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Future Films - June 2008

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Two big films debut the first weekend of the month: the new version of The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton, and M. Night Shyamalan's latest twister, The Happening. Later in the month comes the latest Pixar exercise in anthropomorphization, Wall-E.

The Incredible Hulk

(June 13) Ang Lee's navel-gazing 2003 Hulk was such an oddity, using obtrusive scene transition and composition and featuring a vast amount of talk (plus an initial transformation triggered by angst, not anger!) that Marvel soon began work on a reboot. The result is The Incredible Hulk, which is designed to adhere closer to both the comic books (bringing in classic villains like the Abomination) and the TV show (stripping down both Banner and the Hulk to make them more accessible), while fitting into the Iron Man-era Marvel universe. The new film is directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, William Hurt as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky/The Abomination.More »

The Happening

(June 13) Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has acquired some notoriety after the rapidly decreasing plausibility of his last three films: Signs, The Village, and Lady in the Water. With The Happening, he returns to the coy thriller template that Something Is Happening (which is right there in the title), which will be revealed as something other than what it seems. The Sixth Sense still stands as proof that Shyamalan can use this structure brilliantly, but he's in the position of having to prove himself all over again (his first script was rejected). The end-of-the-world plot, involving a mass toxin that causes its victims to pursue violent suicide, features generic all-American hero Mark Wahlberg and the always welcome Zooey Deschanel.More »

Wall-E

(June 27) Wall-E, Pixar's latest attempt to imbue inanimate objects with quirky human characters, is perceived as a bit of a gamble for partner/distributor Walt Disney Pictures: for one thing, there's hardly any dialog in the film (the garbage-sifting robot Wall-E says things like "Ooo!" and "Whoa!"), and at first blush it looks a little cutesy and twee compared to, say, Bee Movie or Cars. The director, though, is Andrew Stanton (the hugely enjoyable Finding Nemo, another movie that focused on strange characters). In a way, the story of the futuristic Wall-E and his love interest Eve isn't so much a departure as a return to Pixar's roots: after all, that first short with the lamp, Luxo Jr., had no dialog at all.More »

Future Films - June 2008

The Incredible Hulk

The Happening

Wall-E

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