Christy (she of the Experiment) has been visiting me for the last week so I took her to see Green Lantern since she has a huge Ryan Reynolds fetish. It's an okay movie. The special effects are great, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard are very good, and the story is decent. What ruins it are the "love" scenes between Reynolds and Blake Lively. I'm just going to come out and say it: bitch can't act. I don't find her attractive so maybe that's part of the problem but whenever she was trying to pull off any kind of emotion I just wanted to punch her in her oily face.
I only knew the bare minimum about Green Lantern because I was much more of a Marvel girl than DC (except for Batman) so I can't really speak to the criticism I heard that the story was too fan-boy specific. It seemed fairly general to me. Hal Jordan is a test pilot whose father died in an explosion so he runs from any real feelings. Abin Sur is a magenta alien who imprisoned the evil Parallax in a lost quadrant. Parallax feeds on fear and when he escapes, he vows to destroy the Green Lantern Corps. Abin Sur fights him, gets wounded, crashes on Earth, and gives the ring to Jordan.
The ring takes Jordan to O'a, the magical world of the Green Lanterns powered by the force of Will and various aliens voiced by A-listers try and train him. Mark Strong plays Sinestro who will probably end up being the villain in the sequel if this movie makes any money. His condescension towards Jordan is so thick it could survive re-entry into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, a piece of the alien Parallax was stuck inside the alien Abin Sur and Hector Hammond gets infected with it while doing the autopsy. He becomes all gross and potato-headed with jaundice-yellow eyes. It's quite impressive.
Anyway, Jordan has to learn how to confront his fears so he can defeat the bad guys and win the girl.
In summary: Man gets ring. Man sucks at first. Man mans up. The end.
But the special effects are really pretty.
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