“Isn’t it inspiring for you as a young black man to see a black man standing up, flying around, fighting crime, saving people’s lives?”
“Nah, he was drunk and joint.”
“Isn’t it inspiring for you as a young black man to see a black man standing up, flying around, fighting crime, saving people’s lives?”
“Nah, he was drunk and joint.”
The Happening had a much better opening weekend than expected (or is it feared?), coming in at third place with $32.1 million domestically, and actually beating The Incredible Hulk overall overseas. Meanwhile, Universal and Marvel insist that their superhero movie is a hit, even though it mad six million dollars less in its opening weekend [...]
Hulk Hogan shows us that he’s just as strong as The Incredible Hulk by smashing through a limousine and making grown men soil their pants with “dookie.”
“If Iron Man was about America’s power overseas — specifically in Afghanistan, where much of the movie takes place — then the Incredible Hulk is about what happens to our soldiers when they come home,” writes Charlie Jane Anders in a long review at io9. It’s about the impossibility of transforming young men into “super-soldiers” [...]
Bloggy thoughts on the new epics, intelligent and otherwise.
The VARIETY EIC says HULK is “boffo” with or without the approval of the “dweebs” who may or may not actually buy tickets.
Christopher looks at the five most disappointing attempts at mainstream success (and big money) from otherwise talented filmmakers.
Standing outside the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX, opening night of the 2007 SXSW Film Festival, Paul and myself caught up with the producer of Confessions of a Superhero as well as a couple of the film’s stars, Superman and The Hulk.