Everybody Loves Green Lantern
And when I say “everybody,” I mean “very few people indeed,” and when I say “loves” I mean “has vaguely heard of,” a sentiment wonderfully encapsulated in the above Onion video. In somewhat less hilarious news, the movie currently has a 21% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes out of 28 reviews, which includes a lot of the major papers and sites. As I’ve said before, I really like director Martin Campbell’s James Bond movies, so I’m trying to keep an open mind. Plus I think the basic premise of Green Lantern — intergalactic space cop — is a harder sell to mass audiences than most other superheroes. Also plus even if it’s terrible, that doesn’t mean it won’t be a financial success a la Transformers. On the other hand, it could just be fucking awful, which would be kind of sad but also kind of hilarious in a schadenfreude kind of way. SchadenfreuDC, anyone? (Via FilmDrunk)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.