tHop - The Green Hornet
Now, if there is one franchise that’s been just outside my radar then it has to be this one. I’ve always known that it existed yet I’ve never seen anything about except some footage here and there. But, here we are, 2010, and the trailer is released for the re-imagining of the franchise. So let’s get a hoppin’!
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67208
Now, if there is one franchise that’s been just outside my radar then it has to be this one. I’ve always known that it existed yet I’ve never seen anything about except some footage here and there. But, here we are, 2010, and the trailer is released for the re-imagining of the franchise. So let’s get a hoppin’!
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67208
Director Michel Gondry brings us Seth Rogen as Britt Reid, better known as The Green Hornet, Cameron Diaz as Lenore Case, the great Christoph Waltz (whom you might remember as Hans Landa from Inglorious Basters) as Chudnofski and others in this adaptation of the radio program created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.
The trailer begins with Britt Reid, a Bruce Wayne through and through who does nothing but party, drink alcohol and chase after women. He is the son of a big businessman and when his father inexplicable dies, he has to continue the empire that his father had created. Forging an unexpected friendship with an employee of his father named Kato, the two of them see the light and decide that it is their duty to become crime fighters. How are they going to do that, you ask? Well, it’s fairly simple. They become criminals so that they can get close to them.
Luckily Britt has Kato on his side as the man skillfully produces state of the art weaponry and even a car named The Black Beauty. With the help of his new secretary, Case, Britt begins his quest to rid the city of evil by knocking down the chief of the pile, Chudnofski. However, the man has some plans on his own as he in turn wants to put down The Green Hornet once and for all.
The trailer also showcased some impressive action scenes and cool looking fight scenes that could undoubtedly save the movie. Because, truth be told, the story is cliché up the wazoo and it’s nothing you haven’t seen before. It’s the superhero version of Largo Winch, literally. Besides the fact that Largo Winch is actually good.
And you may have noticed another problem with this movie. Seth Rogen. The man is a typecast machine. And the one time that he is cast in a role that could change that, it turns out that the role is actually tailor made for his typecast. Fuck that noise. I mean, corny jokes, lame jokes and more are standard in this movie like the scriptwriter remember he was supposed to add funny stuff and just decided to fuck it and quickly write it in, chuckling at how bad his jokes are.
It’s that exactly which is going to make this movie a total bust. It just doesn’t sit right at all. It tries to be Batman Begins with Iron Man but it fails at both fronts just because they added too much of the wrong things. The only thing I laughed at was how they handled that traffic camera. “Camera got us” Kanto just fires a fucking rocket at it.
If there is one real thing that could save this ENTIRE movie, then it’s Christoph Waltz. Let’s just hope he does just that.
Oh, and it’s in 3D… Huzzaaaaaaaaaaaaah…
The trailer begins with Britt Reid, a Bruce Wayne through and through who does nothing but party, drink alcohol and chase after women. He is the son of a big businessman and when his father inexplicable dies, he has to continue the empire that his father had created. Forging an unexpected friendship with an employee of his father named Kato, the two of them see the light and decide that it is their duty to become crime fighters. How are they going to do that, you ask? Well, it’s fairly simple. They become criminals so that they can get close to them.
Luckily Britt has Kato on his side as the man skillfully produces state of the art weaponry and even a car named The Black Beauty. With the help of his new secretary, Case, Britt begins his quest to rid the city of evil by knocking down the chief of the pile, Chudnofski. However, the man has some plans on his own as he in turn wants to put down The Green Hornet once and for all.
The trailer also showcased some impressive action scenes and cool looking fight scenes that could undoubtedly save the movie. Because, truth be told, the story is cliché up the wazoo and it’s nothing you haven’t seen before. It’s the superhero version of Largo Winch, literally. Besides the fact that Largo Winch is actually good.
And you may have noticed another problem with this movie. Seth Rogen. The man is a typecast machine. And the one time that he is cast in a role that could change that, it turns out that the role is actually tailor made for his typecast. Fuck that noise. I mean, corny jokes, lame jokes and more are standard in this movie like the scriptwriter remember he was supposed to add funny stuff and just decided to fuck it and quickly write it in, chuckling at how bad his jokes are.
It’s that exactly which is going to make this movie a total bust. It just doesn’t sit right at all. It tries to be Batman Begins with Iron Man but it fails at both fronts just because they added too much of the wrong things. The only thing I laughed at was how they handled that traffic camera. “Camera got us” Kanto just fires a fucking rocket at it.
If there is one real thing that could save this ENTIRE movie, then it’s Christoph Waltz. Let’s just hope he does just that.
Oh, and it’s in 3D… Huzzaaaaaaaaaaaaah…
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