Hungry Like Kevin http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com Most recent posts at Hungry Like Kevin posterous.com Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:34:00 -0700 Regarding GREEN LANTERN http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/regarding-green-lantern http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/regarding-green-lantern

I'm probably not going to bother seeing it. That's a strange thing for me to write, because I've been a proponent of a Green Lantern movie for a long, long time.

But I never wanted Ryan Reynolds in it.

He's a fine performer for certain things, and I've liked him in some movies. But he isn't Hal Jordan, and from what I've seen of the film in trailers and such, it's nothing we haven't seen before: a chosen one; training montages; a new recruit introduced to a larger world. Hey, Green Lantern producers: I've already seen all of those Harry Potter films. Although we shouldn't be surprised that Warner Brothers is aping the story points of their very successful wizarding franchise.

It just looks dumb, and cheesy, and with an over-reliance on CGI (which, arguably, is the only way you can make a GL movie, I know...but did his costume need to be computer-generated? The answer is NO.).

It just looks wholly unremarkable, and I can't afford to blow my money on films that are wholly unremarkable. That said, I've heard really good things about X-Men: First Class, and today it'll only be 5 bucks. So, yeah...sorry, Green Lantern: I won't be seeing you this Friday, or whenever you come out.

It's your own fault for looking so fucking bland.

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