Green Lantern movie Power Battery...

[themanwoaname]

I'd love to see those scratch builds, too.

they're wrong, because they're not coleman lanterns.

 

[Picard102]

i'll be here ready to say "i told you so." when this movie flops, which is probably what will happen. saying "i told you so" is something i enjoy anyway.

If the movie flops it wont be because a prop or concept art wasn't to your liking.

 

[themanwoaname]

i gave other reasons. but thats ok. i wonder if you all will eat your hats too?

 

[Sporkey]

Ok, you need to chill out. We understand you don't like anything you've seen from this movie so far. What the rest of us are trying to say is, we don't care! Just because you don't like it and it doesn't EXACTLY look like the comics, doesn't mean the rest of us have the same feelings.

 

[jedibugs]

While I am also disappointed with the battery (and possibly suit) designs, I am totally not going to judge OA based on concept art... it could be one of 230 designs that were thrown out. Even if it was the one chosen to move forward, chances are that it would change by a minimum of 25% before hitting the screen. Also, I really never considered this before, but in the pictures you posted of OA, something occurred to me; Look at all those buildings. This is a planet that is occupied by 7200 Corps members (if they've all been called in from their sectors), a couple dozen Guardians and a prison block with maybe a few thousand bad guys. So why do they need this sprawling metropolis that looks capable of housing three million people??

Lastly, this movie will not flop. Jonah Hex didn't have Ryan Reynolds star power (prior to Hex, audiences proved with Jennifer's Body that, while they would gladly fantasize about Megan Fox, they won't pay to do so. People went to transformers for giant robots, not giant boobs). Hex was a western with a not-action-star-famous lead actor. It had probably 12% of the budget GL has, and GL is a massive space epic with special effects, Ryan Reynolds (for the ladies) a terrific director and a cast rounded out with some amazingly talented actors to back up the star. It's all the ingredients for a blockbuster. Now, if only they would realize that the mutability of the green means that the battery should represent Hal's mental image of a Lantern--a concept beautifully detailed by Alan Moore in the F Sharp Din story. Maybe once he's gotten the hang of the ring, eh?

flop.

 

[themanwoaname]

Now, if only they would realize that the mutability of the green means that the battery should represent Hal's mental image of a Lantern--a concept beautifully detailed by Alan Moore in the F Sharp Din story. Maybe once he's gotten the hang of the ring, eh?

i certainly hope it does change when he gets the hang of the ring. someone mentioned that earlier it could be what it is, before they change it for their own personal battery. its plausible, would be great, but i doubt it.

 

[micdavis]

Why does "battery" get represented by a Lantern in the first place?

Either it shouldn't be called a "battery" or he should be called The Green Battery.

 

[Asp9mm]

I like what I'm seeing so far. Used to be a big GL reader when I was younger. Some fans seem to think that they are bigger and more important than others and therefore know how the world will view a movie woth 'their' character in it. They are wrong and they don't hold the rights to how something should look. I'm fed up of their singular views being rammed down peoples throats if they choose to be more open minded.

Look how popular Smallville is, and that is a world apart from anything else 'Superman'. He doesn't even wear the suit.

 

[GBrittelleJr]

they're wrong, because they're not coleman lanterns.

There's no way they could be wrong. I'm sure with your dedication to accuracy that try look like they jumped right off the page! You show me yours, I'll show you mine. Deal?

Several people have said what I wanted to, but better. This is a fictitious space movie involving concepts that don't really exist. When an artist wants to draw the battery or Oa or the suit a certain way, he or she does because it's called artistic license. They stay within boundaries but it's still changed. The same is applicable here. This is Campbells vision of how the suit, battery, and oa should look. The only real change to the costume is the lack of white gloves. The layout of green and black is the same, and they just added texture. The only thing different about the battery is it's metallic with two dual cones on each side and a circular handle. Granted, they tweaked the battery more than his costume, but it's a small detail that won't make or break the movie. The CPB will still look how it should, as that's what the emblem and ring are designed from.

I'm still excited for this movie, which I guess makes me a moron who knows nothing about Green Lantern, or the mythos.

 

[GBrittelleJr]

Also, got this information from a guy in the know from the Green Lantern forum:

" Oscar winner Ngila Dickson is doing costumes, and Oscar winner Grant Major is doing production design. Both won their Oscars for Lord of the Rings."

Faith keeps growing.

 

[themanwoaname]

There's no way they could be wrong. I'm sure with your dedication to accuracy that try look like they jumped right off the page! You show me yours, I'll show you mine. Deal?

did you make yours out of a coleman lantern? because then its right!

Why does "battery" get represented by a Lantern in the first place?

Either it shouldn't be called a "battery" or he should be called The Green Battery.

they're a battery because they are the power supply that is used to charge the power rings. they emit light like a lantern, carried like a lantern, etc. one of the themes/symbols of the glc is light.

the manhunters carried a blocky shaped lantern and a laser gun, but it looked like a lunch box and they looked like iron workers. should we have called them the iron working lunchbox guys that fight interstellar crime with lasers?

no. manhunters is fine.

 

[GBrittelleJr]

Haha you're a joke. In a pathetic way. Just drop it pal. Show your battery, don't show your battery. But at least try to come up with a new song, and drop the Coleman lantern bit. It, like your posts, are tiresome.

 

[GeneralFROSTY]

I think it's fair to say that often what works on a comic book page seldom works in real life. And I also think it's fair to say that the movie does not have to be designed exactly like the comic - it's a movie and in no way part of the comic book continuity and should exist on its own merit.
To have a temper tantrum because the concept art does not look 100% identical to the comic book art is a complete misunderstanding of how live action adaptations work and how the world of movies work altogether.
I believe the movie will be more than fine - and I am extremely happy with all the images I have seen thus far, (even some of the non-released images! :love) and this is coming from a reader and a fan of the Green Lantern comic books.
In this case, like so many, you cannot please everyone - but the most extreme fans will always have something to cry about.

 

[GBrittelleJr]

Frosty, your a gentleman and a scholar. And I would LOVE to see those unreleased pics you mention *hint hint*

 

[themanwoaname]

Haha you're a joke. In a pathetic way. Just drop it pal. Show your battery, don't show your battery. But at least try to come up with a new song, and drop the Coleman lantern bit. It, like your posts, are tiresome.

you want guy gardner or hal jordan?

 

[GBrittelleJr]

I'd like to see one of each, with the corresponding reference photo that you based it from!

 

[themanwoaname]

guy gardner:

hal jordan:

im not on my own computer right now and am having difficulty finding the correct photos i used for research. comicvine is not giving me the results im wanting for either lantern, when i get to my own computer sunday i'll have better luck.

 

[GBrittelleJr]

Fair is fair. I only have a Guy Gardner battery completed. I'm working on a Ethan Van Sciver Hal Jordan currently. Here's my Guy Reference, based off of Ivan Reis's art from the Sinestro Corps War:

And here is the completed battery

 

[themanwoaname]

i recognize that lantern and i really like it!

 

[GBrittelleJr]

Thank you. I'd very much like to see more of your lanterns as well.