The long-awaited trailer for Martin Campbell's Green Lantern adaption is finally online! I love this stuff, not gonna lie. Looks like Iron Man meets Star Wars. I feel very lucky to be around for this superhero movie boom. What were mere daydreams for geeks and fanboys 25 years ago (hell, even five years ago) are now vivid reality. Next year we get Thor, Green Lantern, and Captain America, in addition to another X-Men flick and a Green Hornet movie. Then in 2012, for the first time we get the Big Three all in one year - Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. And I don't even know when Wolverine's Japanese adventure will get released, but with noted auteur Darren Aronofsky behind the camera, you know we're in for something interesting. It's a good time to be a nerd.I just saw Ryan Reynolds in Buried a few weeks ago, and after he pulled off the extraordinarily difficult task of what is essentially a one-man show inside a box for an hour and a half without losing the audience's interest, it's clear that the man has acting chops to spare. Other than some occasionally dodgy effects work that suffers from that glossy Attack of the Clones look - it remains to be seen whether the all-CGI suit will ultimately prove distracting - I don't have anything to complain about with this new trailer. Reynolds is funny and entertaining, yet heroic. The planet Oa looks appropriately fantastic, and the aliens themselves - Tomar-Re, Kilowog, etc. - are ripped straight from the comic page. Can't wait to see Hollywood's favourite villain-for-hire Mark Strong take on Sinestro (of course, that name pretty much gives away his eventual turn to evil. As a reviewer once said of Victor von Doom in the Fantastic Four movies, this is only slightly more subtle than Hitler von Killington). And Blake Lively looks smoking hot. I'm not exactly a huge fan of Gossip Girl, and as much as I'd like to tell you I'd like stronger female characters in these movies with actresses not necessarily cast just for their hotness...who am I kidding? Superhero movies by their nature are adolescent male fantasies come to life.
Summer 2011 can't come fast enough.
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