{"id":1083,"date":"2011-06-16T18:48:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T01:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvdpinson.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2011-06-16T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T01:48:39","slug":"green-lantern-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Green Lantern Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/24_0004_C-merged11111.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1084\" title=\"24_0004_C--(merged)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/24_0004_C-merged11111.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Green Lantern<\/h2>\n<p><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <script src=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/static\/button\/button1.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g11122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1085\" title=\"g1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g11122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen it comes to the superhero movie, times have changed. During the 70s, 80s and 90s, DC Comics ruled the multiplexes with fantastic adaptations of their comic books. Meanwhile\u2026Marvel Comics churned out nothing but bunkum. DC gave us a couple great \u201cSuperman\u201d movies (Reeves not Routh) and \u201cBatman\u201d films (Keaton not Clooney) as Marvel eked out a direct-to-video version of \u201cCaptain America,\u201d a direct-to-oblivion version of \u201cThe Fantastic Four\u201d and turned \u201cThe Punisher\u201d into a terrible Dolph Lundgren vehicle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g41122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1086 alignright\" title=\"g4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g4112-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g61111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088 aligncenter\" title=\"g6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g61111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor the last few years, however, the marvels at Marvel have been releasing stellar films almost bi-weekly (\u201cIronman,\u201d \u201cThor\u201d) while DC has been resting on Chris Nolan\u2019s vision of \u201cBatman\u201d. DC\u2019s latest attempt to regain a share of the booming superhero market is the new action flick, \u201cGreen Lantern\u201d. Sadly, it doesn\u2019t hold a candle to the Modern Marvel Movie and has about as much charm as \u201cThe Punisher\u201d- the terrible Thomas Jane vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g31122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g31122.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"g3\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1092\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is a fearless, crackerjack fighter pilot who is a bit of a maverick with the ladies (\u201cTop Gun\u201d pun very much intended). He works for a defense weapons company along side his ex-flame, Carol Ferris (Blake Lively). During a weapons demonstration that goes smashingly wrong, we find out (through cheese-soaked flashback) that Hal is haunted by the death of his fearless, crackerjack fighter pilot father. What to do? Our hero is flawed.<\/p>\n<p>One evening, Hal is picked up by an energy orb and transported to the wreckage of a spacecraft were a dying purple alien entrusts upon him a fancy green ring and a fancy green lantern that acts as a ring recharger when the ring needs recharging. As the bearer of the ring, Hal becomes a member of the Green Lantern Corps, a sort of cosmic cop force sworn to protect their sector of the Universe by harnessing the power of will. Or will power. Or whatever.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g71111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g7111-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"g7\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1093\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf that seemed like an abrupt shift in the synopsis, that\u2019s because erratic storytelling is one of many shortcomings of \u201cGreen Lantern\u201d. There are long, drawn-out expository scenes that drag on, and then the film skips and skims over seemingly important information. The movie is a sort of cinematic manic-depressive. Up one minute, down the next.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the premise wasn\u2019t promising. The full-tilt fantasy and science fiction elements should have been refreshing and much of the imagery could have been yanked directly from the books. But there are too many computer generated creatures looking too cartoony and you never believe that Hal is sharing the same space with them. Also, when Hal learns to use his powers, he generates weapons out of thin air. The effect is too similar to what Jim Carrey did in 1994\u2019s \u201cThe Mask\u201d and even though \u201cGreen Lantern\u201d predates that material by decades, the result is ho-hum and familiar (and hard not to chuckle at).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g21111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/g21111.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"g2\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1094\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne final nit pick that has very little to do with nearly anything. When Ryan Reynolds wears his mask, he looks distractingly like Ben Stiller. Not a criticism, just an observation.<br \/>\n\u201cGreen Lantern\u201d falls flat at nearly every angle. Peter Sarsgaard tries to pull off the \u201cquirky bad guy\u201d role with his work as Hector Hammond but it never gels. His makeup in the last act of the film makes him look like a rejected criminal from Warren Beatty\u2019s \u201cDick Tracy\u201d. Call him \u201cMelonhead\u201d. So instead of being invested and engaged in the climactic confrontation, I was thinking to myself, \u201cLook, it\u2019s Ben Stiller vs. Melonhead. In 3-D, no less.\u201d Not the reaction the boys at DC were aiming for, I\u2019m guessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Lantern When it comes to the superhero movie, times have changed. During the 70s, 80s and 90s, DC Comics ruled the multiplexes with fantastic adaptations of their comic books. Meanwhile\u2026Marvel Comics churned out nothing but bunkum. DC gave us a couple great \u201cSuperman\u201d movies (Reeves not Routh) and \u201cBatman\u201d films (Keaton not Clooney) as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2908,5378,8621,17485,19364],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-blake-lively","tag-dc-comics","tag-green-lantern","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-superhero-movie-reviews"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}