Real Steel-Metallic Smack Down

This movie was surprisingly good.  I must admit that I went in thinking it would be poorly made and probably badly scripted, but it actually delivered a good quality in both.  The action was cool and the computer graphics were exceptional.  Hugh Jackman, as always, delivers the best performance of the movie.  The child actor in this though, can not be over looked, Dakota Goyo.  He is a talent worth watching, I believe he will go places in the filming industry.  But back to the Steel, I won't give away plot points or put in any spoilers, but trust me when I say that this movie is worth a viewing in the theater.  The metal hitting metal is extremely entertaining and visually it looks fantastic and actually looks real (Ironic considering the title).  This review is short, but really all that needs to be said about this film is its worth a watch and personally, I'm buying it when it comes out on DVD.  

Green Lantern-The Willpower to Thrive

I'm diving head first into this argument.  People have argued against me on this, some very unpleasantly.  What I am talking about is the quality of Green Lantern, I believe this is a solid movie and is very enjoyable to watch.  This is my opinion, simple as can be.  I am a fan of Ryan Reynolds and his erratic form of sarcastic comedy, it reflects my personality in many ways.  But back to my point, this movie is well done on multiple levels.  It has beautiful computer graphics and impressive scenery through the imagination of computer design.  Many people complain that the Green Lantern suit looks cheesy, this is an unfair statement.  It isn't "classic" as they would like, its a modernized version.  But they are also modernizing Superman and have modernized Batman, I don't hear any sort of criticism being dished to those two heroes. The obvious point is that everyone goes into this movie with a negative opinion already implanted.  When you see a movie expecting it to be bad, 99% of the time you will see it as a failure.  I went into this movie hoping it would be everything I've wanted in a Green Lantern movie since I was 7 years old.  It wasn't as smoothly done as I would like, but I thought it was an entertaining piece of film.  To me that's the whole point of film, to entertain.  If you feel like you were excited and that the action was nice and visually pleasing, you have been entertained.  When you start to be "intelligent" and find all kinds of little criticisms just for the sake of finding the faults you believe are there, you take away the magic of the movie.  We are a fortunate generation, not very long ago, our main form of film was called "Flickers".  Silent movies that seemed to flicker in lighting because it was through a crank projector that these movies were shown.  Also, I would add that these movies were black and white.  People laughed and loved these movies, some people still enjoy them, like watching the famous Charlie Chaplin as his character "The Tramp".  Now we are ranting and becoming abusive towards a highly advanced and visually impressive film like this Green Lantern?  We are so jaded against our own privileges that we lose sight of how blessed we are at what we are now able to put into these visual stories called "films".  With all this, I will leave you with one statement.  This is all my opinion, if you do not share it that is fine.  Please refrain from vulgar insults and negative language, I am open to discussions of why I love this GL film.