June Films

[pandop]

Three films this month, and 2 at the cinema! Go me!

The Incredible Hulk

The first of the two films I saw at the cinema this month. Not bad overall, considering how difficult it is/has been to film the Hulk stories. Entertaining cameo's/voice choices. Liked Edward Norton as Banner. Liv Tyler was way underused. Good monstery/fighty bits. Things went boom. More below.

Hulk

Saw this on tv the weekend after having seen The Incredible Hulk - until I saw the end I didn't realise that I was dealing with a prequel/sequel  - the differences were huge, in particular in how he became the Hulk. The fight scenes were not so good, and I didn't like Bana as Banner (heeee, almost the same) as much as I liked Norton. This really suffers in comparison to the sequel.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspain

I never got around to seeing the film version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so I came to this with a clean slate and no expectations - and I really enjoyed it. Good adaptation of what is a difficult book to do (and they couldn't really get away with what the BBC did and make it 1/3 of the length of LWW). Gorgeous costumes and hair  - I really want Susan's purple dress, and the mail/corset outfit (think that would get past kit check at Regia? ;) ), and I must learn how to do my own hair like that (or at all really). I haven't seen/read this for a while, and I had forgotten how much I want to slap Peter in this one, he is far, far more irritating than Edmund is in LWW

Comments

[eternitat.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked Prince Caspian so much. Thank you for going to watch it. We need as much revenue as possible in order to make sure that all 7 Narnia books are made into films.

[hazelstitch.livejournal.com]

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't make all 7. The Magician's Nephew in particular would be very difficult

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, Voyage of the Dawn Treader would be great.

[hazelstitch.livejournal.com]

It would. I meant to say I adored Reep in this. So much better than the BBC version!

[eternitat.livejournal.com]

VDT will begin filming in October of this year. And if PC is successful, The Silver Chair will hopefully be greenlit soon.

[hazelstitch.livejournal.com]

That is good to know.

[mamlambo.livejournal.com]

Oooh glad you liked it, we're going to see it on Wed. But do you know what I'm really looking forward to? Mamma Mia! *doesn't even hang head in shame*

[hazelstitch.livejournal.com]

Mum and I were just talking about if we could manage to see Mamma Mia together ;)