That's not a good attitude to take if you hope to appeal to comic book fans, who are comic book movies' core audience. Otherwise, you end up with the pile of crap that was the GL movie—and as a casual GL fan? I found it unwatchable.
It also didn't help that director Martin Campbell seemed determined to sabotage Reynolds because he'd wante…
That's not a good attitude to take if you hope to appeal to comic book fans, who are comic book movies' core audience. Otherwise, you end up with the pile of crap that was the GL movie—and as a casual GL fan? I found it unwatchable.
It also didn't help that director Martin Campbell seemed determined to sabotage Reynolds because he'd wanted Bradley Cooper instead. I get that Ryan Reynolds wasn't his first choice (he's not mine either!), but he's who Campbell got because the studio wanted him, or something. Ruining an entire movie because he didn't get his choice of lead seems...childish and petty, and not something he should be doing when he's playing with that much of other people's money.
Reynolds fit Deadpool perfectly and moreover understands the character, which is why those movies (not the Wolverine one that cast him as—I don't know what) work both creatively and commercially.
I don't think it's really true that comic book fans are the core audience. comic book fans are a tiny niche market; they tend to throw easter eggs to them, but if they were the main ones you were trying to appeal to, the studios would go bankrupt instantly.
in any case, I am not a movie marketer! Hal Jordan is not a character that's been consistent over decades, and even with all that inconsistency, he's never been interesting, and I don't really think there's as single green lantern comic I'd consider worth imitating. so while the movie had a lot of problems, lack of fidelity to hal jordan just isn't one that I can be very invested in.
I admit, I'd rather have John Stewart's GL (no, the Black guy, not the middle-aged Jewish one!) to any of the other human members, because Stewart seems less like an asshole (at various times every OTHER human GL has either been an asshole or a four-star fuckup), and more like a career soldier given this incredible weapon he's not entirely sure he WANTS, but since he has it he may as well use it. (Yes, I know he was an anti-authoritarian architect at first, but he didn't really work for me until they retconned him as a Marine.)
My ex-wife never liked Hal Jordan—she referred to him as "a Congregationalist Minister in a skintight outfit", which was how he acted originally before he became incapable of living a normal human life. I know Sasha at Casually Comics loves "Fuckup Hal Jordan" who can't even take a shower without slipping on the soap and knocking himself out(!), and who even Sinestro sometimes stops being evil long enough to slap him around and tell him to straighten up and fly right! (Perpetually-irritated but not villainous Sinestro is Best Sinestro in my book.)
That's not a good attitude to take if you hope to appeal to comic book fans, who are comic book movies' core audience. Otherwise, you end up with the pile of crap that was the GL movie—and as a casual GL fan? I found it unwatchable.
It also didn't help that director Martin Campbell seemed determined to sabotage Reynolds because he'd wanted Bradley Cooper instead. I get that Ryan Reynolds wasn't his first choice (he's not mine either!), but he's who Campbell got because the studio wanted him, or something. Ruining an entire movie because he didn't get his choice of lead seems...childish and petty, and not something he should be doing when he's playing with that much of other people's money.
Reynolds fit Deadpool perfectly and moreover understands the character, which is why those movies (not the Wolverine one that cast him as—I don't know what) work both creatively and commercially.
I don't think it's really true that comic book fans are the core audience. comic book fans are a tiny niche market; they tend to throw easter eggs to them, but if they were the main ones you were trying to appeal to, the studios would go bankrupt instantly.
in any case, I am not a movie marketer! Hal Jordan is not a character that's been consistent over decades, and even with all that inconsistency, he's never been interesting, and I don't really think there's as single green lantern comic I'd consider worth imitating. so while the movie had a lot of problems, lack of fidelity to hal jordan just isn't one that I can be very invested in.
I admit, I'd rather have John Stewart's GL (no, the Black guy, not the middle-aged Jewish one!) to any of the other human members, because Stewart seems less like an asshole (at various times every OTHER human GL has either been an asshole or a four-star fuckup), and more like a career soldier given this incredible weapon he's not entirely sure he WANTS, but since he has it he may as well use it. (Yes, I know he was an anti-authoritarian architect at first, but he didn't really work for me until they retconned him as a Marine.)
My ex-wife never liked Hal Jordan—she referred to him as "a Congregationalist Minister in a skintight outfit", which was how he acted originally before he became incapable of living a normal human life. I know Sasha at Casually Comics loves "Fuckup Hal Jordan" who can't even take a shower without slipping on the soap and knocking himself out(!), and who even Sinestro sometimes stops being evil long enough to slap him around and tell him to straighten up and fly right! (Perpetually-irritated but not villainous Sinestro is Best Sinestro in my book.)