Movies: Green Lantern

[woodwardiocom]

This is a very middle-of-the-road superhero film. I was entertained, and enjoyed all the fanbait (e.g., in the GL crowd scenes, every shot included at least a half-dozen recognizable GLs), but the movie needed a script doctor, and the two leads displayed the emotional gamut from A to C. And the astronomy is bad, unless there's an asteroid belt between Earth and the Sun that I don't know about. Of the three superhero movies I've seen this year, it comes in behind Thor, and well behind X-Men.

(It did help me find a new reason to appreciate Thor. Natalie Portman spends that movie wearing sensible clothes, not a series of objectifying-ly short skirts like Ms. Lively in GL.)

Edit: And apparently, the actor playing Tom Kalmaku (in the comics, an Inuit) is Maori. I have no idea how to react to that.

Comments

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

I present a comment from Jezebel which is an amazingly nerdy insult.

"Everyone passably familiar with Green Lantern mythos knows that the
original ring was powerless against wood. That's probably why this
movie's downfall was primarily Ryan Reynolds' dramatic acting. "
http://jezebel.com/5813067/the-green-lantern-is-a-colossal-waste-of-a-perfectly-hot-dude

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

And apparently, the actor playing Tom Kalmaku (in the comics, an Inuit) is Maori. I have no idea how to react to that.

... at least he's not white?

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's better than the days of casting Ricardo Montalban as Japanese...