Well, it’s been a couple of years since I’ve seen this
movie. My Green Lantern phase is still going and I had to touch on this movie eventually.
So, I’ll just start at the beginning with the live action version of Green
Lantern.
I don’t remember when I first heard there was a GL movie
coming. I don’t think I was that excited about it, though. I didn’t see it in
theaters since word of mouth said that the movie was bad. I still remember the
Cinema Snob’s Midnight Movie feature where he said the villain was a literal
piece of crap. The first time I laid eyes on the film was actually after my
grandad’s funeral in 2014. We were at my uncle’s house the day after his
funeral and I didn’t feel like going to church that day. It was playing on TNT
and I came in sometime around the last act, I believe.
I ended up finding it in a cheap bin in 2016. I eventually
got around to watching it…. and then turned it off at the halfway point. I
actually think I was going to sleep, so it wasn’t making me stay up. Eventually,
I finished it and then lost track of the thing for a couple of years. I ended
up finding it at my sister’s house last week, so I decided it was time to give
this thing another watch. I gotta say that I was surprised this time.
Green Lantern was released during the Summer of 2011. It
starred Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Temerua Morrison as Abin Sur, Blake Lively
as Carol Ferris, Peter Sarsguard as Hector Hammond, Mark Strong as Sinestro,
Angela Bassett as Amanda Waller, and Michael Clark Duncan as Kilowog. In the
movie, Hal Jordan is an irresponsible test pilot who becomes the first human Green Lantern for his sector. He’s given
a ring that has the power to do anything he can imagine. He must face his fears
as Parallax, the yellow entity of fear, threatens Earth and the universe as a
whole.