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That's really cool. Good that they snatched up Gavin!
I'll miss you, Seth Rogen.
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You mean the director is a Promoted Fanboy of The Green Hornet. Ascended Fanboy is for fiction examples, Promoted is real-life.
This is a title.
Blue Morpho > Green Hornet.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Fixed it. Thanks.
Someone's watched The Venture Bros. 
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Sounds good, I loved the TV series from the 60s I watched reruns when I was younger.
I wish it was from WB only because DC did a crossover between Batman '66 and Green Hornet a few years ago.
It would've been cool to see a modern crossover.
edited 15th Nov '16 1:30:33 PM by Halberdier17
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
I know it's been part of the Green Hornet's schtick that the law and the underworld alike think he's a crook, but do they ever explain why it has to be that way? Is there a compelling reason, other than novelty, why he needs to be thought of as a crook? I'm not dissing the idea, or advocating a change, I'm just curious.
That all you got?
So the first Green Hornet movie actually wasn't a Marvel movie?
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.
This is a title.
It was made by Columbia.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
I watched some of the television series, and from my understanding it's basically a double agent thing: take down the criminals by pretending to be one of their own.
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For what's it worth, I actually liked the Seth Rogen-Jay Chou movie.
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Same here. It was a pretty fun and funny movie, with a great villain.
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko
That all you got?
Shame the protagonist was a scumbag.
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.
The thing was that the movie was right on the verge of being a Film/{{21 Jump Street}}-esque movie, even predating it. It was not quite a straight parody of the source material but was very much a comedy made even funnier in that it is based on a more serious source material. The 80's Dragnet was similar. But Green Hornet didn't quite commit to being a comedy and still had one foot in trying to be a straight superhero adaptation.
Some nights I rule the world...
Worth noting, The Green Hornet started as a 1930s radio show, and actually predates most (all?) comic book superheroes.
I...really didn't like the mindset of the film. Basically, it seems to be based on the idea that since Kato did all the fighting, he was the real superhero. But that's not how it worked at all; it's a brain and brawn setup, like if Batman were two separate characters, one the genius detective, the other the master of punching things (mind, the punching things part was introduced in the TV series because Kato was played by Bruce Lee).
It really struck me how in the Seth Rogen movie, Green Hornet rides shotgun, instead of the backseat like the previous versions. It just reads...fratboy to me, while the backseat gives more the air of a VIP, which you'd expect since the Green Hornet's schitck is that he masquerades as a criminal mastermind.
That said, it'd be really cool if the new movie were a period piece. A lot of details about the mythos make a lot more sense in its historic context, and don't really translate well to modern day.
"If you're out here why do I miss you so much?"
I'll be happy if they give a shout-out to the fact that The Green Hornet is the Lone Ranger's great-grand nephew (both were created by writer Francis Striker, who also created Sgt. Preston of the Yukon).
edited 16th Jan '17 12:12:25 PM by Robbery
Yeah it was a fun movie that was killed by the Indecisive Parody aspect. It could be really funny at times and then they'd try to do something serious and dramatic, and it just felt jarring.
Much like The Lone Ranger, funnily enough.
I enjoyed both movies, but they're both massively flawed in ways that often run curiously parallel.
Nah, the Lone Ranger is just awful.
Mostly because of the whitewashing.
That's pretty much my assessment of it as well. I put both The Green Hornet and The Lone Ranger in the same category as The Rocketeer, The Phantom, and The Shadow as super-hero (ish) films that I find pretty entertaining but have to admit are flawed.
I do agree, Tonto should have been played by...well, any actual Native American actor you wanted to cast in the role (Johnny Depp apparently has just enough Native American blood to get past the Screen Actor's Guild rules about such things—rules that, interestingly enough, were initiated by Jay Silverheels, Tonto on the Lone Ranger tv show).
edited 17th Jan '17 8:09:57 AM by Robbery
The Green Hornet will return...but not through Sony.
Yes, this time around, it'll be from Paramount Pictures and Chernin Entertainment.
And it be directed by The Accountant's Gavin O'Conner and will write it with Sean O'Keefe.
The good news (at least for anyone who didn't like the last Green Hornet movie) is that it won't be like the Seth Rogen movie, tonally speaking.
The even more good news is that the director is evidently an Promoted Fanboy of The Green Hornet:
edited 15th Nov '16 1:23:17 PM by TargetmasterJoe