Green Hornet (2010)
Major Disaster.
I could not imagine a greater contrast to Zombieland's wit and class (despite being a zombie action film) than Seth Rogen's Green Hornet remake.
Simply, it is a terrible terrible waste of 2 hours.
I can't remember much about the original Green Hornet TV series; I vaguely remember seeing some episodes, but it does not matter. It at least was "neutral" as far as I am concerned; the remake is awful.
Rogen's Hornet is intended as an un-hero. Not the anti-hero (i.e. the hero who doesn't want to be the hero, but is forced into being a hero -- like SpiderMan or even Iron Man), and defintely not a true hero (i.e. it was always the destiny of Batman and Superman to be heroes)...Rogen's Horent is a total doofus, idiot, moron, with almost NO redeeming qualities, and totally out of his depth as a hero...intentional.
What was the motivation for creating a character that is useless and incompetent? Maybe Rogen wanted to show that regular fools who accidetally happen to have a martial arts expert and weapons designing engineer (Jay Chou) and/or top brainy criminologist (Diaz) as friends can also be "a hero"...fine. I suppose when we watch movies, SOME suspension of belief is necessary; for this one, we have to suspend all belief.
Overall, nobody comes out unscathed from this movie. Rogen is totally irritating; Jay Chou's Kato is pure ridiculousness; and Diaz is just eye candy.
Dead loss.
It was so bad that it made the next movie I watched Tron Legacy, somewhat tolerable.
I could not imagine a greater contrast to Zombieland's wit and class (despite being a zombie action film) than Seth Rogen's Green Hornet remake.
Simply, it is a terrible terrible waste of 2 hours.
I can't remember much about the original Green Hornet TV series; I vaguely remember seeing some episodes, but it does not matter. It at least was "neutral" as far as I am concerned; the remake is awful.
Rogen's Hornet is intended as an un-hero. Not the anti-hero (i.e. the hero who doesn't want to be the hero, but is forced into being a hero -- like SpiderMan or even Iron Man), and defintely not a true hero (i.e. it was always the destiny of Batman and Superman to be heroes)...Rogen's Horent is a total doofus, idiot, moron, with almost NO redeeming qualities, and totally out of his depth as a hero...intentional.
What was the motivation for creating a character that is useless and incompetent? Maybe Rogen wanted to show that regular fools who accidetally happen to have a martial arts expert and weapons designing engineer (Jay Chou) and/or top brainy criminologist (Diaz) as friends can also be "a hero"...fine. I suppose when we watch movies, SOME suspension of belief is necessary; for this one, we have to suspend all belief.
Overall, nobody comes out unscathed from this movie. Rogen is totally irritating; Jay Chou's Kato is pure ridiculousness; and Diaz is just eye candy.
Dead loss.
It was so bad that it made the next movie I watched Tron Legacy, somewhat tolerable.
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