Does anybody know when Torchwood: Miracle Day is coming out on DVD?  Can I put that on my Christmas list?

It wasn't so much that Green Lantern was a terrible film.  I've seen much worse movies.  And in a way Green Lantern is a much harder movie to make than Superman or Batman.  Batman was orphaned by criminals and therefore dresses up like a bat to play vigilante.  Superman is an alien and has great powers and therefore feels obligated to use them in the service of humanity.  These are pretty simple concepts. 

The Green Lantern Corps is a much harder sell to the uninitiated.  Who these people are and why they do what they do might be confusing and off putting to an audience unfamilliar with them.  The movie felt to me like an elaborate set up for the next film, explaining what the Corps is and how Hal Jordan became a member, introducing all the characters.  Oh yeah, and trying to shoehorn some kind of plot in there too.  It's hardly unsurprising that it wasn't the most successful cinematic product out there this summer.

And it really suffered in comparison to other comic based movies that were out this summer.

X-Men is also an elaborate concept for the non comic fan, but since this summer's release was the 5th film to deal with the subject everybody should be familliar with the characters and concepts by now and they could really concentrate on telling a story.

Thor might give the uninitiated pause, but the somewhat simple story about sibling rivalry pulled the elaborate concept and dazzling FX together very well.

I didn't see Captain America but everybody said it was really good and Steve Rodgers, the weakling who took great risks in order to gain power to serve his country, is a much more sympathetic protagonist than the whiny Hal Jordan (who had a difficult, prestegious job and a beautiful girlfriend and still seemed to be sunk in a morass of self doubt and self pity).

I don't think Green Lantern needs a reboot.  Reynolds did an adequite job with the material he was given.  What they needed was a better script and even the best actor in the world can only do so much with a poorly written, unfocussed script and an unsympathetic character to play.  Besides, if they do a reboot they will feel obligated to go with the origin again and we already know that now.

Gree lantern DVD sucks?  Big surprice!

So basically, you don't want to do your job which is to review the Extended Cut Blu-Ray. Got it. So why bother writing this article? It's neither informative or engaging.

make a better script and re-freakin-boot

Kara1- I dunno about dvd, but Netflix has Torchwood: Miracle Day available to instant watch.  I just started re-watching it through them yesterday.

As for Green Lantern, I suspect Ryan Reynolds had to sign at least a three picture contract.  Mind you, that doesn't guarantee anything.  George Clooney signed a three picture deal for Batman and Robin.  If WB wants to use Reynolds, he won't be able to get out of it.  If they don't, I doubt he'll be interested in fighting them on it.  I'm sure he's wishing he'd have gone with the Deadpool movie instead.

The Green Lantern's biggest problem was the big bad. You have to come out guns blazing. I know they're setting up Sinestro, but Parallax/Hector Hammond combo < Lex Luthor or Joker for their respective movies. You have to have yin to the hero yang

I'm with you greasepump, why even post this "article" if you aren't going to correctly review the dvd release? This website has lost a lot of cred the last year or so and if this keeps up I'm never visiting it again.

I can see where the reviewer is coming from about not reviewing the Blue Ray of Green Lantern. But that being said we all have to do things we don't want to do on our jobs. But we do them anyway or we get shit canned and rightly so.

karas1 Wyldstaar beat me to it, but I was pretty sure Miracle Day was on Netflix.  As far as if you should put it on your Christmas list, you might want to rent it first if you can.  It was pretty bad IMHO.  You may like it but as a big Dr. Who / Torchwood fan, it was a pretty big disappointment.

vitieddie, please, no reboot.  Let's just go from where we are with a descent script this time.