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Green Lantern movie review

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I’m not saying Green Lantern was a horrible movie, but I’m not saying that you should actually watch it either. The movie takes the basic ideas of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, ring, green and lantern) and mixes them together in a weird way that doesn’t really make a lot of sense. The movie, which should be ripe for special effects with the ring creating all kinds of crazy stuff, gets bogged down in the need to setup the special effects and the story and characters get lost in the shuffle. So, what went wrong?

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Green Lantern: The Road Back by Gerard Jones

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Green Lantern: The Road Back by Gerard Jones was designed to handle DC Comics Green Lantern problem. Gerard Jones (author of The Comic Book Heroes) had to handle a situation that had three people who could lay claim to the same super hero name and a mythology that had been torn to shreds. So Jones went back to the basics (but not the beginning like another bad reboot that had been tried) and brought the history and legend of Green Lantern together and launched a new age for Green Lantern with defined roles for all three heroes.

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