Green Lantern's power is stupid
Using just his imagination, and uttering the Green Lantern nursery rhyme, Hal Jordan can create anything he wants out of solid energy. It’s like one of those movies where the small boy’s love makes the bunny real, only slightly more nauseating. The ring is purportedly the greatest power in the universe, and so with the great power comes great opportunity to be stupid about it. He saves a falling helicopter with a Hot Wheels racetrack and takes aim at a giant smoke monster with something from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Didn't we see all this already when Jim Carey donned The Mask?
The other Green Lanterns are lame
The two and half thousand other Green Lanterns all seem to come from Octopus-world or bird-world or bee-world. It seems that every other planet is made up of critters out of a David Attenborough documentary, and they all tend to talk using an American screenwriter’s vernacular (“This is Combat Training 101,” boasts an alien, who’s totally up to speed on the American college educational standards).
Rome burns
With great power comes great procrastination. Thousands of people die while Hal Jordan is explaining to his girlfriend that thousands of people will die if he doesn’t go fight the CGI that’s killing thousands of people and one day those people, who number in the thousand, will be grateful that he showed up in time to save the bus driver and no one else because he was too busy talking about it and ohmygod will you just get in there already? Heroes act, villains make lengthy speeches.
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