when did super heroes become 13 year old girls? I just watched the green lantern and ryan reynolds spends the whole thing as a self obsessed, emotionally immature, morally ambivalent flake, and then in the last 5 minutes he decided that he was a hero after all. it was like the end of the wizard of oz. "lion: you had the courage you needed the whole time, and you Van Wild- uh, er, i mean green lantern: you had character and integrity all along.
i know that movie makers feel like they need to show the human-conflicted side of heroes so people can connect, but here's the thing. that is a hard thing to do and they are really bad at it. dark knight hit it pretty well, but then again all of the emotional issues were only there in bruce wayne and not batman. batman just showed up and took care of business.
most of the time when superheroes show their badly written, soft, squishy, emo-teen emotionality it's like my parents trying to discuss they're sex life with me. ew. no. why. stop it now.
