Watched Green Lantern. Learned that you can overcome fear by bringing about courage, because you truly love something. Maybe that wasn’t the message, but that’s what came across to me. Meanwhile, I got an entertaining movie, while my comic geek acquaintances were busy analyzing what wasn’t right about it.
Meanwhile, I got an entertaining movie, while my comic geek acquaintances were busy analyzing what wasn’t right about it.
Your experience is similar to what happens when they make a movie off a book. Those who never read the book usually come away feeling as if they liked the movie, while the ones who read the book spend the whole time criticizing the way the it never lives up to the standard of the book.
Although I must admit that I have only seen two movies in my life that came real close to what the book was like. "Little Big Man", with Dustin Hoffman, and "The Green Mile" with Tom Hanks.
That being said, I have never been one to expect a movie to live up to a book. I guess the truth would be that words can seldom transfer to celluloid in an equal way that does justice to the authors vision.