A largely uneventful day, broken up by a nice walk in the autumn sunshine and the deeply disappointing movie Green Lantern.
I off and on live-tweeted the experience, which revealed two distinctly different movies. The first, starring Ryan Reynolds and some genuinely impressive and inventive CGI (minus his mask), was worth the time. Mark Strong as Sinestro is particularly good. The other movie, starring Peter Sarsgaard and some very muddy, ill-defined family issues and long stretches of boredom, was not. Again, more disappointing, a huge missed opportunity, than strictly bad. If there’s a director’s cut, or an earlier version of the script, it might almost be worth investigating, just to figure out when and how it went wrong.
Of course, that would require watching it again, and it wasn’t interesting enough to warrant that,