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Archive for June, 2008
REVIEW: Wanted
Sunday, June 29th, 2008I’m not gonna to do what everyone thinks I’m gonna do and HULK OUT!
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Equipped with better actors, upgraded CGI and special effects, thrilling action sequences, and a more true-to-the-comics storyline, The Incredible Hulk serves as a band-aid over the Ang Lee wound. The focus of the story shifts from the horribly verbose and introspective view of the 2003 film to more of action-driven battle as Bruce Banner struggles to avoid becoming The Hulk.
What happened with The Happening…?!
Friday, June 13th, 2008M. Night Shymalan has a microcosm structure to his movies where the phenomena occurring in the movie has a direct parallel to the events in the lives of the characters. When the characters reach a resolution, everything else falls into place. From a broad perspective, the movie then serves to illustrate a fundamental principle in a way that sets it apart from the ordinary, traditional stories we learn such virtues from. M. Night Shymalan does not deviate from this structure, so loyal M. Night Shymalan fans will not be disappointed, but they will not be surprised either.
It always rains on moving day
Friday, June 13th, 2008I am not a fan of the television show, but when my girlfriends outvoted me two to one on seeing the midnight showing, I just had to check out what the craze was all about. Often I caught the promos for the series on cable TV (even more frequently when the show was syndicated), flipped through the promo ads in women’s magazines, heard my girlfriends rant and rave about it, and even took the “Which Sex and the City Character Are You?” quiz on the Internet. Still, the series still did not strike an interest with me. After all I am a young, geeky mother, journalist, and college student. What can I relate to in the sex lives of older women? Sure, my friends and I go out for lunch, have a drink, and discuss our adventurous, dramatic, and all-too-often comedic sex lives and firmly believe—like most girlfriends post-Sex-and-the-City-Era—that we deserve a television series about our lives. I remained a skeptic about the success of the series and, therefore, the movie, certainly wondering how it could generate such a cult following of women between the ages of 21-60.