Most of my exposure to DC characters is from my father's Silver Age comics... so, pretty much anything DC puts on the screen is quite divergent from what I grew up with. (Other influences being the old cartoons like Super Friends.)
Thankfully, I'm well aware of how divergent my take on the various character backgrounds are from what's current... heck, they were even outdated when I was first reading them! (Doesn't mean I don't kind of miss the clear good guy/bad guy line, sometimes, of course. But I've truly loved both the Batman reboots that have happened, so I'm willing to give any movie the benefit of the doubt.)
Now, when it comes to Marvel--which I invested a good bunch of years and many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of dollars in during my teen years--I'm in a bit rougher of a spot.
Films like the X-Men and Spiderman series have to do a lot to convince me they're even close to making the right choices. (Both of those series ended up failing in doing that by the time they got to the third films in the series... I still don't agree with a lot of what was done in the first X-Men movie.)
Thankfully, Marvel's been doing a really fantastic job with the newest batch of Avengers-related films. So they're building up a lot of good-will with me that I hope won't get dashed by the time Avengers comes and goes.
Bottom line is, it sounds like I will enjoy some stuff in the GL movie... but I know I'll come away with many of the same sticking points that you mentioned. And a lot of that is due to having a different vision of who the character should be. (The rest of it is just plain story telling sense and franchise planning... business stuff that you'd think they'd want to work into a long-term money maker or something...) ;)
Re: That's kind of what I expected...
Thankfully, I'm well aware of how divergent my take on the various character backgrounds are from what's current... heck, they were even outdated when I was first reading them! (Doesn't mean I don't kind of miss the clear good guy/bad guy line, sometimes, of course. But I've truly loved both the Batman reboots that have happened, so I'm willing to give any movie the benefit of the doubt.)
Now, when it comes to Marvel--which I invested a good bunch of years and many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of dollars in during my teen years--I'm in a bit rougher of a spot.
Films like the X-Men and Spiderman series have to do a lot to convince me they're even close to making the right choices. (Both of those series ended up failing in doing that by the time they got to the third films in the series... I still don't agree with a lot of what was done in the first X-Men movie.)
Thankfully, Marvel's been doing a really fantastic job with the newest batch of Avengers-related films. So they're building up a lot of good-will with me that I hope won't get dashed by the time Avengers comes and goes.
Bottom line is, it sounds like I will enjoy some stuff in the GL movie... but I know I'll come away with many of the same sticking points that you mentioned. And a lot of that is due to having a different vision of who the character should be. (The rest of it is just plain story telling sense and franchise planning... business stuff that you'd think they'd want to work into a long-term money maker or something...) ;)