Film Stuff

This week, Incredible Hulk and The Happening opened.

According to BoxOfficeMojo, here's how they did:

1.	The Incredible Hulk	$55,414,050
2.	Kung Fu Panda	$33,612,594
3.	The Happening	$30,517,109

Quick review: The Happening.
Man, was I PSYCHED to see this. I'm a sucker for apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic films. Give me a zombie movie and I'll watch it. I'm a fan of Cell (the Stephen King novel) and am looking forward to its film adaptation. The Signal is one of my favorite post-apocalyptic movies. Now, how about The Happening? You can't go wrong with a guy who's known in my circle of friends as The Next Chuck Norris, right?

Let's talk about the story. Shymalan has just this amazing concept and instead of letting it grow and flesh it out, he just... jumps all over the place and doesn't really let it become something huge and crazy. I am totally disappointed with the way this went. WONDERFUL concept, but poor execution. I'm sorry, but I'm granting this a 4/10. It is watchable, but it doesn't satisfy. However, if Shymalan ever happens to do a follow-up to this film I will watch it just because it is apocalyptic horror.

Anyways.

The poster for Burn After Reading has premiered. Basically, John Malkovich plays Osbourne Cox, an ex-CIA agent whose memoir falls into the hands on two gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) bent on blackmailing him for the return of the memoirs. Tilda Swinton stars as Malkovich's wife and George Clooney as the man having an affair with Tilda Swinton's character.

You can find the poster below

What do you think? Doesn't it remind you of a few other posters, perhaps?


Exciting, yes?

Red band trailer through this Youtube link, Apple took theirs down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tEDPZNWG4o

Burn After Reading is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival this August, with a September 12th theatrical release. I'm juiced for this. In fact, currently I'm looking forward to just Burn After Reading and The Dark Knight when it comes to big films. I'm also looking forward to seeing American Teen.

Anyways, I'll end with a couple of awesome images.



Credit goes to BoxOfficeMojo for the chart, Cinematical for the Burn After Reading poster, Slashfilm for Man with the Golden Arm and Vertigo posters, JoyOfTech for the Joy of Tech comic, the-minusworld for Lego No Country For Old Men, and xkcd for the Merlin comic.