It's foolish to expect some degree of restraint from Entertainment Tonight, but since this is fandom's first glimpse of GREEN LANTERN outside of Comic Con, Warner Bros. really should've insisted on something a little less cheesedick than the anchor panting over Ryan Reynolds in his underwear.
I'm done bitching now. Almost. Have a look, kids.
I was just kvetching to Harry that Reynolds's Hal Jordan appears to start off as more of a douchebag than a bastard, but he assures me that Jordan was a bastard in the script, so I'll just chalk this up to out-of-context awkwardness. It's impossible to make a call on the suit from the low-res video, but the snap transformation looks pretty cool. Also cool: fucking Kilowog. Getting to see Kilowog interact with Hal Jordan more than makes up for ET's punchy presentation. And Oa looks pretty damn spiffy, too.
It's way too early to tell if Martin Campbell has nailed GREEN LANTERN, but this little peek gives me hope after WB's less-than-inspiring Comic Con presentation. I'm beginning to believe. What do you guys think?
The first GREEN LANTERN trailer will almost certainly be attached to HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART I - and I imagine other studios will be looking to debut their big summer tentpoles before the boy wizard movie as well (I can 100% guarantee that Universal will have a COWBOYS & ALIENS teaser ready to go next week).
