1995 - GOLDENEYE, on Blu Ray

This Bond film actually played pretty well for me after sitting through SPECTRE.  The miniatures and special effects are very well done.  This was the last production that featured Derek Medding's special effects.  Meddings had started his career working for Gary Anderson's Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5.  The miniatures are blended very well with the live action of the film.

Pierce Brosnan always kind of suffered at the hands of his series of Bond films.  The stories were kind of silly but at least they were a little more in keeping with the light weight style of the previous films before they became so heavy handed.  Brosnan always uncomfortably walked the line between copying Sean Connery and Roger Moore, but I would have to say he wasn't too bad in this film.

The film is as usual with Bond films is just a little longer than it needs to be but considering the direction the series took Goldeneye almost seems like a fast paced ninety minute movie,

This was the Bond that introduced Brosnan as Bond and everyone seemed to try a little bit harder on this one with a different director and more contemporary story instead of the usual madman out to destroy the world plot.  I actually enjoyed watching this Bond film for a change.

130 minutes, written by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein.

2011 - GREEN LANTERN, really boring comic book movie

Green Lantern takes an hour to get going.  It has lots of plot exposition to endure. How the Green Lantern guy got his ring, how he travels to the planet Oa to learn how to use his super ring powers, how he defeats one of the greatest threats to the Universe, etc.

The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan and Blake Lively as the girl.  Reynolds has been OK in a few lightweight comedies  and films like The Proposal and The Nines.  Then again Reynolds has also been the star of  National Lampoon's Van Wilder and Blade: Trinity.  Regardless, he doesn't have the charisma to pull off a larger then life super hero.  Blake Lively is another one of those flavor of the month actor chicks who manage to make absolutely no impression, in fairness the script never gave her a chance.

Frankly, the Green Lantern power to think of things and make them materialize with his magic ring is kind of lame and the kind of things he thinks of are lame as well, Giant drills for drilling through monsters, race cars and tracks that travel around in the air and green swords clearly modeled on light sabers, not much imagination here.

Green Lantern with it's overblown computer effects cost Warner Brothers a small fortune.  It needed to make 500 million bucks to be considered successful, instead it came in at 200 million on a 300 million  dollar budget.  Anyway, not worth anyone's time

No franchise with this film.

114 minutes.