![]() ![]() ![]() Only Reynolds’ scenes with Lively have any juice to them, and it makes sense considering the two would marry after meeting on the set. It’s interesting to compare Reynolds’ performances in his two big superhero projects whereas Deadpool is Reynolds at his most impish, delivering something quippy and dripping with personality, his Hal Jordan in Green Lantern is bland and anonymous. Reynolds himself has gone to great lengths to trash the film and his involvement, even going so far as to insert digs into his other superhero franchise via the far more successful Deadpool 2. It’s a practical murderer’s row of talent that was wasted on a muddled superhero snooze fest with bad CGI. ![]() Featuring Ryan Reynolds as the titular “space cop,” Green Lantern also featured performances from Blake Lively, Tim Robbins, Mark Strong, Taika Waititi, Peter Sarsgaard, and Angela Bassett, with vocal performances from Michael Clarke Duncan, Geoffrey Rush, and Clancy Brown. Making a paltry $220 million on a $200 million film budget (let’s not bring up marketing costs) and gaining near-universal derision from critics, Green Lantern is one of the most high-profile bombs of the 2010s. It doesn’t matter if George Clooney is in your cowl when the Batsuit has nipples on it.Ī notorious, shining example of the “great cast, bad movie” phenomenon is 2011’s Green Lantern. Look at any one of Garry Marshall’s holiday movies, Brian De Palma’s infamous Bonfire of the Vanities adaptation, or shudder at the thought of Movie 43 and you’ll see that no number of Oscar winners or box office titans can save a truly bad film. Our favorite movie stars can usually buoy a bad production into being passable, but sometimes a film is so misguided that not even a great cast can save it. ![]()
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