my arm at the end.............well.............Tris laughed, Karen shook her head, and Michael said, "From that I figure this guy was around when you were a kid."

"In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power… Green Lantern's light!"


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Green Lantern
From: RangerSteve
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 05:35 PM

I'll check it out after the crowds have died down. GL was a favorite of mine, too, as a kid, along with the Flash and Aquaman. I'm waiting on those movies, too. Flash was done as a pretty good TV show that almost no one saw, so maybe there's no audience for him.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Lantern
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 05:42 PM

My hero was The Coleman Lantern from up Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. He would roam the fields and apple orchards at night and poach deer to feed the infirm. A TRUE superhero.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Wesley S
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 08:34 PM

I was never an Aquaman fan. I prefered The Flash and Hawkman. I still have several of the original appearances of Hawkman in the Brave and the Bold. I liked The Atom too. I have a run of the first three or four Atom comics.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: ranger1
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 09:05 PM

Steve, was it the Flash series starring John Wesley Shipp that was on in the early '90s? I loved that show!

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 07:23 AM

I never saw the series - Don't think it was aired in the UK - and I can only find reference to an animated TV series. Was there a live one then? I'd love to get hold of it. One of my ambitions is to own every live action super-hero film made but I dunno if I will ever do it. Two of the oddest I have are 'The Hawk' with Rudolh Valentino and 'Dr Strange' - Can't remember who stared but Jun Mills was his mentor. Which reminds me I must transfer that from VHS...

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 02:44 PM

Here are some links to The Flash TV series :


The TV series

A clip from the TV show.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: DMcG
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 02:47 PM

I saw the film last week. I don't know the original comic books but it seems unlikely that the hero was quite such a fool as he is in the film ... But I could easily be wrong

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 11:32 AM

BTW - Would whoever is Americanising me please stop it. It's not a movie it's a film. If you must change my thread titles you could at least get it right!

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 02:15 PM

Surely you mean "flick"...

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 04:03 PM

True, Kevin, true. We often went to watch flicks at the fleapit. Or occasionaly to watch a film at the flicks. But never to see a movie at the movies:-)

Anyroads, just back from the pictures. A bit dissapointing but enjoyable hokum all the same. I think that a lot of stuff that would have improved it ended up on the cutting room floor - or whatever the digital equivalent is. The good bits were very good - but the stuff that held them together was so full of holes you could catch fish with it. I will wait for the 'directors cut' to come out before buying it I think. And, hopefully, it should take the running tome up by around an hour to fill in the holes:-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 06:50 PM

Dave, here's a link to watch episodes of the TV show on Warner Bros. website.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 06:53 PM

Ahhhh - Sorry guys. I did see some of the Flash series - Pretty good too. I mis-read it as being a GL series. Sorry.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 10:44 AM

My son has seen Thor and he rated that as amazing. I am contemplating treating him to the Green Lantern as part of a birthday treat so fingers crossed he won't be disappointed.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 12:09 PM

I'm so confused...........When I watch a moving picture show recorded on DVD, how can it be a film? But when I have a roll of Fuji 200 sitting atop my television, would I not be seeing film on the TV? But then that film would not be "Gone with the Wind" whereas the movie (short for moving picture show) could be seen on my TV-DVD. But if I see "Gone with the Wind" with my TV covered in Saran wrap, would I be watching film?


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Charmion
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 01:16 PM

Note to Dave the Gnome: in North America, a "film" is trying to impress you as art, a "movie" is trying to entertain you.

Note to gnu: I think the Coleman Lantern has been active in eastern Ontario. He's our kind of hero.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 01:19 PM

We used to have a guy called "Railroad Lantern" but he was cut in half by a fast freight after falling asleep on the tracks..........


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 01:34 PM

The English language is slowly being *modernized in England, with the aid of the BBC and the OED.
At BBC online, go to Movie Cafe, where movies and other films are discussed. The word movie for motion picture is common usage in the English media.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=The%20Movie%20Caf%C3%A9

*Yes, I checked the OED on preferred spelling of this word.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 03:11 PM

Oh, c'mon people. I thought the folk community embraced all aspects? How come you are having a go at me trying to be traditional..?

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 05:10 PM

That's OK Dave. I still thought they were called "picture shows".

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Charmion
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 05:52 PM

And where the gloriously vulgar movie house used to be -- the one with the gold-painted plaster putti and the red "velvet" curtain -- they've gone and built a concrete cineplex ...

Dang.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 09:13 PM

The Flash achieved invisibility by speed. Kept his costumn in his flip top ring. Relied entirely on technology for his super powers. (I first wrote super posers)

Anyone could be the Flash if they had his ring and had some desire to do the right thing.

But alas if they did a movie of him today, it would be construed as some sort of Subway or Weiner exhibition perversion movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Movie: Green Lantern
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 10:16 PM

Ranger1, that's the series. And Wesley S, thanks for the link. I like the idea that the villains weren't over the top. The bad guys in Batman were just a bit too much, and were more suited for the TV version than the movies. But the Flash writers knew where to draw the line.