Archive for June, 2008
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
The Hulk is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. After physicist Dr. Robert Bruce Banner was caught in the blast of a gamma bomb he created, he was transformed into the Hulk, a giant, raging monster. The character, both as Banner and the Hulk, is frequently pursued by the police or the armed forces, often as a result of the destruction he causes. While the coloration of the character’s skin varies during the course of its publication history, the Hulk is most often depicted as green. Hulk is one of Marvel Comics’ most recognized characters.
The character has appeared in a television series, with spin-off television movies, starring Bill Bixby as Dr. Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk; in animated series in 1966, 1982 and 1996; and in two feature films: Hulk (2003), directed by Ang Lee and starring Eric Bana as Banner, and The Incredible Hulk (2008) directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Edward Norton as Banner.
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The Happening (2008)
The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night
Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel.
The film revolves around a pandemic that begins in New York City, and quickly spreads across eastern United States. The pandemic is a toxin that has a devestating mental effect on humans: victims that breath in the toxin immediatly ceace what they are doing, have loss of speech and become physically disoriented. Finally, the victim unfreezes and commits suicide by the closest means possible: people jump from buildings, shoot or hang or cut themselves, throw themselves into barbed wire, drive vehicles off roads, and various other fatal means. The toxin is apparently spread by the wind.
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Sex and the City (2008)
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film is based in part on writer Candace Bushnell’s book of the same name, compiled from her column with the New York Observer. Bushnell has stated in several interviews that the Carrie Bradshaw in her columns is her alter ego; when she wrote the “Sex and the City” essays, she used her own name initially; for privacy reasons, however, she created the character of Carrie Bradshaw, a woman who was also working as a writer and living in New York City. Carrie also has the same initials, which reiterates her connection with Bushnell.
A movie by Michael Patrick King, with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
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