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Originally Posted by DarkestKnight

Again, I hate to split hairs, but I really don't know where you are getting this "doesn't look anything like" point of view, because it sounds really extreme. I mean the characters are still fairly identifiable they just look more detailed. And honestly, when Sinestro showed up in the official teaser last year, there probably wasn't a GL fan on the planet who couldn't tell who he was. I mean, are really complaining about the shade of a comic character's skin? We could probably walk into any comic store and find multiple examples where he's all different shades of pink.

Once again, in regards to the changes, that aren't that drastically different, it's just the same as any other writer/artist putting their own mark on the characters. The fact is, I can't see why anyone expects a panel for panel, look for look translation in a comic film. It hasn't happened before, and it probably never will. And that doesn't just go for comics, that goes for every film that was adapted from somewhere else.

Sometimes you just need to give things a chance and see how you feel after seeing the finished project and not get upset about it beforehand. No one here is going to ask you to eat crow if the film turns out to be great, but don't let incredibly high and unrealistic expectations ruin the opportunity to just enjoy something a little different.

I could not possibly agree more. I feel the designs like Kilowog, Bzzd, Stel (Not his concept design that got made into a toy, but the one that actually appears), Tomar Re, and Isamot are all very recognizable, and are approached from a realistic standpoint, over a cartoonish one.

This isn't like Starscream, Bumblebee, and Ironhide who are all redesigned from scratch in their movies, and have nothing in common with their namesakes.

The Lanterns who don't look like their comic counterparts, like Naut, and Medphyl, are dramatic improvements and look very realistic and believable, while maintaining the key features of their original designs.
And, as you pointed out with Sinestro's skin, most of the alien lanterns tend to get redesigned from artist to artist. Isamot jumps from looking like a Raptor/croc hybrid, to something from the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles practically from issue to issue. Kilowog and Abin Sur also varies extremely, depending on who draws them.