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Film review: Kung Fu Panda (The Guardian)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:04:08 GMT

... form of the Chinese martial arts fashion that was revived in Hollywood with the arrival of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000.Black supplies the voice of Po, a fat and lazy panda who dreams of being a martial arts ninja, transcending his personal slovenliness and becoming a lean, mean fighting machine. He dreams of glorious triumphs, in which onlookers were "blinded due to overexposure...

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The Incredible Hulk (USA, 2008) (Tabula Rasa)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:44:51 GMT

I wasn’t very enthralled by the trailers for The Incredible Hulk until one of the last TV spots appeared that, I don’t know, just made me a little more curious. I’d read good things about the film and decided that there were worse ways of spending an evening. I’ve got to say that I really enjoyed it. It’s not as good as Iron Man and is very different to Ang Lee’s more ponderous version and, overall,...

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Mark Millar and a 'Big Name Action Director' Revamping Superman? (Cinematical)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:55:54 GMT

... bullet anymore. Could Warner Bros really be open to rebooting the franchise? The parallels between Ang Lee's Hulk and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns are striking, and I can honestly see the studio choosing a similarly clean slate. But they would be ditching a pretty expensive investment in Returns , and creating quite a controversy in the process. Far more people loved Superman Returns than Hulk...

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Comic Book Movie Cameos I Want to See (CultureFeast)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:44:51 GMT

... FF looking like a 2 hour commercial for toys, and the Hulk trying to be cerebral and romantic – Ang Lee style. Also with different studios owning the movies, the fans were never going to see crossover cameos like Tony Stark made in the Incredible Hulk. The exchange between Gen. Ross and Tony Stark alone is worth the price of the tickets. It is tongue-in-cheek and foreshadowing banter at its finest....

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Will Smith could be Turkey Man when Hancock opens today (The blog Film)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT

... bums on seats in the first weekend, but after that comes - THUNK!!! - the moment of truth. Look at Ang Lee's disastrous Hulk from five years ago (NOOOOOO!) or more recent flops like Evan Almighty (CRASH!), Grindhouse (KLUDD!) and The Love Guru (OUCH, baby!)

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A look at 'James Stewart: Western Collection' and other new DVDs (ScrippsNews)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:44:02 GMT

... LaSalle"COME DRINK WITH ME." (1966. NOT RATED. DRAGON DYNASTY. $19.97.)Most people who have seen Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" have not heard of King Hu's landmark "Come Drink With Me." They do not know that Cheng Pei-Pei, who played the elderly villain Jade Fox in "Crouching Tiger," was once a dancer who, at 20 years old, was tapped by Hu to become the world's first female action...

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DVD review: 'Come Drink With Me' (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Most people who have seen Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" have not heard of King Hu's landmark "Come Drink With Me." They do not know that Cheng Pei-Pei, who played the elderly villain Jade Fox in "Crouching Tiger," was once...

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To Hulk or not to Hulk (GomerWorld)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:14:00 GMT

OK - so just watched 'The Incredible Hulk' This is the movie almost every press outlet has said will launch the franchise and will erase the 'awful memory' of Ang Lee's 2003 'Hulk'. What a load of pish! I still maintain that laff2k and I are the only 2 fans 'in the world' of 'Hulk' but seriously, it's better than what we have on offer here, no really! Don't get me wrong, I actually kinda enjoyed this...

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movie: the incredible hulk (Everybody Loves Saturday Night)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Yes, kids, it's true: my forecast for the truly awesome summer of movies hasn't panned out the way I thought it would, and The Incredible Hulk is the first movie I have seen in a theater since Iron Man --...

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'WALL-E' Eyeing Third Best Pixar Opening while 'Wanted' Surprises (RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:55:17 GMT

... can't see it falling off for a very long time. The other new release this week was Wanted starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. While I am starting to regret my "B+" grade, thinking this film is probably more of a "B-" at best it seems the majority of positive reviews helped in getting audiences into the theaters as the special effects driven assassin story opened to an estimated $18.5 million...

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The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 2008) (Critic After Dark)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:04:00 GMT

This inedible bulk I'll say one thing for Marvel's latest remake of their latest action hero, Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk (2008): it's made me actually appreciate the elliptical exercise in mythmaking that was Ang Lee's film (named simply (and--ironic, this--far less pretentiously) Hulk (2003)). I'm not kidding; where Lee's Hulk was talky, slow, complex, this one's loud and full of special...

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Hulk Review: Incredible is an overstatement, but not by much. (Blogger News Network)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:27:58 GMT

In 2003 director Ang Lee, riding the wave of overwhelming success of his breakout picture “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” took his Asian film style to one of the most all American of stories: Marvel’s Hulk. The resulting cinematic abomination sent Lee to make movies about homosexual cowboys.Still America loves the Hulk. Most likely because of [...]

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The Incredible Hulk (TheCelebrityCafe.com)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:44:42 GMT

Making another Hulk movie probably will do no harm after the 2003 Hulk where Ang Lee sunk to a low that was detrimental. The movie was a complete catastrophe as unanimously supported by everyone. I for one thought that some of the special effects were pretty good, but what do I know because everyone booed that remark as it escaped my lips. So basically, the universal notion about continuing the Hulk...

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Extras Needed for Ang Lee film about Gay Woodstock Figure (Towleroad)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:05:07 GMT

If you're anywhere in the Albany, NY area this weekend and you're interested in being in Ang Lee's film about gay Woodstock figure Elliot Tiber (more on the film here and here), there's an open casting call: "An ad in...

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Corrupt Chinese officials 'revealing crimes to mistresses' (The Guardian)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:28:48 GMT

Tang Wei and Tony Leung star in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, about a young Chinese woman who lures a high-ranking Chinese official into a trapLoose-tongued Chinese officials are inadvertently ending their careers by admitting corruption during pillow talk with their mistresses, according to investigators.Private conversations between lovers revealing details of illicit dealings and exposing high-level...

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The Incredible Hulk (Stainless Steel Droppings)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:38:37 GMT

Wow! I have to admit it…I am impressed. I honestly did not think they could do it. Not after the critical success of Ironman. Let’s be honest, it would not take much to reboot the Hulk after the Ang Lee disaster a few years ago. I have never seen a [...]

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Shaw Brothers double-header: Come Drink with Me and Heroes of the East (GreenCine Guru)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:44:18 GMT

Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): Come Drink with Me (1966) **** Rating (out of 5): Heroes of the East (1979) ***** Experts consider King Hu 's Come Drink with Me a benchmark in Hong Kong martial arts filmmaking, and it has been cited as one of the sources for Ang Lee 's knockoff hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon . And yet Come Drink with Me may come across as something of a disappointment,...

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Presents (snap judgments)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:42:27 GMT

... the tropes of Hulkness: smashing and gamma monsters. Ehn. Mind you, Marvel did the same thing with Ang Lee’s movie as the 25-cent issue didn’t have the Hulk in it either and featured unwanted sexual advances (’Hey, kids! Like the movie? Here’s a comic for ya- oh wait.), but that’s another story. Right, the ’specials’: King Size Hulk and Hulk: Raging Thunder and… the one that came out before both...

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The New World gets ‘extended cut’ DVD (Twitch)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:49:00 GMT

Terrence Malick ‘s The New World is one of the (if not the) best American epic films of the past 10 years. It is rare to have this kind of auteurist art-blockbuster fusion ( Ang Lee ‘s Hulk , Darren Aronofsky ‘s The Fountain ). Businesswire gives details of a new version of the film due out on DVD on October 14 of this year: more than 30 minutes of never-before-seen footage, heightening the viewing...

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Jon Favreau Calls Out An Avengers Roster (Cinema Blend Feeds)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:17:51 GMT

Marvel fans have it pretty good this year. Iron Man has proven to be one of the better super-hero flicks to hit screens from the comic book company and The Incredible Hulk made up for some of the shortcomings of Ang Lee’s previous attempt. Now we have to hope Marvel can keep up the momentum, especially since they have quite a few years ahead mapped out pretty thoroughly. We know Marvel Studios is planning...

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