See, I dled this to check it out, and was insulted at how bad it was. I mean, Hal just becomes GL in ten seconds, and is like "Cool a ring that can do anything. My voice is only moderately surprised."
they spend too much time on the origin!
they don't spend enough time on the origin!
to this specific point, the producers said they didn't want to revisit too much of the origin, as that was handled (and pretty well, mind you) in the previous DCU DVD, "new frontier". they didn't think an indepth retelling of the origin was necessary a few months later, and chose, instead, to concentrate on the story (but summing up the origin within the credit sequence, just incase you didn't already know what happened)
Are you going to do this everytime someone has a personal complaint about a media project, or just me?
Whether they thought it would be okay to skip the origin or not has nothing to do with what I find wrong with this waste of time. If they wanted to skip the origin, then skip it and get straight to the story. Instead, it was like the origin (told outside the credits, btw) sped-up to shorthand.
"Hey Carol, it's 1:00pm and I'm a rogue test pilot."
"Hey Hal, I can't stand your manly ways, but I secretly love you."
"Oh look a big green beam has dragged me to where an alien crashed a ship. He has given me a ring that will do whatever I want. Awesome. Think I'll go back and see Carol and we'll laugh-off this whole thing."
"Oh look, other GREEN LANTERNS are here to make me go train. Luckily I'm so awesome I'm able to knock a few of the veterans down before they subdue me. Luckily I've had no training whatsoever. Oh look, it's 1:02pm..."
The voice for Hal was lame. Not in a "he doesn't sound green-enough" lame. Just "I can't believe someone pays this guy for voice-acting" lame.
I could give a shit if they did the comic. I could care less if he had suddenly been the Chartreuse Lantern of Venus! What I do care about is quality for what is paid for. Luckily, I only downloaded this. I feel sorry for those who paid money for it. I feel even more sorry for those that think this was worth said money...
