I've decided to change up my blog a bit (bear with me). I'm going to be writing a combination of posts that encompass all my favorite things, as well as what I am about as an interested person and a writer. Basically I'll write about movies I see, tv I watch, and vegan food I eat. Hopefully it won't seem too weird or unfocused but I'm not currently enjoying the restriction of just writing about vegan stuff so I'm going to expand it. And besides, since I do write for US Weekly and tend to be entertainment inclined in general I figured I should get into more of that type of writing. Plus I'm interested in that so why not?
That being said, here we have it, my first movie review on the blog.
Ryan Reynolds abs, excuse me, I mean, The Green Lantern is not a great movie. I should have known better going into it, every reviewer I have even a shred of respect for totally panned it, but you know what? I like popcorn and I like going to the movies.
I'm not sure what it was about. And I just saw it a few hours ago so that seems slightly ridiculous. I am sure that Ryan Reynolds is totally sexy and very charming. I want him to be in lots of movies. Comedy movies preferably, but whatever.
The entire exposition is super weird as they try to sum up the Green Lantern universe for us in about two minutes. I imagine this is difficult as it was created and fleshed out by multiple authors over the course of several hundred comic books. It felt rushed and simplified and forced. I found it confusing. And I like to think of myself as a pretty clever lady.
The "emotional" scenes are horrible. The only saving grace is Ryan Reynolds being funny, which obviously comes naturally to him. Beyond that, it's awful. The action scenes are fun, but there aren't many of them. (surprising, I know, as it is a comic book movie) The end is pretty good.
Peter Sarsgaard (who I LUV) is sort of a bad guy in this and it's ok. It's way too campy and his character is a total joke, I couldn't care less about the guy, but he is an incredible actor and manages to inject some humanity into it, which is saying a lot. I'm also a sort of Blake Lively fan but she is terrible in this. Her performance is completely flat, although she does look great as a brunette.
In general I have a problem with the way most movies cast comic book women but that might be a larger problem I have with the current young women who are stars in Hollywood today. It just feels like none of them are real, down to earth, or interesting. They're all just super hot and some of them are ok actresses. Blake Lively (who I adored in The Town btw-great casting) is not a bad actress she's just dull in this. (not all her fault, lots of fault owed to the dialogue) But I also just had trouble believing that she could fly a plane. I mean, seriously? I'm supposed to believe that Blake Lively is a pilot? Have you ever met a female pilot? They are not Blake Lively-ish.
Anyways, I guess you shouldn't go see it. It's sort of bad and confusing. Unless you're a huge Ryan Reynolds fan then you've probably already seen it. I hope they don't make a sequel. Yeesh.
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