I Suck At Green Lantern: First Flight

On Wednesday, Karen and I hung out with my friends (Marc and Kelley).

Marc had prepared a delicious Asian dish for all of us. As well, Kelley made her famous muffins. (Cue Rachael Ray's "Yum-O" sound.) I love Kelley's muffins. They taste so good. One of the benefits of being married to Karen (and I should probably add that there are many benefits...) is that Karen has a small appetite, especially now that she is pregnant. That pretty much translates to more food for me. Yay! Needless to say, I was pretty stuffed on Wednesday.

On the agenda for the night: another episode of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and another episode of Angel. The episode of Buffy that we watched was "As You Were", which featured the return of (and final departure of) Riley. For Angel, the episode we watched was "Provider" about Angel losing sight of the mission to help the helpless so that he can financially provide for his son.

Interestingly enough, Karen and Kelley thought Riley's wife (Sam) was worse than Riley. I thought that was kind of funny. As for Angel, the episode is apparently one of the episodes that Marc really dislikes about the show. Truth be told, I think that episode is pretty blah myself.

Nevertheless, we decided to change things up after the blah Angel episode. The movie Green Lantern: First Flight was in Marc and Kelley's Netflix queue and it had arrived. So we decided to check it out.

(The video below is a trailer for Green Lantern: First Flight.)


Now, I suck at Green Lantern: First Flight. Of course, I probably don't suck as bad as Ryan Reynolds who will be playing the costumed superhero in the upcoming movie. I think Ryan Reynolds is single-handedly trying to ruin comic book movies by appearing in all of them. For anyone curious, he was Hannibal King in Blade, Wade Wilson (not the ex-football player)/Deadpool in Wolverine (and the spinoff movie about Deadpool), and now as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern. Granted, if I had a body like Ryan Reynolds, I too would probably walk around in a skinny tight costume too. Luckily for my friends and family... I don't. (Perhaps I'm just jealous?)

Anyway, Green Lantern: First Flight is an animated movie about the DC superhero. The movie has the voice talents of Christopher Meloni (from Law and Order: SVU), Victor Garber (from Alias), Tricia Helfer (from Battlestar Galactica), Michael Madsen (from Reservoir Dogs and Free Willy), and a whole bunch of other actors and actresses. And yes, Juliet Landau (of Buffy fame) is also one of the voices.

The movie was good. The Green Lantern was never one of my favorite superheroes growing up, probably because I thought it was silly that a ring could do pretty much anything... and probably because the guardians of the rings were little trolls. And there is also this one Green Lantern that has a ginormous head. In fact, that Green Lantern is all head (I think the character's name is Ekron). It's scary. Nevertheless, the movie was enjoyable.

And for anyone curious, here is the Green Lantern oath:

In brightest day,
in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!

I'm going to have to randomly utter that oath some time...