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Films like Green Lantern.

Green Lantern (2011) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Outlander (2008) poster
1. Outlander2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Fantastic Four (2005) poster
2. Fantastic Four2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Morbius (2022) poster
3. Morbius2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Conan the Barbarian (2011) poster
4. Conan the Barbarian2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

John Carter (2012) poster
5. John Carter2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sucker Punch (2011) poster
6. Sucker Punch2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Daybreakers (2010) poster
7. Daybreakers2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Great Wall (2016) poster
8. The Great Wall2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) poster
9. X-Men: Apocalypse2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Jupiter Ascending (2015) poster
10. Jupiter Ascending2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) poster
11. The Forbidden Kingdom2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Next (2007) poster
12. Next2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Green Lantern’s neighbours — where are yours?

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