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If this Green Hornet movie is going to happen, Seth Green is going to have to put the stoner comedy to the side for a bit. I'm perfectly happy with Green Hornet being a comedy, but for f*ck sakes, raise your game a little bit sometimes.
I love Stephen Chow, but why all the Rogen hate? 40 Year Old Virgin, Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks were great, Superbad was good and even Knocked Up was cute and funny. Sure, this doesn't necessarily translate to good directing skills, but I'd at least want to be cautiously optimistic. Rogen seems to be the latest in the "he's popular now, so let's hate him" fad that Will Ferrell sort of fell into.
@zegota: I think it's a difference of opinion. There are those of us who feel that:
Freaks and Geeks was great in spite of Rogan.
Undeclared was good regardless of Rogan.
40 YOV was great because of Steve Carell and Paul Rudd.
Knocked Up was a miserable experience.
And I never saw Superbad.
And then you add in Drillbit Taylor, etc.?
Is he a perfectly serviceable role player? Sure. Should he be carrying movies?
No, not so much.
Not to mention that I think most of the above analysis equally applies to Judd Apatow, who has become synonymous with Rogan in many people's minds, and who has become increasingly intolerable as time passes and his movies get more and more sneakily moralistic.
05/07/09
cant he stick to tv where his acting style doesn't jar as badly as it does in movies?
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I found shaun of the dead to be "dead" predictable .
Hot fuzz just to be stupid and not in a "zany funny" way
frost again plays his stupid fat oaf ish side kick like in real life but i just could like em in these films
Amazingly i loved spaced and have the worn out dvds
to prove it
05/07/09
"I found shaun of the dead to be "dead" predictable ."
Hmm, nope. This doesn't work.
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Freaks and Geeks was great in spite of Rogan.
Undeclared was good regardless of Rogan.
40 YOV was great because of Steve Carell and Paul Rudd.
Knocked Up was a miserable experience.
And I never saw Superbad.
And then you add in Drillbit Taylor, etc.?
Is he a perfectly serviceable role player? Sure. Should he be carrying movies?
No, not so much.
Not to mention that I think most of the above analysis equally applies to Judd Apatow, who has become synonymous with Rogan in many people's minds, and who has become increasingly intolerable as time passes and his movies get more and more sneakily moralistic.
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