Straight outta The Matrix, above is a first-look of the POWER BATTERY in the upcoming live-action GREEN LANTERN movie. Looks like a Swatch Watch! (pic source)Would it have killed them to just have the fucking regular kickass Power Battery that's existed in the Comics for over 50 years?
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Yeah. I completely agree. Ah well... I figured they'd take some sort of creative liberty with it. Still, I think the shape of the thing looks a lot like Kyle Rayner's lantern. It looks sort of like it's made out of plastic. Not too great, but I'm still game to see the movie.
What I fear the most is that now new fuckhead artists will redrawn the power battery in comics to look like the movie one.
This looks horrible. It's not that I care whether or not it looks like the thing in the comics, it's just not iconic looking. Looks like a big mass of melted candy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LOy7BRPZgk
who's the G#$D$%@# concept artist?? ( and the one who signed off on this), first the lame ass suit, now this. jeeezusss f'n christ. Please stop screwing with what works. I really wish these Hollywood higher up d-bags would stop trying to out think the room by being "clever" and 're-imaging' everything bc "audiences just won't but anything else"
-there is a reason the books have been around as long as they have. Their is a reason it has a built in audience. There is a reason this movie even got a chance to get made. If you can't wrap your heads around the original concepts, and "see' them in a real world environment (ala Alex Ross, and a hand full of other artists)
then just step away from the project and let someone with some vision and a grasp of the genre do it.
-and yes, i can't wait for some jackass artist to start drawing the lantern like this,..
-I want more comic in my TV, not more TV in my comic
I don't really read many comics, don't build costumes, don't attend comic-cons. I know of the Green Lantern and always enjoy super hero movies. That being said...
This thing looks dumb.
After spending the weekend at Three Mile Island, I crapped one of those.
What does a Candy Swatch-Watch from the Matrix have to do with TV?
Look, everyone! Up in the shy! It's the Green... er, Vaguely Oblique Shape!
The problem with updating certain characters is that their mythos is so centered in the era in which they were conceived, that attempting to update it is near impossible.
A lantern battery is silly, but it's accepted. They probably would have been better off ditching the prop entirely, but that would have pissed off a lot of people as well.
Next they'll make another King Arthur movie but Excalibur will be a gun. Who uses swords these days, right?
That comment was in no way aimed at Paul M Kelly's comment.
-Paranoid Seth.
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That's why they should set the movie in the 'DC' universe. The thing that seems to escape a lot of people, is that comics ( DC, Marvel, ect..) MIRROR our world, but are NOT our world. People try to explain everything to make sense in our own conventional, pop culture, social/political terms. That's not what it supposed to be. Comic movies SHOULD represent, an amalgam of time. The Donner Super Man, and Tim Burton Batman did a great job of conveying that.
-It's like if you were to re-boot the FF, or Spidey ( which they are doing), well, when Peter was in High school, and Reed & co. were off on their first adventurer, the world they reside in kind of resembled the 1960's. That's why I really dislike the new stuff coming out of marvel ( their rec cons, and Origins ). NO, the x-men were not texting and e-mailing their parents when first at Xavier's. Peter wasn't doing his school work on his computer. Because, in the MARVEL universe, these things didn't exist at the time,. NOW they do,..so go for it. This attempt to ground comics, and comic movies in OUR real world environments and time line just shows a lock of imagination, creativity and understanding of the material. The stories are time less, you don't have to have an "updated version". Just think outside the box.
G makes some good points. However, Marvel is in fact set in our world. Stan Lee has always said the Marvel Universe was the one and the same, which is one reason why Manhattan is the main city of heroes. It is also why Marvel stood out from the crowd when Lee/Kirby/Ditko/etc ushered in the Silver Age of Marvel; it was "real", not a fake universe.
With that said, time moves differently in the comics AND over the years the marvel universe has in fact sort of become its own unique "fake" universe due to everyone accepting the fantastical as reality.
I like the idea that "the world they reside in kind of resembled the 1960s". Much like with the origin of Superman, it should have an older time feel, ala Superman: The Movie when Kal-El arrives. Or Gotham feeling a bit like "Prohibiton Era" Chicago.
The FEEL can be there, but adding current details like cellphones and email pinpoint-date the story too much. Imagine a young Clark Kent using MySpace - 2 yrs later its a dinosaur. The same goes with pop culture references. There are some semi-recent Marvel comics where they mention the boyband nsync. Most people under 20 now wouldn't have a clue who that is. And all above 20 want to forget!
I'm rambling.
yea, that was what i was trying to convey. It's set in our world, but bc of the "Comic Book Time Effect" it's not "our" world. It just strongly Mirrors and reflects it.
- But yea, you get what I'm saying....
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