trinityvixen | It's not optimal, but it's sexful, so I'll take it

Comic nerd friends, we need to talk. Specifically, we need to talk about Ryan Reynolds. I am still hopeful about Green Lantern, or whatever fifteen-word-title they end up giving the movie, but I think he's been miscast. Some four-five years ago, back when David Goyer was still writing a Flash movie, and he and Ryan Reynolds were BFFs from Blade: Trinity, there was talk about Reynolds being the Scarlet Speedster. If you've seen any movie Reynolds has been in (with the possible exception of the one where he's, like, buried alive), you know that that is just about perfect. He's got the comic timing down, and, hey, he'd look good in tight clothes, amirite?

Flash forward (oh, oops, pun) to 2009, and he's gonna be Hal Jordan. Eh, not as good, and there's this all-CGI suit that is really not necessary, I think, when your leading man looks like this:

We don't need CGI to put some spandex on that, do we?

Anyway, I bring all this up because I have just heard a rumor that Bradley Cooper is likely to be the Flash in the ongoing attempt of Warner Bros. and DC to catch up with Marvel on the movie front. It's not as good a match. If anything, he and Ryan Reynolds need to swap places, and then the Lantern star should be Kyle Rayner, not Hal Jordan. (Fuck, it should John Stewart, as played by someone sexy like Idris Elba.) Cooper's humor is just more mean-spirited in delivery than Reynolds' ever has or will be, and I like my Flash cuddly and funny.

Then again, Bradley Cooper as the Flash means we get this in spandex, and I suddenly have no complaints:

He's leaner than Reynolds, too, as a Flash should be, if he can help it. Here's hoping those rumors pan out!

(To the ladies and gay men: You're welcome!)