Escape to the Movies: The Green Hornet

[Madara XIII]

I guess "forgettable" is about as good as this could hope to be. Might catch it once it hits the cheap theater around here.

Yep, at least I can now walk around with a smug look on my face telling my friend "CALLED IT".

I knew this movie wasn't going anywhere considering who they got to be the Green Hornet. I just can't take Seth Rogan seriously at times and even during those times the humor falls flat. Dude's just not all that funny to me.

 

[Madara XIII]

I think I would rather see a Lone Ranger movie out of the two franchises. Something like Young Guns crossed with Sin City, but with its tongue in its cheek. It might not work, but I think a noir cowboy story would be equal parts hilarious and awesomous.

Both of those movies were great and one can only hope someone either does a good honest re-vamp of The Lone Ranger....or just leave it the hell alone and don't ruin the Nostalgia.

 

[Ashoten]

I don't really buy the Big trouble trouble in little China comparison. Mainly cause Jack Burton DOES stuff in that movie. He shoots dudes and kills Lo Pan so whats the comparison? The fact that Jacks a white guy and Wang is a Chinese dude that knows martial arts? Does that make Shanghi noon a Green Hornet remake? I love Big trouble in little China. Enough that I think its a disservice to it to make comparison to the Green Hornet. A show whose only accomplishment was to launch the career of Bruce Lee and have a reference to it in Fallout 3.

No disrespect was meant - Big Trouble is an all-time favorite of mine. But if you watch for it, part of it's "running joke" is poking fun at the "white hero/ethnic sidekick dynamic." Yes, Burton gets to kill Lo-Pan, but throughout the movie Wang (and eventually Egg-Shen's army) is WAY more competent and effective against the bad guys - even during the big "melee fight," Jack misses out on the battle-charge by shooting a piece of roof onto his head and ultimately spends most of it stuck under a dead warrior. It's the ultimate "goof" of the whole production - Wang is the "real" hero, in that it's HIS girlfriend whose initially kidnapped, it's HIS culture the whole thing plays out in (Burton and Gracie Law kinda "stumble into" the whole thing) and he's the one with something to prove... Burton is HIS comic-relief sidekick. It's a sly dig at the whole "the white guy is the main character no matter what" thing of older movies featuring "mysterious foriegner" enemies.

Ok thanks. That makes more sense now.

 

[Weaver]

I
HATE
SETH
ROGAN!!!!!!

I will not see this movie.

 

[NicolasMarinus]

This biggest shock in all of this, is Michel Gondry. I mean, Michel Gondry!!?? The man is a surrealist genius and he directs a lame superhero movie? Such a shame.

 

[Mstrswrd]

I still like the story (whether it's true or not, I don't know) of how, in the filimng of the Green Hornet TV Show, at one point, Bruce Lee went off script, jumped into the air, and did a double scissor kick, smashing a light bulb like 12 feet off the ground. All of the "baddies" he was supposed to be fighting just kind of stopped and stared, and than realized "...Holy Shit. This guy can actually kill us!" Bruce Lee than proceeded to, as non-damagingly as possible, kick their asses into the ground, and the film crew just kept filming because, what, you wan to be the guy who didn't capture that on film?

 

[Moeez]

Is it just me, or do I keep on confusing Jay Chou in this movie with Harold and Kumar?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZZ-CqtHjAnk/Sft4bdYXSQI/AAAAAAABYcQ/X29M3Do8uJQ/s400/John+Cho.jpg

There's a rather racist joke there waiting for someone to blurt it out.

Spoiler

All y'all look alike!

 

[Casual Shinji]

This biggest shock in all of this, is Michel Gondry. I mean, Michel Gondry!!?? The man is a surrealist genius and he directs a lame superhero movie? Such a shame.

Not every good director can be a good action director.

It almost seems like this movie was made as a vehicle for a bunch of celebrities who had nothing better to do.

"Seth Rogen has some time off, let's have him write and star in a movie. Michel Gondry's got nothing to work on either, so will get him to direct. And Christoph Waltz played a fun badguy in Inglorious Bastards, he should do that again.

But it needs to be an action movie with some brand recognition that hasn't already been remade yet.

Wait, I know..."

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

Since Bob mentioned John Carpenter (and because Green Hornet doesn't seem all that interesting): doesn't his new movie The Ward come out in theaters this month? I think I'll go see that, instead, even if the local theater isn't playing it.

 

[Gunnyboy]

This biggest shock in all of this, is Michel Gondry. I mean, Michel Gondry!!?? The man is a surrealist genius and he directs a lame superhero movie? Such a shame.

He's directed one great film and we all know Kaufman's screenplay was the key competent to that.

 

[atomictoast]

I'm just going to see this as a date, so I don't think I'm paying much attention to the screen anyways. Thanks for the heads-up though.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Hang on a second *wears fire retardent suit* ok so what is the cosmic cube?

 

[Reveras]

Thanks for the heads up (and the Doug reference) Bob

Nothing you'll remember an hour later

Sounds like most of my Saturday Nights! XD

Sorry, but this is needed: BA-DUM-TISH!

 

[J3llo]

I think Kevin Smith would have made this better, he have to do a comic book movie sooner or later.

All thou i really like gondry but i think he belong making artsy-fartsy flicks cause that what he does best.

 

[shadyh8er]

Is it just me, or do I keep on confusing Jay Chou in this movie with Harold and Kumar?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZZ-CqtHjAnk/Sft4bdYXSQI/AAAAAAABYcQ/X29M3Do8uJQ/s400/John+Cho.jpg

Well his name is John Cho...

Also funny thing, right when Bob said "Presto," an ad popped up at the bottom of the video.

 

[Yosato]

For some reason I super enjoyed this film. I kept my expectations really low (Seth Rogen in a hero movie, that's why) and expected nothing more than a popcorn movie, but I found the Green Hornet to be really good, even if Rogen's character is really unlikable in the first two thirds (then again I think that was the point). The fight choreography in Kato's obligatory battle sequences are really worth a mention since they were great and the slow-down, highlight thing that reminded me of VATS from Fallout 3 never got old ^^

 

[jetfirespam]

The Green Lantern confusion has already started. Someone at work asked me, the other day, whether I was interested in the "Green Lantern" movie. I said that the trailer didn't impress me a whole lot, but it might be good. He looked confused for a second, did some obvious thinking for several more, and then blurted, "Hornet! That's the one with Kato, right?"

Turned out, he wanted to know if Green Hornet had any good buzz. I had to admit that wasn't paying any attention to it.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Dang, I was hoping this would be good.

 

[Nouw]

Damn I was hoping it'd be a good movie. Ah well I know what I'm not watching this year!

*Looks at list. Kinda empty...