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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

I sure hope that's the case- that the heart of it is still there- because a lot of the iconic imagery is not there for me- the Lanterns, the Rings, the Central battery- all of those have been "re-imagined" to the point of near unrecognisability.

This I have to take issue with. I particularly don't understand how the rings are nearly unrecognizable.
Especially when every lantern in the comic's ring is pretty individualized and different from the next one.
If anything, the movie Power Rings look more iconic to me, than the more typical generic ring that most background characters get.
And from what I've seen so far, everything else looks pretty recognizable, too.
They did a much better job converting the comic into "real" than Bay did with Transformers.

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It's weird- marvel has been so sucessful by keeping as faithful as reasonable to their characters while DC opts for letting the director set the look and faithfulness to the source material- often a hit or miss way of doing things.

What world are we on, here?
Movies of marvel properties have the worst track record of them all, in maintaining faithfulness to the source material.
I think so far, only Ironman has managed to capture the true spirit of the source character. The next best, Spiderman looks extremely faithful, but much of his personality was completely forsaken.
In fact, most of what I hear about marvel comic movies is how *unfaithful* they always are. I mean, look at X3, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Punisher...

DC's well on it's way to redeeming itself. Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight are the most faithful comic movies to date. At least, that I can think of. Green Lantern does one further with Geoff Johns as it's exec producer (I could only wish that Simon Furman had that kind of imput over the TF movies).
To me, this is looking to be a really good adaptation.
And as for looks, while I don't like the lantern battery itself, I've been pleased with the alien designs. Most look far less silly than their comic counterparts, while keeping them recognizable. Only Medphyl and Naut have had dramatic redesigns, which was for the better.
Unlike most comic movies, so far everything I've seen has only steadily encreased my confidence in this movie.
I feel sorry that it's done the opposite for you. But I don't think the future is as bleak as you do.