By the way

[inamac]

Just after Christmas we picked up three DVDs in the Sainsbury's sale - Source Code, Green Lantern and The King's Speech (which came with an unexpected bonus disc of The Madness of George III).

We have yet to watch the historicals, but, surprisingly, Source Code was quite good - a fairly complicated plot that suggests that Hollywood may be more

Comments

[lil_shepherd]

I have real problems with what they have done with Green Lantern because the SFX are crap and they've taken one of my favourite comic books and made a total mess of it, and because they didn't need that sodding long intro, and Reynolds is totally miscast...

This could, of course, be something to do with having started reading this book in 1960 and collecting the great versions like the long Green Lantern/Green Arrow sequence, Emerald Dawn and Ganthet's Tale and, above all, Rebirth/

[magically25]

On the basis of this ill look out for Source Code

[dickgloucester]

I watched part of Green Lantern on a plane. It's a completely godawful piece of rubbish.

[lil_shepherd]

Indeed.

Yet the comics it is based on have, occasionally, been the best around. And there is a fan-made trailer for the film that should have been...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs

[dickgloucester]

I see what you mean. With an actor of the maturity and presence of Nathan Fillion, they might have been able to make something worthwhile.

[inamac]

Any film that credits seven screenwriters, and changes direction from comedy to action/adventure mid-production was going to have problems.

And, as Lil says, when the fan-made trailer is better than the actual movie you know you're in trouble.