Friday, May 2, 2008

Does Hollywood have amnesia?

The Incredible Hulk is coming out June 13. That would be fine, except that I could swear we just had a different, crappy Hulk movie just a few years ago.

Lo and behold! In fairness, it was all the way back in 2003. Life was simpler then. After all, the White Sox and Red Sox had the second and third longest streaks of championship futility in baseball, respectively.

This one isn't a sequel:

The film was originally meant to continue from Hulk (2003) but Edward Norton rewrote the script to make it similar to "The Incredible Hulk" (1978) and Bruce Jones's (run in the the comic books, thus severing all ties to its predecessor and retelling Bruce's origin through flashbacks. Therefore the two films are not within the same continuity.

So Edward Norton, who has done nothing good since Rounders and Fight Club (and I didn't like Fight Club), has enough stroke to pull off a re-write?

We will find out once and for all how stupid the American public is.

3 comments:

ahow628 said...

Whoa, whoa, whoa... He did American History X between Rounders and Fight Club. I would tend to agree that Fight Club wasn't all that great, however, AHX was about a million times better than Rounders. Not that Rounders wasn't awesome. American History X is probably my favorite movie of all time (possibly tied with Braveheart).

ahow628 said...

Also, the American public is a bunch of dummies. I will wholeheartedly agree with that. Bunch of crazy people, they are...

c_reuter said...

I liked the first Hulk movie. Fight Club one of the worst movies ever.