Green Hornet in 3d
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:52 am
So it's a comic book movie about a comic book I never heard of or read, and a TV series I never heard of or read but I heard that Bruce Lee was in the TV series. It stars Seth Rogen (Pinapple Express, etc) who lost weight and stuff and an asian pop star dude. Also has the guy from Inglorious Bastards who played the jew hunter.
So the movie is about the rich son of a guy who dies and then uses all his dads money and power to be a crime fighter with the help of his Asian friend who does all the work and knows kung fu. The movie is a comedy and plays with all the cliches from super hero movies. It has some funny stuff but nothing you would really laugh out loud at but might smirk a bit and say "that's cute". The Asian dude has some type of power that he can see weapons like a terminator and slow down time to a crawl to the point I can't tell if they are trying to be serious or be funny. The action is done fairly well and doesn't have tons of shaky cam and I believe it has a lot to do with the experience of the director.
My theory is that inexperienced action directors make better action movies is because they don't completely understand the work that goes into making a good action scene so they do what they think is the most logical which results in a steady camera and better angles. Experienced directors get lazy and realize how much work it is to do good action scenes so decide to just shake the camera really hard and call it a day.
Overall the movie was better than I thought it was going to be but not enough to openly recommend it to people. If you have spare time and nothing else to see, it's not a bad movie. The 3d is useless as always but there were more 3d times listed than 2d and also 3d in none imax screen is actually a bit better because you get much better quality glasses.
I suspect many people probably hate Seth Rogen, I can just tell he is one of those types that people can really hate like some other comedians.
So the movie is about the rich son of a guy who dies and then uses all his dads money and power to be a crime fighter with the help of his Asian friend who does all the work and knows kung fu. The movie is a comedy and plays with all the cliches from super hero movies. It has some funny stuff but nothing you would really laugh out loud at but might smirk a bit and say "that's cute". The Asian dude has some type of power that he can see weapons like a terminator and slow down time to a crawl to the point I can't tell if they are trying to be serious or be funny. The action is done fairly well and doesn't have tons of shaky cam and I believe it has a lot to do with the experience of the director.
My theory is that inexperienced action directors make better action movies is because they don't completely understand the work that goes into making a good action scene so they do what they think is the most logical which results in a steady camera and better angles. Experienced directors get lazy and realize how much work it is to do good action scenes so decide to just shake the camera really hard and call it a day.
Overall the movie was better than I thought it was going to be but not enough to openly recommend it to people. If you have spare time and nothing else to see, it's not a bad movie. The 3d is useless as always but there were more 3d times listed than 2d and also 3d in none imax screen is actually a bit better because you get much better quality glasses.
I suspect many people probably hate Seth Rogen, I can just tell he is one of those types that people can really hate like some other comedians.