Seems like everyone has faith in the film...

i'm still trying to figure out why they picked seth rogen....it's like but he a chubby funny stoner guy! him=green hornet (shakes head)
i mean don't get me wrong the guys is loosing weight and working out (saw him in an interview)...but still...

@NagolNuff: 

Rogen... Hmmmmm... Let think again, Seth Rogen... Hmmmmm... I'll be thinking about this one for a l-o-n-g time!

I never thought it would see the screen

I can't wait to see this. I don't care if there's no good action, it will be funny and not the Spiderman 3 kind of funny.

@Babs 
I am right there with ya Babs. Looks like the people who matter (the fans) AGAIN disagree with the gigantic hollywood producers who obviously do not have their fingers on the pulse of what we really want to see.

I don't see why everyone thinks its going to be a comedy just because Seth Rogen is going to be in it. The reason why Stephen Chow isn't on anymore is because he was going to turn it into a comedy. I don't see why people can't understand that MAYBE JUST MAYBE a comedy actor wants to do a serious superhero/action role.
 
In fact, the only name attached that I'm worried about is Nicolas Cage, since his movies haven't exactly been good for the past 20 years.
 
Yeah, I'm still skeptical (despite being a huge Gondry fan) but lets at least give them enough time for a trailer before we show up with the picket signs.

Hmmm..... Not excited but will probably be forced to see it with friends who love Rogen and dont care about GH

Michel Gondry gives me faith in this film. 

Passing on this one, as I've said all along.  Seth Rogen +Green Hornet+ disaster.

I think if Rogen really is determined to make this good, he will.... and if his weight is the problem....
 

I would of given this role to Pierce Bronson (If he'd be willing to get back in-shape for it.) With Jet Li as Kato. Green Hornet deserves more that just a spoof staring some fat slob. 

Who knows this film could surprise us all.  Remeber how many people were pissed they picked Ledger to play the Joker.  Can't be any worse than some of the other  comic movies out there.

" I don't see why everyone thinks its going to be a comedy just because Seth Rogen is going to be in it. The reason why Stephen Chow isn't on anymore is because he was going to turn it into a comedy. I don't see why people can't understand that MAYBE JUST MAYBE a comedy actor wants to do a serious superhero/action role.  In fact, the only name attached that I'm worried about is Nicolas Cage, since his movies haven't exactly been good for the past 20 years.  Yeah, I'm still skeptical (despite being a huge Gondry fan) but lets at least give them enough time for a trailer before we show up with the picket signs. "

Well GH isn't really a superhero so much as a vigilante (It's a fine line aI guess) But I have no doubts this will turn out to be a fun film that will at the very least be enjoyable. I'm kinda shocked to see so many people saying how they hate the fact they're going to ruin GH, when most of these people saying this have admitted   

(A) They've never seen any before that was GH  
(B) They don't no anything about GH  
(C) I keep hearing they don;t like the approach Seth is taking. Well Seth is a big GH fan, don;t you think he would try and do it justice?  
  
GH isn't some ripped cut up guy, he's a ticked off PI type  vigilante with a ninja side kick. I have no reason to believe they'll screw this up. The nay sayer beg cry and moan because comic fans don't make these films, they let Hollywood ruin the franchises. Well here we have a true fanboy making the film and all everyone can do is cry about it. Yet again proving No one will ever make the fanboys (even the ones who know nothing about the subject matter and just want the whine) happy. 

You know what this makes me think of? I remember that Ben Stiller movie version of  Starsky and Hutch. Where they took an old TV drama and turned it into a satirical comedy. This is one of the problems of having a mega popular actor. They just want to make movies to attach a name like Seth Rogen to.

" @FoxxFireArt: Do you think they'll do that? That's not what they've said they're doing.  "

"I am with you Babs. I have NO faith in this movie whatsoever.  I will avoid this movie like the plague. JUST like I've done with the Catwoman movie. I refuse to watch it. "

" @jefprice said:

" @FoxxFireArt: Do you think they'll do that? That's not what they've said they're doing.  "

Well, Seth Rogen is primarily a comedian. What's the point of putting a comedian in your primary lead role if you aren't aiming for a funny movie. This could probably end up being like his movie Pineapple Express. It sort of had action elements, but was still a comedy. "

 @jefprice:
I really don't think you want to use Ashton Kutcher or Keanu Reeves as an example of cross over comedians. Doesn't speak to quality.
 
They are taking what is generally known as a camp 60s show and they cast the role of comedian who's more famous for 'stoner' comedy roles. Nothing about that mixture says serious.

Seth Rogan takes a big CRAP on media. All he does is add unnecessary vulgarity to films. His stuff would be better if it weren't all about getting stoned, wasted, laid, or saying the F word as many times as you could.

 I have some faith in this movie and  Rogen but if they f**k this up then i'm done with both of them.    

"  @jefprice: I really don't think you want to use Ashton Kutcher or Keanu Reeves as an example of cross over comedians. Doesn't speak to quality. They are taking what is generally known as a camp 60s show and they cast the role of comedian who's more famous for 'stoner' comedy roles. Nothing about that mixture says serious. "

Keanue Reeves is a notoriously bad actor who can hardly emote to same his own life. The first Matrix was entertaining, but they quickly became silly SFX shows.
Kutcher has done several moderately successful to failed comedies and pretty much only one drama movie that hardly broke even.
 
Whether Seth Rogen is a fan or not doesn't mean he will take the movie as a serious action movie. Most likely Seth will play this role the way he has in every one of his movies. Hes going to be the fumbly ever-man who keeps messing up and needs to be saved by his Kato. They will most likely be trying to put a comedic twist on everything in this movie. Especially when you consider that Seth Rogen and his co-writer for this movie have done nothing but comedy based movies in the past.

Well, I was thinking, let's say, Ben Affleck, Ashton Kutcher, Keanu Reeves or Josh Hartnett as GH. 
 
And, let us speculate, John Cho, Mark Dacascos, Jet Li or Tony Jaa as Kato. 
 
In the nineties you heard the idea of Alec Baldwin or Val Kilmer as GH, and Brandon Lee or Jason Scott Lee as Kato. 
 
In the eighties, Christopher Reeve or Sam Jones as GH, and John Lone or Dennis Dun as Kato, were mentioned. 
 
I have seen nothing of the work of Seth Rogen, but what I hear isn't always flattering. 
 
 
 

you people need to relax, there isn't even a trailer out and people are saying they're not going to watch it!! Who cares if Seth Rogen doesn't fit the stereo-typical role, he's a great writer and actor. Whether this be a comedy or otherwise, I have faith he'll make it work. k?...K!

"I think if Rogen really is determined to make this good, he will.... and if his weight is the problem....
 

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" @Constantine said:

"I think if Rogen really is determined to make this good, he will.... and if his weight is the problem....
 

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Seth Rogen can't hold a candle to Eric Bana.  "

People need to give Rogen a chance.  Dood is a professed comic book freak, so I doubt he's going to screw up something he loves.  Instead of Rogen as Green Hornet, I think people should really be worried with Michel Gondry directing.  That dood has a very indie style to his work, and I just don't know about something like Green Hornet in his hands. 
 
Also, Babs...Rogen did a bit of working out for this role.  He's taking it as seriously as anyone would want him to.  I'm kind of saddened in your lack of faith in a comic book fan to do a good job with the movie and/or role based simply on his body.  I mean, how would you like it if you wore a superhero outfit and someone started talking trash about your body in that suit?  =  / 
 
The dood may have only done comedic roles up to this point, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the chops for other stuff.  I'm willing to give him a shot at this.  

they must have him getting in shape if he wants to be taken seriously

Sounds a little too early to pass judgment

=(

" Who knows this film could surprise us all.  Remeber how many people were pissed they picked Ledger to play the Joker.  Can't be any worse than some of the other  comic movies out there. "