Re: Tough Choices...

>Taste is taste, of course, but FWIW, I found Thor simultaneously too mythic and 
>too earthbound, but not very superheroic.<

I don't disagree that Thor was not especially superheroic.  Thor and his family 
came across more as aliens than the gods they are supposed to be.  I realize 
that doesn't disqualify you from superherodom, (Superman), but the way it played 
out in the movie was that Thor felt mortal at times, without any super powers.  
I guess he had been stripped of his powers by Odin but Thor didn't even seem to 
realize that, which does stretch credulity I suppose.   



>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.<

There ya go.  I never read them so I don't have the vested interest in it you 
do.  



>As for CGI... well, how else *could* you make a Green Lantern movie?<

As Kurt Loder said:

"But the picture is slathered with so much CGI goop that at several points it’s 
indistinguishable from a Saturday morning cartoon show. Very soon you start 
wondering why you had to leave your living room to see it."

Of course I haven't seen the movie, but this jibes with the trailers I've seen.


>You turn it on during the previews?  Eep.  For me, when the house lights go 
>down, *all* lights go down.<

Except the lights don't go down for previews.  

Mike F.
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