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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Jesse - Jun 17, 2011 10:47:37 am PDT #15035 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Green, we’re told at some point in “Green Lantern,’’ is the color of will. Based on the movie surrounding that line, it’s also the color of won’t. Won’t make sense. Won’t satisfy a soul. Possibly won’t make a dime. Green also happens to be the color associated with toxicity. It’s the color of weeds, certain scatological mishaps, antifreeze, and slime. Green is the color of the soup Linda Blair blasts in “The Exorcist.’’ If you were a club kid, it’s also the color of late nights and very early mornings in the 1990s. This is the green of “Green Lantern’’ — the neon green of glow-stick goo.

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Jessica - Jun 17, 2011 10:50:01 am PDT #15036 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm partial to this one, but it may be too reasonable for your purposes:

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le nubian - Jun 17, 2011 10:59:00 am PDT #15037 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ooh! thank you both. I think I will read BOTH tonight. I will read while Beau cooks dinner.

le nubian - Jun 17, 2011 11:24:26 am PDT #15038 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

BTW, the comments on the boston.com review are hilarious. The Bay of pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis back and forth amused me.

Scrappy - Jun 17, 2011 11:30:36 am PDT #15039 of 30000

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Alan Rickman's goodbye letter to The Potterverse: [link]

OMGICANNOTLOVEHIMMORE

Laga - Jun 17, 2011 2:38:02 pm PDT #15040 of 30000

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm ready for chapter two of The Tragic Love Story of Erik and Charles now. I'll have to settle for watching chapter one again, won't I?

One thing confuses me. If Erik grew up in Germany and Michael grew up in Ireland, why does Magneto sound kinda Welsh?

§ ita § - Jun 17, 2011 3:16:05 pm PDT #15041 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I heard Irish, not Welsh.

Laga - Jun 17, 2011 5:35:50 pm PDT #15042 of 30000

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Oh I'm such a dork. I was thinking he sounded like Dylan Moran and for some reason I thought Moran was Welsh. Oops.

Dana - Jun 17, 2011 6:11:14 pm PDT #15043 of 30000

I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I am sad about the GL reviews.

DavidS - Jun 17, 2011 6:47:03 pm PDT #15044 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Another blistering (but funny) GL review (from IO9):

*****

Ryan Reynolds' disembodied face spends large chunks of Green Lantern floating around in an ocean of computer-animated cheese. Because Reynolds' face tells the entire story, he works overtime to try and convey what's actually going on. Reynolds' face looks freaked out, or determined, or sometimes kind of constipated, as he tries to summon up reserves of willpower.

And the battle between Hal Jordan and the film's villain, a sentient cloud named Parallax, is largely psychological. Parallax is a creature of fear, so Hal has to defeat the monster by getting past his own emotional hangups. This is kind of hard to convey on the screen, and it doesn't help that the green power of Hal's ring often comes across as a collection of abstract computer polygons, against a background of other computer polygons. The whole thing feels like a really bad group therapy session where someone spiked the water cooler with magic mushrooms.

If I had to sum up Green Lantern in one phrase, it would be: "Abstract art about daddy issues."

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