50 Reasons Why Green Lantern Movie Sucks

#21 Hal€™s Mask

Tomar Re tells Hal his mask will appear when protection of his identity is needed. Green Lanterns are supposed to be a well recognized peace keeping organization. Humans don€™t know about them, but that€™s because Earth is the boondocks of the universe. One would be proud to be a Green Lantern. Why would they program the ring to hide an officer€™s identity automatically? It just doesn€™t make any sense. Hal could just as easily have decided to make the mask himself. Why make it a preset feature?

#22 The Rally

The scene with all of the Green Lanterns standing around makes no sense and was only added so fans could spot their favorites. Clearly the film makers were scared that fans would be upset that they didn€™t spot Bzzd or Salaak. Shameless pandering. They have that big meeting but there€™s no epic march to battle afterwards. It€™s pointless. Plus, blasting energy into space is not only a waste of the ring€™s charge but pretty dangerous. I hope no spaceships were flying by.

#23 Oa Training Sequence

After attending the rally, Hal begins training with Kilowog. The montage does not show any progression in Hal€™s abilities. We don€™t see Hal learn; we just see him fail. There€™s no indication that he€™s actually acquiring skills: he has skills, but they don€™t measure up. The whole thing was only filmed to be able to put in commercials to make geeks feel the movie would be better than it is.

#24 Terrible Soundtrack

What is the Green Lantern theme? The Superman movie has a theme. The Batman movie has a theme. This is what makes them iconic. Green Lantern not only lacks a theme, but the music choices are very often questionable and call attention to the fact that you are indeed watching a movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYZGDw2oqLk Good background music is invisible; it doesn€™t call attention to itself. When Kilowog shows up for the training there€™s this guitar piece that plays and it€™s like €œSee, he€™s a bad ass! Guitars!€

#25 Hal€™s Learning Curve

We see Hal having problems imitating the construct that Tomar-Re had shown him. Then in the next cut, he€™s able to make things very well. Such things include a brick wall, swords and fully functioning Gatling gun. As with the Training Sequence, his ability to fight Sinestro (even though he gets his ass kicked) is just way too advanced for the amount of time he€™s been using the ring. If he€™d been on Oa for days it would be believable, but I€™m pretty sure he€™s only there for the span of one night. Either way, the movie doesn€™t tell us how long he€™s gone, so we don€™t know.
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