50 Reasons Why Green Lantern Movie Sucks

#31 Parallax Asks for Hector€™s Help

He instructs Hector to kill Hal, but he€™s already taken out multiple Green Lanterns. Why does he need Hector at all?

#32 Too Many Villains

Hector Hammond is a great enemy for Hal. They€™re both earthlings who receive powers from aliens and they both love Carol. Hal€™s father loved him, but died. Hector€™s father lived, but he despises his son. They have similarities and differences that make them opposed to each other on a fundamental level. Parallax is a big cloud who wants to kill Hal for what his predecessor did. Hal has no connection to that enemy whatsoever. Why set up a great villain but only use him as a side character? Slavish adherence to comic book canon to keep fanboys happy? Is that more fear from the film makers showing?

#33 It All Worked Out

Carol fixes the problems caused by Hal off screen, so he never really has to accept responsibility OR the consequences of his actions during the flight test, which would have been a great lesson to learn since he finds out about this after walking away from his training, which also goes unpunished. Everything just works out for him without any character growth.

#34 Memory Lane

Why did we need to see Amanda Waller€™s backstory? Oh, wait. We didn€™t.

#35 Did Amanda Waller Survive?

Hal saves her by catching her with water and just kind of pushing her out of the room. Did she drown? It€™s possible because we never hear from her again. Did anyone understand this character? And yes we have just used the same image twice.
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