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Anyone actually excited to watch this movie? I know I am!

Early reviews have been pretty positive.

Yeah, that's what I've been hearing too, man. The trailer kind of underwhelmed me, but I think I might give it a theatre go.

Yeeees, I'm excited! I'm gonna go with Jake, and hopefully his brother and sister-in-law too!

Hell no, Seth Rogan is an absolute atrocity of an actor.

Jiarn said:

Hell no, Seth Rogan is an absolute atrocity of an actor.

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As is Jay Chou. That guy used a grand total of two expressions in Curse of the Golden Flower: poker face, and slightly different poker face.

On the other hand though, Christoph Waltz!

I can stand Rogan, he just has that everyman quality with decent comedic timing.
For Chou... I thought bad-asses did not have to act.

So you like Rogan because he's the Hollywood equivelant of Ron Jeremy?

I don't know, I never saw "...Sarah Marshall"

Yeah, I've heard almost nothing but good things about this despite the trailer looking like crap. Looking forward to seeing it.

This might actually be good in the face of some many factors of suck. The movie itself has had an interesting history leading up to production.

I'm excited. Should be fun.

sixpackshaker said:

I don't know, I never saw "...Sarah Marshall"

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He was not in that movie at all?

Gotta say, I did not expect them to be bringing back this particular kind of character from this particular time period any time soon.

Should be interesting.

The Lovely Boehner said:

He was not in that movie at all?

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Charles, are you asking us or telling us?

He wasn't in that movie... I was confused. I didn't know if they were just misnaming another apatow-ish movie, you know, since they're all the same, right?

I've known people to mix em up.

Well, shit.

The January release date of a super hero action flick told me all I needed to know about the quality of this flick months ago.

I'm gonna go see it Monday between classes.

Yeah, it's NOT a super hero action flick. It's a Charlies Angels without the awesome.

Early reviews are in and they are bad, bad, bad.

Shocked, totally and completely shocked by this news. -eyeroll-

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Well, shit.

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Oh, well. At least we got another sweet Ebert burn.

I caught it and I rather enjoyed it. It had a few really funny moments, the leads are likeable and the action was exciting. Better than it really had any right to be.

My wife and I watched it last Friday. It was funny as heck.

sure it didn't quite follow the old storyline. I just think of it as a new story line with comedy.

TheBrew said:

I caught it and I rather enjoyed it. It had a few really funny moments, the leads are likeable and the action was exciting. Better than it really had any right to be.

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There never has, and never will be anything likeable about Seth Rogan.

Chibibar said:

My wife and I watched it last Friday. It was funny as heck.

sure it didn't quite follow the old storyline. I just think of it as a new story line with comedy.

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I still dont' get what the point is of using names of something, if you're just going to create something completely different. It lessens the film in alot of ways it doesn't need to be brought down on.

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I still dont' get what the point is of using names of something, if you're just going to create something completely different. It lessens the film in alot of ways it doesn't need to be brought down on.

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Because if all the ever did was repeat the old story there would be no reason to make a new movie. It's about updating and having a fresh view of the material

Green Hornet is just The Lone Ranger set in 1930's-40's Los Angeles. He was even a great nephew of the Lone Ranger.

White Horse->Black Car
Peacemaker with Silver Bullets->Gas Gun
Indian Scout->Japanese Valet (until WWII then he turned Filipino.)

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Because if all the ever did was repeat the old story there would be no reason to make a new movie. It's about updating and having a fresh view of the material

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Except they don't do that. They create a movie, use a couple names here and there so they can call it "a remake" but they completely gut out the entire original content that it might as well be a completely new IP all together.

Jiarn said:

Except they don't do that. They create a movie, use a couple names here and there so they can call it "a remake" but they completely gut out the entire original content that it might as well be a completely new IP all together.

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How so? Guy inherits paper from his father, fights crime in a pimped out car armed to the teeth, has an asian combat expert as a driver and is wanted by the police. They got the important stuff right.

Saw it this evening (on a date!) and we both enjoyed it. I dunno what people were expecting but it was funny, had decent action and all tied together well.

I liked it. The characters were likable, the action was decent, and the story was somewhat compelling. Not bad, all in all.

IronBrig4 said:

I liked it. The characters were likable, the action was decent, and the story was somewhat compelling. Not bad, all in all.

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Not for nothing, but while I enjoyed the flick, Britt Reid was NOT likable.

Saw it last night. I gotta say, this was a lot better than I ever expected it to be. While it's not an exact retelling and some elements were exaggerated, it's still a very funny movie that captured the spirit of the show/comics quite impressively.

It's obviously a comedy, so complaining about it not being faithful enough to the comics/old show because of the humour is rather pointless. You should have complained once Seth Rogen became involved...

For what it was it was a fine and funny film...

@Li3n said:

You should have complained once Seth Rogen became involved..

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Jiarn said:

Hell no, Seth Rogan is an absolute atrocity of an actor.

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Jiarn said:

@Li3n said:

You should have complained once Seth Rogen became involved..

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Jiarn said:

Hell no, Seth Rogan is an absolute atrocity of an actor.

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Hahaha... i love how you imply he's actually acting... dude is just being himself. Sometimes that's funny...

God, that was a bad movie. It was just a train wreck. Dont get me wrong, it had funny moments but everything just seemed cobbled together. It went every which way it could, except in the direction of a good, coherent movie. Like I said, just a few moments, and the rest of it was a train wreck start to finish.

Frankly i was expecting way worse myself...