Friday, October 14, 2011

Movie - Green Lantern

This is my first blog so bare with me.
I finally got to see Green Lantern with Ryan Reynolds today.  It was actually a pretty good movie.  The special effects were incredible but that is to be expected when you have a budget of $200 million on a movie.  I have to say Warner Brothers is pulling out all the stops after the success of the Marvel movies to prove they are still the best with DC Comics Character franchises.  After the Great success to Batman Begins the WB expanded the budget for Dark Knight with was an awesome movie but I still attribute the films theater success of $1.002 billion in ticket sales to the death of Heath Ledger.  It was still a good movie.  Warner thought if we threw another $200 million at a comic character it might work twice.  Well Green Lantern wasn't quit the success because of 2 reasons; 1. Green Lantern is not the big 2 of DC (Superman/Batman), and 2. no one really knows much about the character Green Lantern except true comic book fans, and lets face it there are a lot of us but not enough to float a $200 million movie about a supporting character (in most peoples minds) of DC.
I thought the dialog was a little flat at times.  They could have shaved a bout $5 million off the special effects budget and give it to a better script writer, but it was worth buying if you have a HDTV and like looking at the cool detail in the computer graphics.  Now I know I liked it because they stayed fairly true to the comic and I am a comic book fan, but the average Joe may have no idea whats going on until they lose interest in the movie.  I would say it is worth buying on Blu-ray if you can get it for under $25, and if I had seen it in the theater I think I would have still bought it.
Thank you

I'm gonna talk about something different every day or 2 just to clarify, sports, video games, movies...etc.
Next time College Football

1 comment:

  1. I find that the biggest problem with the movie is its identity. It couldn't decide whether to be a space opera or standard earth-hero movie. Also, I think one of the reasons it got poor reviews was the false advertising. The posters and trailer made it look like it was going to focus more in space. Heck, even the dvd/bluray boxes still convey this. Instead we got ten minutes of awesome intergalactic stuff and the rest dealt with a boring villain on earth(hammond).

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