Re: Tough Choices...

Choice for me is easy.   My work is taking us to see Green Lantern this
afternoon and picking up the ticket and snack costs!

John
On Jun 17, 2011 10:16 AM, "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
>> Haven't seen GL, but based on its reviews and that I have seen Thor, I'd
>> go with Thor.
>
> Taste is taste, of course, but FWIW, I found Thor simultaneously too
> mythic and too earthbound, but not very superheroic. Green Lantern (which
> I have not yet seen) at least has a more explicitly sci-fi-ish cosmology.
>
> Though I certainly expect the acting in Thor will be better than its
> counterpart in Green Lantern.
>
>> The Detroit Free Press movie of GL was subtly brutal. Too much CGI and
>> targeted for the 10-14 boy crowd.
>
> I don't care about age; as long as it's targeted at people who actually
> read the Green Lantern comics (as I used to do), I'm fine with that.
>
> As for CGI... well, how else *could* you make a Green Lantern movie?
>
>> And only 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
>
> It's got 40% at Metacritic, which tends to be a more reliable gauge of
> critical opinion (for one thing it doesn't try to compress every review
> into a simple thumb-up or thumb-down). But even so, what matters is not
> the *quantity* of the reviews but the *quality* of the reviews.
>
>> I am however going to see the X-Men movie tomorrow.
>
> I liked it quite a bit, but then I wish more superhero movies were retro
> period pieces (and I loved all the subtitled foreign-language dialogue).
> I've always thought the James Bond movies should go back to taking place
> in the '50s and '60s, when Ian Fleming wrote the books. :)
>
>> And I'd even keep my cell phone in my pocket, (I do anyway, at least
>> after the previews are over).
>
> You turn it on during the previews? Eep. For me, when the house lights
> go down, *all* lights go down.
>
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