The No Chill DC Movie Conversation (2 of 3)

It should be noted that I am a big DC fan. Even after the heavy (and deserved) criticism of the New 52 launch, I still read all the big books regularly, and enjoy a good number of them, even as comic fans have fled their flimsy story lines like affluent folks did the cities (if they come back, does that classify as gentrification?). Having said that, I’ve got plenty of thoughts on how they are shaping their movie universe, which has little to do with comic mythology and more to their method of moving making. Part 1 and Part 3 of this series. The Big Green Construct in the Room: Why the failure of the Green Lantern movie means so much to the DC Movie Universe Regardless of whatever debate rages about Man of Steel or over Zach Snyder being the controlling hand for the DCU movie franchises (and there is plenty to debate on both sides) one thing we can all agree on is that the Green Lantern movie that hit theaters in 2011 was horrendous. Like the destruction of Oa bad (sorry for those of you who haven’t read the Lights Out story arc in the GL books). If Green Lantern, headlined by (at the time rising star) Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, had come out five years earlier, we’d talk about the film and its impact very differently. Looking at Sam Ramii’s Spider-Man trilogy or the Fantastic Four films, you could get away with campy, bad pun wielding characters in your comic book movie because that’s what was expected. Adults, who had little interest in the source material were just …