Since it's release on June 17, the film adaptation of DC superhero Green Lantern has divided the fan community. Many very vocal viewers have hated the film. Many have loved it. A sizable majority have walked away with mixed feelings. One thing, however, seems obvious, the film was a major misstep in Warner Brothers plan to launch a fleet of superhero films the way that DC's competitor Marvel Comics has.
The question is why?
What went wrong? Why has a film that seems to calculated to make big box office dollars divided fan community in a way that Marvels films (at least the ones Marvel has had creative control over) generally haven't? DC comic has been a subsidiary of Warner Brothers since around 1969 so in house creative control shouldn't have been a problem, should it?
What follows isn't going to be a review of Green Lantern, it's going to be a genuine analysis as to the creative decisions that have led Green Lantern to make it perform well under studio expectations, and how Warner could have done things differently and not left themselves a hundred million dollars in the red on a movie that should have been a success:
