Watched "Green Lantern" the other night. Because it was THERE, OK? A couple of observations:
OBSERVATION #1) As even a casual reader of the Green Lantern comic book knows, Green Lantern's arch-enemy is Sinestro. In this version, though, Sinestro spends the entire movie as Green Lantern's colleague--admittedly, a begrudging and arrogant colleague, but a colleague nonetheless. At the very end of the film--after the end credits have begun to roll, in fact--Sinestro slips the yellow power ring on his finger, thus indicating that he has--for no apparent reason that I can see--become evil. Obviously the producers are banking on there being enough interest to justify a sequel.
My point, though, is that, if you're going to launch a superhero franchise, the FIRST movie should feature a battle between the hero and his/her/their arch-nemesis: Superman vs. Lex Luthor! The X-Men vs. Magneto! Spider-man vs. the Green Goblin! Nitpickers will point out that Christopher Nolan's Batman didn't fight the Joker until the sequel, to which we will reply that (A) whoever directed "Green Lantern" is no Christopher Nolan and therefore does not deserve as much leeway, and (B) Nolan was actually "re-booting" the Batman franchise; Tim Burton's initial Batman did, of course, fight the Joker in film one. Green Lantern fans (they MUST exist) were no doubt clamoring for a knock-down drag-out ringslinging showdown between GL and Sinestro. They wuz robbed!
OBSERVATION #2) I think I finally "get" Ryan Reynolds: He's this generation's Keanu Reeves, i.e., a very good-looking actor who can't act and who has all the charisma of a mop. Still, as one of my colleagues pointed out, "He's really hot." But that's not the point! "Yes it is." No, it really isn't "No, it REALLY is."
Sigh.
My blog, I get the last word: No. It REALLY isn't.
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