Glory ,'Potential'
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We saw trailers for Green Lantern, Green Hornet and Cowboys and Aliens. All of which looked pretty good.
I have to say Green Hornet looked pretty fun. Rogen's obviously in the best shape of his life and they make it clear he needs a weapon because he doesn't know how to fight.
Green Hornet is Gondry? I'm so there.
Green Hornet traitors.
Sorry, ita. I think this gamble is going to pay off mostly because there aren't that many people who are really invested in the original. It looks good to me, too. Half Iron Man, half The Tick.
I'm not even sure what ita means. Apart from Bruce Lee, what legacy is there in Green Hornet?
What, no love for Van Johnson?
Wrong Van there, Matt.
It has two previous iterations, in neither of which was the Hornet an idiot and the fight scenes were good on the TV show. I find this new incarnation deeply irritating. I can't wait until I'm no longer presented with the promotional material.
From a Guardian interview I see that Scorsese's next movie will be a 3-D version of...
Yet now he is confounding expectations with an adaptation of Brian Selznick's child-friendly "historical fiction" book The Invention of Hugo Cabret – his first film to be made in 3D. Hugo Cabret has been described by Selznick as "not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel or a flip book, but a combination of all these things". Will Scorsese's film, which reteams him with Aviator screenwriter John Logan and features (among others) Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee, Ray Winstone and Sacha Baron Cohen, be as hard to categorise? It certainly seems so. Set in Paris in the 1920s, the tale centres on a 12-year-old "orphan, clock-keeper and thief" who "lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity". An encounter with an eccentric girl and the owner of small toy kiosk in the train station sets in motion a mysterious adventure involving a stolen key, a treasured notebook, and an enigmatic mechanical man (or "automaton") – with the real-life figure of cinematic pioneer Georges Méliès providing the crucial link between inventive fantasy and historical fact.
OK, I was not prepared to see Chris Pine in makeup, a red dress, and a black pageboy wig dancing around with Diane Keaton in Surrender Dorothy. But now that I have, I suspect Unstoppable is going to be much more entertaining than it would have been had I seen it first.