{"id":1789,"date":"2009-06-01T21:15:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T04:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/06\/01\/green-lantern-in-absurd-fan-film-trailer\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T04:15:02","slug":"green-lantern-in-absurd-fan-film-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/01\/green-lantern-in-absurd-fan-film-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Lantern in Absurd Fan-Film Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jaron Pitts<\/i> has made a movie trailer for a non-existent Green Lantern superhero movie.  Quite frankly, it’s an odd thing to do and I don’t honestly know why anyone would do it.  I certainly like the way it looks for the most part.  I’ve always liked the idea of the Green Lantern.  But a fan film trailer?  I don’t know.   There’s a mashup of various films going on in here with some effects on top. The main problem with this kind of work is that you take popular and well-understood tropes from Hollywood super-hero action movies and reproduce them with sometimes astounding faithfulness, but what you end up with is a photocopy of current filmmaking habits.  It’s like jumping up and down shouting, “Look!  I can do it!  I can make the ship, you know… like fly just like in the big Hollywood pictures!  Like, you know, it zooms in at you and then it stops, and dips its wings and then darts off in another direction with a big ‘WOOSH’ and a little burst of energy and then the music goes ‘CRASH’ and then we see the guy in the pilot’s seat…”  and so on and so on.  My Green Lantern trailer would just have a tired nut-job sitting at his dining room table with a flashlight and a roll of Scotchtape, trying to fashion himself a green light logo to stick on his chest while he poses in front of a full-length mirror.  But that’s just me.  I would generally advise skilled and talented filmmakers to avoid wasting their time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jaron Pitts has made a movie trailer for a non-existent Green Lantern superhero movie.  Quite frankly, it’s an odd thing to do and I don’t honestly know why anyone would do it.  I certainly like the way it looks for the most part.  I’ve always liked the idea of the Green Lantern.  But a fan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,4],"tags":[430],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-comment","category-movies","tag-super-hero"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t