I forgot to mention in my review of The Green Hornet that the biggest disappointment of the film for me was this over-used cliché of romanticizing the newspaper industry. It was fantastical to see such a swanky building for the newspaper empire featured in the film. There’s even a huge printing press in the same building with robots!
Comic-book/superhero films have been fetishizing newspapers and news reporters since the golden ages of print. Well, now is the chance for such a film to capture the realistic dark ages of the newspaper industry. Just another thing to point out with how an irrelevant film could have been relevant.
Also, the plot/characters had too many comparisons to Pineapple Express. That may be a good thing to fans of Pineapple Express, but really Rogen/Goldberg are going to need to switch things up a little next time around.
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