Review of Green Lantern

rating-meh/decent

Hello all This the much anticipated(by me)movie adaptation of my favorite super hero the Green Lantern. This movie was something I looked forward to this movie despite the fact Ryan Reynolds was in it as he is being forced down our throats as a action hero despite not being good at it. I am going into this as a SUPER fan but I am going to try to review this as impartially as I can.



I will start by saying this is better then Thor as it was compelling but less then X men First class because it wasn't all that good. My initial fear would be that they would ignore the outer space elements to make a movie that appealed to a broader audience which happily did not happen. The main issue was they felt by putting two people who are popular and attractive as the leads(Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively) they could get away with slow paced short movie with no action in it. The plot follows the story of how The green lantern goes from immature fly boy to responsible super hero in about one hour and forty five minutes. The action scenes consist of 5-6 loose scenes in which they are over as soon as they start. The main villain a yellow cloud which is defeated pretty quickly. I liked the idea of the intergalactic police force which they did alot to set up which I appreciated as a fan of the comic but I they seemed to be more perfunctory then needed in the grand scheme of things. As any fan of the comic knows Sinestro played by Mark Strong is going to be a villain. This set up process is done by adding tons of ideas which have 0 to do with the story at hand for a sequel I can GUARANTEE will not be made. Another thing to go back to my pre sequel idea they seemed to be sett All in all it was OK I was expecting a turd of ang lee "hulk" proportions and instead got this underwhelming star vehicle disguised as a action movie. I am calling it now as I belive the captian America movie will be the winner of the summer of comic movies as its not coming out in may(thor) and they do not have faux action star Ryan Renyolds in it(this movie).

Review of James Bond Quantum of solace or how bourne killed this series

rating-decent-meh

Sup folks Time for another review/opinion piece this time we tackle the franchise killer that is Quantum of solace. This was the last James bond movie made and for all intents and purposes was a success in regards to $$$ (Budget $200 million
Gross revenue $586,090,727) but in terms of continuing a series it was AWFUL.



First thing first lets go into the whats and whys of this movie. Its picks up pretty much right after "Casino Royale" and almost right away they "borrow" from the bourne series and when its not doing that its tripping all over itself stylistically. The plot is that a organization is trying to manipulate the worlds resources to maintain wealth and power. This sounds exciting and dramatic but in essence its really just a rapey Frenchman stealing water from Boliva. In the history of bond that has to be the weakest arc ever. The bond women consisted of a girl who he met and bedded and was killed in the span of 15 min and a Russian tanned to play a Spanish girl who he never slept with. The movie flowed well and the action made sense in the spots that there was action so no complaints there. The issue I think was the willful decision to be a bourne film and in doing so killed the series dead.



The Bourne series which is one of my favorite collection of films caused this and Let me show you why. Every shaky cam Krav Maga style fight and parkour jump roof to roof in this movie screams Bourne. Its as if they made a decision to copy all of what was cool in the Bourne films without realizing they were doing a bond movie. I saw Casino Royale and like most people enjoyed it but deep down I was scared that in the reboot they would change what made James Bond James Bond with this moody asshole. I am not saying go back to the foolishness that was die another day but a middle ground should be found. If they made a fourth Bourne film where he met a girl with a silly double entandre name and bedded her at the conclusion of the adventure we would bitch. I think another reboot(i hate this practice BTW) is in order which pretends the last two movies never happened and get back to easy to build on Bond action and save the innovation for movies like Bourne and Hanna.