The origins were completely different, though. In The Incredible Hulk, we saw Bruce Banner be a willing but unaware participant in the experiment. In Lee's film, it was because he "inherited it" from crazy Nick Nolte. But by the time Marvel did Incredible, Banner didn't get his gamma from a bomb, h...

Yeah, Spidey is Spidey. We don't need any extra backstory. We all know who he is by now. Just shoot some webs, make some wisecracks, catch some bad breaks, and we're good to go. Even though the Ang Lee Hulk movie "didn't exist" by the time the Ed Norton Incredible Hulk came out, Marvel's version as...

Thing is, if you've seen McKellen in the trailers for "Mr. Holmes", I don't know how many more films he has in him, let alone Fox-Marvel movies three to four years away. (And this coming from someone who had no complaints about 90-yo. Christopher Lee in the LOTR/Hobbit films.) It's starting to bring...

Basically UltraHD is literally "What if they gave a format war and nobody came?" The companies don't really understand why MP3's replaced CD's, or why Blu-ray replaced DVD or why DVD replaced VHS, so, since they "weren't going to be fooled again", there's the constant mindset that whatever new 4K fo...

I think part of my reason that I can't "access" Miyazaki's stuff is because I saw Mononoke first. Actually, I'd seen Cagliostro when I was a kid, but just enjoyed that because it was a cartoon (and still do!) and I had a couple of the Sherlock Hound tapes, which is the first time I was aware of the...

You want to see what an Iron Curtain animated short looks like? Look at the Deitch T & J series! They were made in Czechoslovakia! I HAVE seen Iron Curtain animated shorts (no, I don't mean Zagreb/Professor Balthazar, I mean we had one station that once tried showing the Russian Bluejay cartoons wh...

Also need to decide if it's worth pulling the trigger on Mars Needs Moms. I don't usually buy films I haven't seen, the reviews are terrible, and I don't care for mo-cap like this. However, I'm a huge Berkeley Breathed fan and, apparently unlike a lot of people, I actually like 3D discs! Plus I wou...

Think it's more of Hasbro's response to Battleship: "Okay, let's admit it, we're in it for the Transformers, and we're never going to have any luck bringing our other game projects into the stream..." The fact that it probably won't be directed by Michael Bay (because it's different , you see!) may ...

I know! There's something wrong with that, isn't there? ;) If it was anyone else, we'd pass it off as a failed hadn't-seen-Epic mistake and ignore it-- But even if he didn't work on it personally, the Lucas name just awakens some primal urge to watch it just to see how bizarre, misconceived and aud...

I, too, am baffled that Lego Movie didn't get a nod. Finally watched it this weekend (not in 3D, unfortunately, as it was only a free bonus movie on my UV)-- And like other Phil Lord/Chris Miller works, I found it rather awkward in that they clearly found themselves so amusing, I felt as if I might...

I'm still curious to see this so-called "homicidal maniac" Man of Steel film that everyone keeps talking about. The movie I saw had Superman in it, not some "homicidal maniac." Maybe there's some R-rated alternate cut I'm not aware of? ;) Compared to the one in Superman vs. the Elite, this one woul...

Hmmm...it could look like a desperate play, but at least finally they'd be doing something 'synergenistic' (haha) with one of their biggest acquired properties. Kind of begs the question, though, that if you had such a character on the books and then started developing a comedy ghost picture, shoul...

James wrote:Just saw this. Moulin Rouge it wants to be but Moulin Rouge it ain't! Even "rock opera" is a stretch. This is more like a "pop revue".

So, this isn't that "Fairy movie with pop tunes" that Chapman said she was working on at Dreamworks, then?

Yes, pretty generic in some ways... but let's remember those awful John Carter trailers. And JC turned out pretty good. There was good stuff in the JC trailers, we just weren't allowed to see it. Here, the stuff they DO show us doesn't look any good. This is more an adaptation of the Ultimate FF co...

What....does the Bridesmaids director...even KNOW about the dangers of crossing proton plasma streams?