I am sad about the GL reviews.
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Dana - Jun 17, 2011 6:11:14 pm PDT #15043 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
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."
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2011 8:29:21 pm PDT #15045 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I enjoyed it! It was weaker than XMen First Class, but I might have had an equivalent good time to Thor, although Thor was a stronger movie. GL has a better female lead (damning with faint praise, but she was written with stuff to do, unlike Natalie Portman's character or even Mystique, and the less said about January Jones the better).
Ryan Reynolds is ridiculously charismatic and easy on the eyes. It wasn't deep, but I'm fond of it.
And I wasn't the most dorktastic person there! Some kids showed up in masks, at which point my GL t-shirt is bush league.
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2011 9:08:23 pm PDT #15046 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I really liked Super 8 ! It was totally a throwback movie, and although I did appreciate that the bulk of the movie was focused on the characters, and the alien wasn't actually driving the human drama, I was also glad that there was quite a bit of alien action in the latter half.
tommyrot - Jun 18, 2011 6:35:59 am PDT #15047 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DavidS - Jun 18, 2011 7:44:31 am PDT #15048 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Outtakes from Bridesmaids. Very funny but NSFW.
I really liked the sex scenes with Jon Hamm, and the woman improv-ing on man-smells.
sumi - Jun 18, 2011 11:04:44 am PDT #15049 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Just read that Benedict Cumberbatch is voicing the Necromancer as well as Smaug.
Typo Boy - Jun 18, 2011 1:11:57 pm PDT #15050 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The Necromancer will be in The Hobbit?
sumi - Jun 18, 2011 1:42:21 pm PDT #15051 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Apparently so.
quester - Jun 18, 2011 2:10:35 pm PDT #15052 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
So far this weekend, I've seen Thor and Super 8. I enjoyed both, but I'm not ready to say that Thor was all that.
Super 8 really did feel like a Speilberg throwback except the alien seemed to be the little brother of the one from Cloverfield.
I hate it when the special effects in one movie remind me of the effects from another. Or, you can recognize the special effects creators before you see the credits.