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Max Braden: The image of "former Army Ranger" Seth Rogen running from fireballs and taking down hardened prisoners on his own in Con Air is making me laugh. Rogen did do that loco stage dive in the end of Pineapple Express and played an overly aggressive mall cop in Observe and Report, but The Green Hornet is a little bit of three-card monte: The action is all Kato and Rogen's character, in terms of action, is the straight man. Instead of an action star, I would agree that Rogen can be just as much of an adventure star as anyone. And and as an adventure star he still won't have the swaggering sex appeal of James Bond, Captain Kirk, or Indiana Jones, but with the comedic touch, his action/adventure movies have plenty of potential to be big.

Reagen Sulewski: I think Rogen is just enjoying the idea that someone would pay him to be an action star - though both of the films where he's taken on that role have gone with the idea of "isn't it ridiculous that we're letting fatty here do stunts?" One thing that's clear in the comparison is that Rogen has better script choice, in that he writes most of his own and knows his limitations. That's never a bad thing.

David Mumpower: Brett made the most pertinent point here in referencing the time when no one could believe that Nicolas Cage was going to star in Face/Off and Con Air. The fact that an unattractive, socially awkward man is now viewed as a legitimate action hero superstar speaks volumes about the madness of the process. Why not Seth Green? That's the question I posed to my wife, who then pointed out that I mean Seth Rogen. So, why not Seth Rogen? Or Seth Green? What do we need from an action star these days if nobody cares whether they have the physique of The Rock or Jason Statham? We've morphed as a society to a place where videogames are specifically designed to allow the user to feel like they are the hero. In a way, casting the likes of Seth Rogen serves the same purpose, at least it did before he got into shape. He's the quippy couch potato who makes for a perfectly relatable protagonist. That's all he needs to do and as we have universally confirmed in this thread, picky though we may be about comedy, we all agree that Rogen is damned funny. That's enough, especially in the right project such as The Green Hornet. Would you rather have a Seth Rogen in this or a Jake Gyllenhaal stiffly snarling through Prince of Persia?

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