Re: Tough Choices...

>I do appreciate what they were trying to do, especially given that they had to 
>make everything "fit" with tech-based superheroes like Iron Man (and 
>science-experiment superheroes like Hulk and Captain America), but if we're 
>talking comparative comic-book mythologies, I think Green Lantern's is at least 
>more consistent, on this level.  (Plus, as you note, in the comics, Green 
>Lantern lives in a world where the dominant superhero, i.e. Superman, is 
>*already* an alien from another planet... whereas Thor, in the movies, has to 
>fit into a world of primarily earthbound heroes.)<

I still think Thor held up well.  The story, performances, action, etc. well 
compensated for any minor inconsistencies there might have been.    




> "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."

>Yeah, well, people said the same thing after seeing the trailers for Avatar, 
>too.  (Remember all those Delgo mash-ups?)<

For me using Avatar as a defense of any movie, other than in a negative light, 
doesn't get far.  I acknowledge I didn't see it in the theater or 3d but I 
didn't make it through the whole thing.  The story was just so cliche to the 
point of being dumb.


> Except the lights don't go down for previews.

>Really?  Not even a little, when the projector starts rolling?<

Been to theaters in MI and Texas and as a rule the lighting, as far as I can 
tell, (I was just noticing it again last weekend seeing Super 8 and complaining 
that I hoped they turned the lights down for the feature), is the same between 
movies as when the trailers are going.  It doesn't go dark until the feature 
film starts rolling and even then they go down to slow for my liking.  I think 
it may come from the ads, in slide form, they show before the trailers start - 
theaters have the lights dim enough to see those and maintain that lighting 
except during the feature.  


Mike F.  
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