An abridged 4 minute preview from WonderCon has been released. If you haven’t seen it, you can download it in high definition from http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/greenlantern/
Sinestro is destined to become Hal Jordan’s arch-enemy, but until then, he’s the leader of the Green Lantern Corps and will mentor Hal Jordan. Classic characteristics of villainry, as established by White Hollywood, is to look like an Asian pirate. Sinestro’s got the evil eyebrows, effeminate moustache, pointed ears, and bad hair cut. He’s just another Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon, but more subtle. The biggest clue he’s a bad guy is his name, which isn’t Strawberry Shortcake.
Parallax looked a lot like a prehistoric fish in early press releases. Now it looks like tar or oil, or 10-year-old gum that’s been scraped off the sidewalk. I suppose it’s a threat because it destroys everything, but mainly because it looks like a skull and bones.
I know it’s not just me, but Ryan Reynolds isn’t doing the stoic hero thing right. It’s as if he’s pulling a Ben Affleck with Daredevil, thinking he’s better than the material. Why those suits never followed through with Deadpool instead of this, I don’t know. I guess suits only care about green stuff.
Hector Hammond gets telekinetic powers after getting infected by a shard of Parallax embedded in Abin Sur’s corpse. After he loses his powers by the end of the movie, he’ll retire to a rickety abandoned house living with his cousin Leatherface.
The tone for this 4 minute preview was good up until Hal Jordan whipped up a green mini gun. I howled in my mind and was reminded of Jim Carrey as the Mask. Hopefully, the actual context will be appropriate. I’d hate for that scene to be in the epic fight at the end and Parallax pulling a Porky Pig retreating into a black hole.
So, that’s how Hector Hammond loses his powers or dies? Man, I was hoping the bad guy won in these kinds of films.
At least one child extra will shout “Cooool!” at least once when Hal Jordan swoops into the scene, either to rescue them or in news coverage.
Green Lantern hits theatres June 17, 2011 in 3D. So far, I’m impressed with this preview. It could be quite misleading as the actual film might suck arse, but so far, this preview is epic. Too bad I can’t say the same for Marvel’s film adaptations of Thor and Captain Half-Assed America. Comic book movies need to stick more to their source in a fantastical way, which I think is hard to do without it becoming an inside joke.