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I think I’d best describe my reaction as “cautiously hopeful”.  In honest, I think a lot of the CGI isn’t entirely working for me, but then, like all trailers, this will be based on unfinished effects, so I’d expect them to be sharpened up a bit prior to release, but at the moment I think aspects look a little cartoony.

As trailers go, it introduces everything well.  Hal’s quickly established as the hotshot fighter pilot, before things switch to the more outlandish intergalactic worlds of the Green Lanterns.  Ryan Reynolds still stands out as a great piece of casting, and I think if they manage to hit the “Iron Man meets Star Wars” vibe dead on, it could work very well.

My only reservation is that I don’t quite get that “Oh wow, this is going to rock!” vibe that the early Iron Man trailers gave me.  Although admittedly, that could easily be because I’m more invested in Green Lantern than I was in Iron Man at the time, so as a fanboy, I’m going to be harder to please, but I just don’t get that same “they’ve nailed it” feeling.  I still think the intergalactic craziness will make this a harder sell to the general audience than Iron Man’s (and Batman’s) more grounded adventures.

That said, there’s obviously a lot of attention to detail going into things here.  The brief glimpses of Oa and various familiar Lanterns (Tomar Re, Kilowog, Sinestro) look great, and the cast as a whole looks well put together.  And I loved the quick shot of Hal knocking down those guys with the green fist.  Hopefully we’ll see a lot of great ring constructs in the film.

I’ve been a fan since the first season, so I definitely recommend checking it out.  Its one of the big success stories when it comes to web series, and if you’re interested then you can check out all of the first three seasons on the Guild’s Youtube page.

Worth 79p surely? http://tinyurl.com/CJBuySong

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I must admit, when I heard this news my reaction was a mixture of “that’s so cool” and worry that sometimes films use CGI that isn’t quite up to their ambitions.   From the brief shots in this trailer though, it looks really good, and from a mythos point of view its really exciting to see the T-800 again as he appeared in the first movie, and presumably restored to his full threat value, as subsequent movies have always pitched the T-800 as the underdog.

I’m seeing the film tonight, so I’ll be very excited to see this on the big screen and see how it holds up.

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Obviously the original is still the best, but I kinda like this version.  I could pretty easily see it playing over the end credits for Revenge of the Fallen

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I know I’m not the target audience for this, but I usually can enjoy kids shows.  This looks a bit shakey though.  Saying that, the effects aren’t finished, so its safe to assume they’ll be a bit better in the final version.

We’ll see what its like once it comes out.  But I wasn’t too keen based on this trailer.  The K9 prop itself looked a lot cheaper than I was expecting.   And K9 without John Leeson just sounds wrong.