While Superman is taking his lumps throughout the superhero movie, The Green Lantern, played wonderfully by Nathan Fillion, walks through disasters and battles with nary a scratch. He is unflappable and seemingly untouchable by any of the many enemies he faces throughout the movie. He’s even cocky about it.

The nice thing about a cultural institution like Superman is that there is a version of the character for everybody. If you grew up in the 1950s, George Reeves is likely yours. Kids in the 1970s and ’80s saw Christopher Reeve as the best live-action interpretation of the character,

James Gunn had an almost impossible task ahead of him: revive one of cinema’s most iconic characters, reset a fractured cinematic universe, and win back a skeptical audience burned by the missteps of the past.