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Nick Cage Will Not Menace THE GREEN HORNET!!
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The Hollywood Reporter says Nicolas Cage has decided not to take the villain role opposite Seth Rogen in “The Green Hornet.”
The Michel Gondry-helmed adventure, which began shooting last week, is now on the lookout for a new actor Rogen can beat on.
Knowing nothing of the Hornet’s nemesis, have we any clue who would make a worthwhile substitute? Christoph Waltz? Jonah Hill? What’s Terrence Stamp doing at the moment?
Maybe Rogen will rope in one of the “Freaks and Geeks” co-stars he hasn’t yet worked with on the big screen, like “Inglourious Basterds” vet Samm Levine or “Bones” player John Francis Daley. Maybe not!
Find all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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Oh wait, I don't care. Sorry about my outburst.
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Then I MIGHT just give a shit about this movie.
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I don't see why the Hornet should get a pass.
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Seth Rogen + Cage in Green Hornet = double hell
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http://www.plan9movie.com/trailer.html
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This sounds like crap. Also, Seth Rogen needs to not work for a bit.
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I like Gondry, but this film sounds like a disaster of Catwoman proportions.
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It would've been cool to have seen Cage do it, but if you read the HR article, it's obvious he wanted too much money for his payment. The film doesn't really need an expensive A list actor wanting a 8 figure payment for the villain, as they can hire someone cheaper.
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best euphemism EVER!!
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...you had best find a life jacket ASAP. <br> <br> It must take a truly titanic piece of shit to scare off the Cage.
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I always thought this would be one of those movie rumours that never saw the light of day. Like Jack Black as Green Lantern.
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Who gives a shit? This back and forth about this movie, like its some event film anyone outside of Seth gives a shit about. I bet Apatow doesn't even care enough to make a dick joke about it.
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I need the cash!!! Where do i audition? give me some lines to read & i'll YouTube it.....
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Sept. 9, 2009, 2:08 a.m. CST
Mullah Omar, EXACTLY, CAGE HAS MADE SOME REAL SHIT OVER THE YEAR
by CarlThorMark1978
So this must fucking stink for him to back out.
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Sept. 9, 2009, 2:36 a.m. CST
Cast Adam fucking Sandler and call it Green People...
by Gods_Uncle_Bob
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He had an immensely popular radio program a thousand years ago but most of the people who actually listened to it are dead or are going to be real soon. He had a show that lasted one season in the sixties that I've never seen rerun in syndication. He's appeared intermittently in badly done comic books over the years put out by obscure comic book publishers. The only real reason the concept has any allure is not because of the main character — it's because of his SIDEKICK played by none other than the great Bruce Lee in that short-lived series. No wonder Cage left the project, he can smell shit when he steps in it.
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http://tinyurl.com/msmn62
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Sorry somehow I screwed this up with the "Full House" ad post, where no one can comment. But if I may, please count the number of exclamation marks in total for Full House total series, I counted 20.
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There I said it. I like the premise of posing as a high-profile criminal in order to catch high-profile criminals. He's a pulpy/underworld/crimebuster character, but I think people that hate the idea are applying modern superhero sensibilities to The Hornet. However, this poor movie looks like it's destined to be another "La Mancha". My gut reaction was to bitch about Rogen being cast but I made that same mistake with Keaton and Batman a long time ago. Therefore, I was gonna wait for a trailer or something before I fired up the bitchworks. I don't really care about Cage leaving. I would like to see more of an old school mob 'heavy' as the nemesis anyway. But.. I think this production was in deep shit well before that. All the problems with casting and negative reaction are gonna kill it in spite of Gondry being attached. Oh well.. maybe someday they'll get it right.
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was hilarious in freaks and geeks...
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He's worked with Gondry before and maybe he will out shine Rogen as Hornet so maybe will all forget. I've always wanted to see his Riddler return so why not in this movie?
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Dickless Cage is out!... Finally, I can look forward to this movie!...
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this must be really really worse shit
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If his dead fuck buddy can do evil, so can he.
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What's Tom Wilson up to? He should do it! (Probably?)
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Whoa-- when the hackiest actor of a generation decides he'd better not be in your movie, there may perhaps be a problem.
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Or is that guy who played Khan in Star Trek 2 still alive?
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Just another idea.
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Sept. 9, 2009, 5:05 a.m. CST
LastOfTheV8Interceptors I find yo ideas intriguing and want to s
by ironic_name
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How did I know you guys would bring that up. Its only the 3rd or 4th time since 'Basterds' came out that I've seen one of you guys mention him when theres a bad guy role going.
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from Fat Albert. Now, that would be a great movie.
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Sept. 9, 2009, 5:50 a.m. CST
Bye, Nic! Don't let Rogen's doggy door hit you on the ass.
by cheyne_stoking_DMS
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no wait a baboon's mangy ass wouldn't want this bomb to kill it's career
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At least that would give me a reason to watch this in a few years...
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Sept. 9, 2009, 6:42 a.m. CST
After he stopped doing that shit with his hands...
by cheyne_stoking_DMS
he just went full time with that weird half sneer. God, I fucking hate Nicolas Cage.
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NOT a good sign. This is Nicholas Cage we're talking about.
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It's not that Cage thinks this is too shitty for him to be in....They weren't <i>paying</i> him enough for him to mug his way through another shitty film, that's all.
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"C'mon, stop bitching! It's a fresh and new idea!"
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Good! His hairpiece is very distracting. Nic Cage hasn't done a decent movie since the late 90's. He would have ruined the movie even more.
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Uh...cart? This is horse. Hello?
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JGL is he new spank material for fanboys. Move over, Crispin Glover.
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They started shooting cuz they had a villain cast. Nic Cage was cast but now he dropped out. They don't just stop filming because one actor left the production. They work around it. Movies aren't shot in order......they can do tons of scenes that don't involve the bad guy.
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Gay. Totally. Gay. We all want to see a sequel, damnit! Why would Neil make a fucking prequel? He teases us with a whoop ass sequel idea and decides to make a prequel... gay.
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micheal gondry is directed. doesnt he deserve a little respect? i think it could be good.
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Because if any fanboys took a step back from the amazing eyeball fuckery that film provided, you might realize it makes no god damn sense at all. They need to explain at least some of that retarded shit. Why did the aliens just stop over our city, and yet make no attempt to do anything but starve to death inside? Why is that the liquid they use for fuel also has the amazingly convenient property of actually altering your DNA to turn you into an alien (the biggest, stupidest part of the whole movie, that makes zero sense, other than for someone to say, "its alien goo, man. OBVIOUSLY it messes with your DNA!" NO.) Why did they need to collect a tiny bit of fuel to get back to the mothership, and yet the mothership requires no fuel or maintenance of any kind, it just takes off, no problem at all. Why didnt anyone else try to leave? Why did the aliens decided it was better to let us take giant shits on their chests and treat them like dirt instead of actually...I don't know...using their ridiculously overpowered qweapons, instead of trading them in for fucking CAT FOOD!?! These things are capabale of interstellar travel, and I'm supposed to believe that becacuse of one line that says "their leaders all died," everything single other one who too depressed to even defend itself? Fuck that. That's just piss-poor writing. The more I think about that movie the more it pisses me off. It was fucking amazing ot watch, but my brain kept going, wait? what the fuck? this makes as much sense as goddamn transformers! And yet, of course, because it was fanboy jerkoffable, you all choose to ignore these insanely large plot holes because..well..your fanboys, and youll hate transformers for something youll love another film for, all because of who directed it. District 9 makes no sense at all. Maybe a sequel will actually get me to udnerstand how in the fact humans learned to understand their langauge so fluently and vice verse, especially considering none of the aliens care about anything enough to not live in actual filth. I highly doubt they offered translation seminars. Fucking stupid.. <p> Rant over. Apologies.
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I kept with it for all 15 hours of the movie. Just kept on Waiting for it to get better. It didn't. The 3rd act was almost as painful as a route canal.
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where is this going? Am I suppose to care about the annoying protagonist? Why are we such dicks to the aliens in this time in existence? It echoed racism, as well.
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Does everything need to be spelled out for you? Those arent really plot holes (being that they don't uhhhh advance the plot).I think your just pissed that your town didn't get a screening and/or you never won the contest. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
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"We're a movie trying to be different by adding random elements to our movie. Now let's end this dreck with a big ol' gun fight."
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Maybe if Robin Shou or Jason Scott Lee was kato. But we are talking about an outdated dork in a green mask made-for-tv show as dumb as the 60's Batman. Even if they "darken" him up, he's still idiotic. The best they could hope for is to play it for camp. I bet end up with another pure shitball like the shadow or the Spirit. This is a cash-in attempt on boomers that remember Bruce Lee, the only good part of the original.
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...I am tired of these mother fucking idiots with their mother fucking masks on their mother fucking faces!
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Except there are people alive who have watched land of the lost on TV. The Green Hornet is stupid.
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Sept. 9, 2009, 9:21 a.m. CST
Green Hornet Will Make The Spirit's Box Office Look Like Titanic
by A-COD
Even Cage is staying away, ouch.
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Maybe if Jason Scott Lee was Kato?! Who cares, it's still Kato. Tom Cruise could be playing Kato he's still a kung foo master chauffeur from the 40s that nobody cares about. Bruce Lee could come back from the dead and play Kato and this thing is still going to tank.
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To complement the Batman vs. Green Hornet thang from the 60s.
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The dude does a great acting job on a movie and what people think? He should do more vilain roles. That's what they think, not that he's a great actor, but that he has to play more villains. Small wonder actors complain about being typecasted, the problem is not even Hollywood, it's the fucking geeks!!
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mark the end of the stoner jew's career.
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I can't believe Seth Rogen, who I actually like a lot as an actor, ever saw a single episode of Green Hornet. Based on what I've read so far, this seems to a cluster fuck like "Bewitched" and "Land Of The Lost" were. Maybe it will be decent, but I seriously doubt it. GH should have been done with a tone closer to The Dark Knight, not Pineapple Express.
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And did Sam Levine count as one of the Inglorious Basterds? He had like one line in the entire movie, and he was shown one time on screen shooting a jeep full of nazis, and that was the full extent of his character. Talk about underused.
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This movie is fighting an uphill battle without Nic Cages hairpiece dragging it down. What looks worse?..Nic's hair or Cameron's face
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...a good enough 'interesting' hair piece. Still though, considering the garbage Cage has been in over the last few years, this movie must be worse than a pile of dog shit for him to back out. I mean, he did Bangkok Dangerous and The Wicker Man for god's sake.
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Considering that it's not the subject matter or the genre of the film that makes it good, but how it's made that decides it's quality; and considering that "Stoner Jew" has done good to great films pretty much without exception, I'm sure this film will be great. You guys will probably hate it because--oh that's right--you hate everything, but that doesn't mean it will be anything less than fantastic. It might not be what one expects, but that's a good thing when it comes to making art.
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Sept. 9, 2009, 11:08 a.m. CST
"Killing me won't bring back your fucking honey!"
by ZombieHeathLedger
Seriously, I heard Cage was selling off his castles (yes, castles) because he was in money troubles. Can he really afford to walk?
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Lmao. Thanks for that one, bra.
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Dead on. I tried to imagine a scenario in which this might be of the remotest interest or have a slight chance of not sucking. Unfortunately, It will suck and it will bomb.
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While it's sort of late in the game for a major actor to drop out, honestly, anyone would be better than Cage. Get Gary Coleman to do it.
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One good reason to see this movie now..?
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Sept. 9, 2009, 12:08 p.m. CST
Wow, when Cage declines a movie, you know this pile has no hope.
by DrPain
I put this all on Seth's fat ass. F.u Rogan.
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JOYGASM!
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crow, i agree with you about d9... i couldn't understand why everyone just passed over the part about this magical alien fluid that was used as fuel for their ship and also had the ability to turn human dna into alien... i mean wtf?! and meta4... ummmm it doesn't advance the plot? what the hell are you talking about, the entire movie is about finding this damn fluid!! did u just not watch the movie or something?... anyway i sort of liked it, but the racism and abortion issues couldn't have been any less subtle, they just hit you over the head with it as hard as they could. if jackson wasn't producer, and it wasn't so publicised that it had a 30 million dollar budget, it wouldn't have been so praised
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I am at the same time proud of and ashamed by my ignorance in regards to this film.
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It's pretty cool stuff: watching the BB haul ass around the set and then crash into a cop car and a wall. It looks like a definite accident, not a planned set-piece...
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Definitely not a 'planned, controlled accident'. Dude fucked up the Black Beauty good! View it here: <p> http://tinyurl.com/msmn62
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To banging jew fro for acting gigs, Cameron D has fallen hard.
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This is a joke, right?
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The whole fluid thing was kinda self explanitory, it sprayed Wickus in the face,he changed. Who cares why it does that. Nitpicks are pointless.
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and said "holy shit, Nic Cage is a hack, kick him off set" Worst actor, HANDS DOWN. can ruin any movie and before any of you douche bags give me shit...name one GOOD move that he was amazing good in that the script wasn't total shit...Face Off? The Rock??? 8MM???? Peggy Sue Got Married???? are your eyeballs getting fucked right now???
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or how 'bout a group of villains called the Realities. Then you could have New York, Jon & Kate, some of them there short fellers and a Real Worlder or 2 battle it out with Rogan. Oh, if it weren't but a dream...
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Adaptation. But Cage gave interviews in which this was the only movie he followed 100% the director, instead of following his acting instincts. Maybe they should hire Werner Herzog to direct him with a weapon, like he did with Kinski.
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Well there was that movie he won an Academy Award for, Leaving Las Vegas. And he was phenominal in Raising Arizona and vampire's Kiss. he used to be a HIGHLY regarded actor. I don't know what happened but his acareer went right in the shitter aside from the National Treasure movies of course.
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LOVE that movie.
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"Maybe they should hire Werner Herzog to direct him with a weapon, like he did with Kinski."<br><br>And this time, there should be a documentary crew filmming it, it would make for the best comedy film of the year.<br><br>By the way, is it true you are brazilian? I'm portuguese.
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Yiou want to know what happened to Nic Cage? Jerry Bruckheimer happened, and turned what was once a respected actor into an action hero baffon. And Cage accepted, for the sake of lots of millions of dollars... which he later squandered and is now owning to the IRS.
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Made me want to believe that there was still some of the old Cage magic somewhere in him. And in that movie he's brillant. Of course, he had to fuck it all up afterwards. I tell you guys, i'm only watching Bad Lieutenent not because of Cage but because of Werner Herzog. Cage is pratically incidental.
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Herzog directing Cage, that would last about 5 minutes. And I remember you mentioning to be from Portugal. Unfortunally I was born in Brazil, I have since renounced citizenship to that shitty mess of a country. I'd seriously wipe my ass in thay country's flag anytime. Not Portugal's, though. That place's pretty neat.
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That is like Hitchcock directing Adam Sandler!
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Ask David Caruso what it's like to have Cage act you off the screen.
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Ask David Caruso what it's like to have Cage act you off the screen.
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*Ahem*
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I read something somewhere earlier that made it sound like they crashed it. If I could remember where I'd tell ya.
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that's it, sorry for not reading through, Zardoz. I really enjoyed your movie namesake btw. *waves*
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Sept. 9, 2009, 7:50 p.m. CST
Would it have made a difference if Cage was in this mess???
by Violator90
I doubt that ANY one can save this steaming pile of shit. As long as Seth "sweating over a a dounut" Rogan is the hero of this movie, there is no hope.
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I'm sorry you feel that way about your native country. You must have one terrible experience i can't even imagine for you to feel that way. i guess you didn't had the good fortune to be born a german-brazilian and live in their cities, or living in Petropolis, i guess.<br><br>Do you still know how to speak in the mother language?<br><br>As for Herzog, not only ther eis one movie with Nic Cage, there will also be another herzog movie produced by David Lynch. Think about this, this year there will be TWO Herzog movies. And considering that it was this year thati saw Encounters At The End Of The World, this means i will get to watch THREE Herzog movies this year. That's cinema nirvana!
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I'm in the lone camp of Nic Cage fans, even though Ghost Rider was a fucking mess and I wouldn't watch Bangkok Dangerous on a 19 hour flight. I'll always have a soft spot for his over the top antics in Face/Off and of course Raising Arizona is classic.
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Hell Yes! Cage pulled out! Seriously, are they really going to continue throwing money away (in other words, keep filming?) <p> Not only is Green Hornet a terrible idea to begin with, I think the tide of public opinion is turning against Rogen. I think he's got the JLo overexposure, believeing his own hype backlash going on.
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why is seth rogen in this film? are they going to ruin it like they did with starsky and hutch?
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as the Green Hornet with Seth Rogen will now be the worst movie ever made. I mean seriously, WTF?
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