Green Lantern: Mild Spoilers & Possible Fanboy Overload
a/k/a The Movie I've Waiting For For Fifty Years....
It was...good. Good, not great. Better than I'd feared, not as good as I'd hoped. Ryan Reynolds did a good job, enough that I was able to buy him as Hal despite being physically wrong. Blake Lively was surprisingly okay, and there were a couple scenes that were pretty much lifted from the comic, so...okay then. Tomar Re looked great, Kilowog was what we expected I guess. I don't recall Salaak: I thought I'd seen him in a trailer. Good Abin Sur, very good Sinestro. Lots of cameos from GLs like Bzzd and Apros. Tom Kalmaku, though...that guy didn't look Inuit to me. The actor has a name that may be Samoan or Maori: I'm thinking the latter. Like the promotion from grease-monkey, though.
Gotta say, I liked what they did with the weaving of the several plot lines -- Hector, Parallax, rogue Guardians, Sinestro and the Yellow Ring (did you stay for the cookie?). I really liked the origin story for Parallax, and his demise followed the comic continuity. Other subtle bits: Carol's flight handle is "Sapphire"...Nice: I don't recall that from the comic, but maybe. Lots of constructs: that's what GL is all about, after all. It'd be nice if the comics guys remembered that %^).
And the movie had the hands-down best line EVAR in a superhero movie. Worth the price of admission just for that. (Hint: It's when GL appears on Carol's balcony in costume, with the mask. The scene was a clear homage to the Christopher Reeve "Superman" movies, but it went in an awesome new direction).
It was...good. Good, not great. Better than I'd feared, not as good as I'd hoped. Ryan Reynolds did a good job, enough that I was able to buy him as Hal despite being physically wrong. Blake Lively was surprisingly okay, and there were a couple scenes that were pretty much lifted from the comic, so...okay then. Tomar Re looked great, Kilowog was what we expected I guess. I don't recall Salaak: I thought I'd seen him in a trailer. Good Abin Sur, very good Sinestro. Lots of cameos from GLs like Bzzd and Apros. Tom Kalmaku, though...that guy didn't look Inuit to me. The actor has a name that may be Samoan or Maori: I'm thinking the latter. Like the promotion from grease-monkey, though.
Gotta say, I liked what they did with the weaving of the several plot lines -- Hector, Parallax, rogue Guardians, Sinestro and the Yellow Ring (did you stay for the cookie?). I really liked the origin story for Parallax, and his demise followed the comic continuity. Other subtle bits: Carol's flight handle is "Sapphire"...Nice: I don't recall that from the comic, but maybe. Lots of constructs: that's what GL is all about, after all. It'd be nice if the comics guys remembered that %^).
And the movie had the hands-down best line EVAR in a superhero movie. Worth the price of admission just for that. (Hint: It's when GL appears on Carol's balcony in costume, with the mask. The scene was a clear homage to the Christopher Reeve "Superman" movies, but it went in an awesome new direction).