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Whaaa... Eternal Sunshine of A Green Hornet's Mind?!?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know you were as bummed as I was when Stephen Chow dropped out of the director's seat (and there's no mention of him participating as Kato in Variety's new piece today), but they've moved in a fascinating choice for helmer.
One Mr. Michel Gondry now looks to be directing GREEN HORNET, starring Seth Rogen and scripted by Evan Goldberg. That's definitely good news. I think the focus of BE KIND REWIND wasn't in the right place (the Sweding, to be specific), but I loved both SCIENCE OF SLEEP and ETERNAL SUNSHINE and, even more relevant, I loved his episode of FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS this season. He did the one where Jermaine falls in love with an Australian and it's just as doomed and forbidden a love as Romeo & Juliet. Easily the funniest episode of the season.
Anyway, that's the news. I think it bodes well and I'm really curious to see what the familiar pairing of Goldberg and Rogen brings to this particular material. I didn't grow up on the show like a lot of people did, but the iconography has stuck with me. What are your thoughts?
This is what I get for just acting upon reading, instead of checking my own site first. Here's my take from the double post:
Hey folks, Harry here and GREEN HORNET officially just jumped the rails and is in territory where I can't conceive of what this movie is going to be now. But I'm excited, terrified, intrigued, filled with trepidation and curiosity. Brilliant & sometime erratic director Michel Gondry is directing Seth Rogen and Stephen Chow in THE GREEN HORNET according to Variety. I have no earthly idea what the resulting film is going to be. Not a single moment. What is this film now? I really haven't a clue.
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with original songs by Radiohead, Bjork, etc.
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Artsy Green hornet...I dunno.
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And have humanoid robots having sex, of course.
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this should be interesting...
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Was well directed. He's got a good eye for stuff.
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Not rooting against it, but I guarantee this ain't going to be a hit.
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I don't know anything about Green Hornet, or care all that much, but Gondry directing anything is good times.
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im already sleeping!
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And Seth Rogen is a talented, funny dude. Haters be whack; and annoying as fuck. A comment bitching about Seth Rogen has got to be the most unoriginal thing (and that's nothing to scoff at) 'round these parts by now.
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but then again I really could care less about the Green Hornet..so fuck..when in Rome right..
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When in Rome?
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and anyone that has ever worked with him. He's the absolute WORST choice for Green Hornet. Even if he managed to slim up a bit he still has a fat persons head and EVEN if he were always skinny, he doesn't look the part and I haven't even commented on his "acting" yet...
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to it,This will be a really really bad Green Hornet flick.
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I can't Praise It Enough. Whole lotta hating going on over at IMDB for it. Me I just don't get it. Michel Gondry is a very experimental filmmaker. some of his films may feel off becuase of this. I call it looking at something new syndrom. You don't know how to judge it because it doesn't have a former style to compare it too. So even when you think this is wierd ,it makes no sense, wheres the logic, it's happening in our world but it's not obeying the rules all the time. So alot of people get up in arms about that. I mean Sweding is it's own thing even outside of the movie now. Focus on it or not. I think that really proves that this guy is very original and cool as hell.
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I even waited until DVD to watch that movie and... whooo boy. What a stinker. Had to let the player air out for a week after that. So I don't have a lot of expectation for this one (which could be a good thing).
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the only way to save this franchise is to bury it under a ton of bad acting.
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The only movie I've ever walked out on. Seth Rogan's funny, and what I know of the Green Hornet is interesting enough, but I'll be damned if I give Gondry another dime after that piece of shit.
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Feb 24, 2009 2:36:36 PM CST
Tony Jaa R.I.P. in the graveyard of hyped future celebrities
by hellking
Next ones in the grave. Dev Patel and Freida Pinto and anyone who thinks Bollywood movies are the next big wave.
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Green Hornet is already a bad character to begin with, so I really applaud them for fucking around with this movie, in hopes of creating a little orderly chaos. I love Michael Gondry, but Stephen Chow would have spiked my interest in this flick.
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There's no R.
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was great; perhaps one of the best episodes of the entire series. Funny You should mention that Quint, since that is the first time this horrible source for "cool news" has put it to print. You would think that a Gondry episode of Conchords would have received a mention and a talkback. Nope. Can't believe that I would ever see AICN so irrelevant.
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I liked Be Kind Rewind, unlike most. And he's a fantastic DIRECTOR. As long as the script's tight and he stays away from it, this could be amazing.
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Loved the bootleg special effects for the sweded films. The entire pepperoni pizza for when they needed gore...lol.
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Although, I didn't like Be Kind Rewind, you can't argue this guy's directing ability. He's just not the best writer. This is great news.
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...will the planet of awesome-ness that is Gondry be able to defeat the black hole of suckyness that is Seth Rogen?
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Well, stranger bedfellows have produced gems...
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I just recently saw The Science of Sleep and absolutely loved the shit out of it. Great, beautiful, funny, sweet movie. Gondry knocked that one right out of the park.I'm also a big fan of Eternal Sunshine, so I quite like Gondry as a director. The dream of a Stephen Chow-directed, Rogen-Goldberg-scripted flick has now faded into the background, but at least this news puts the movie back on track, headed in an interesting direction. I mean, can you imagine if they announced that Brett Ratner was now going to helm this thing?No Chow completely sucks, but Gondry puts a smile on my face, too, so that's a very good thing in my book.
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It's funny, it has heart and it has a modern fairy tale premise that is set in our world. What's not to love about it?
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See "The Shadow", "The Phantom", "The Rocketeer"
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You mean the gathering of the community to take part in an art project and entertainment that everyone could enjoy? That was the wrong focus? I really don't get what you mean, Quint.
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but its beloved by many a fan. Has something to do with Ms. Connelly's neckline.
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Because honestly I hated the stupid 'save the store' plot and I hated Danny Glover. There should've been more sweding and there should've been a better story to fill it in. Just felt like an amazing concept stuck in a mediocre episode of 'Hey Arnold' with Danny Glover lisping like a strokee and being grumpy.
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on the sweding, and the impression was that a lot more recreations would be in the movie. You saw the best stuff in the trailer...
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But I hated Be Kind Rewind.
How dare you compare the awesomest of footballhead to Jack Black.
Seriously though, back in the day, Arnold was the shit. Have you seen cartoons these days? They look like someone took a shit in adobe flash and decided to air it on TV. -
I saw him doing half-assed stand-up routines and just talking with friends without looking at the camera but my presumption is that GH would require actual dramatic acting skills of which Rogen has shown zero ability. He's definitely a great writer and can act in very specific roles but putting Rogen in the role of even a semi-serious superhero flick is like putting cheech or chong in a Woody Allen film and expecting subtle stoner satire. Both might be good on their own but just do not mix together.
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it was probably his most heartful fun movie as well.
whats with all these pompous film fags wanting Gondry to make a specific 'high art' genre of film? one that frankly besides in Eternal sunshine, he does very sloppily. -
by doing this you create a self serving atmosphere of 'be kind rewind was a travesty' without remembering that his largest turd by far was his first film
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Like an 00s version of Meatballs or Caddyshack. And it ALMOST was, but they loaded it with sap and kind of messed it up.
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This show sucked. It's only known as a footnote in Bruce Lee's career. It was a rip off of Adam West Batman, not owrht all this trouble.
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I saw Rogen on the Oscars, and he even couldn't even take himself seriously, so why should we??? BTW...what is this article about???
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Huit years ago. But all his ideas were rejected by Universal. He worked two years on it.. I highly doubt that he'll return on this one.
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Anyone? McFly? (get it, hornet, fly). yea i'm a jackass. but seriously outside of the original bionic shows, this is the next too last imaginative series left that hasn't gone to dvd yet. wot's the hold up?
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get this thing over with and direct to dvd it
I don't know anyone marginally interested in seth rogain as green hornet
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I did mean the focus should have been on the Sweding of the movies, the comedy and pure joy of film as an artform. I understand what Gondry was going for with the community gathering around the video store, but that was much less interesting to me than watching film lovers interpreting classic films and finding creative ways to mimic them.
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from watching Be Kind Rewind. While ESOTSM is one of my favorite relatively recent movies, I thought Science of Sleep stunk. SO then I backed off my intention to watch Be Kind Rewind, which otherwise seemed to be a no-brainer.
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Chan played Bruce Lee and Kato in the 85% true, 15% Shannon Lee money grab bullshit TV mini 'Legend of Bruce Lee' on CCTV. Chan is by far the closest actor to resemble the late martial arts icon in the last 30 years. He played the Bruce-like goalie in 'Shaolin Soccer' and the Ax Gang Boss in 'Gong Fu' aka KUNG FU HUSTLE.
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Feb 24, 2009 6:08:31 PM CST
The Rocketeer Is The Best Super Hero Movie Ever Made!!!
by media messiah
Truly a great film with no low points or lost opportunities, the Rocketeer soars where many other super hero films fail to even take-off. Superman had many great beats but save for its bookendings...and the "Can you read my mind" flying sequence, much of the movie was hurt by the cheesy and campy Lex Luthor sequences. As it stands, The Rocketeer is a film without equal. It is truly the best super hero film ever made.
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air it on Sci-Fi the saturday before it's released on DVD
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I think he's pretentious as hell and there's nothing particularly special about any of his movies other than that hey bore me to tears. And I like slow character driven movies too...
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Haven't seen it yet but I can't imagine it'd be too hard to make considering how unfunny the rest of the season has been. Seriously, watch season 1 again and then do the first few eps of this season. Last season FOTC made it look easy to produce a musical-comedy tv show. This season, it's like they're trying very hard to get half the results. I heard somewhere that they had no plans to do a second season but got offered one and decided to do it anyway (hey, I would). *sigh*
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He's a very good directory. Yet his written and directed films suck.
I'm very interested in this project. Keep going Seth. Bummer about Stephen chow. Yet move on. Maybe check out the Kevin Smith script to. -
Could be a masterpiece, could be dogshit. Gondy lives at the extremes.
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...that this was actually to be Gondry's first film project back in the 90's with the guy who wrote Robocop and Starship Troopers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/feb/07/guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank
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like Will Smith in Wild Wild West. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
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believe it.
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cast Ernie Reyes Jr. .. he could use the work
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according to Empire he blew the Sony execs away with his presentation
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...is hilarious.
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and I'm taking into consideration anything Paris Hilton was in. Damn my eyes for seeing that trash!
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but I think Be Kind Rewind would've worked better more as a straight comedy vs an "indie" movie with a bit of a heavy handed message if you know what I mean
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