A brief look at wikipedia will show that the likes of Sinestro, Abin Sur and the Guardians look like they are supposed to. The film is about a comic-book hero whose hay-day was in the 1960s. On that final point, I would say that the film makers should be congratulated rather than criticised. But hey, why bother to qualify your criticisms). In both cases, they lay into the film for the ‘old fashioned 1960s’ design of the alien characters like Sinestro, Abin Sur and the Guardians of the Universe (in the Daily Express man’s case, he incorrectly states it reminded him of 1960s Doctor Who, even though there were absolutely no characters in 1960s Who that look anything like any of them. In fairness he did at least try and be critical and complained that it had too many different sub-plots on the go at once, which was valid. Meanwhile, the man over at the Daily Express’s main bone of contention was that it was a superhero movie, and he’s seen too many of those films lately. Essentially she wanted it to be something it wasn’t even supposed to be. The woman writing the review wanted the film to explore Hal’s personal demons more and considered that the biggest problem. The Digital Spy one is more interested in talking about Ryan Reynolds’ back catalogue of movies. You probably won’t want to watch it again in a hurry, but it was good enough to sustain my interest, and much like most films in the genre at the moment, the special effects and visuals are excellent.īut I came away from it thinking “I really need to read the reviews that gave it 2 stars and see what they had to say”. Skipping to the very end now, I’ll tell you that the film is not without its flaws, but it is decent. I didn’t read the reviews mind you, I just looked at the score.īut as you know, Superhero films are a genre I like, and I was bored this afternoon so I thought I’d use my unlimited ticket to go and see it. So when The Green Lantern got 2 stars out of 5 in both the Daily Express and the Digital Spy website, I was wary. Let's be honest - if you knew this guy personally, that disguise wouldn't fool you for a moment.Įxample – what a load of rubbish that game was).
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