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    Kato Grimaces Promisingly In First Green Hornet Pics

    A New Kato and Edward James Olmos Join the Green Hornet Cast

    The Green Hornet May Have Its Kato

    What Does a Villainous Nic Cage Mean for the Green Hornet?

    Will Seth Rogen Make You Care About The Green Hornet?

    Green Hornet Wasn't Always a Paunchy Jewish Canadian
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    Image of Dedpool3678 Dedpool3678
    09/08/09

    In reply to Kato Grimaces Promisingly In First Green Hornet Pics
    Kato's stunt double. Dude playing Kato is a pretty boy and that aint him. I'm not looking forward to this at all simply because it's NOT being taken seriously. Seth Rogen should NOT be playing the character.
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    09/08/09

    @Dedpool3678: No wonder, a stunt double! Thanks, that makes a lot more sense. I was wondering what the heck happened to Jay Chou's face.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    09/08/09

    @Dedpool3678: Damn, that looked like a younger Bolo Young.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    09/08/09

    In reply to Kato Grimaces Promisingly In First Green Hornet Pics
    Whaaaaaat??? Michael Keaton as Batman? Noooooooooooooo. (tons of sarcasm).

    It might suck. It might not suck. I'm probably seeing it regardless.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/08/09

    In reply to Kato Grimaces Promisingly In First Green Hornet Pics
    Yeah that inoffensive looking Asian man in a generic chauffeur's outfit is awesome...in just the same way stale bread isn't.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/08/09

    In reply to Kato Grimaces Promisingly In First Green Hornet Pics
    It's a Disaster.
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/08/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I smell an upcoming feature.
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    Image of jbq jbq
    09/08/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I feel totally cheated that Labor Day left us without our weekly Disaster. No wait, THAT was a Disaster... Is that good? Or bad?? Did you in fact travel back in time and move May Day so it would be a Disaster? I guess we'll never know. Better be twice the bayhem next Sunday, Garrison!
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/08/09

    @jbq: Sorry. I've been phenomenally busy with work work and life stuff. I'll get one to you all as soon as I can.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    09/08/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I totally hope so.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/08/09

    In reply to Kato Grimaces Promisingly In First Green Hornet Pics
    Seth Rogen reminds me of Yogi Bear.. He's smarter than your average bear.. and somehow that was enough to get him into movies...
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    Paul_Is_Drunk promoted this comment burlybax was starred burlybax was unstarred
    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    09/08/09

    @burlybax: That and his excellent work in Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared... and getting a working relationship with Jadd Apatow... getting a high viewer approval rating in 40 Year Old Virgin... then writing Superbad...

    You know what? Totally the Yogi thing.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/08/09

    In reply to Kato Grimaces Promisingly In First Green Hornet Pics
    Hmmmm. Only time will tell!
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    08/10/09

    In reply to A New Kato and Edward James Olmos Join the Green Hornet Cast
    *sigh* yadda, yadda, yadda Seth as the green hornet, really? Yadda, yadda, yadda etc, ad infinitum.
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    Image of Kenro199x Kenro199x
    08/10/09

    In reply to A New Kato and Edward James Olmos Join the Green Hornet Cast
    Jay Chou's stuff is ok. He's a pop star but at least he's popular in Hong Kong which is a plus for obvious reasons (a better casting choice than having Rain in the Enter the Dragon remake IMO) I think he'll do a good enough job.
    On screen he's not very Charismatic. Shame Stephen Chow isn't doing this since he's a massive Bruce fan (he was the president of the Bruce Lee fan club in HK) and it would be akin to a dream roll for him. I guess he has his reasons.
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    MISS MERCY STREET promoted this comment Kenro199x was starred Kenro199x was unstarred
    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    08/10/09

    In reply to A New Kato and Edward James Olmos Join the Green Hornet Cast
    I'm sure the new Zhou will do a fine job, but I think I have to boycott this movie since the loss of Stephen Chow. Chow is a comedic martial arts genius. Without him, I don't think I can otherwise stand to see another Seth Rogen movie.
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    kagekiri promoted this comment Anekanta - Go Play! was starred Anekanta - Go Play! was unstarred
    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    08/10/09

    @Anekanta: I'm actually unsure about Jay Chou. I was pretty annoyed by him in Kung Fu Dunk and Initial D. I mean, maybe it's just the script/director (Kung Fu Dunk hurt me with it's terrible transitions, absolute lack of pacing, ridiculously stereotyped storyline, lack of sensible character relationships or development, gah that was utter tripe), but he was...boring.

    Stephen Chow, on the other hand, has made plenty of movies that have similarly odd pacing or sheer weirdness, but he's amusing in all of them that I've seen. I don't know what it takes to be Kato (somehow what I've read seems to imply he's more the straight man in any comedic elements), but at least Chow is interesting.
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    Edited by kagekiri at 08/10/09 11:22 AM kagekiri was starred kagekiri was unstarred
    Image of BrockBrockman BrockBrockman
    08/10/09

    In reply to A New Kato and Edward James Olmos Join the Green Hornet Cast
    Which one was he in The Curse of the Godlen Flower?
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment BrockBrockman was starred BrockBrockman was unstarred
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    08/10/09


    @BrockBrockman: Prince Jai, the younger son. Jay Zhou is more known as a popstar than an actor but he'll probably do a good job.
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    Edited by Grey_Area at 08/10/09 10:42 AM Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/27/09

    In reply to The Green Hornet May Have Its Kato
    It'd be nice to have someone attractive to look at in this movie to counter the fugly that is Rogen.
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    Image of spikespeigel spikespeigel
    07/27/09

    In reply to The Green Hornet May Have Its Kato
    Stupid. Get Chow back, or else no one's gonna care about this movie. We watched Green Hornet for Bruce Lee, not whoever the other guy was. Same will hold true for the movie. Stephen Chow, not Seth Rogen.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment spikespeigel was starred spikespeigel was unstarred
    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    07/27/09

    In reply to The Green Hornet May Have Its Kato
    I think an accent makes for better characterization, actually. Not in a negative way, but having a strong, competent character with one is good for some of the fly-over state people that equate accents as something bad.
    I'm also glad they went for an unknown with potential over the same three Asian actors who are cast for big studio pictures (e.g., Jackie Chan).
    Not the Ong Bok guy, but still, not bad, not bad.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    07/27/09

    In reply to The Green Hornet May Have Its Kato
    It sounds like there is too much emphasis on action-movie ability, which can be trained into an otherwise fit and graceful actor, and not enough on comic timing, which can't.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment The Curse of Millhaven was starred The Curse of Millhaven was unstarred
    Image of Plague Plague
    07/27/09

    In reply to The Green Hornet May Have Its Kato
    Volcano High was a good time
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    07/27/09

    @Plague: They have vaporizers in Korea?
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