The Glade 4.0

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Raell Kromwell

Interesting...there's no physical Green Lantern suit.

I hear different...

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/mark-str ... n-lantern/

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Haha, our department head is doing the 'science adviser' thing for that movie....

One of his 1st year graduate students is a pretty good friend of mine, and his whole group has spent the last month or so building 'scientific looking laser stuff' for the movie.

We're all going to take pictures with it, and then go and cheer when the movie comes out

They've been blocking off various parts of the city around where I live to do the filming.

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Huh, yeah, IMDB has Mark Strong as Sinestro, too.

Hope this is as good as the Cartoon Network movie that was on a few months ago. I actually really enjoyed that (and knew next to nothing about the Green Lantern before that, tbh).

Oh, and thanks for this - lead me to Mark Strong, which lead me to find that a "John Carter of Mars" movie is in the works. Given that nothing written by Edgar Rice Burroughs has ever translated well into film (beyond Tarzan, and, even then ... ), I don't know how much hope I should hold out.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Isn't it funny how certain actors seem to get into the right roles and then just take off and you see them in everything? Mark Strong...Rock N Rolla, Sherlock Holmes, Kick ***, Robin Hood now Sinestro. Guy has a huge list of movies but it seems that I'm just now seeing this guy all over the place.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Um, what's up with that mask...?

In first glance at that poster, I thought it was Ben Stiller behind the mask.

Forget the mask, aside from being a bit narrow where it dips towards the bridge of his nose, it looks normal and pretty good for a Lantern mask. What's with the weird texture of the suit? It looks like the muscle layer on one of those transparency anatomy composites.

And did they seriously dye/tint his hair green in costume? Cause that's just silly.

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I'm more excited for "The Green Hornet," to be honest with ya.

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"There's a family with kids. Do the kids and make the mother watch. Tell her you'll stop if she can hold back her tears. I *owe* her that."
--Grace Margaret Mulligan

"WELL GO GET IT!"
--Malcolm McDowell to me, in what was the most terrifying experience of my life

The green tint in his hair is supposed to be from the green light the ring is emitting. The same green tint also hits portions of the name of the magazine, so I can't tell if the PR/Marketing people for the film did it and the magazine art department picked it up for their logo, the magazine did it on their own to better incorporate the image into the cover art.

Okay, that's what I was hoping, but it looked a bit too uniform to be sure.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Never underestimate the ability of people to poorly photoshop things.

The mask is the best thing about it. That looks worse than the Superman Returns costume.

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Raell Kromwell

That's what my vote is as well, the cover just looks like an awful photoshop.

Not sure how I feel about this.

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
END OF LINE.

My reservations about the costume are alleviating somewhat. It looks far less weird with full-body shots at wider angle distances.

Ryan Reynolds looks to remain a decent enough casting, and my inner geek is happy to see they're not going to skip Oa and the more Corps-y aspects in favor of making it a Sinestro/Hal buddy training movie or something.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Sorry, what? You're accepting Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern? REALLY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, KAFFISLACKER! (That's a rhetorical question ...)

Right Comic Universe, WRONG F'IN CHARACTER!

Also, he's not playing Hal Jordan ...

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Yeah, he'd be a better Guy for a Lantern. But I'll take what I can get; Hal's still a big of a rogue at heart. That's what I mean about "decent enough." I wouldn't have chosen it, but at least Nic Cage isn't "expressing interest" like he always used to pre-Ghost Rider...

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Wally ... Ryan Reynolds is playing Wally West in that Trailer. Hell, Ryan Reynolds IS Wally West ...

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Hence "for a Lantern." If you have to cast Ryan Reynolds as a Lantern, he ought to be playing Guy Gardner.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Trailer looked pretty good to me. I wouldn't have cast Ryan Reynolds, but I want to go see it now.

Latest (presumably last) trailer.

I'm sure we'll go see it, but it doesn't look very good to me.

I'll go see it just because one of the research groups in our department designed all the laser apparatuses for the film... And we want to go laugh at the ones that we recycled and are actually using in the lab now.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

I was never much of a G.Lantern fan. How accurate to cannon does this appear?

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