saw GL this weekend. and it was... meh. very shockingly, i hold ryan reynolds accountable for none of this reaction. in fact, i might even go so far as to say he wasn't bad as hal jordan. he wasn't overly jokey or ...y'know... ryan reynolds, at all.
getting the obvious critiques out of the way, the music was entirely unmemorable, and the 3D might have been the biggest waste of 3D in a film, yet.
my main problem with the film is that it was confused. it didn't know if it should follow the iron man path (focus on the character, not the hero), the spider-man path (focus on the mythology), the hulk path (you're a regular story that just happens to have a comic book guy in it), or the fantastic four path (you're a comic book, be fun!). the result was a jumble of each, where the pieces didn't belong. there was a lot of forced plot points, which is a major pet peeve of mine. like, when you're watching the first episode of a TV show, and they try to introduce stories and themes that the on-screen characters should have already known for years. "hi carol, remember we used to date? well we don't now, but i was just thinking about it" type.
oa was very cool. the action and fight scenes were fun. the oath moments were not the cringe-worthy events i (yellow)feared them to be, but were in fact very nerdly enjoyable. the suit was so much better in practice than it was in previews. honestly, the movie wasn't bad. but it very much wasn't good. no reason to see it on the big screen either: it'd be a fine HBO-at-home or netflix experience.
