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Green Is The New Blah

By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (14)

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I’m not gonna lie. I’ve stopped giving a damn about comic book movie adaptations. There are so fucking many these days. I mean, any asshole in tights is getting his own movie. I think from now until 2015 there’s a friggin’ caped crusader crusading every two months. It’s a little much. It’s like when all horror movies were creepy little kids twitching up and down staircases and shit and playing illicit twister.

But of all the comic book movies that are coming out, I think the one I give these least shit about is Green Lantern. Oh, but what about Blackest Night and—

Don’t care. Can’t care. There’s no way they’re gonna make it any good. I mean, Ryan Reynolds is already playing Deadpool in two different franchises. And yet the producers thought, fuck it, someone’s gotta play Green Lantern — a character that has literally been every race and gender and species. Air Bud could be fucking Green Lantern at this point. Then they gave him Blake Lively as a love interest like they literally plucked her out of a box of yardsale Barbies.

And now, news is that Peter Sarsgaard is due to play the villain in the upcoming Green Lantern flick, which starts shooting in March. Now I love the man, and he’s an extremely talented actor. But do you really want to see him as a bad guy? I’m sure he can play menacing, but Sarsgaard is of that school of Smoking Jacket suave. Like Jeff Goldblum, Julian McMahon, and Paul Rudd. Sure, they COULD be a villain, but why? I guess if they’re dueling dullards it works.

Eh, it’s not like it matters. It’s fucking Green Lantern.









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Comments

He played a pretty good bad guy (SPOILER ALERT for those of you whose Netflix queues have reached the bottom of the barrel) in that plane flick with Jodie Foster.

Posted by: PaddyDog at January 13, 2010 11:34 AM

And in "The Skeleton Key".

Oh fuck you, you're never gonna watch it anyway, so don't cry to me about being a spoiler, ya high-horsed fuck!

Anyway...
This character has a huge fucking head. Literally. A huge fucking head. I really want to see them try to make that work. After the nothingness that was Galactus, especially.

Posted by: Jay at January 13, 2010 11:39 AM

I'd forgotten about "The Skeleton Key". I knew there was another Saarsgard bad guy oeuvre out there.

Posted by: PaddyDog at January 13, 2010 12:18 PM

Love Sarsgard, but I wish he could find enough roles worthy of him. The man has sand.

Posted by: Supercomfypampertimefloatythrone at January 13, 2010 12:30 PM

Yeah, but the thing about those villians is that they were surprise villians. You spent most of the movie on his side, tyring to help the damsel in distress only to be double crossed. I don't know that I can get on board with him being an out an out villian from beginning to end. Maybe he'll prove me wrong. I hope so, if only for the fact that RR is the green lantern.

Posted by: Peanut_Butter_And_James at January 13, 2010 12:36 PM

Sarsgaard is boring. Not untalented but he bores me. Green Lantern, as a hero, is kind of boring, too. Hope RR can give him some zazz. Or else it'll be zzzzzz.

Posted by: Chickaboom at January 13, 2010 12:55 PM

Smoking jacket cool, big head, and surprise betrayal kinda sums up Sinestro though. If that is who he is playing.

Posted by: Ken at January 13, 2010 1:23 PM

No, it's Hector Hammond. Not "big head". HUGE head.

Posted by: Jay at January 13, 2010 1:28 PM

Errrrr what the fuck happened to Jackie Earle Haley as Sinestro?

And I do love the Green Lantern hate, as it was a crappy superhero crappily written up until very recently. It's too bad this movie could be part Flash Gordon, part Matrix 3 (the fight part), part not-suck if anyone in Hollywood had an original thought. LOLwellz.

Posted by: D-Day at January 13, 2010 1:29 PM

Wait Hector Hammond? That means Gorilla Grodd can't be that far behind, can he?

Posted by: D-Day at January 13, 2010 1:44 PM

Suave evil could be Sinastro/

Posted by: Adam C at January 13, 2010 5:49 PM

Wasn't Sarsgaard sort of a villain in Boys Don't Cry, too? Maybe not an outright villain but the guy was totally evil.

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Posted by: Celia at January 14, 2010 1:37 AM

Everybody fucking loved Green Lantern when Nathan Fillion was supposed to star, go figure.

Posted by: Irina at January 14, 2010 5:03 AM