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Zeus posted...

It could have been salvageable with some characters to character designs and not jumping between shit so often.

I said this at the time - if they'd either stuck with the Earth stuff or gone full-in with the space stuff (which is what most of the nerds want, but which I still think probably would have been a mistake), and if they'd had a better villain (not stupid Hector Hammond and Parallax as a giant evil space cloud), it could easily have been a success. Possibly helped if Reynolds had played it a bit straighter (more towards the Nathan Fillion end of the scale) rather than being the most comic relief character in his own movie.

My suggestion was a film where they just went with the modern origin story - namely, Abin Sur crashes on Earth with Atrocitus (albeit one who already has the red ring). Hal gets Abon Sur's ring, learns to use it, has to fight Atrocitus, mostly loses. Towards the end, Sinestro shows up, and a combination of Hal developing newfound confidence and the help of Sinestro allows him to beat Atrocitus - end credits. Pad it out with the obligatory Carol romance and a few scenes of Hal potentially defeating more ordinary criminals before Atrocitus shows up (or some sort of weird blood-possessed rage monsters conjured up by Atrocitus afterward, giving Hal supernormal enemies to hone his skills on), and you've got a film.

You've also got a custom-made trilogy on your hands - the second film is the one where Hal finally goes to space and trains with the Lantern Corps, while becoming friends with Sinestro (with a scene or three in the background also showing Sinestro slowly growing disillusioned with how the Guardians run things). And then you do the Sinestro turn in the third movie, with him embracing the yellow light of fear and forcing Hal to fight against someone he's been friends with for multiple movies (rather than, you know, giving them 2-3 scenes together and then throwing away the turn in a post-credits scene).

The movie we got was oddly schizophrenic, where it was simultaneously rushing way too hard to establish certain plot points while still feeling like it was dragging, and where it couldn't decide if it wanted to be a more traditional Earth-based superhero movie or space-based sci-fi. By trying to be everything at once, it wound up failing at everything. It needed to pick what it wanted to be and focus on that.


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