MOVIE REVIEW: Green Lantern
GREEN LANTERN-- 2 STARS Official Website Internet Movie Database You know, to watch any comic book movie, you have to suspend a great deal of disbelief. You have to be able to buy a guy with a cape, wearing his underwear on the outside, that can shoot heat rays out of his eyes and fly. You have to find a way to accept that a billionaire playboy would be willing to get involved with society's problems by either dressing up as a flying rodent with laryngitis or the coolest looking Tin Man this side of The Wizard of Oz. You have to sit back and enjoy an angst-ridden teenager that climbs walls, swings, and spins web, no matter how ridiculous the idea sounds. Now matter how filmmakers dress them up (leather instead of spandex) or tone them down (the reality-leaning and plausibility-seeking Christopher Nolan Batman films), all of comic book films are preposterous, but that's the point. Comic books and their movie adaptations are pure pulp science-fiction fantasy and sh...