Sunday, January 1, 2012
virag's movie reviews: green lantern (2011)
it sucked. really, there was no fucking reason for making this movie. at some point, movie producer people are gonna have to realize that some (many? most? all?) superhero concepts are just too stupid to bother making live-action films. besides being incoherent and unintelligible, the whole thing was completely silly. what the fuck were tim robbins, angela bassett and that sarsgaard guy doing in this turkey? holy shit, i guess the check cleared. what a waste of money. there's no way they're gonnna make a second one of these, i hope. it almost made the third transformers seem good.
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The worse part was the Green Lantern costume and mask. That being said, I'm really regretting not shelling out the extra buck fifty to see the movie in 3D. The feeling that I got when all the Green Lanterns gathered on Oa by Sinestro was the feeling that I SHOULD have gotten when I went to see the Phantom Menace. That is to say I felt as if I had joined something ailen and wonderus, and that feeling stayed with me until the credits ended and I was forced to leave the theator by an usher. As for the ring constructs, they are what I always imagined them to be every time I opened up an issue of Green Lantern.
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ReplyDeletei think that the whole green lantern concept was too goofy to sustain a big-budget live-action film. you could do some cool stories and comic book style action with an animated movie perhaps, and that would be enough. i'm also not all that thrilled with 3-d in general; most of the time it feels like a gimmick. such is life; more money means they'll do as many of them as they can if people'll pay...
plus, any super-hero movie is going to be a little silly if you really stop to think about it, even the dark knight, so if you decide to go all in with a big budget and shit, the film has to be fun. fun to look at, thrilling, fast-paced, something; not campy or comedy, but engaging on some level. that was the big risk with the dark night. trying to make a superhero movie dark and serious while ignoring the goofy douchebag in the giant rubber bat outfit...harder to make that fun; nolan did his best to put the fun in a marvel of film making. not completely sure he succeeded.