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Green Lantern: "Brightest day or blackest night?"

It’s Super Hero Summer Part 3 with DC Comics only entrant among the three Marvel movies.  Amazingly, the “ring slinger” is only the third DC hero to even get a major motion picture, while Marvel continues to pump out more than one a year.  It would be nice if DC can get a new franchise here, and maybe start getting some of GL’s Justice League teammates film deals too  (The Flash please?).

And how is Green Lantern, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard?  Rochester Science Fiction Movie Examiner’s full review can be found at upcoming-movies.com.  Please click this link to get there.  The following excerpt appears with permission:
 
“Campbell has worked on two James Bond and two Zorro films, and now has to take a hero to all new worlds…  It’s in Outer Space that we have the most fun.  Like this summer’s Thor, the story takes place both on Earth and an out-of-this-world kingdom.  Unlike Thor, the hero is the fish-out-of-water when he’s not on Earth - but the fish-out-of water stuff is still the most fun…   Those who aren’t huge comic book fans should enjoy Green Lantern but will see some flaws the faithful may be willing to forgive.  Chief among them is Reynolds himself.  He’s a likeable star whose abs have turned many heads, but he doesn’t necessarily offer anything to the role that any other cocky pretty boy couldn’t have pulled off.”
 
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In this space, we’ve been ranking the movies of the Summer of Super Heroes.  As it stands before the release of Captain America: The First Avenger:
1. Thor
2. Green Lantern
3. X-Men: First Class
We’ve also been ranking the Marvel movies, of which Green Lantern is not one.  The DC list doesn’t have a diversity of mainstream stars, but for the record, we like:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Superman II
3. Batman Begins
4. Batman  (1989)
5. Superman
6. Watchmen
7. Batman Forever
8. Superman Returns
9. Green Lantern
10. Batman Returns

(There are movies based on other DC-owned properties not considered for the purposes of the above)
 

Rating for Green Lantern:

3

, Rochester Sci-Fi Movie Examiner

Mike DiGiorgio is an entertainment writer and movie critic. He is a long time sci-fi fan and follower of pop culture. Mike is the executive producer of 13WHAM News This Morning on 13WHAM-TV in Rochester, NY. E-mail Mike here.

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