Green Lantern, redux
Jul. 6th, 2011 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficI went to see Green Lantern again with my brother. He still hasn't forgiven me.
1. This film is really inappropriate for children. And I know comics aren't just for kids (bam! pow!) but this really seemed like a movie that could have a family audience. You have a lot of sci-fi action and cool alien creatures--there's no reason it can't be a superhero Star Wars, especially in terms of kid-friendliness, but then you have Parallax sucking people's souls out and Hector Hammond screaming in pain as he grotesquely mutates. Just seems weird. If you're going to market a film to children, maybe you should check to make sure that the main villain isn't made up of the writhing torment of the damned first, is what I'm saying.
2. This movie really cock-blocked The Flash. It took a lot of people's head!Wally (so even if they cast someone else as the Flash, it'll still be a Ryan Reynolds type and come off as derivative) and even stole the "immature superhero has to grow up to save the world" character arc, and misused both of them. And I know the Flash movie will probably be about Barry Allen, because that's the way to snag the 13-25 target audience, casting a character that hasn't been in the comics since they were born. But still, if they're trying to make a DC movie universe, you think someone would've said "Wait, aren't we just making a Flash movie?"
3. It's canon that when Green Lanterns die, their costumes disappear. That seems like the movie shooting itself in the foot when it comes to drama, since you'd think by the second movie there'll be a lot of Green Lanterns dying to show how serious the threat is. "Oh no, Sinestro killed Tomar Re! And goddamn was Tomar Re packing!"
4. This movie kinda tries to replicate the Bond/Vesper dynamic from the director's earlier Casino Royale, only with Blake Lively. Fail.
1. This film is really inappropriate for children. And I know comics aren't just for kids (bam! pow!) but this really seemed like a movie that could have a family audience. You have a lot of sci-fi action and cool alien creatures--there's no reason it can't be a superhero Star Wars, especially in terms of kid-friendliness, but then you have Parallax sucking people's souls out and Hector Hammond screaming in pain as he grotesquely mutates. Just seems weird. If you're going to market a film to children, maybe you should check to make sure that the main villain isn't made up of the writhing torment of the damned first, is what I'm saying.
2. This movie really cock-blocked The Flash. It took a lot of people's head!Wally (so even if they cast someone else as the Flash, it'll still be a Ryan Reynolds type and come off as derivative) and even stole the "immature superhero has to grow up to save the world" character arc, and misused both of them. And I know the Flash movie will probably be about Barry Allen, because that's the way to snag the 13-25 target audience, casting a character that hasn't been in the comics since they were born. But still, if they're trying to make a DC movie universe, you think someone would've said "Wait, aren't we just making a Flash movie?"
3. It's canon that when Green Lanterns die, their costumes disappear. That seems like the movie shooting itself in the foot when it comes to drama, since you'd think by the second movie there'll be a lot of Green Lanterns dying to show how serious the threat is. "Oh no, Sinestro killed Tomar Re! And goddamn was Tomar Re packing!"
4. This movie kinda tries to replicate the Bond/Vesper dynamic from the director's earlier Casino Royale, only with Blake Lively. Fail.
