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Hulk Ready to Squash M. Night's HappeningBy Scott Gwin: 2008-06-13 00:05:02
Two new movies are coming out this weekend, and the two cinematic entities behind them are working themselves into a state of self-destruction. On the one hand you have a new production company focused on comic book characters that already have the gun loaded and aimed at their foot. On the other is a director who is possibly just one more flush away from sending his career completely down Hollywood’s proverbial toilet.
Marvel comics wants you to think of their new comic book movie adaptations, not as a series of franchises with each hero having their own storyline, but as one giant friendly film family with all the characters sharing some kind of massive story arc. If you caught Iron Man then you got to see the beginnings of it. It’s campy, contrived, and only two films in it's already getting their directors in a furor (check out Jon Favreau’s concerns and Louis Leterrier’s case of foot in mouth disease), and if Marvel decides to really push it in the coming years I’ll wager they’ll end up ruining pretty much every character they have lined up. Fortunately for The Incredible Hulk [Read the CB Review], Marvel hasn’t gotten too carried away yet and Bruce Banner’s story doesn’t suffer much from their meddling. Hulk is a solid action drama in its own right, but the one person who might have ruined the film for you was director Louis Leterrier who left seventy minutes of his movie on the cutting room floor. Even though his version is far more enjoyable than Ang Lee’s take on the Hulk released just a few years ago, Leterrier still seems to have left out critical parts of the story in favor of too many scenes of William Hurt chomping his cigar and Liv Tyler looking doe eyed. Still, look for the big green guy to easily take number one this weekend. The only competition is M. Night Shyamalan’s latest writing/directing project, The Happening [Read the CB Review]. Critics are agreeing that the movie is yet another notch down for the director who hasn’t quite been able to recreate the wonder that was his first big hit The Sixth Sense. The bitter taste that he left in the mouths of audiences with his last movie, Lady In The Water, means ticket sales going in will be that much more sluggish. The Happening will be lucky to stick third place underneath Kung Fu Panda’s considerable weight.
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