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  • Hulky Talky. BlogNosh 06/12/08

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    The Hulk  (2003)

    Speed Racer  (2008)

    • “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” and then expecting them to blend back in.” Related: Anders takes a look at superheroes who can’t have sex, including “Poor Rogue from the X-men. She’s got the cool Susan Sontag hair, and the leather jumpsuit, and the hot boyfriend… but she can never touch anyone.”
    • Anders isn’t exactly ga-ga over New Hulk, but she calls Ang Lee’s version “disastrous.” At Bright Lights After Dark, Erich Man, it’s a sad day on our bitterly defended-from-Galactacus earth when an Ang Lee Hulk film is just dismissed outright, and here it is a super and vastly underrated picture. Granted the CGI was a bit cartoony in the previews (I know I laughed at the time) but looked much better in real big screen life.”
    • David Poland bottom lines it: “The truth is, for all its flaws, there is not a single frame of The Incredible Hulk that contains a fragment of the artistry that Ang Lee brought to Hulk. Of course, the film was too long and the psychodrama too thick for most people. But there was true aesthetic beauty. I hate to even pull this one out of the backpack, but Speed Racer? Genius in comparison. Every frame.”

    Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth

  • Lindsay Lohan’s New Single the Lost IKWKM Plot Song?

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    No, this is not movie news, but it is a complete horror show, and its a totally slow news day, so I feel justified in posting it. A publicist just sent me this link to a stream of “Lindsay Lohan’s all new single ‘Bossy’ from her upcoming album due this fall.” It’s your standard unremarkable club track, but for whatever reason, this slightly-robotocized male ad pro voice keeps interrupting to remind us that what we’re listening to is “from Lindsay’s upcoming record, in stores, this fall!” Also, there are some pretty amazing lyrics about how people are touching her without her permission.

    Oh––here’s a movie angle: would Avant Retarde crapterpiece I Know Who Killed Me have been more successful if a) it had been released now, as Lindsay’s “comeback” film, rather than as the coincidental symbol of her gutter fall? and/or b) she had recorded one plot song for each half of his dual role? Wouldn’t this one be good for the stripper part––wouldn’t it be amazing if acting Lindsay stripped to “real” Lindsay singing (or, at least, “singing”) about not wanting to be touched? Discuss!!!

    UPDATE: Um, it looks like the song has actually been floating around for over a month. The fact that someone like me who spends 20 hours a day online had no idea it existed explains somewhat the need for a publicist, I guess.


    Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth

  • Benjamin Button Trailer

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    The Playlist point to this “teaser” trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which spins on the wildly exciting premise that the wisdom and life experience of an old man could travel in the body of a young(ish) Brad Pitt. The trailer is long, slow, and almost dialogue free. We can only hope the movie follows suit.


    Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth

  • Not-Smart Competition. Trade Roughage 06/12/08

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    Get Smart  (2008)

    • Questions: Why are both The Love Guru and Get Smart––broad comedies that should have mainstream appeal, if they actually appeal to anyone––opening on the same day, and how is the competition going to impact each film’s box office? Answers: either because Paramount locked in a bunch of promo deals for The Love Guru before realizing how much wider Get Smart was tracking, or because Mike Myers didn’t want to change the release date; and badly.
    • First Run Pictures has picked up film critic Godfrey Cheshire’s personal documentary, Moving Midway. The film, through which Cheshire examines race relations and his own family’s plantation, will open in New York and then make the unusual move of going straight to a platform release in the South.
    • What Just Happened?, which just got its U.S. release date via Magnolia, will open the Karlovy Vary Film Festival on July 4.

    Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth

 


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