Loaded Couch Potatoes

After a couple of high-profile box-office weekends, this one was just plain old boring.  Thing are going to be lively enough come Wednesday, though, so don’t feel too bad for all those ticket sellers and popcorn slingers.

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According to Variety, Ryan Reynolds has been cast as Hal Jordan, the titular superhero of the upcoming Green Lantern feature.  Casino Royale director Martin Campbell will be behind the camera of the project, which is expected to begin production in January.

The casting could end up being somewhat unorthodox, as Reynolds has already played one filmic superhero — or more correctly, a supervillain, Deadpool (in X-Men Origins: Wolverine).  The success of that movie has led to Fox actively putting a Deadpool spinoff film, with Reynolds attached, in development.  Unless I’ve got some early-onset Alzheimer’s developing, there has never been an actor play two different lead roles in two different comic-book-movie franchises.

The casting news caps a summer movie season that may well have seen Reynolds finally emerge as a major star, first appearing in Wolverine, then co-starring with Sandra Bullock in the hit rom-com The Proposal, and now landing the lead role in a studio tentpole film.

What the fuck, America?

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So … did the three dudes with headaches hang over to a third weekend at the top of the box office?

Hah-hah-heh-hah-hah!  Get it?  Hang over?  Ooh-eeh-hooh-hah-hah!  (EDITOR’S NOTE: Ting-tang, walla-walla bang-bang…?)

You know, like the movie The Hangover!  Is big hit!  You like!

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Honk Mahfah reviews X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  Spoilers ahead, bub.

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