Susan Hated Literature

Dir: Louis Leterrier
Writ: Zak Penn

• Edward Norton … Bruce Banner
• Liv Tyler … Betty Ross
• Tim Roth … Emil Blonsky
• Tim Blake Nelson … Samuel Sterns
• Ty Burrell … Dr. Samson
• William Hurt … Gen. Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross
• Lou Ferrigno … Voice of The Incredible Hulk / Security Guard

IMdb ; Other reviews

I’m one of the few who seem to have liked Ang Lee’s version of the Hulk, but I seem to be in agreement with most of the reviews I’ve spotted of this film. It wasn’t good. It wasn’t bad. It was simply meh.

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Dir: Neil Burger
Writ: Neil Burger based on short story Eisenheim the Illusionist by Steven Millhauser

• Edward Norton - Eisenheim
• Paul Giamatti - Inspector Uhl
• Jessica Biel - Sophie
• Rufus Sewell - Crown Prince Leopold

In Austria at the turn of the 20th century a young carpenter’s son falls in love with a girl from the local nobility. Obviously her family are not impressed by this and do their best to separate the pair, and after much drama they succeed. The young boy is Eisenheim, aka Eduard Abramovich, and at the very beginning of this film we see him on stage in Vienna. As he begins his act he is promptly arrested by Inspector Uhl. Uhl then heads off to debrief the Crown Prince Leopold, and as he does we get to see all the back story too.

I loved the look of this film. Visually it worked really really well. Such a pity then that the rest of the film fell short. I never got a sense of Eisenheim as a character. Yes, we know that he loves Sophie, who by now is unofficially engaged to the Leopold, but as for the rest of his character? Nothing. Sophie is slightly more understandable. She has grown up knowing that eventually she’ll have to marry for the good of her family, but yet was never able to forget her teenage love. Leopold is another character fairly lacking in development. He’s the badguy. And that is about it. Inspector Uhl is probably the most rounded of the main characters, and he is played superbly by Giamatti.

If I’m going to be brutally honest I was a little bored by this film. Possibly because I had a fair idea of what was going to happen all along. Show Spoilers ▼

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