This week I step away from the usual and delve
into a bit of spectacle. :)
First, an important statement: From all appearances, Seth Rogen and his wife
are nice and good people. It’s his body
of “work” that I have issue with.
Were it just the low-brow, inane, and
repetitively predictable, I would have brushed it aside and moved on. But since he torched a prized entertainment
icon of mine, I am moved to respond:
Even though he’s from Canada, he’s done
nothing to dilute the belief that Jewish people benefit from that connection
and receive preferential treatment in Hollywood. He has some talent (largely wasted, IMO), but
this can’t be the true talent in the up and coming Hollywood generation.
His writing and acting take the same
predictable it-was-barely-funny-the-first-time antics, and is lamentably
one-dimensional. That it also
legitimizes a stoner modus operandus is further regrettable. If that stoner “lifestyle” is taken as a
role-model, that’s even more horrid.
My biggest beef, however, is how he
eviscerated and made a comedic mockery of what could have been and should have
been an equivalent to the Batman franchise.
I’m talking about The Green Hornet.
I won’t go into all the details of that mockery and evisceration, that
travesty of a movie, but Rogen’s utter screwing up of that is a huge
cultural-entertainment offense. He has
ruined, perhaps for good, what could have been something of tremendous
entertainment value.
Or maybe I’m wrong, and the thing was so camp
it never had legs (or, rather, wings) for the long haul. We’ll probably never know now!
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