The Incredible Hulk

The best ‘rebooted’ film I’ve seen in a long while. A cast of amazing actors (Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt and Tim Roth), and an amazing script re-write of the 2003 flop; Hulk. Flashbacks and deeper intricacies ground this expected ‘sequel’ as a mutually exclusive retelling of the Hulk story. Marvel is really starting to mature. Most recently, something that I am loving is the tie in to the possible Avengers all-star movie.

From the go- I swear I caught a single-second-blink of an Ironman Stark Industries logo, as well as badges hidden all over weaponry. Whatever they did, it was subtle, but really rewarding to find for those who payed attention to all the little easter eggs. Of course, Stan Lee cameoed - this time with a slightly bigger role. The subtle humour within this action flick was enough to prevent it from becoming too dry.

Indiana Jones (sucked.)

Oh Jesus. (sorry religious types, but it deserves a vain call). “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Even the name  sucks now that I think about it. What was George Lucas, and Spielberg thinking? They certainly kept the retro 40-60s thing happening, but that’s all that could be considered consistently good. After ILM cranked out Transformers and Ironman, I would have thought that they would be able to wrangle sweet compositing work in their sleep for this film. It was terrible. I think it is first technically obvious during the stupid jeep jungle chase scene.

Drillbit Taylor

I wanted to see this because Owen Wilson is in it - obviously before his mental breakdown. I don’t know if I liked it a bit, or a bit more than a little bit, but I didn’t love it. It was obviously using the SuperBad formula; take a fat kid who thinks he is awesome, a small skinny nerd kid, and dump them into the big bad world.  They hire a personal bodyguard to stop their asses being pounded, but find out he’s a double-crossing hobo. I guess they couldn’t do much and keep it within the PG rating range, but it did well for what it was. It was noticeable that Owen Wilson wasn’t as funny as he could be, and that the kids were terrible actors. Good kids popcorn movie, but don’t expect anything great from it.

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd was fun. Johnny Depp is a brilliant actor, and bought forth the dark and humorous character through to a tee. Though it’s a musical - and obviously a first stab at something of this calibur for Burton, you can forgive the weak vocals for the comedic value used in place. Probably the most disturbing and humorous scene would be the dropping of freshly killed corpses head first onto the floor below, down a trap door. The violence and gore is presented with no build up or anticipation, presenting it in an almost beautiful mockery of life’s value.

27 Dresses

I saw this 5 days ago, but have been reluctant to talk about how much it wasn’t as good as I was hoping for it to be. Knocked up was a hillarious film, so assuming Katherine Heigl (one of the leads) would carry her quirky character into this movie was an innocent inference? Too bad I was way off. The jokes were terrible and predictable, and the ones which could have been great were ruined by bad acting. For some reason, every woman in this film was unfunny.