^^^ Manhunter is worth another look, but I wouldn't argue if you still liked Red Dragon better afterward. Red Dragon definitely has a better cast from top to bottom -- William Peterson is a fine actor, but he's no Ed Norton. But I actually find the guy who plays the killer in Manhunter much creepier than Finnes. I saw Manhunter when I was pretty young and was having bad dreams with that guy in them for a while. I also think Red Dragon may be a little more faithful to the book, so there's that too. At the end of the day, they are both good movies.
^^^ Manhunter is worth another look, but I wouldn't argue if you still liked Red Dragon better afterward. Red Dragon definitely has a better cast from top to bottom -- William Peterson is a fine actor, but he's no Ed Norton. But I actually find the guy who plays the killer in Manhunter much creepier than Finnes. I saw Manhunter when I was pretty young and was having bad dreams with that guy in them for a while. I also think Red Dragon may be a little more faithful to the book, so there's that too. At the end of the day, they are both good movies.
The ocean scene, the shadow scene, Irene and the mask. I wish there was something more to those, but I still like it a lot.
So I checked out Green Lantern
Spoiler [+]
Green Lantern (aka Iron Man, Star Wars, Thor, Star Trek, Batman, Superman, Spider-man, Incredible Hulk)
The first 10 minutes:
First they showed the Parallax immediately...which I think was a mistake...because that cgi went full ******. It was Ivan Ooze from the Power Rangers movie bad and if you seen that movie lately...that's childhood ruining bad. Then Reynolds shows up...(the scene felt like a ripoff of new Star Trek...and I realize...how much better would this movie have been with Chris Pine as Hal Jordan? All Reynolds is, is a Chris Pine you can't take seriously.) 3 minutes in Norman Osborn tests his glider, I mean Hal tests his fighter plane...see Kirk cheated on the Kobayashi Maru exam Hal cheats at this unbeatable test to beat it...Iron Man he stalls his suit plane by going high altitude. (Kirk only hacked a computer) Hal ends up destroying superexpensive aircraft just to cheat on a test.
The whole time Bruce Hal flashed back to his parents dad dying----You know I think I'm done reviewing this movie. I realized how much I typed and that was just the first 10 minutes.
This is not worth that.
This is worse than Stealth. They don't want you take anyone seriously. What hurts about Green Lantern is that it screams so many other better movies at you at the same time. Somewhere deep down, there's the parody of comic book movies that Green Hornet was supposed to be...except they spent $300 million on it.
The bad guys: It's weird, once Sinestro and Dr. Hammond show up, it feels like a real movie. And every time Ryan Reynolds shows his face it stops being one. They always say the superhero movie is only as good as the villains let it be. If Ang Lee's Hulk didn't fight a hulked out poodle, Dr. Hammond a mutated old guy and Parallax a storm cloud, maybe things would've went differently. This movie had a really good villain they didn't use in Sinestro (Mark Strong was ready to steal that super traitor shine from Loki). It had an incomplete, but good bad guy in Dr. Hammond. He was actually pretty good, so he was out of place as +*+* in this film. He was a mix of Franco and Dafoe's Green Golblins, but dude ended up just being a fluffer for the real villain
...that ******ed, calamari-faced, Zorak from Space Ghost looking, koopa cloud from Super Mario, Parallax. With the cheap %!% Reboot era special effects making Megabyte look photoreal.
They told me the special effects were bad, but damn...
District 9 cost 1/10th what this did.
And you know how in the original Star Wars, Jedi are these mythic superheroes, but then in the new trilogy they're {[]}s with lightsabers who catch L's with ease? The Green Lantern Corp starts there and get worse. All they do is die; and there's so many of them and they're worthless and faceless and they're always there to just wait for death. That's why this %!%-hole Hal is the strongest one in like 20 minutes. Between the flash childhood stuff, quick training, 2 1/2 supervillains, quitting the corp, the reveal, the job, the power at the end...they tried to get a whole trilogy done in one film.
Blake Lively was good, but you couldn't tell, because you'll swear you missed scenes that never happened that'd connect one scene of hers to another. Ryan Reynolds sucks early and often, so that's just another reason why it's hard to tell. But there was one sincerely funny moment in the movie...umm...spoiler?when Superman Hal flies to Lois' Blake's balcony, mask on and after 2 seconds of looking at him stupid, she's like...'HAL?!'
I'm mad that was really Green Lantern though.
Cliffs: 2/10 ... +2 for Mark Strong, +2 for Stephen Dorff Peter Sarsgaard, -2 for a sequel getting greenlit
The ocean scene, the shadow scene, Irene and the mask. I wish there was something more to those, but I still like it a lot.
So I checked out Green Lantern
Spoiler [+]
Green Lantern (aka Iron Man, Star Wars, Thor, Star Trek, Batman, Superman, Spider-man, Incredible Hulk)
The first 10 minutes:
First they showed the Parallax immediately...which I think was a mistake...because that cgi went full ******. It was Ivan Ooze from the Power Rangers movie bad and if you seen that movie lately...that's childhood ruining bad. Then Reynolds shows up...(the scene felt like a ripoff of new Star Trek...and I realize...how much better would this movie have been with Chris Pine as Hal Jordan? All Reynolds is, is a Chris Pine you can't take seriously.) 3 minutes in Norman Osborn tests his glider, I mean Hal tests his fighter plane...see Kirk cheated on the Kobayashi Maru exam Hal cheats at this unbeatable test to beat it...Iron Man he stalls his suit plane by going high altitude. (Kirk only hacked a computer) Hal ends up destroying superexpensive aircraft just to cheat on a test.
The whole time Bruce Hal flashed back to his parents dad dying----You know I think I'm done reviewing this movie. I realized how much I typed and that was just the first 10 minutes.
This is not worth that.
This is worse than Stealth. They don't want you take anyone seriously. What hurts about Green Lantern is that it screams so many other better movies at you at the same time. Somewhere deep down, there's the parody of comic book movies that Green Hornet was supposed to be...except they spent $300 million on it.
The bad guys: It's weird, once Sinestro and Dr. Hammond show up, it feels like a real movie. And every time Ryan Reynolds shows his face it stops being one. They always say the superhero movie is only as good as the villains let it be. If Ang Lee's Hulk didn't fight a hulked out poodle, Dr. Hammond a mutated old guy and Parallax a storm cloud, maybe things would've went differently. This movie had a really good villain they didn't use in Sinestro (Mark Strong was ready to steal that super traitor shine from Loki). It had an incomplete, but good bad guy in Dr. Hammond. He was actually pretty good, so he was out of place as +*+* in this film. He was a mix of Franco and Dafoe's Green Golblins, but dude ended up just being a fluffer for the real villain
...that ******ed, calamari-faced, Zorak from Space Ghost looking, koopa cloud from Super Mario, Parallax. With the cheap %!% Reboot era special effects making Megabyte look photoreal.
They told me the special effects were bad, but damn...
District 9 cost 1/10th what this did.
And you know how in the original Star Wars, Jedi are these mythic superheroes, but then in the new trilogy they're {[]}s with lightsabers who catch L's with ease? The Green Lantern Corp starts there and get worse. All they do is die; and there's so many of them and they're worthless and faceless and they're always there to just wait for death. That's why this %!%-hole Hal is the strongest one in like 20 minutes. Between the flash childhood stuff, quick training, 2 1/2 supervillains, quitting the corp, the reveal, the job, the power at the end...they tried to get a whole trilogy done in one film.
Blake Lively was good, but you couldn't tell, because you'll swear you missed scenes that never happened that'd connect one scene of hers to another. Ryan Reynolds sucks early and often, so that's just another reason why it's hard to tell. But there was one sincerely funny moment in the movie...umm...spoiler?when Superman Hal flies to Lois' Blake's balcony, mask on and after 2 seconds of looking at him stupid, she's like...'HAL?!'
I'm mad that was really Green Lantern though.
Cliffs: 2/10 ... +2 for Mark Strong, +2 for Stephen Dorff Peter Sarsgaard, -2 for a sequel getting greenlit
Here I actually thought GL was semi decent and unfairly treated, and then MrO comes thru and absolutely steals my soul with that review cuz his analogies are so damn on point it's hilarious.
I realize they missed a mark here or there, but I still thought it was a decent movie, maybe just a little underdeveloped. But after breaking it down like that, there was certainly an air of formers shows/movies written into that script.
And I actually think if they do come with a sequel, Sinestro has a chance to turn things around for the franchise.
But man, is Ryan Reynolds takin it in the shorts or what for this movie? Brutal.
Well.....I got the job. Believe it or not, someone gave this clown a chance. Miamidolphinsdraft.com has a new writer. That would be me. Now I need to act like I know what I'm doing.
So ya'll do me a favor and click on the site once a day so it looks like I am important. And follow the site on twitter too.
You'll now understand why I got hired as a writer and not a salesman.
Here I actually thought GL was semi decent and unfairly treated, and then MrO comes thru and absolutely steals my soul with that review cuz his analogies are so damn on point it's hilarious.
I realize they missed a mark here or there, but I still thought it was a decent movie, maybe just a little underdeveloped. But after breaking it down like that, there was certainly an air of formers shows/movies written into that script.
And I actually think if they do come with a sequel, Sinestro has a chance to turn things around for the franchise.
But man, is Ryan Reynolds takin it in the shorts or what for this movie? Brutal.
Well.....I got the job. Believe it or not, someone gave this clown a chance. Miamidolphinsdraft.com has a new writer. That would be me. Now I need to act like I know what I'm doing.
So ya'll do me a favor and click on the site once a day so it looks like I am important. And follow the site on twitter too.
You'll now understand why I got hired as a writer and not a salesman.
laker4lifeman wrote:Did anyone watch Terra Nova?
It looks intriguing, but with MNF on, it has no shot for me. Maybe if I hear good things I will go back and DVR it or something, but no way I can watch it live til January.
laker4lifeman wrote:Did anyone watch Terra Nova?
It looks intriguing, but with MNF on, it has no shot for me. Maybe if I hear good things I will go back and DVR it or something, but no way I can watch it live til January.
