If you’ve been posting negative comments about the upcoming “Green Hornet” reboot, actor Seth Rogan has a plea for you to stop.
The project has been a high-profile one and has had what some might called a troubled production. The original director and co-star left the project and many doubted whether or not the final product would be worth seeing. Then when the studio put into January, a usual dumping ground for projects studios don’t have much confidence in, the vultures really began circling.
“As you get wrapped up in it, as there’s two years of time where people are saying how bad it is, without having seen anything, it does get frustrating and, ultimately, just disappointing, more than anything.” Rogan tells MTV. “You look at these outlets that, as a comic book nerd, I kind of respected at times and thought were interesting voices just say things that are insane and completely uninformed and uneducated and based on no reality whatsoever, and it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, that’s disappointing. I thought these guys were cool.’ But they’re not. They’re just like everybody else.”
Rogan says he’s looking forward to the movie opening Friday and allowing audiences to judge the film.
“It is nice that people actually have to base their assumptions on the movie now and not just what they think the movie is going to be like,” he said.
Look, we get it. No one sets out to make a bad movie. No one. That doesn't change the fact that what we've been given so far doesn't look promising. I'm not bashing the film, I'm just not going to go pay money to see it. My choice. I can't help if other people feel the same way.
"Doesn't look promising"? Really?
Wow.
Me? I love the trailers. From the first time I saw one of the trailers, it looked like the movie was going to be what I want this type of movie to be: fun and entertaining.
Hell, I'm not even mad at the Burger King tie-in commercials.
That shite makes me laugh, every time.
Look: Guess what? This movie is NOT going to be The Dark Knight. (And I LOVE that movie!) It's not going to be serious and dark and angsty.
I'm looking forward to a bit of the Mickey being taken off of a comic book movie.
It's stupidity for "fans" to hate a movie that they've never even seen.
Fanboy geeks. (Insert eye-roll here.) Sheesh.
You know, lately it seems that people who call themselves fans of F&SF spend more time bashing and trashing movies and shows than anything. And, as in the case here, usually before the show/movie has even aired. I couldn't understand why the Twitterverse was slamming "The Cape" when no one had even seen it. Then these same people get all cranky about the lack of F&SF shows and movies. Why would a producer make a show when they know it will be trashed before it's even hit the editing room?
It's a self-defense mechanism. Why get too excited or too attached/invested in a show or a movie when you know that it might be canceled, or is being treated as a campy joke so the lowbrow humor can reach a broader audience and lessen the financial risk, instead of creating something that might be meaty and satisfying, or art, or both?
If you know they aren't going to love you or respect you from the get-go, at least you go into the relationship knowing that you're paying for it for a reason, rather than being lied to up front and being surprised at being asked to pay up later.
I have no idea where that particular analogy came from, but I find it more than a little disturbing that it fits.
As for me, as soon as I heard that Seth Rogen was going to be The Hornet, I wrote the project off back then, before they'd started filming a single frame. I don't think he's funny, and there was no way they'd be able to do anything but an over-the-top fiasco paced around a set number of gags and explosive or acrobatic exploits with him involved. I was open to interpretations for the character, but the moment they attached Rogen, I knew it would be a waste of my energy and interest.
That's just my personal view, and they could still have made a worthwhile comedic project with it, it just wouldn't have been a movie that I'd personally want to see. Sounds like they missed the mark with that possibility too.
Whether y'all love him, hate the movie, hate him, love the movie, or some combination of the two, the choice is yours-but please grant the guy a little courtesy by spelling his last name correctly.
Awww, did the internets hurt his feelings? *rolls eyes* I was open to the idea of this movie, I hadn't heard any of the negative buzz, then I saw the trailers. Then I knew this movie wasn't for me. I've never seen a movie that Seth Rogan is in before, and it looks like I still won't be seeing one.
Scifi/Fantasy/Comics fans don't owe every dip who makes a genre movie their loyalty and interest. We get to decide all on our very own if a particular movie is good enough to spend our time and money on.
Poor baby, he can't take negative feelings about his project? He shouldn't be in the public spotlight, then.
I was honestly expecting something (or someone) with more class to be attached to the Green Hornet. The trailers seem as if they've turned it into a comedic sketch, and that's never been what I've seen the Green Hornet as. Yes, to modern sensibilities it was campy (and hit on stereotypes that are outdated), but the character had class to it. The storyline they went with is not what I'm looking for, it isn't anything remotely resembling the original aside from the name and the car, and not something I'm going to pay to see.
I not only demand my $$ back - but I'm sending the bill for sitting thru 3/4 of that horrid mess!! The movie sucks !! worse than the Batman send up of the 70s
Well due some suggestions.
Pick better source material GH was a reimagining of the Lone Ranger and it's TV show only lasted a season and it's only redeeming value was Bruce Lee.
If you're going to do an update, don't make the hero into a douche. You play a guy who's basically Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne but without the intelligence or ability to take control over his own life. The whole thing is that his assistant does EVERYTHING while he just sucks up the glory. Kato is the hero, the GH is just a bare-competent sidekick.
The car out-acted you. Not a good sign.
Stick to what you know. Be the dopey buddy who makes the real heroes look good.
Shave before going out in public!