Green Lantern Reborn

I watched Green Lantern when it first came out and was definitely underwhelmed, it wasn't the worst movie but there were a lot of little things that added up that made the movie a one and done for me. SKYflix delivers a trimmed down and straight to the point movie that is how the original release should have been. Video and audio editing is executed perfectly and this edit is an overall improvement over the original.

I think that we all agree that the original movie is really bad, the character isn't brought to life like it should and the most sad thing is they didn't exploit the Green Lantern Corps, but those are some other topics for another time, the truth is that this edit is really really good, it takes a bad movie and makes it enjoyable, it cant do miracles to the character and wat we all expected form this movie but in a narrative sense it does make a miracle, it makes the Green Lantern movie enjoyable. The transitions are really good, I really enjoyed that it trimmed the repetitions of the dead father (kudos on this). The overall quality is very good, congratulations on making this enjoyable.

In short - this edit rocked! This is so much a better version of the original and I thank SKYflix for it. I think some of the other reviews are a little too critical of what is only a comic book superhero character turned into a live action movie - it's not Gone With The Wind but this edit achieves everything I expect from a fun and action filled movie of this genre.

I have to admit, I did make a personal copy of this edit for myself with a slight variation, but I never would have been able to do that without this masterful edit.

If you're a DC universe fan you will love it, and I highly recommend this edit to resurrect what is a worthy character to the franchise. But if you're not a fan then don't watch it - quite simple really!

When I saw the theatrical version of Green Lantern I was disappointed. It was nowhere near the quality of Spiderman, Batman Begins or the whole lot of Marvel-comic-movies (only Hulk 2 is on a similar awful level).
So I was curious what a good fanedit could achieve. This edit is marvellous from a technical perspective, audio-transitions, visual transitions, great use of new music to make the audio-cuts seamless... everything is perfect, like it came out that way by the studio and in good HD-quality. Awesome work! I really wish I could edit that well technically, but I'm not yet on that level.
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Narratively the goal was to make the movie more cool, more herolike, the hero is more admirable, doesn't falter, doesn't doubt too much, the villain (Hector) is more focused, not so irritatingly erratic and creepy... and the plot is built up more logically by getting rid of some detracting subplots.

That was the goal, and the goal was 100% achieved. Great editing to achieve that.

But, and it pains me to say that, by getting rid of all that awful stuff from the original (it's really awfully presented and told in the original), the heart and soul of the story is severely drained. So drained I asked myself what the point of the story is, when it misses all that struggle of the main-hero to embrace his destiny and the backstory with Hector and the interweaving of Hal's struggle with the overcoming of fear that mirrors with the overall struggle against that rogue guardian.

So by getting rid of all that awfully told main-story from the original, the edit is much more logical and much better presented, but becomes empty narratively.

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I still highly recommend the edit, because a) it's so marvellously edited technically (I envy your skills, SkyFlix) and b) because it achieved perfectly what it set out to do, even though it imho destroyed the heart and point of the story.

SKYflix was able to turn an extremely underwhelming movie into something enjoyable. To me, it doesn't quite feel like a complete movie because so much was cut that the character's arcs seemed very quick, but the things that were cut definitely needed to be cut to make it a good movie.

Considering how much was cut, the narrative didn't suffer too much. Unfortunately, Hector's descent seemed a bit sudden, but the way Hal Jordan embraced the responsibility of being a Green Lantern was much better in this edit compared to the theatrical edit.

Editing wise, I thought this version was flawless. I couldn't tell where things were being cut or changed and the story flowed much better.

Narrative wise, while I still think this version is a flawed film and Green Lantern can be done better, I think this is a live-action version of Green Lantern that true fans can actually appreciate and get some enjoyment out of. A remarkable feat, considering how terrible the theatrical version was.

Thank you SKYflix for investing the time and effort to fix, as best as possible, a big mistake made by DC.