What are you going to see this weekend? Each week we will give you a preview of the movies coming out on the weekend, including MPAA ratings, synopsis, and trailers. Let us know which one you’ll be seeing and then come back to let us know what you thought of it.
Wide Releases:
The Happening
Genres: Action, Adventure and Thriller
Running Time: 1 hr. 31 min.
MPAA Rating: R for violent and disturbing images.
Synopsis: It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of
minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their
shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities. What is causing this sudden, total
breakdown of human behavior? Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an experiment gone
wrong, a diabolical toxic weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being transmitted by air, by
water . . . how?
Trailer:
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The Incredible Hulk
Genres: Action, Adventure and Sequel
Running Time: N/A.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some frightening sci-fi images and brief suggestive content.
Synopsis: Scientist Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk.
Living in the shadows–cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler)–Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power.
As all three grapple with the secrets that led to The Hulk’s creation, they are confronted with a monstrous new adversary known as The Abomination, whose destructive strength exceeds even The Hulk’s own. ne scientist must make an agonizing final choice: accept a peaceful life as Bruce Banner or find heroism in the creature he holds inside–THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
Trailer:
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Limited Releases:
Encounters at the End of the World
Genres: Documentary
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.
MPAA Rating: G
Synopsis: Filmmaker Werner Herzog documents his travels to McMurdo Station, Antartica, and the surrounding area..
Trailer:
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Brian Fitzpatrick
Had a chance to see this movie (The Incredible Hulk) over the weekend. I went in wondering if I’d like it. Walked out going “Wow, that was actually pretty good!”
You can see my take at: http://writer.fitzhome.com/?p=334
Jun 14th, 2008
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