It seems that GL is looking at about a $58M weekend, which while not Thor good, is pretty good.

Unfortunately, Green Lantern cost twice as much as Thor to make.
And while I like Ryan Reynolds as an actor, I think he was miscast in this role --much better sticking to his lighter charming yet dim-witted romantic-comedy persona.

A friend pointed out one of the main problems story/plot-wise in this movie, and why the mainstream reviews have been harsher. There are a lot of details of Green Lantern mythos poured in, not all of it fully explained. For comic readers, we are able to fully comprehend it by filling in the blanks with 50 years of GL comics of who and what all these things are. But for someone seeing the movie cold, it's just snippets without enough development within the movie to work well.

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