This film suffers from a bad case of pitching. The story didn't know how to pitch itself (didn't know whether to be funny or serious), The actors didn't know how to pitch themselves (didn't know whether to be funny or serious) and the director didn't know how to bring it all together to make it totally coherent. So as you've gathered I think they pitched it incorrectly and its a shame, because I see a lot of potential here.
The overarching storyline isn't too hard to get, despite its potential they opted to dumb down the storyline to something fairly straightforward and rather trivial and clichéd. Ryan Reynolds is actually a fairly strong lead, and manages to keep film from completely sinking into the abyss. Unfortunately other characters do not match the leading man, Blake Lively despite looking the part, has no chemistry with Reynolds and acts through her speech, but really doesn't embody the role like one would expect. Peter Saarsgard is a fairly solid villain, but totally under used and the other supporting characters barely get a look in.
The other big problem is the special effects, which aren't quite up there with the likes of Xmen or Dark Knight. The Computer generated creatures are so obviously computer effects they almost look fuzzy and Reynolds suit is supposed to just be like skin armour but you can see plainly that its a poorly constructed rubber suit.
Its fair to say that at times The Green Lantern is fun, but all to often is a victim, like so many other comic book heroes, of being too generic. Had this film been more like Thor and used humour to push the story along as opposed to a weak romance and generic story telling it may have faired better.
Though sometimes The Green Lantern on the whole is enjoyable it has a lot to detract from it. Thor is far more enjoyable and I would recommend it over this. Maybe if a sequel is made they can work out some of the kinks, but for me I'm just generally awaiting Dark Knight Rises to show them all how its done.
The overarching storyline isn't too hard to get, despite its potential they opted to dumb down the storyline to something fairly straightforward and rather trivial and clichéd. Ryan Reynolds is actually a fairly strong lead, and manages to keep film from completely sinking into the abyss. Unfortunately other characters do not match the leading man, Blake Lively despite looking the part, has no chemistry with Reynolds and acts through her speech, but really doesn't embody the role like one would expect. Peter Saarsgard is a fairly solid villain, but totally under used and the other supporting characters barely get a look in.
The other big problem is the special effects, which aren't quite up there with the likes of Xmen or Dark Knight. The Computer generated creatures are so obviously computer effects they almost look fuzzy and Reynolds suit is supposed to just be like skin armour but you can see plainly that its a poorly constructed rubber suit.
Its fair to say that at times The Green Lantern is fun, but all to often is a victim, like so many other comic book heroes, of being too generic. Had this film been more like Thor and used humour to push the story along as opposed to a weak romance and generic story telling it may have faired better.
Though sometimes The Green Lantern on the whole is enjoyable it has a lot to detract from it. Thor is far more enjoyable and I would recommend it over this. Maybe if a sequel is made they can work out some of the kinks, but for me I'm just generally awaiting Dark Knight Rises to show them all how its done.