In Blackest Night

[billroper]

daisy_knotwise and I engaged the services of the girl next door to babysit Katie and Julie tonight and headed out to the theater with samwinolj and Bonnie to see Green Lantern. The reviews have been pretty uniformly unhappy with it from what I gather.

We all liked it, from the GL geeks that Sam and I are to the relative novices that Bonnie and Gretchen are. It holds together well, there are a lot of nice bits of character work, and the special effects are just fine (although Gretchen feels they're a bit reminiscent of Harry Potter. I attribute that to it being the current state of the art in Hollywood.)

I'm hoping the numbers hold up well enough for there to be another film. We'll see.

Comments

GL

[hvideo.livejournal.com]

Uniformly unhappy? Out here I'd just say that the reviews have been mixed. Roughly equal numbers favorable and unfavorable. But the people I've personally talked to that saw it generally agree with you - they said they enjoyed it.

[poltr1]

I saw it last weekend and liked it a lot.

You stayed for the kicker scene in the end credits, right?

[billroper]

Oh, yes. We always stay for the credits. :)

[madfilkentist]

Ed and Mew talked with me about seeing Thor this weekend, but it isn't playing in many places any more. Maybe we'll see GL instead. I suspect their kids will like it.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

When Hal said the oath for the first time, how many in the audience were saying it along with him?

[billroper]

It was a pretty small crowd on a Thursday night, so I don't think too many...