Green Lantern – 2011 – Ryan Reynolds

Green Lantern

I know I watched Green Lantern sometime when it first was released and didn’t like it that much. Somewhere in the back of my mind I kinda recall that not so many people liked it. If that were the audience or the critics I can’t remember. But I see that it was nominated for a few prizes and won a few as well so it coulnd’t have been so bad? I do remember a joke about it in one of the Deadpool movies though. That if the timeline was changed. Ryan Reynolds wouldn’t have to make the Green Lantern movie. So, I guess that he wasn’t too happy about it at least.

Sure, it’s very VERY sci-fi, but is that necessarily a bad thing? I don’t think so. As I remembered it, I thought it was pretty messy and didn’t have a clear plot to follow. In other words, I didn’t understand it. When I re-watched it the other day I couldn’t understand why. Now it’s pretty straightforward to me. It’s an easy story to follow even if you wouldn’t know the first thing about Green Lantern. I don’t know that much, but he was in a comic I read in my youth so I have the main concept clear. And I actually think this is a pretty good adaptation.

Ad

Gree lantern 150603102609 green lantern ryan reynolds super 169 ggf3j3Xy3EWYp6u5wo7jWP

Ryan Reynolds is more or less his usual self, as we have come to know him in recent years. Just a little less over-the-top. There aren’t as many jokes and one-liners in Green Lantern as in the more recent movies like Free Guy and Deadpool. I think he fills the Green Lantern customer pretty well. That’s not so true about a few of the actors though. Not that it’s the actors’ fault, they do what is required of them. But a few parts are a little too wooden and with makeup effects that are everything they shouldn’t be. Of course, to be a comic book adaptation might make it a little bit limited but if it were done today I think it would have taken a different path. But I still like it much better than I remembered it!

Our rating
Visitors average rating

Tommy Snöberg Söderberg

Autodidact film scholar and music-loving thinker who reads the occasional book.

You may also like...

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

×