I thought Green Lantern was mostly a good movie.
However, I think they did two things wrong with it that turned a lot of people off.
1. The villain was simply too big for a first movie. Parallax is a universe ending villain. What do you do for an encore after you save the universe? They should have, imo, done something more modest. It’s a powerful ring and it’s a novelty item to Hal Jordan. They should have had him do something stupid that caused a crisis, like an avalanche in a Swiss Alps town while he’s screwing around with the ring. He can then redeem himself by stopping the avalanche and saving the town. Then they could have done something more awesome in the Second movie and have the third arc involve trying to stop Sinestro. For the first movie, have Sinestro face something in a side story that sets the stage for him to become the Yellow Lantern.
2. They also didn’t fund the villain to make it credible. It looked like it was from a late night sci-fi movie that had a couple hundred thousand dollar budget. He was really badly done.
So many DC products, and beyond Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman (I’ll admit 1984 was 2-star)...it’s been mostly crap.
I thought that Justice Society would be sprinkled around and possibly rekindle the whole mix of things.
This Flash movie? A lot of anticipation with it.