Movies: June 2003 Archives

The Hulk
(2003, d: Ang Lee, s: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connolly, Nick Nolte)

Let me lay this all out in the first sentence - The Hulk is a fun, action-packed comic-book movie. That's not, however, to say it's in the league of Spider-Man or the X-Men franchise. In fact, the one thing that hampers The Hulk the most is the one thing that was missing from these other Marvel comic adaptations - Ang Lee apparently didn't want you to forget for more than thirty seconds that you were watching a comic book movie. See, that's one thing that I really liked about Spider-Man and the X-Men movies - they didn't feel like comic books. Unfortunately, in The Hulk, all of the split-screens and transitions ultimately took away the feeling of watching a movie. Instead, I was constantly wondering whether the CryptKeeper was going to suddenly appear and make some wiseass crack about the Hulk's pants.

Just watched the first six minutes of the new "zombie" movie 28 Days Later...and I'm hooked. Looks pretty damn good, if a little off-kilter. About damn time that Americans get last crack at a film release like this. Might make all those filmmakers who think movies like Wrong Turn or Fear Dot Com are horrific (well, I suppose they are, just not in the way intended) think again about their chosen careers. I'm definitely adding this to my zombie movie festival for next year's Whistler trip...

All in all, I must see this movie - and then revisit the "Living Dead" trilogy.