• I agree that the previous trailer made the movie look kind of lame. But damn this new trailer gets me excited.

• I keep hearing people complain about ryan reynold's suit but not sinestro's. when they are both cgi. do you think sinestro's suit looks better? I think both are great and each lantern member suit shows individuality

• I want to to like it, but the aside from the greens, the color palette is way too dark. Would it kill them to have more daylight shots? Especially when 3-D makes scenes even darker.

• Avatar was like a hot chick or guy (whichever you prefer) with no brains, so praising it for it's visuals is fine. It's a ridiculously pretty movie that pushed that aspect of the medium to it's limits and comparing it with anything that comes after is fair enough.

• Wow at first I didn't care about this movie since it helped ruin any chances of a Deadpool film. Now I'm mad at myself for actually wanting to see this now

• What's wrong with a machine gun? The ring responds to the wearer's thoughts. Hal Jordan is an Air Force test pilot. What's going to be the most likely go-to badass ranged weapon for a human military man? Freakin' chaingun, that's what.

• i was dying to see it when the first trailer came out, now i'd like to die, then be reanimated by a black lantern ring, then purged of the black light and choose the gay white light to see this. I don't know if its the alcohol talking but i felt the numbing tingles all over my body after watching this. i was worried about all the alien stuff coming off pretty silly but having Mark Strong as Sinestro is going to up the level of intensity i think. this will be my favorite movie, i hope.

• You know what is cool about this Green Lantern movie? An actual SUPERVILLIAN! I cannot stress that enough as a hero is only as good as his villian. Lex Luthor with a few street thugs and a giant Krypton rock does not qualify as a true supervillian. Lex Luthor solo working on a weapon to go toe to toe with Superman. What was Singer thinking? This DC movie looks fun!

• I hope this movie turns out well enough for Justice League to survive.

• Iron Oranges, of course, now being the name of my soon-to-be-formed rock band.

• Definately plan to (I just hope we have a choice)......and so should everyone else so this fad of shit 3-D can just go away.

• This footage just makes me hate Ryan Reynolds.

• am i the only one a little mad about GL conjuring a machine gun? i've never read the GL comics, so am i missing something, or isn't a violation of canon?

• Abin Sur, with the exception of his suit, has prosthetics and make-up from the neck up.

• Funny, I was at the Green Lantern panel at WonderCon and he pretty much said that they fucked up Deadpool in the Wolverine movie. He also said there is a possibility he might do Deadpool but only if they did it the right way.

• Oh, there's probably more than one of Us lurking in the shadows, sniping at every open opportunity. ;--)

• I was at Wo Al.nderCon this weekend and they actually showed nine minutes so this is less than half of the footage shown. I wasn't that stoked for this movie when I saw the first trailer but after seeing nine minutes of the actual footage, I am definitely gonna see this. Jon Favreau also showed nine minutes of Cowboys and Aliens which looks pretty good too.

• Sadly, it is too late to enter this in last week's contest, because it might have been an HM, at least: "They didn't even use the correct shade of green! #4A7023 instead of #49E20E?" With a picture of RR in his suit (preferably with the mask on, which SO hides his identity. Why are movies still going with that lame line?) Uh oh. Tangent -- will the new Superman come up with some plausible explanation for why Clark and Superman ARE FUCKING TWINS?!?!

• an Avatar fan?! someone call the internet police!

• Aside from the Lantern design it looks amazing, but seeing as how the lantern is alien I can excuse it. I can't wait to find the Green Bell among all the Lanterns.

• As a hardcore GL fan(loved Blackest Night, loving Brightest Day), this extended trailer looks faaantastic!

• Got it now - it's the same music from the Tron: Legacy trailers.

• That makes me think of a world in which Batman Begins was never made, however The Dark Knight came out. Throughout the movie it would be like an episode of Blind Date, or one of those VH1 music videos. Ugh, it's making my ulcer act up just thinking about it.

• "First stories" only mean "origin stories" in movies adapted from comic books. This betrays a lack of imagination on our collective part. Blade Runner is not an origin story, Inception is not an origin story. And these are great scripts about very complex realities. Of course you could write a great movie about a guy that flies and has a green ring. You explain his powers and the Corps as you go. Wasting time telling origin stories is what makes it so difficult to tell good stories in comic book movies...

• I've heard the music in this trailer used somewhere else... does anybody recognize it?

• Well, this is fuckin' brilliant. Wondering how the Hulk, Superman, Spiderman, Batman -- hell, ANY comic -- can get rebooted on film yet again? I present the "I love the -----" series, which will include little pop-up balloons (with the annoying sound) to help moviegoers understand what they are watching. I'd cast Gilbert Godfrey, except for his ill-timed Japan jokes. I guess we have to go with that Michael Ian Black guy.

• I HATED the first trailer but now i am kind of exited. The overuse of cgi still kind of irks me though(a cgi mask really?)

• Go see it in 2d then.

• Split the difference. It's like comparing green apples to iron oranges

• Still pissed at Ryan Reynolds and the Deadpool thing. Plus I still feel Nathan Fillion should have been given the shot as the movie Hal Jordan. But I have to admit, this does look pretty flippin' sweet after seeing this trailer.

• They should've modeled Abin Sur to look a little more like his First Flight counterpart. One of my gripes is that he always way too... "human" to be an alien. Nitpickings notwithstanding, this actually looks pretty great!

• Agreed--it's like how they changed Wonder Woman's boots from blue to red. I like this idea, actually: show the unfinished product to your built-in fanbase while there's still time to fix it, and monitor websites to see what the most overwhelming criticisms are.

• 3-D sucks....that is all

• except that Origin Stories are essential for characters like this, who aren't exactly household names like Batman or Superman. Jumping right into movie for them would be fine, but GL? Come on.

• that's what irritates me about this (more in general than this specific case). because they did two vastly different trailers, comic fans will be pissed if it's a goofy comedy and everyone else will be confused if they only saw / remembered the goofy comedy trailer.

• Everyone here seems to love it now, and you touch on why, without actually addressing it. What is the biggest difference between this trailer and the previous one? It isn't the effects. It is that this trailer focuses entirely on Green Lantern, while the old trailer had a bunch of Hal Jordan scenes. The thing is, those Hal Jordan parts of the movie aren't going to vanish.

• At least I'm not banned here

• I think the oath is one of the most iconic things in the comic industry and I've been waiting to hear it on-screen for two decades. I kinda wish I hadn't seen this trailer now as my big moment happened in a youtube box, but it did bring tears to my eyes. Gonna go bench press a tractor and eat something raw now. Move along.

• This looks great! MUCH better than the trailer.

• agree with all three of you in that this was made for comics fan and the other was for everyone else... just a question of which movie they actually made (or if it's in between). I was reading an article recently (don't think it was here but it could have been) that mentioned how the people who make the trailers are not at all the same people who make the movie. Looking at these trailers in that context, it makes sens that maybe they didn't understand / were fudging the genre in the first one or are now trying to pretend it was something else all along due to trying to appeal to the fans.

• I'm still not feeling this movie at all. Things that sounded really meh to me: 1. The we are the corps chant 2. The green lantern speech at the end 3. The speech by the head lantern 4. Really all of the dialogue. Compare this GL's dialogue with the dialogue from X-Men 1st class coming out: 1. Xavier to Magneto: "We can become better" Magneto to Xavier: "We already are" 2. Xavier to Magneto: "Listen to me carefully my friend, killing will not bring you peace" Magneto to Xavier: "Peace is not my goal" Those passages just seem much more powerful and interesting to me.

• I really hope you're correct. I will continue to try and keep my expectations low until its release, for fear that it will turn out like the first trailer (which really wasn't terrible, just not what I would have wanted).

• I know right!? What kind of bullshit are they trying to serve us!?

• i second that

• This footage has me very psyched to see the film now. I will be mindful of the first trailer though, we can't forget that that footage is also in this film. I just need the film to deliver on the action and epicness of the GL Corps, and I'll be satisfied. As far as the suit looking CG and a little fake, I think that's perfect, because it is fake, it's made of green alien imagination energy not fabric. I like being reminded that it's not something he takes off and puts on a hanger before bedtime.

• No, it does rock and the guy playing Siniestro is awesome.

• I have the feeling that we are going to have one too many super hero movies this year for the non-nerd movie audience, and there's going to be a loser. I thought GL was going to be it based on the weak first trailer, but maybe not now. Still not liking the mask, but I feel much, much better now about the movie. I also feel better about "Thor" and "Cap" with the newest stuff we've seen on them. And since "Thor" gets the jump on all of them, I don't see that as being the "losing" film. Hope to hell I'm wrong and they're all great movies that make a ton of cash.

• I still could care even less about this movie. On one hand, I love me some GL comic books. There are some great stories, some great moments, some great characters. This, this just bored me, turned me off completely. I can't put my finger on anything that irritates me except for the graphics. The ring, the costume, the mask/eyes(oh god the eyes!), the other GL's, Abin Sur, etc all just look completely wrong. I've never been a graphic purist but this movie has a look that I just can't buy. With that said, you better believe that I will be the first person to rent it the day that it's available. But to pay the money for my wife and I to see it in theaters is just (probably) not going to happen.

• anyone else think of mortal combat when he got in that sphere and jettisoned himself towards earth?

• I hate this movie already and will never see it. The fact that they used CGI instead of creating a real Power Ring to give Ryan Reynolds actual powers seals the deal. I mean what the hell, if you're not going to create an actual suit out of cosmic powers then the movie is already a flop!!!1 They didn't even use the correct shade of green! #4A7023 instead of #49E20E? What the fuck? And what is this bullshit with a CGI Ooa? Everyone knows that the only way to make nerds such as myself happy is if you actually colonize an alien world and film on location!!1!!

• Unlike the AintItCool talkback, this one is optimistic.

• That looked great. I'm excited now. The first trailer looked more like that Green Lantern parody they wanted to do with Jack Black a while back.

• I think you meant Deadpool. The REAL Deadpool, I mean.

• This trailer does make it look very good and epic. But doesn't that worry anyone a bit? This first trailer(s) made it look like a so so Iron Man rip off, now this makes it look like an epic space movie. When they're flip flopping the feeling of the trailers like this just to generate interest (which is what a trailer is for) then what will the movie be really like? There's basically two sides being shown, so either one is a lie, or neither will really live up to either trailer unfortunately. And that mask still bugs me.

• "not feeling like Hal Jordan" sounds actually like a vast improvement to me.

• This trailer kicks so much more ass than the first one but every time I see Ryan Reynolds I think, "You should been The Flash, dammit!"

• Or like comparing Iron Man to Green Lantern.

• All the scenes with the aliens look great, and Sinestro seems absolutely perfect. If that was the whole movie, I'd be there on opening night instantly tweeting about how awesome Green Lantern is (that's what cool people do, right?). But the painfully unfunny scenes with Hal and his friends on Earth? The utterly ridiculous-looking character Peter Sarsgaard is playing? The way Oa suddenly becomes very obvious CGI when Ryan Reynold's floating head is onscreen? Ryan Reynolds, period? These things are exactly what I WASN'T hoping to see in the movie.

• I think the idiots in charge of the first trailer were still in "A zany, Mask-like comedy starring Jack Black" mode. Those people hopefully were taken out back and shot.

• its looking very good. im not ashmaed to say i got goosebumps when the Oath was being spoken! and Sinestro is look amazing...never thought of him having a british accent! but it works! loving the 'a lantern...which i got from a purple alien' line!

• Oh, that was Parallax? I'm not a fan of any CGI-heavy movie, and I won't be sure until I see this in theaters.

• Well...that trailer was AWESOME! I wasn't even going to consider seeing this movie even after I saw the first trailer, but now I just might try see this when it hits theaters. I's looking pretty slick.

• It can't be Ben Stiller. Ben Stiller is dead. Every movie since Royal Tennenbaums has been his younger brother in make-up. That's why he's taking part in any movie with a check involved. Actually, he's kind of always done that. Nevermind; conspiracy theory debunked!

• Here's what folks have to remember: the best "must-see" summer films strike a delicate balance between being accessible to a general audience whilst also delivering to the fans. Is it going to be a hardcore Comic Book Guy wet dream? No. However, if they can strike that balance, it will be successful. Too far one way and you lose your built-in Comic Fan audience. Too far the other and you lose out on the other 90% of film-goers. Right now, things look good. It's only four minutes of a likely 2-hour film, so take that for what it's worth. In short, "ME WANT GIMME GIMME NOW!!!"

• How about jumping in the middle of something less complex?

• So true, I'd be excited about a Corps movie. For me Ryan Renyolds just doesn't feel like Hal Jordan....but I'd hold judgement till I see the movie.

• Yeah, I'm kind of in that camp as well. I'm not a huge green lantern fan, but this trailer was pretty cool. The tipping point for me is literally Ryan Reynolds. If there were another actor in the lead, I'd probably drop $9.50 to see it in a theater. As it stands, I'll probably wait and catch it on cable.

• Call me silly, but when they first show him with his mask on.. doesn't it look like Ben Stiller? then it blinks off, and the face 'turns' into ryan reynolds?

• love the work so far. including how they have done Oa. plus Paralax looks nasty even as a cgi creature. not to mention love the crack ryan makes about not knowing the oath right away. though Kilowag and Abin sur still look ugly for cgi

• yeah, they should just jump into the middle of the rainbow lanterns story arc and constantly put up little text boxes explaining the things that already happened that are driving the story. that'll work!

• See, I disagree. I think the first trailer showed what the rest of the world that ISN'T comic book readers expect to see when they go see a Ryan Reynolds movie. That trailer was for THEM. This footage was for US.

• When did this turn into an AintItCool talkback?

• Origin stories suck. Period.

• Next time they release any trailer/footage from this movie they NEED to be sure that the effects are 100% complete. While they did improve the suit, the effects still looked too "noticable" CGI... Especially the mask.

• Nope, Ryan Reynolds still doesn't do it for me.

• Ok, now I'm in.

• As a avid Green Lantern fan (Albeit with more of an affection for Kyle then Hal) I hereby declare FUCK AND/OR YES. I'd go to my bunk, but I have to clean up my desk first>..>

• This looks mostly awesome, but WB can't fool me. They've already shown the true nature of the movie with the first trailer, and are now trying to make it look like something it's not. Really the last minute of this still looked pretty stupid to me. And that CG costume better not catch on in other movies (Seeing Hal meeting Tomar made me think of Cool World). So I am not going to let this footage get my hopes up, because I'll just be that more disappointed in the film. If I can keep in mind that it's a stupid action comedy, and have low expectations then I might be able to enjoy it in the theater for what it is. However, Sinestro is pretty perfect in this.

• This was definitely my reaction as well. I've been very 'meh' about Green Lantern so far, especially after that first trailer. But this weekend footage blew me away! Sinestro looked fantastic, the Green Lantern Corps was awesome, and it seemed exciting. If only the whole movie could be Corps.

• Have to say I enjoyed it. Never read the green lantern books but know a little about the mythos, well that yellow is bad anyway. Heh nice use of the stock ultimate scream effect. Still I think its one of those cinema films rather than a dvd rental. Looks fun.

• I think most of the visuals look fantastic, however Hal's suit still unnerves me. It's really only around the mask and at the neck though where it interacts with his skin. The mask and suit are too flat. There should be a little depth to it, right now it looks painted on.

• You are correct, and that's the film I meant. Fixed.

• EVERYONE KNOWS AVATAR WAS GARBAGE AND DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING POSITIVE FOR THE FILM INDUSTRY!!! (shhh...you can't say nice things about avatar here, they might just lynch you. But i think I covered it up well enough for you to make your escape.)

• I was hoping they'd fix the Blake Lively problem in post (the problem being that she's in the movie), but I guess not. But, yeah, the movie went from "I'll see it because I should" to "must-see" after this footage. And I think I speak for everyone when I say "more Kilowog!"

• They stated at Wondercon that the clips being shown weren't finished yet. So they are probably still working on the CGI. If Warner did alter things because fanboys didn't like the ET comments, then good for them. Nerd properties should listen to their fanbase.

• Hate to nitpick, but I think Campbell directed Casino Royale (which was a much better movie) rather than Quantum of Solace. But yeah, he has been the one thing that has kept me hopeful for this movie doing well. And this new footage helps cement that.

• I think the second Iron Man movie was crap and could have been better. Green Lantern looks like it will be a pretty good summer movie. Can Iron Man is in a suit of armor, Green Lantern creates things with the ring and his imagination. It's like comparing apples and oranges.

• This movie when from "eh", to "knocking motherfuckers over opening night" on my list. The first trailers tried to sell the crowd on the wannabe Iron Man glibness schtick. This, is the real deal, and what I would stand in line to see. Good to see it's being taken seriously after all.

• The CG stuff doesn't look that great to me. If you're going to create a whole world and a bunch of CG aliens in the post "Avatar" age, you need to come correct. I'm dubious. Also I hate the white thing they do with Ryan's eyes.

• That was the best implementation of a green glowing fist I've ever seen. Now if only it were a boxing-glove..... (all snark aside, it looks good to me, I want to see this)

• Although I am a huge comic fan and have been reading for 20+ years now I've never read a Green Lantern comic, so I don't know much about the mythology and have no real connection to the character, but this has got me very excited to see the movie.

• I still say it's going to be a crappy Iron Man knockoff... Except IN SPACE

• The original trailer made me want to skip this movie because it looked a little too "Michael Bay" with lots of bad jokes and comedy... The 4 minutes from Wondercon makes me think there might be more to it.... However.... I've been burnt by Hollywood before. I'll save final judgement until the movie actually comes out.

• I thought the trailer for this movie was pretty sweet but this...oh god it makes me oh so more pumped up for it.

• I thought the trailer for this movie was pretty sweet but this...oh god it makes me oh so more pumped up for it.

• I don't think anything at all was wrong with this trailer/footage/whatever Warner is calling it. I am much more excited about this movie now than I was and I'm glad since Green Lantern has been one of the best comics for DC the past couple of years.

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