Ryan Reynolds Can Be Pretty Funny; Hal Jordan, Notsomuch
The man has his detractors, but I personally think Reynolds is hysterical, especially in comic book movies. His comedic touch as Hannibal King helped save Blade: Trinity from Parker Posey and Triple H, and his Deadpool in Wolverine: Origins was surprisingly understated, given how goofy the character will become. But, while my readings on Jordan are limited, I've never seen Hal Jordan crack a lot of jokes. He'll banter with his old friends The Flash and Green Arrow, sure, but the test pilot is cocky and self-confident, not goofy and self-deprecating. Yes, it sets the movie apart from the Batman films, but the movie could have been funny without Hal himself being funny -- there are literally dozens of Lanterns in the mythos who are funnier than the straight-laced character.

Aside from Sinestro, the Aliens are Pretty Gruesome
We knew Kilowog was going to look a little gross, but Abin Sur used to be just a pink-skinned guy, and now he looks pretty freaky, too. And Tomar Re was always going to be tough to pull off, but how did we get this weirdly big-chested version of the fish from Megamind? It pretty much leaves Sinestro as the sole alien character who doesn't make me slightly queasy. I'm not sure how it's gonna go when I have to watch them talk.

Hector Hammond Is Sufficiently Creepy
Kudos to the film for hiring Peter Sarsgaard to play the old-school Green Lantern villain, even though he isn't as well-known as other DC villains -- probably because he doesn't have a code name and because he hasn't been used in a prominent capacity for a long time. His big brain effect is pretty horrific, and it makes me wish we'd gotten to see Tim Blake Nelson as the similarly swollen-headed Leader in a sequel to The Incredible Hulk.

Blake Lively Has No Business Flying a Plane
Aside from her wooden, poorly edited delivery ("This mission... it's important!"), Lively still reminds me of the college student she plays on Gossip Girl, or even the trashy barfly she plays in The Town. Neither character possesses the attention span to hold down any form of steady employment, let alone fly a plane, and Lively does nothing to convince us otherwise. It comes off as a case of casting the latest hot young actress, rather than someone who's right for the role, and has even prompted comparisons to Denise Richards' performance as a nuclear scientist in The World is Not Enough. That's a problem.

Not Enough Ring Constructs
While we see Hal form a giant green fist to beat up some random thugs in a parking lot, the rest of the ring tricks are pretty generic. Half the fun of the ring is that the Lanterns can make whatever they can imagine to dispatch their foes: bulldozers, a herd of cattle, a sledgehammer... Hal was never the most imaginative Lantern -- that would be Kyle Rayner, a comic book artist -- but here's hoping there's more energy-based weaponry in the film.

The Suit Leaves Nothing to the Imagination
We saw it months ago, on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, but... I still don't like it. The Green Lantern uniform, while frequently modified and tailored to the various body types who wear it, is still iconic, with its pattern of solid green, solid black and solid white. These ring-constructed suits seem to show skin textures through the suit if the aliens have them, but also add textures -- muscle striations, even Spider-Man-like webbing -- when they don't. It's unnecessarily distracting detail, which leads me to three hypotheses: One, Warner Bros. wanted the suit to look different enough that, if it failed, it wouldn't reflect poorly on the comic; two, they wanted to be able to sell two distinctly different lines of merchandise; and three, without these details, the computer-generated suit would look even faker than it does now. Or maybe they just didn't want it to look like the suit from Superhero Movie?

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