Green Lantern
Sooo... yeah. Ryan Reynolds is hot. Blake Lively is pretty easy on the eyes as well. The graphics were well done. And that's about it. I did spend about 15 minutes (spread throughout the viewing) trying to figure out from where I recognized the actor playing Sinestro (it's British actor Mark Strong, recently seen in Sherlock Holmes, and The Way Back). Oh, it did scored a bit point with me for **SPOILER** casting Tim Robbins as a complete douche-bag of a character and then killing him off. You usually don't see that, I'm just saying.
The film equivalent of, say, a Stephanie Meyer book (disregarding, of course, the actual film adaptions of her books). The fact is, I've had bowel movements more complex than that plot and the acting, as it typically does, suffered for it. It was alright - I've seen better hero movies (The Dark Knight) and worse (Hulk) - but in the end it's a super hero dick flick featuring a moderately popular superhero. A shiney, brainless popcorn movie. Not bad, but not good either.
Bad Teacher
Not surprisingly, this one gets a D+. I know what you're thinking! That's higher than I expected too!
This movie had no real plot arch or character development. At the end, we really don't feel that Cameron Diaz's titular teacher has learned anything and certainly hasn't turned over a new leaf, she's simply made different (are we supposed to think better?) choices about what to do with her particularly vulgar and harsh skill set. Oh, and she got a man; not the sugar daddy she originally went for, mind you, but one more fitted to her personality.
The comic points were awarded for the everchanging reason for Diaz's failed engagement at the beginning of the flick (the best involved peanut butter), for Justin Timberlake's O-face during the dry-hump scene (not something I needed/wanted to see, but funny), and lastly to Jason Segel being his-awesome-self. Which brings about another point; they had Jason fucking Segel, why in the name of FSM didn't they use him?! He just sort of popped in at moments and was rather downplayed. Disappointing. In the end however, I didn't expect to laugh as much as I did, so it got better than an F from this watcher.
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