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Post by Anders on Jun 16, 2011 21:51:25 GMT -8
Yeah, that's a joke that pops up in various fantasy comics from time to time.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Jun 17, 2011 2:23:58 GMT -8
I think I read it in MURPHY'S RULES...
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Jun 18, 2011 12:55:08 GMT -8
Green Lantern in 2 words:
Depressingly mundane.
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Post by Anders on Jun 18, 2011 13:06:08 GMT -8
That's sad.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Jun 18, 2011 13:48:15 GMT -8
It's instructive to compare this movie with THOR, another film that tried to balance Earth-based plots with more cosmic ones. Thor was close to 50-50. This felt more like 80-20... and the cosmic scenes were the minority. I'm really disappointed that, given the potential for a cracking space opera story, most of the film was Earthbound (and, indeed, in one city).
At this point, I'd much rather see a prequel called Green Lantern Origins: Abin Sur.
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Post by jensaltmann on Jun 20, 2011 6:31:03 GMT -8
I wonder why they list it as a Fail. But yes: actual German license plate.  |
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jun 28, 2011 17:38:14 GMT -8
It's instructive to compare this movie with THOR, another film that tried to balance Earth-based plots with more cosmic ones. Thor was close to 50-50. This felt more like 80-20... and the cosmic scenes were the minority. I'm really disappointed that, given the potential for a cracking space opera story, most of the film was Earthbound (and, indeed, in one city). At this point, I'd much rather see a prequel called Green Lantern Origins: Abin Sur. This is true and I won't deny it. But the annoying thing about Thor was that nearly every Earth Scene had a callout to another Marvel movie, either existing (Hulk, Iron Man), or upcoming (Captain America, Avengers), to the point where, even, I as a fan, was going "Oh stop the fucking plugging and get on with the fucking movie!" Green Lantern, at least, did not have that. |
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Jun 28, 2011 18:18:40 GMT -8
Green Lantern, at least, did not have that. True. It just had Hal Jordan killing time until the villains showed up. |
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 3, 2011 6:30:42 GMT -8
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Jul 3, 2011 8:49:12 GMT -8
And still more interesting than Big Two superbooks.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 3, 2011 13:22:53 GMT -8
Well, on one hand, yes, yes it is.
On the other, it's an almost pure distilation of how the current Copyright Maintenance division see superhero comics - a bunch of amoral immature idiots fighting for no reason.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 3, 2011 13:27:12 GMT -8
Damn, the Aaron Copland influence is so thick you can taste it.....
ETA: Oops, should have been Aaron Copland, not John Copeland. Fixed. My bad.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Jul 3, 2011 13:45:16 GMT -8
This, unfortunately, is true.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 7, 2011 4:36:11 GMT -8
OK, so as per tradition, my brother and I went to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon (it's one of the few touchstones from our childhood that we actually share).
So, the skinny
The Bad:
-As per Michael Bay SOP, everyone in the movie is morally and functionally retarded. Including Optimus Prime.
-Severe cases of Evil Overlord Syndrome. Including "no, I can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book" of Evil Overlord mistakes.
-None of the characters or institutions learned anything from the last movie.
-While this movie has less military hardware mastrubation than the previous two films, it makes up for that by having a very clear and direct right-wing Anti-Obama stance. In some ways it's subtle (for Bay, that is), in others it's not.
-Well, there is less obvious jerking off to US military hardware than in previous films, though that is somewhat traded off by product placement.
-The plot is, when you think about it for any length of time, hard to swallow, and in context of the other two movies, it makes not one lick of sense (the chronology is utterly FUBAR'd). Just an non-spoilery example: Megatron, if you had an army of Decepticons on the moon, you know when would have been a good time to use them? AT ANY POINT BEFORE THIS ONE!
The Good (what there is):
-This is probably the best CGI of the Bay films: Virtually no lens flare, shakycam, and very few night scenes to try and cover up bad quality.
-All of the above means that yes, these are probably the best action sequences in any of the films.
-Leonard Nimoy!
-Also, Alan Tudyk (who steals every single scene he is in).
-Despite the problems with the Plot mentioned above, the one thing this movie does really, really well is show how utterly FUCKED humanity is in the face of an invasion by superpowerful aliens - this is something I plan to steal liberally from.
So in total: Yeah, not a good film by any measure, but probably the best of the Bayformers. Take that as you will.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 9, 2011 9:11:41 GMT -8
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