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: Jon Favreau
Writ: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway. Based on characters created by Stan Lee , Don Heck, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby

• Robert Downey Jr. … Tony Stark
• Terrence Howard … Jim Rhodes
• Jeff Bridges … Obadiah Stane
• Gwyneth Paltrow … Pepper Potts
• Leslie Bibb … Christine Everhart
• Faran Tahir … Raza
• Sayed Badreya … Abu Bakaar

Ever since Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang I’ve loved Robert Downey Jr. and that is the main reason I wanted to go see this film. Sure, I enjoy superhero films, but I know nothing at all about Iron Man, so it wasn’t any grá for that character that made me go. For those of you who share this non-knowledge Iron Man is Tony Stark, a genius of a weapons-dealer. When things go wrong for him in Afghanistan he ends up thinking that the only route forward is to give up the whole destruction business, obviously enough his share-holders object slightly.

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Dir & Writ: Chris Weitz
Based on book by Philip Pullman

• Dakota Blue Richards … Lyra Belacqua
• Nicole Kidman … Marisa Coulter
• Daniel Craig … Lord Asriel
• Freddie Highmore … Pantalaimon (voice)
• Ian McKellen … Iorek Byrnison (voice)
• Eva Green … Serafina Pekkala
• Sam Elliott … Lee Scoresby

I read, and really enjoyed, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials a while back, so I was really looking forward to this film, the first of three. Unfortunately it just isn’t very good. It should be. The story is a wonderful one, Kidman and Craig are fantastic, although Craig isn’t really on screen for all that long, and Dakota Blue Richards is wonderful as Lyra. Some of the other kids aren’t too great, but we’ll let them away. The special effects are, for the most part, superb. The polar bears in particular are fantastic.

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