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Green Lantern Movie Review

The whole Green Lantern mythology alone proves that DC Comics writers can be at least ten times more insane than anything Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ever conjured up at Marvel. The magical alien (or whatever) ring that Hal Jordan wields allows him to pretty much do anything, and pretty much anything goes in a Green Lantern story -- Frank Miller took this free-for-all creative license to its most absurd extremes when he closed Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again (aka DK2 ) with Hal enlarging himself to such a size that he could hold the entire Earth in the palm of his hand. Or was it the entire universe? Does it matter?

Unfortunately, this general lack of strict boundaries (come to think of it, it might've been the entire universe) also makes Green Lantern as much a hard sell to mainstream moviegoing audiences as Thor was for Marvel last month (though that seemed to work itself out okay). There aren't really any "rules" to the Green Lantern mythos -- it is sprawling, constantly adaptive and often contradictory, simply because Hal Jordan, via the power of his ring, can do whatever he wants. Sort of. Or something.

You'd think a director like Martin Campbell could bring this flyboy down to Earth, in more ways than one. Campbell brought a gritty, grounded realism to the James Bond reboot, Casino Royale , and Green Lantern could've used that kind of, shall we say, "calming" discipline when it came time to adapt it for cinema. What better way to reign in Green Lantern than to trap him into a two-hour origin story that has to have a beginning, middle and an end? Maybe we should just concentrate on the character of Hal Jordan, have two or three really awesome action scenes and deal with the rest of the crazy mythology in future installments (if at all...)?

Unfortunately, that's not that case. Campbell's Green Lantern throws everything at you at once -- everything . The opening ten minutes is a completely CGI-rendered fantasy-scape of outer space, featuring a bunch of CGI-rendered aliens all wearing the Green Lantern costume as Geoffrey Rush yammers on and on about the Green Lantern Corps and the power of the Ring and a new threat to the universe called the Parallax and... oh, there's Ryan Reynolds . Are we on Earth now?

From there, we get your typical "Golly, check out these powers!

Clay Aiken – News As It Happens! | Clay Aiken News Network

This is Clay Aiken News Network .  Our goal has and will always be to keep you updated on all the Clay Aiken news as it happens.  We have also tried to keep up on topics that are important in Clay’s professional life.

Recently, I have found it more of a challenge to present new and different topics so today we are going off track a bit.  I hope you don’t mind.  Tomorrow we will be back to Clay Aiken …I would like to think that Clay might chuckle at some of the obsolete gadgets, but he’s probably too young to remember some of them

I was on the Internet yesterday, looking for information about the changing field of music.  I was trying to find different opinions about the CD and why many people see it as obsolete. But…somehow I got off on another tangent.

It seemed that with each entry, I would come across many different gadgets, technologies, and habits that are now either obsolete or well on their way.

Because of the many advancements and gadgets introduced in the last few years, the whole world has changed.  We now have entirely different ways to do business, look for information, and connect with others.

We can reach anywhere in the world in just seconds, we have touch-screens and we share our thoughts with friends all over the world.

So…I am sharing some of the obsolete gadgets with you.  How is your memory?  Do you remember using any of these “older” devices?  Do you still use some of these inventions?

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