Green Lantern

[WillEagle]

Here are the items the guy who runs the comic shop was giving out at the Green Lantern movie. pretty cool. But, I don't know what I'll do with the heroclix figure. Check these out.

[ElfManDan]

Saw the movie yesterday and I thought it was good. A little cliche at times, but it was pretty fun to watch.

[stonut]

Saw the movie Yesterday evening, picture house was kinda quiet,but then i am guessing the rush has died down.
It was ok a lot of action and the ring effects where great. But it lacked character, never really grabbed me.

[moyer777]

Just got back from Green Lantern.  It wasn't as bad as people have been saying.  I mean some of the script was a tad bit silly, but the effects were great.  I was surprised at how good it was.

[Geekyfanboy]

Finally watched this today (Extended Edition on BluRay) and all the extras and totally loved it. I don't understand why folks bashed it so much. It was entertaining, cool SFX, good acting and I enjoyed the introduction of Green Lantern.

[Roddenberry]

And so my movie catch up continues.  I'll be honest, I went into this, knowing not a jot, bar the basics of the ring, about Green Lantern. I don't know why, but I felt deeply saddened to see Tim Robbins and his sub par performance, in this.  This was more than alleviated by Peter Sarsgaard's performance, chewing scenery and stealing scenes.  Ryan Reynolds' performance, both with and without the ring, is vanilla.  Again, I don't know if this is true to the character's comic book origins or just the acting range of Reynolds, but this lack of range made it hard for me to connect or care about his character and the recharge scene with his supposedly 'best friend' was borderline cringeworthy and had no emotional resonance at all.  I must say though, the voice work is very good, I believe I heard the (ahem) dulcet tones of Clancy Brown, but this is downplayed by my feeling that a lot of the supporting cast, Tim Robbins and Hal's family especially, phoned in a performance or maybe were just poorly directed.

Reading this back, it seems like I hated the film, it's no so much that, it has a lot of good elements, the CGI is great, I liked the story, even if it's a bit thin and the film could be 15-20 minutes shorter and feel tighter and better for it and as I said already, Sarsgaard is a joy to behold in this and alone raised my rating by half a star. Plus Blake Lively nearly makes you believe Hal/Ryan has emotions and will one day be a real boy. 

3 out of 5 stars, save it for a rainy Saturday afternoon, when you've got nothing else better to do.