I apologize in advance.
tl;dr? Fuck you, read it anyways.
I don’t really pay attention to haters. Haters on what? Just haters in general. The flamers, the trolls, the people who respond with bad grammar and one-sided arguments, the shit-disturbers, the idealists, the nihilists, and the simple-minded folk who reject an opinion that doesn’t correspond with theirs, and make it intensely noticeable on the internet.
Usually, fuck ‘em all. Usually, I don’t give a shit what haters say, because I’m better than them. Usually, they are just obnoxious asshats that are little more than a speck of forgotten dirt in an entire city that tramples on them and their self-righteous, derogatory, and loathing hatred for happiness.
Usually, I ignore it.
But, fuck you people who don’t like new Green Lantern Wondercon footage.
Yeah, fuck you. Not because you don’t like it—I’m fine with that, you don’t have to like a trailer because your entitled to your opinion. No, fuck you, because I’ve been slowly discovering what goes on behind the making of visual media in terms of the effort, manpower, and efficiency that’s needed to create anything resembling a product worthy for green-lighting.
To the ‘CGI isn’t developed enough’ bandwagonners, what the FUCK do you know about creating CGI? What are you basing your value judgement of Green Lantern’s preliminary footage that’s not even completed yet on? It looks like a video game? Well, no shit you dolt, of course it does, it’s fucking computer-generated imagery.
Why don’t they cast real aliens, from real planets? Yeah, they should stop cutting corners by designing completely new characters from scratch. This CGI is too CGI-y, it’s not real enough.
Yeah, well what the fuck is real about an intergalactic space police force with thousands of unique alien species as members? There’s nothing fucking real about comic books and superheroes. There’s nothing real about the adventures they go on or the villains they fight or the crises they have to avert. Comic books are not about what’s real.
If you were even interested in this film at all—if you did more than just hear that this was a movie about a superhero, that Green Lantern is not just the black guy from the cartoon, that there’s anything more to it then ‘big name actor to make it mainstream while cashing in on the fanboys’; you would know comic books is exactly about the opposite of real.
And guess what, the same goes for the movie. How do you make something that’s the farthest from real, into a reality? You grind for months in post-production, go through dozens of phases of planning and production, meetings on how to successfully adapt this character from the comics and keep its design style, or what changes should be made to that character to improve it. You do what you do, as a CGI artist, as someone who knows what they’re doing, to make the movie some money, and on the side, get some satisfaction that the fans will love what you’ve done, because you love what you’re doing.
That’s the essence of creating art—creating movies, comic books, games, any other type of visual media—you try to create a reality for the audience that immerses them, gets them into it, makes them feel like they’re the part of the world that you’ve made, the world that was started from scratch from a template, a sketch, an idea, and make it come to fruition. That’s what visual storytelling is.
And if you fucking haters don’t appreciate it enough, not because you like hating, not because your opinion is invalid, but because you don’t even know the fucking tenth of what goes into creating CGI, then it’s your loss. You won’t be able to enjoy even the upcoming hype its going to get because you refuse to believe in something other than a delusional standard you set for yourself that prevents you from properly enjoying something for what its worth.
What did you want? Black Swan in space?
Did you think Tron 2, 2012, Battle:LA, District 9, and others were successes because of their incredible writing or direction (some of them are, actually); no, it’s because they’re carried by the ability of their digital artists to recreate worlds that immerse their audience. That’s the job of a digital artist. That’s what they fucking do.
That’s what sells. The marketing of the fabricated world being reality. That’s why you’ll probably watch it anyways, and then post online, much like in the style of this blog, of why it didn’t live up to your ‘expectations’ because you expected exactly what you wanted to expect beforehand.
You’ve critiqued the film before you’ve seen it.
Oh wait, you’re already doing that.
Not to mention the care in faithfulness they’ve maintained to the original comic book mythos; Parallax, Sinestro, Krona, Rot Lop Fan, friggin’ Apros, for Christ’s sake, who looks exactly like he does in the comics—if any of those don’t ring a bell, you don’t have the FUCKING RIGHT to criticize it before it’s even been finished production.
And the CGI isn’t ‘developed enough’ because it hasn’t completed development of the CGI, you fucktard. They learned from the teaser, not to release any more marketing footage because they want to continue working on the CGI—you know what that means? More people working more hours to please you, you ungrateful cretin.
Maybe that’s why you’re wondering where the marketing for it is, apart from the recent WonderCon footage release and their panels at other conventions. Why there’s no online or televised marketing. Because they want to make it as good as possible. But guess what, there’s always the haters.
Be it the uptight, relentless hard-core fanboys, the anti-CGI guys, or the film elitists who shouldn’t even have a say in the genre of ‘superhero action’, all of you are going to have your panties in a knot over this one.
Because you guys are haters, and you fucking suck ass.
If you want to drain your own happiness like a Black Lantern drains emotions, be my guest. But don’t express it to me. Don’t even express it publicly. Seal your unjustified hate in a plastic room so you can freely be a tard in private. I don’t want to witness that indecency. I don’t want to witness your disrespect for motion picture professionals.
Cause if you had any idea how much effort goes into creating something like this, of this epic scale, you wouldn’t be a hater. You’d be appreciating every single fucking frame of that new trailer. Every composited scale on an alien body. Every artificial set extension. Every trace of rotoscoping . Every goddamn digital lighting effect, prosthesis application, environment texture, sound design, motion capture sequence, and everything else that goes into simply making the world look, sound, and feel real enough for you.
Don’t tell me the CGI sucks. That it’s a CGI shit-fest. That it’s underdeveloped.
Cause you know what, hater?
You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Oh yeah, and Ryan Reynolds is a decent actor, get over being bitter that he plays a typecast cheeky/suave 20-something, you jealous turd.
Yeah, I’m mad. Deal with it.
Green Lantern is the shit. In Brightest Day, motherfuckers.
