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Thursday, June 26, 2003
For all you Blogger users out there: the new version of the Google toolbar has a Blogger button in it. Just click the button to automatically blog whatever page is currently loaded in your browser. That's how I blogged this, in fact.
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Sunday, June 22, 2003
If you would like to see the movie that feng and I made for Stockstock, click here: Hard Times
To the bridge!
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Favorite spam subject line of the week: "9tyrannosaurus sex0"
To the bridge!
Favorite spam subject line of the week: "9tyrannosaurus sex0"
Hulk, Sucka!
I just got back from seeing Hulk, and all I can say is: it's terrific. It's the most surprising film I've seen in a long, long time. It's Batman meets The Pillow Book. It's The Ice Storm with After Effects.
A lot of people probably won't like it; a lot of critics are piling on already. (BTW, can someone tell me what Charles Taylor's problem is? When I read his reviews I can't help but think of Comic Book Guy. Did Ang Lee beat up his dog or something?)
The fact is that this isn't an action movie - it's a comic book movie. They're two different things, and Ang Lee understands that in a way that few directors seem to. (Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi are two of those who do.) The difference is that Hulk reaches farther than Singer or Raimi's films, not only with its characters but stylistically and structurally as well. This is a comic book movie that actually looks and feels like a comic book.
Some critics claim that the film takes itself too seriously, but the fact is that comic books are serious. They're serious for the people that write them, and they're serious for the people that read them. They're intensely personal stories made epic by spider bites or random mutations or gamma radiation, and if Hulk seems less fun than X-Men or Spider-Man, I think that's because it's a different kind of story. The Hulk's power is a curse, and Lee's film never pretends otherwise.
I didn't read the book, so my opinion is that of a comics outsider who merely appreciates the form. I'm sure that many will disagree, but I loved it. Bring on the sequel.
I just got back from seeing Hulk, and all I can say is: it's terrific. It's the most surprising film I've seen in a long, long time. It's Batman meets The Pillow Book. It's The Ice Storm with After Effects.
A lot of people probably won't like it; a lot of critics are piling on already. (BTW, can someone tell me what Charles Taylor's problem is? When I read his reviews I can't help but think of Comic Book Guy. Did Ang Lee beat up his dog or something?)
The fact is that this isn't an action movie - it's a comic book movie. They're two different things, and Ang Lee understands that in a way that few directors seem to. (Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi are two of those who do.) The difference is that Hulk reaches farther than Singer or Raimi's films, not only with its characters but stylistically and structurally as well. This is a comic book movie that actually looks and feels like a comic book.
Some critics claim that the film takes itself too seriously, but the fact is that comic books are serious. They're serious for the people that write them, and they're serious for the people that read them. They're intensely personal stories made epic by spider bites or random mutations or gamma radiation, and if Hulk seems less fun than X-Men or Spider-Man, I think that's because it's a different kind of story. The Hulk's power is a curse, and Lee's film never pretends otherwise.
I didn't read the book, so my opinion is that of a comics outsider who merely appreciates the form. I'm sure that many will disagree, but I loved it. Bring on the sequel.