Green Lantern not doing so good

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I saw Green Lantern about two weeks ago and the movie was both awesome and funny.
I'm not liking what the critics are saying about the movie. Yeah there's a lot of comedy in the film, but still its good and the casting was perfect.
Ryan Reynolds + Green Lantern/Hal Jordan= good

Superhero movies aren't doing so well this year. I think audiences are starting to get tired of them. Just about all superhero movies (with the exception of The Dark Knight and Watchmen) follow the same formula, and by now the studios have used up just about all of the better-known franchises that they're having to reboot everything.

Though I will say I think the movies we've had so far this year have been better than last year. I saw Transformers the other night in 3D, and in spite of what the critics say about it, I think it's the best one yet--even better than the first one (and a heck of a lot better than ROTF). I think just the fact that Michael Bay filmed this one in 3D made him a better director, because he really slowed everything down so that you could see everything that was happening--not so many quick cuts and shaky-cams.

TheSnarkKnight says:

Thor and X-Men First Class may not have been done to perfection but they were really good. DOTM was good as well though I would not consider that a superhero movie.

Well, I just got back from seeing Green Lantern. I will say that their first mistake, was making this a 3 -D movie without justifying it with lots of action. I did not particularly enjoy microscopically clear close ups of our hero's face, nor did I enjoy the lags in this movie where the action slowed down to stultifying irrelevance. I was nearly falling asleep midway. I might have enjoyed this a lot more if I was a pre-teen.

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I didn't say they weren't good (I liked Thor and First Class), but they aren't making as much money as other superhero films such as Spiderman, Iron Man, or Batman. The fact is that they've made movies of all the better-known superheroes and are having to move on to the lesser-known ones that only the most hardcore comics fans might care about. And with some of these second tier superheroes the studios will assign them to just about any random hacks that can operate a camera and string some (cheesy) dialogue together, the end results being things like Daredevil, Fantastic 4, Ghost Rider and Jonah Hex. The better-known heroes get Christopher Nolan, Brian Singer, Sam Raimi, Jon Favereau, Kenneth Brannah, and Matthew Vaughn to make their movies--guys that can actually make good films with good characters. The lesser-known ones get Bret Ratner and Tim Story (which seems to indicate that they care even less about said characters than the audiences do). I've got a feeling that down the road things are only going to get worse for the superhero genre since the good filmmakers are all moving on to other projects. Even Matthew Vaughn thinks this era of superhero films might be coming to an end. I'm actually getting tired of them, myself, because they all seem to follow the same formulaic storytelling.