Marvel hopes Guardians of the Galaxy doesn’t look anything like Green Lantern .
Green Lantern was a terrible film. Ryan Reynolds tried to make Hal Jordan look cool, but it wasn’t enough to distract us from the film having a plot that made no sense and visual effects that looked like someone went crazy with the green neon effects in Photoshop. Ryan Reynolds was the only part of the film that actually made it watchable.
Marvel president Kevin Feige has said that he hopes Guardians of the Galaxy , as dependent as it could be on CG, doesn’t look as fake as other films that had to go the same route. He was, of course, baited into the response by an i09 reporter . After the article was published, readers continued to tear Green Lantern a new one, as if we needed to be told again how terrible it was.
Guardians of the Galaxy is essentially based in space, and one of the most memorable characters is a raccoon. Altogether, the CG needed for things like that could be so extensive that it could end up looking like Green Lantern , or even Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within .
Kevin Fiege said on the subject:
“ Iron Man 3 has as much CG as any movie we’ve ever made, and I hope it doesn’t feel like Green Lantern . And it’s all about the aesthetic you go for and already we have an art department as impressive as any art department I’ve ever seen in London [working] on Guardians . And it’s, you know, designing things and believing that they’re real when part of the team’s made up of a raccoon and a tree.”
It is possible to make things we know aren’t real believable, as Avatar and Men in Black relied on CG characters and environments that looked real enough. Hopes are high, and we can only wait and see if Guardians of the Galaxy amazes us or makes us roll our eyes at how fake everything looks.
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