Not the brightest, but not the darkest....
This weekend, me along with my Dad and bro pulled a double feature at the local mall theater and catch “Cars 2” and then “Green Lantern” and we both greatly enjoyed the 2 movies.
The Green Lantern movie started out a rocky take off, but it then it took off as a great experience, with some slight turbulence. One thing I noticed in the film that it is very fast pace, with very little to no going too deep with the characters, and sometimes having to fly with little to no explanations (leaving to the saying “The Ring Did It”). Does that make it a major flaw to the film… no, a small bit annoying, but considering the angle of the movie going for, I would say that work for it.
In the movies, “Super 8” and most of the “Bay Transformers Movies”, the aliens are underplayed, Green Lantern however, shows off the aliens and what the Green Ring can do. My favorite parts of the film is when Hal is on Oa, and we see the other Corps members, many of which are very awesome in design, and how Hal uses his ring in training. I just love it when he pulls out a chain-saw in his sword fight with Sinestro. My other favorite part when Hal “publically” appears after converting a crashing helicopter into Hotrod car and have run around a Hotwheels track based on what his nephew had. You can’t say you’ve seen that in movies. My Dad’s favorite is when Hal tries to pull a Batman and Superman with Carol, whose best line is “I known you for my entire life, why makes you think hiding your cheek-bones is going to fool me?!”
The one real flaw of the film is not the plot holes, nor being “faithful” to the source material as some bloggers may say, but I would have to say the movie just makes references for reference sake. One example is how around the start, Hal is with his brothers and bonds with his nephew. This plays a bigger part in the comics. In the movie, they appear for one part and not seen or mention after it. Also the Lanterns, you see a lot of different aliens on Oa, but the movie only focus the 2 (not including Sinestero) and the Guardians (who seem to have some weird head thing going on).
So yeah, Green Lantern has some problems, but then again, so did the Superman and Spider-Man films and people like them. The Green Lantern is one of the movies that isn’t going to be a “box office smash” but something for the nerds in all of to enjoy, like the people of Tron. It’s not the going to be the greatest, but something you’ll see again and again for all the really good parts. I highly recommend this movie to fans of sci-fi and comics to go see, because I think this movie needs better opinion then the standards that Marvel has set up with their movies, it just needs some better polish for the sequels.
