"Let's cast Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet" is just another way of saying "We know literally nothing about the Green Hornet."

"Nick Cage showed up to the meeting and told them he wanted to play the character with a Jamaican accent and prosthetic lips" Yep, that's Nick Cage

Seth Rogen as a The Green Hornet honestly sounded like one of those ideas people would joke about .

Nic Cage demanding to do a Jamaican accent with rubber rubs and leaving when they didn't go for it is the most glossed over detail ever. I want to know the whole story of this meeting

I remember watching this movie years ago. Gave me a few good laughs with the comedy and action. Still does, although it's practically forgotten.

I actually really like this movie. For some reason the comedy hits just right for me, but I've never seen the original series. It's just one of those movies I've seen about 5 times and still find new things to laugh at every time.

They never mentioned that The Green Hornet was the great nephew of the Lone Ranger. Both were invented by the same guy.

Wasn't it a trope that the 'sidekick' was more competent than the lead? It was like that in half of the radio dramas I know.

The real problem with the Green Hornet film was separating him from the hard-boiled pulp milieu from which he originated. You see the same problem in the comics when they try to "update" The Shadow, where he loses all of his flavour and mystique. Every time they've tried to take pulp-era characters and translate them into modern sensibilities, they've failed, whether it's Tarzan or John Carter. Pulp has a distinctive feel, grimy and brutal but also unashamedly corny. Remove the moody ambience of pulp, and you ruin the character.

“I wasn’t alive in 1989-“ *cries in OLD*

I'm Taiwanese, and I grew up with Jay Chou's songs. More about his movie career, I highly recommend his 2007 Taiwanese film "Secret" (不能說的祕密), it was his directorial debut, yet it's astonishingly great! He directed, wrote, acted as the lead, and sang the ending song.

That last scene, tho - Green Hornet 2 would have been so fun.

I remember watching it when I was younger and thinking it was hilarious and then I rewatched it relatively recently and it was still hilarious.

I really like the insecurities on display from the villain in this movie. Its really interesting from a psychological perspective and exemplifies the dependency that some villains have on their heroes in order to give themselves a sense of worth and identity. Legitimately makes the movie really enjoyable for me

And then, ironically, The Venture Bros did a fresh take on the Green Hornet better with the Monarch becoming the Blue Morpho.

The problem is that Seth Rogan was in it. He can’t carry a movie himself

Thought you were going to mention that at some point Kung Fu Hustle’s Stephen Chow was up for the role as Kato, and how different that movie would have been with him in it.

Bruce Lee would be very disappointed with this version of The Green Hornet.

I saw this with my mom and best friend on family day when we were graduating basic training and really liked it. It was probably just because we were happy to see a movie.

As a kid, I watched the Green Hornet repeatedly and enjoyed it (I make silly videos. Feel free to check them out)

Green Hornet..... I remember this film being marketed. Never had any desire to watch it however, so it quickly faded from memory. Thanks for reminding me it existed. Great video as usual!

Thanks for making this! The Green Hornet and the Shadow are two of my favorite radio classic heroes. I loved the Alec Baldwin movie and was hoping Hollywood would do a similar treatment for this as there is plenty of background story (Britt Reid being related to John Reid, the Lone Ranger). This was one of the first times an "expanded universe" was really a concept in pulp. The 2011 movie was a disaster with Kati and the Black Beauty being the best things about it. It shouldn't have been in a modern setting, but kept vintage (like the aforementioned Shadow). I'm really interested to see what David Koepp will do as The Shadow was a good/fun translation.

"I wasn't alive in 1989" way to make me feel old

Maybe the error was taking the comics written by Kevin Smith but taking the context out of it. The comic protagonists is Brit Reed Jr., son of the original Green Hornet, who graduated from high school with perfect grades and was a kickboxing champion, but after the death of his mother (Brit former secretary turned wife) lost interest in everything, until Brit is attacked by criminals and Brit Jr. is recruited by Kato to become the new GH along with the later's daughter.

This channel needs to do something on The Phantom

This movie did have a great premise: Heroes pretending to be villains, so the real villains believe things like taking hostages is pointless. Unfortunately, it was the only remarkable thing about the movie.

An unexpected and odd piece in Michel Gondry's filmography. But neither his flair, or Christoph Waltz's presence, could save it from being forgettable.

Perfect casting as Seth Rogen as "an incredibly unlikeable character with no redeeming qualities. "

I actually really like this film. It's fun and Seth Rogan is hilarious. The actor who plays Kato is great

I'm sure some other comments have hit this, but the Green Hornet's whole deal was that he pretended to be a VILLAIN, a major crime boss in town who fought other criminals while appearing to defend his own turf. By day, Britt Reid would publish scathing editorials in his newspaper of what a menace the Hornet was, and by night he and Kato would be out kicking ass. NOW Comics in the late 80s-early 90s ran some excellent story lines with both the Reid and Kato families- As you noted, Kato was a fascinating character, and the writers (Ron Fortier and several others) did some great stuff with his back story. Plus, Britt Reid was a descendant of the Lone Ranger, John Reid! How do you ruin the Lone Ra-- ...Never mind.

Man so glad someone made a video on this film, so much potential from some cool source material. It's a shame it didn't work out.

Let's be honest, We only watched the 1960's Green Hornet for Bruce Lee.

I still remember watching this, way back in 2011,in tv. my 9 years old mind was blown away by ideas (like that car having different types of weapons and being bulletproof) and visual effects. it was so hilarious and cool.

The green hornet walked so that Preacher/The Boys could run

Really liked this film. Even decent watching it now

"Britt Reid as shown in this film is an incredibly unlikable character with almost no redeeming qualities" .... so in other words he's Seth Rogen

Batman in 1989 was truly something else. This was a time well before the Internet brought us the ability to consume numerous movie trailers. The first thing that captured everyone's attention was the casting of Michael Keaton as a superhero. At that time he was only known as a comedy film actor and he was almost 40 years old. When it was announced he would play Batman in a dark live action film it surprised everyone and then Jack Nicholson was announced as the Joker and people were pretty excited because he was an iconic actor and the mix of him and Keaton was intriguing. Eventually the trailer began to run at theaters and people were hooked. I remember the first weekend it opened I went to the theater and the line was wrapped around the outside of the building. The line was so massive that I chose to leave. I lived in one of the most densely populated places in America but back in 1989 there weren't as many movie theaters and back then theaters had only one copy of a film so it wouldn't be until years later that studios would send out multiple copies so a theater could play a super popular film in multiple theaters to handle the demand. When you saw a film like 1989's Batman you had to wait in line and the theater was completely packed. That's what it was like when Tim Burton's Batman was released.

This is so weird bc I think about this movie way more often than I should

I love your videos, Cap. And I really like your use of the smooth jazz music. Makes for a relaxing view

I loved this film. However my son and I rewatched it recently, and oh boy… did it not age well. Also Jay Chou could have been an English language pop star. That man has so much charisma.

really liking how varied your content has been lately! Keep up the great work x

Congratulations on the puppy.

"I wasn't alive in 1989..." - Way to make me feel old!!

I genuinely watched this so many times in 8th grade. It was a favorite of my friends and I. It has no right being played so often in my house lol.

Oh man always happy when you post these even if I have no idea about what you're posting.

Really love all your videos man!

The other place Jay Cho stands out is as Storm Shadow in the GI Joe movies. Where he was one of the few elements that worked. I also kind of wish we had gotten Kevin Smith Green Hornet, even though he to sucks at directing action. He wrote the character for a number of modern comics and it was quite good. One of the other big flaws in this movie has to do with how the licenses get split up. Such that it separates the Green Hornet from his legacy and back story. In the original stories Britt Reid is the Grandson of Dan Reid. (Well probably great grandson in the modern era). The slain older brother of John Reid aka The Lone Ranger. Being the last living descendant of the Lone Ranger is a bit more character motivation than bored rich playboy.

I thought being Taiwanese and listening to Jay's songs for years made me biased when I found his character more interesting. I'm glad to find out there's some objective foundation to that preference 😅

Hey captain i'd love to see a video about the phantom. I really enjoy your videos.

I legitimately thought this movie was a fever dream until I saw this video

Remember when the stuntman Cliff Booth threw Bruce Lee into a car door on the set of The Green Hornet?

“Apparently, there’s another reboot in development,” When I heard that I went PLEASE! because the green hornet should get more irritations to polish up Reed and make his friendship with Kato be something to care about (which was my favorite aspect of the Seth Rogen movie).

Really enjoying your deep dives into failed superhero films like with last week’s Hancock video. Could you do a similar kind of video for Jupiter’s Legacy on Netflix?

My father, younger brother, and I watched "The Green Hornet" while it was in theaters. We *all* hated it! 😅

My dad had a cassette tape that had The Green Hornet theme song on repeat and we played it sometimes while driving. It was Amazing

I only just noticed, but when the cars flip @8:22 to reveal the Black Beauty, the red coupe opposite is a 1937 Lincoln Zephyr--the original crime-fighting car from the Green Hornet serials.

I actually really liked this film when I was younger. I might have to rewatch it and see how i feel as an adult.

oh my gosh congratulations on the sponsor it does looks good!!!

Before watching the video, I can tell you the easy answer. Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet was the failure.

I vaguely remember the trailer. Your puppy is adorable.

Congrats on the pup, Captain!!! ❤

I don't mind for this film for taking many liberties from the source material but they kept the core at least. I enjoyed Jay Chou's role as Kato. Seth Rogen is still funny.

There's a radio station that plays classic radio shows on Sunday. I've listened to a lot of Green Hornet and it was a really neat radio show.

Hey man, I love your videos. One SUGGESTION FOR FUTURE VIDEO, Please make a video on what went right with kungfu panda trilogy.

Great analysis...ty

If you notice the different costumeS that GH & Kato go through, they are taken from the cover of the comic books starting with just a yellow banda around the face and driving googles. Kato can’t swim is taken how the Kato are honor bound to the Reids, Brett is the great great grand nephew of the Lone Ranger.

Kind of irrelevant to the Green Hornet but when I watched this movie as a kid I watched for Jay Chou and had a good time with it despite knowfully it wasn't very good. He was super super big and was my favorite Taiwan pop-star. He also starred in some good movie too: Secret (his own directed movie) and "Curse of the Golden Flower" directed by Zhang Yimou . Other than that I remember him mostly for his song. All those movies has incredible soundtrack and his music videos also directed like a short movie as well.

I actually really loved this film as a kid for some reason. One of my favourite films.

I like this film. Its kind of like what would happen if batman was real. A guy who lost his parents and inherited a shit ton of money. Instead of going to a therapist, he fights crimes to workout his daddy issues. Using expensive gadgets and paying a guy to fight for him makes more sense in someone of his position. Also the main villan was hilarious. He doesn't have any personality, so he just uses an unique gun trying to look cool.

I've seen this movie and literally forgot it existed until a minute or two into this video

I'd love to hear you talk about the Rocketeer. That movie was really ahead of it's time.

Nic Cage: "I want the character to have nuance." Nic Cage: "I want to play him with a Jamaican accent and prosthetic lips."

Aww I really enjoyed that movie! It was so fun. And so silly. But I only remember it fondly.

I'm literally mind blown right now I specifically remember John Cho playing Kato. Mandela effect working it's magic.

I knew you would make a video on this movie at some point 😆

Mark my words, this will go on to become a cult favorite. When me and my buddies saw this, we loved it. I haven’t really met many people that saw it and didn’t like it. It’s a lot of fun, really funny, and very slick in how it’s shot.

Don't forget this movie literally features Dante, from the Devil May Cry series

Still had fun with it, it's good good actors, funny lines, the directors hand can be seen here and there, even the action is cool and fresh-ish.

You got my Like when I saw the puppy at the end.

If you ever get the time, I’d love to see you do a review of the movie Super!! One of my personal favorites

i think what happened was that most of those properties made into movies like The Phantom and The Shadow were in the public domain. Then in 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act (the Sonny Bono one) kicked in but things already in the public domain couldn't be removed.

Great Video👍🏾

The Green Hornet was one of my favorite radio shows when I was a kid, How dare you remind me that this movie existed!

"I wasn't alive in 1989..." Sigh.

I actually don't mind this film but it's definitely a failure. Looking forward to the vid!

We need Captain Midnight to cover Chronicle and Jumper.

I remember watching this movie at a friend's house and we literally got so bored that we fast fwd'ed til like the last 20 mins and we literally lost nothing from skipping ahead.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the film adaptation of Dick Tracy from 1990 with Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Madonna. That was really where the pulp revival kicked off.

Man...I remember watching this movie back when it released and just...never thought about it again since then, until this video. I think that perfectly sums up what went wrong: this film does nothing to be memorable.

When your movie bombs just call it “studio interface”

Green Hornet, Phantom and Shadow are underrated superheroes nowadays. They all need reboot.

I also remember reading that Kung Fu Hustle’s Stephen Chow was gonna direct this film and star as Kato early on before dropping out because him and Rogen/the studio didn’t agree on certain aspects of the story. Like I think Chow wanted a scene where Kato controls Britt’s actions using a joystick at one point. It makes you wonder if his ideas would have improved the film in general, like it could have also tied in with the dark satirical approach you outlined.

green hornet and green lantern, my two favorite characters of all time. and hollywood fucked 'em both.

I always had regrets towards this film because of a very specific thing: Gondry decided to film this in Hollywood instead of collaborating with Björk in her Biophilia Documentary Film to be in 3D around the world. I felt as if he indeed sold out considering the finished product. His worst proffesional choice tbh.

I remember watching the 2011 film as a kid, I had no idea it was a long and old franchise lol

Loved this flim so much but I understood why it didn't get more popular glad this video came out.

thank you for the puppy content!!!!!!! omg

A think a good way to pump up the Hornet next to a character like Kato would be to play into the investigation part of his journalism, sort of like the dynamic that The Question and Huntress had in the JLA. Just make him unnaturally good at detective work, to the point where his conclusions come off as conspiracy until he finally has enough evidence to convince others.

Tbh I loved this movie as a kid, and still do

I watched this movie recently actually after thinking about it and catching it on cable and taping it... I went to the theatre to watch it back in the day and I thought it was okay... and, I think its still okay, but better than I remembered. There's a certain charm to it that's hard to put my finger on, but I feel like there's also problems with it that's hard to put my finger on... I'd watch it again. There's something about the aesthetics of the movie that I enjoy.