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subjecttomyopinion t1_itv2zpl wrote

Reply to comment by WordsAreSomething in Greg Berlanti’s ‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max Series Being Redeveloped, Loses Writer by MarvelsGrantMan136

That's a shame. This is the one DC hero I can kind of grasp onto and would love to see something developed.

Was the Reynolds movie any good? I need to sit down and watch it just haven't.

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DoIrllyneeda_usrname t1_itv6bbs wrote

You're better off just picking up the Geoff Johns run. The movie is just really boring.

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subjecttomyopinion t1_itv6kra wrote

I read one book from.the library. I cannot remember which and after enjoying it found it was book 3 or something. Want to get more, unfortunately I'm inundated with media the library finally bought for me specifically that I should be grateful and get through.

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WordsAreSomething t1_itv433j wrote

I remember enjoying it despite it not being very good.

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subjecttomyopinion t1_itv4fho wrote

So riddle me this batman. What's a good DC hero that's worth looking into?

Don't like the bat. Superman out. Honestly what else is there? Wonder woman might be ok although I'm not sure I care too much.

To me and obviously an opinion marvel just has better story development and I love a lot of their characters

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bengringo2 t1_itv7t3n wrote

Doom Patrol but honestly, If the light heartedness and humor of Marvel is a selling point to you then DC isn't for you.

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RobDaGinger t1_itv8d0y wrote

Theres supposed to be a Blue Beetle movie in 2023 that im cautiously excited for. Hes probably my favorite DC hero.

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Team7UBard t1_itx1pzt wrote

The new CEO who isn’t James Gunn is one of the producers so it seems at the very least it’s unlikely to be canned?

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subjecttomyopinion t1_itvmwnv wrote

I like bat villains. Not Bruce. He's got the best villains imo

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roox911 t1_itvtq9u wrote

Did you try the new "the batman" though? Quite different than any other barman movie/show. Closer to a detective thriller.

Wonder woman was OK, '84 sucks though.

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subjecttomyopinion t1_itvvx81 wrote

Dark knight was good. Bc of two face and joker.

I just don't get the bat.

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berserkuh t1_itw3fql wrote

>I just don't get the bat.

His mom and dad died to a mugging in front of him when he was very little.

Unresolved trauma + extreme anger + extremely smart and also rich man = "i'll just beat up criminals so much they'll be too scared to do crime"

If the bat itself is the issue, IDK it just stuck, blame Bill Finger.

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subjecttomyopinion t1_itw968k wrote

That I get. Just not why he's cool. In this situation I'd prefer iron man or moon knight. Or both.

Edit. Will also say it took me forever to warm up to iron man. But think he's pretty interesting now. One of my top picks.

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berserkuh t1_itwh6pj wrote

He's basically a super smart Terminator ninja.

Strikes from the darkness, solves murders, has tons of cool gadgets and never gives up until his job is done.

Some of his popular stories are him solving some really horrific shit, or him being extremely old and executing a plan 20 years in the making after he retires, or him being shot with Omega beams, and then travelling back through time while being an amnesiac and also a reality bomb, all the while fighting cavemen, witch-hunters, pirates, cowboy bandits, some mobsters, the Justice League and finally programming a race of time-computer aliens to merge with him in order to come back to the present so the Justice League can kill the time-travelling beast that's been hunting him, then medically die and be revived (to defuse the reality bomb) so he can immediately return to Gotham to resume his role as Batman (immediately as in like an hour later he's there and ready to fight a villain who shoots Dick Grayson in the skull).

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afineedge t1_itwicsp wrote

The John Rogers run of Blue Beetle. Barely needs any introductory information.

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DMPunk t1_itv6j26 wrote

Parts of it are great, parts are merely okay, other parts are terrible. It's a mess, unfortunately. But the villains are good. Hector Hammond is a better character in the film than he is in the comics. And Mark Strong as Sinestro is the best casting of a DC villain ever. Sinestro is my favourite DC villain, and Strong just completely embodied the character. I would forgive all the failings of the film if it meant we got a sequel where his Sinestro was a bigger focus. He was perfect.

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inkista t1_itwf1ne wrote

>That's a shame. This is the one DC hero I can kind of grasp onto and would love to see something developed.

Just me, but the best GL series I've seen is already up on HBO Max: Green Lantern: The Animated Series. While it isn't technically a DCAU/Timmverse show, Timm was involved in the development, and it's the best translation of his design aesthetic to CGI I've seen. It was showrun by Giancarlo Volpe (Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Dragon Prince) and Jim Krieg (who among a gazillion animation writing credits was the ringer Supernatural hired to write the "Scoobynatural" episode).

>Was the Reynolds movie any good? I need to sit down and watch it just haven't.

It was meh. To me, GL:TAS was everything I wanted from the Green Lantern movie and never got. :)

-edited to fix link

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tfresca t1_ity0rs9 wrote

I liked Jon Stewart in Justice League cartoon.

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alpacasarebadsingers t1_itv46zn wrote

It wasn’t bad, until the bad guy showed up. The last third of that movie was trash and ruined the first part completely.

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NockerJoe t1_itw8vqn wrote

Deadpool makes several jokes about Green Lantern being an awful movie and the suit sucking. The post credit scene for Deadpool 2 is literally deadpool going back in time to shoot Ryan Reynolds before he can accept tbe role.

Green Lantern has kind of become the ur example of a comic book movie that just didn't work, surpassing Daredevil or the Punisher movie in this regard.

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TheNerdGuyVGC t1_itv9kta wrote

I don’t think the movie deserves the hate it gets, but it definitely wasn’t great. If you like Green Lantern, I’m sure you’ll still enjoy the movie though.

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Xp717 t1_iu0g2n5 wrote

It was terrible. The villain looks like literal diarrhea

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