One might even say confounded.
Is anyone else super puzzled by the new Green Hornet?
I like big silly movies, so long as they are clever, bad-good things in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, Raffles and The Three Muskateers. I love these things, but I love them on a very different level to, say, George Orwell's essays and movies like The King's Speech (everyone go see it). I love Wayward Cloud and Rio Bravo, you guys.
Anyway, Green Hornet. Comes out in January.
FACT: It's an action-comedy Blockbuster, directed by Michel Gondry, visual psychopath best known for time travelling music videos, hallucinatory love stories and redefining the term 'dream like'.
FACT: This film is based on a 1930's radio serial, a 1940's film serial and a 1960's tv show. The show is mostly remembered for being Bruce Lee's acting break, introducing kung fu to a nation of Saturday morning TV kids. The series set up a whole bunch of stereotypes that have passed into the cultural conciousness in such a way as to seem incredibly obvious, but were fairly original at the time (I say original, the Hornet/Kato relationship is simply another iteration of Don Quixote/Sancho Panza, rich crimefighting playboys can be traced back to Robon Hood).
FACT: It stars Seth Rogan (as in Pineapple Express/Knocked Up/Superbad Seth Rogan) as the titular crime fighting playboy. He also did the script with Evan Goldberg, the guy who co-wrote all those films.
FACT: Jay Chou, who appears to be a Taiwanese Mark Ronson who also acts, will be there as Kato, Bruce Lee's character, the master martial artist, valet and sidekick.
FACT: Christoph Waltz is the villain. Christoph "Au revoir, Shoshanna" Waltz. Christoph "I will always regret that he is not the Eleventh Doctor" Waltz. Christoph "Tarantino reckons if he hadn't found this guy he wouldn't have done Inglourious Basterds at all" Waltz. (Maybe not all of those things are things, as it were.)
Sometimes you can look at the people involved in a film and say, straight up, I'm having that. Such is the case with The Dark Knight, Inception and Tropic Thunder. The reverse is true, Knight and Day is an example. G.I. Joe is another.
But this? This is all over the goddamn place. Seth freaking Rogan. BEING SRS ACTOR. A bit. Michel goddamn Gondry. Directing a Seth Rogan penned script. Christoph "Oh, I'm only trilingual actually, it's a secret shame" Waltz (that's an actual thing he really said) in his American industry debut (IB doesn't count at all, Brad Pitt or no Brad Pitt). IDK IDK. It could be really really amazing and special and do something new, or it could be crap. I know! Let's look at a trailer! Most trailers give a vague indication of the quality of a film!
... nope, still puzzled. It really looks like it could go either way, unlike, say, Green Lantern. That is a trailer which looks rubbish, can't lie. (I might be bitter that it's not the Deadpool movie, but I'm pretty sure it's also rubbish, which is a pity because Ryan Reynolds has chops.)
What do you guys think? Is it gonna be Iron Man or X-Men?
But seriously, The King's Speech. That is beautifully done. It's so nice to see Helena Bonham Carter playing a character rather than a caricature, and Geoffrey Rush is always a pleasure. Guy Pearce and Michael Gambon are there!
Also, still looking for a beta for my Inception fic. It's got polyamoury, if that helps?
I like big silly movies, so long as they are clever, bad-good things in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, Raffles and The Three Muskateers. I love these things, but I love them on a very different level to, say, George Orwell's essays and movies like The King's Speech (everyone go see it). I love Wayward Cloud and Rio Bravo, you guys.
Anyway, Green Hornet. Comes out in January.
FACT: It's an action-comedy Blockbuster, directed by Michel Gondry, visual psychopath best known for time travelling music videos, hallucinatory love stories and redefining the term 'dream like'.
FACT: This film is based on a 1930's radio serial, a 1940's film serial and a 1960's tv show. The show is mostly remembered for being Bruce Lee's acting break, introducing kung fu to a nation of Saturday morning TV kids. The series set up a whole bunch of stereotypes that have passed into the cultural conciousness in such a way as to seem incredibly obvious, but were fairly original at the time (I say original, the Hornet/Kato relationship is simply another iteration of Don Quixote/Sancho Panza, rich crimefighting playboys can be traced back to Robon Hood).
FACT: It stars Seth Rogan (as in Pineapple Express/Knocked Up/Superbad Seth Rogan) as the titular crime fighting playboy. He also did the script with Evan Goldberg, the guy who co-wrote all those films.
FACT: Jay Chou, who appears to be a Taiwanese Mark Ronson who also acts, will be there as Kato, Bruce Lee's character, the master martial artist, valet and sidekick.
FACT: Christoph Waltz is the villain. Christoph "Au revoir, Shoshanna" Waltz. Christoph "I will always regret that he is not the Eleventh Doctor" Waltz. Christoph "Tarantino reckons if he hadn't found this guy he wouldn't have done Inglourious Basterds at all" Waltz. (Maybe not all of those things are things, as it were.)
Sometimes you can look at the people involved in a film and say, straight up, I'm having that. Such is the case with The Dark Knight, Inception and Tropic Thunder. The reverse is true, Knight and Day is an example. G.I. Joe is another.
But this? This is all over the goddamn place. Seth freaking Rogan. BEING SRS ACTOR. A bit. Michel goddamn Gondry. Directing a Seth Rogan penned script. Christoph "Oh, I'm only trilingual actually, it's a secret shame" Waltz (that's an actual thing he really said) in his American industry debut (IB doesn't count at all, Brad Pitt or no Brad Pitt). IDK IDK. It could be really really amazing and special and do something new, or it could be crap. I know! Let's look at a trailer! Most trailers give a vague indication of the quality of a film!
Click to view... nope, still puzzled. It really looks like it could go either way, unlike, say, Green Lantern. That is a trailer which looks rubbish, can't lie. (I might be bitter that it's not the Deadpool movie, but I'm pretty sure it's also rubbish, which is a pity because Ryan Reynolds has chops.)
What do you guys think? Is it gonna be Iron Man or X-Men?
But seriously, The King's Speech. That is beautifully done. It's so nice to see Helena Bonham Carter playing a character rather than a caricature, and Geoffrey Rush is always a pleasure. Guy Pearce and Michael Gambon are there!
Also, still looking for a beta for my Inception fic. It's got polyamoury, if that helps?