I . . . really liked something that Seth Rogen did?
Friends, I just watched The Green Hornet, and I have to say that I really really liked it! Even though it had to make about six sexual harassment jokes that I did not like! I have always considered Seth Rogen to be kind of a douche, but the great thing about this movie is that he is a TOTAL douche and I'm meant to think so and laugh at him and make googly-eyes at Kato and so I feel vindicated and satisfied.
It was like, this guy is a total yuppie asshole! with no skills or likeability! and then Kato tells him that he's a total yuppie asshole with no skills or likeability, and he's right, and it's very satisfying. Kato is TOTALLY AMAZING, and obviously putting up with this guy because he (Kato) is kind of a lonely genius and finds him (Britt) amusing and strange, and I really love that. I love that Britt, and everyone else in this film, is just hilariously real and mundane - like, Kato's sort of petty (I loved his resume SO MUCH) and Lenore is like OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO YOU ARE RIDICULOUS and the supervillian is just a dude going through a midlife crisis . . . it really feels like what life would ACTUALLY be like if there were superheroes and supervillains and masked vigilantism and so forth. It had that Mystery Men vibe to it, where it's funny and sometimes pathetic and the heroes are regular joes but you really want them to succeed at fighting crime anyway. I adore the scene at the end, when Britt and Kato show up at Lenore's, and she's like, wtf, and they're like, "we didn't know what we were doing! I have a superhero fetish and Kato is an asskicking genius who was just really bored! You're the mastermind" I feel like the movie uses the Green Hornet to say, "c'mon, if Batman were real, he's be some yuppie douche with hilarious daddy issues," probably because Batman is a yuppie douche with hilarious daddy issues.
The whole thing was competely meta, and I'm so down with a sequel where Lenore has stepped fully into her mastermind role (love love love the ending!) and Britt continues to be happily bossed around by Kato and Lenore both. I love that they love their costumes and how cool they look and how cool their car is and how great it is to be heroes. And I love that in the end it's Kato and Lenore who teach Britt how to actually do something useful with his power and money by a) kicking ass (Kato) and b) taking names (Lenore). He's still a douchebag at the end, but I don't despise him anymore because by then he's just a loser trying to do something good. I think one of the reasons I ended up liking his character is that Kato is really the POV character - for me, anyway, it's his perspective on Britt that carries the movie - and Kato has a sort of bizarre affection for Britt, so I couldn't really resist by the end. Kato told me to like him!
Anyway, I thought it was great! Some of the classic Rogen-style jokes about lolz racism or lolz sexual harrassment were annoying, but overall I was charmed. I was especially charmed at Lenore's bit at the end about how she doesn't kiss either of them (maybe you kiss each other, but I don't kiss you) and Britt not actually saving Kato from Bloodnofsky, even though he's starting to be a better superhero. AW. I don't know. Charmed is what I am.
I would now like to be directed to the slash, please. Especially if Lenore masterminds what Kato and Britt do in bed.
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It was like, this guy is a total yuppie asshole! with no skills or likeability! and then Kato tells him that he's a total yuppie asshole with no skills or likeability, and he's right, and it's very satisfying. Kato is TOTALLY AMAZING, and obviously putting up with this guy because he (Kato) is kind of a lonely genius and finds him (Britt) amusing and strange, and I really love that. I love that Britt, and everyone else in this film, is just hilariously real and mundane - like, Kato's sort of petty (I loved his resume SO MUCH) and Lenore is like OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO YOU ARE RIDICULOUS and the supervillian is just a dude going through a midlife crisis . . . it really feels like what life would ACTUALLY be like if there were superheroes and supervillains and masked vigilantism and so forth. It had that Mystery Men vibe to it, where it's funny and sometimes pathetic and the heroes are regular joes but you really want them to succeed at fighting crime anyway. I adore the scene at the end, when Britt and Kato show up at Lenore's, and she's like, wtf, and they're like, "we didn't know what we were doing! I have a superhero fetish and Kato is an asskicking genius who was just really bored! You're the mastermind" I feel like the movie uses the Green Hornet to say, "c'mon, if Batman were real, he's be some yuppie douche with hilarious daddy issues," probably because Batman is a yuppie douche with hilarious daddy issues.
The whole thing was competely meta, and I'm so down with a sequel where Lenore has stepped fully into her mastermind role (love love love the ending!) and Britt continues to be happily bossed around by Kato and Lenore both. I love that they love their costumes and how cool they look and how cool their car is and how great it is to be heroes. And I love that in the end it's Kato and Lenore who teach Britt how to actually do something useful with his power and money by a) kicking ass (Kato) and b) taking names (Lenore). He's still a douchebag at the end, but I don't despise him anymore because by then he's just a loser trying to do something good. I think one of the reasons I ended up liking his character is that Kato is really the POV character - for me, anyway, it's his perspective on Britt that carries the movie - and Kato has a sort of bizarre affection for Britt, so I couldn't really resist by the end. Kato told me to like him!
Anyway, I thought it was great! Some of the classic Rogen-style jokes about lolz racism or lolz sexual harrassment were annoying, but overall I was charmed. I was especially charmed at Lenore's bit at the end about how she doesn't kiss either of them (maybe you kiss each other, but I don't kiss you) and Britt not actually saving Kato from Bloodnofsky, even though he's starting to be a better superhero. AW. I don't know. Charmed is what I am.
I would now like to be directed to the slash, please. Especially if Lenore masterminds what Kato and Britt do in bed.
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