Green Lantern in 5 Minutes or Less!

EXT. SOME WEIRD PLANET. DAY.

GEOFFREY RUSH: Hello there, my name is Tomar-Re, and I’m here to stick some needlessly detailed exposition in any time things get too exciting. Millions of years ago…

AUDIENCE: Oh dear.

GEOFFREY RUSH: … from one of the six thousand quadrants in space…

AUDIENCE: Here we go.

GEOFFREY RUSH: … and then Abin Sur fought the newly released Parallax…

AUDIENCE: Just wake up me up when Ryan Reynolds gets here.

INT. RYAN REYNOLD’S AIR BASE. DAY.

RYAN REYNOLDS: Hi everyone, I’m Hal Jordan. You can route for me because I’m a fish out of water, just like you! I mean, I’m super handsome and have the body of an adonis and get to bang Blake Lively and am a test-pilot for the marines, but aside from that… Yes, just like you!

BLAKE LIVELY: Ryan! You’re late for the testing of the unmaned fighter jets!

RYAN REYNOLDS: Because they turned out so well in that movie Stealth?

BLAKE LIVELY: Nobody seen that movie! Now get your ass in the air!

INT. FIGHTER JET. DAY.

BLAKE LIVELY: I know you normally break the rules, but please don’t-

RYAN REYNOLDS: *breaks the rules*

BLAKE LIVELY: Damn your breaking of the rules, you damn rule breaker!

RYAN REYNOLDS: Hey baby, if you don’t want your rules broken, then don’t hire a rulebrea- *has awkwardly timed father themed flashback, crashes plane*

EXT. STREET. NIGHT.

RYAN REYNOLDS: *has just left his nephew’s birthday party, gets picked up by a ball of green jello, and whisked to the seaside*

ABIN-SUR: I’m totally dying. The ring chose you. Here’s a lantern, too. Say the oath.

RYAN REYNOLDS: Okay, thanks. Laters.

INT. RYAN’S APARTMENT. NIGHT.

RYAN REYNOLDS: *has some comedic relief with the lantern, gets picked up by a ball of green jello, and whisked to Planet CGI Oa*

GEOFFREY RUSH: Hi Ryan, things have been pretty exciting for a while now, so I’m going to slow it right down…

AUDIENCE: This guy again?

GEOFFREY RUSH: Let me introduce you to the voices of Michael Clarke Duncan…

MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN: *punches Ryan in the face*

GEOFFREY RUSH: …and Mark Strong.

MARK STRONG: Despite my character’s name being Sinestro, it is I who shall be weary of you, Reynolds!

GEOFFREY RUSH: Now, thats enough character exposition for now. Lets have you try out your powers.

RYAN REYNOLDS: *flies, makes guns and swords and chainsaws and fights Mark Strong and loses. The best scene in the movie is now over*

MARK STRONG: You lost. Despite the ring choosing you and me believing in it with all of my heart, you should still totally quit.

RYAN REYNOLDS: I lost? I’ve never lost at any thing in my entire life! I quit Green Lanterning! *runs back to Earth, crying*

INT. SOME LAB ON EARTH. DAY.

ANGELA BASSETT: We found the remains of an alien. Despite you being a clearly mentally unstable hermit, we think you’re just the man for the job of dissecting it alone.

PETER SAARSGARD: Thanks. *dissects Abin-Sur, gets infected with the Parallax, slowly turns into the Elephant Man, nobody seems to notice*

TIM ROBBINS: Son! You look great!

PETER SAARSGARD: *reading his Dad’s mind* You don’t think I look great at all! You lied to me! *kills Tim Robbins*

RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh my God, you killed the only good actor left in this movie! *they fight, Ryan loses again*

EXT. PLANET CGI OA. NIGHT.

RYAN REYNOLDS: Seven Old Yoda-looking people, please help me save my planet.

SEVEN OLD YODA-LOOKING PEOPLE: Nah.

RYAN REYNOLDS: Fine, I’ll do it myself!

MARK STRONG: I would come and help you, but I’m busy lazily setting up a sequel here.

RYAN REYNOLDS: I understand.

EXT. SOME CITY ON EARTH. DAY.

PARALLAX: *has arrived. It looks like an Octopus made out of dirty clouds, and it is eating people’s… souls? Fear? Skeletons? Its not clear*

PETER SAARSGARD: Let us combine our powers! *gets his skeleton eaten, dies*

RYAN REYNOLDS: Hey, Parallax! I totally banged your mom last night!

PARALLAX: You what?! I will eat the skeleton right out of you!

RYAN REYNOLDS: *runs away to the Sun, throws Parallax into it, finally wins a fight, but then passes out*

MARK STRONG: *saves Ryan from falling into the sun*

RYAN REYNOLDS: Were you guys here this whole time?

MARK STRONG / GEOFFREY RUSH / MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN: Yeah…

RYAN REYNOLDS: And you never thought of helping me out?

MARK STRONG: Listen, best not start pointing out plot holes now, or people will start asking how is it we’re able to breath in space.

RYAN REYNOLDS: Good point.

THE END.


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About Rory Cashin

Rory Cashin, a former mineralogist and professor of Metallurgy in Minsk, fled the Soviet Union in 1980 when it banned stalking. His travels took him to Ireland where he rose quickly though the corporate ranks at the Odlums porridge factory. Though a lifelong fear of bears prevents him from sleeping in the same house two nights consecutively, he is one of the few people recorded that can reliably stare at the Sun, digest concrete and clone nuns. Bees are naturally wary of Rory and will demonstratably swarm in such a way as to avoid him. Fanmail/hatemail to rory@half-a-giraffe.com