Green Lantern

[ysengrin]

Had it going in the background while I was working on other things (and took several breaks from it when working away from the screen).

Ouch. Overall it's a bunch of fragmented scenes jarringly stuck together, which does make it easy to pause the movie and go do something else. There are shards of a decent story - and a decent movie - left in there, but it's hard to sift through the film to try and pick them out. It reeks of film-by-committee with nobody able to tie all the pieces together, let alone manage a sense of continuity.

Finding a ring and then saving the world has been done before, and done much better. This was too much, in too little time, with too little polish.

Hal also has no imagination to speak of.

Comments

[faolruadh.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that the Green Lantern comics were derivative, as they basically borrow plots from Doc Smith's "Lensmen" books. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

You think? *gryn* There are a lot of similarities to Arisians and their Lenses, though all the alien-directed human breeding and "The Hero Eternal" stuff doesn't appear in Green Lantern. Of course, the original DC artists claim they were unfamiliar with E E Doc Smith.

I had to put what I remember from the comics out of mind to watch the movie, though -- in the comics, Parallax *was* Hal Jordan, or at least had possessed him.

[silvermane3.livejournal.com]

Conversely a ring has been used by villains more effectly, like Ming the Merciless. :)