Green Hornet is Gondry? I'm so there.
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Frankenbuddha - Nov 21, 2010 5:46:25 am PST #12159 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2010 7:26:15 am PST #12160 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Green Hornet traitors.
Gris - Nov 21, 2010 8:10:15 am PST #12161 of 30000
Hey. New board.
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.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 21, 2010 8:13:31 am PST #12162 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm not even sure what ita means. Apart from Bruce Lee, what legacy is there in Green Hornet?
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 21, 2010 8:20:26 am PST #12163 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What, no love for Van Johnson?
Frankenbuddha - Nov 21, 2010 8:40:58 am PST #12164 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wrong Van there, Matt.
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2010 8:45:24 am PST #12165 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
DavidS - Nov 21, 2010 1:49:49 pm PST #12166 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 21, 2010 2:10:56 pm PST #12167 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
Tom Scola - Nov 21, 2010 2:12:23 pm PST #12168 of 30000
hwæt
I'm going to go on the record and say, FUCK 3D.