Are you? I am. Every once in a while I donate blood. Any­way, enjoy and laugh

Last year I wrote a few lines about the new Hulk movie, star­ring Edward Nor­ton as Dr. Bruce Ban­ner. It will be very inter­est­ing how Nor­ton will imper­son­ate this tragic comic fig­ure in The Incred­i­ble Hulk. Any­way, just a few min­utes ago I received a mail point­ing me to a video por­tray­ing the new – and very much improved, if I may add – Hulk. It’s only a still but it cer­tainly looks more like the Hulk we know from the comics than Ang Lee’s inter­pre­ta­tion ever did. With­out fur­ther ado, I present the big, hulk­ing monster:

Holy shit! Speed Racer almost passed me by. Unno­ticed that is. This movie is quite rem­i­nis­cent of the good old game Dethkarz I played in the late 90s. Back then, this was one of my favorite games and I still love it with all my heart. The film cer­tainly adds to the impres­sion of awe­some­ness with all the CGI effects. Plus, there are quite a few names on board: Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox, Susan Saran­don, and John Good­man. As if that weren’t enough, Speed Racer is directed by the Wachowski brothers.

OK, enough said, let’s pro­ceed the the trail­ers. The first trailer can be found over a Apple and it is avail­able in HD. The two brand new trail­ers can be found at Tribute.ca and, sadly, there are no HD ver­sions of them right now. The film is cur­rently set to be released on May 9, 2008, and I will be there watch­ing my dream come true.

Do you some­times won­der who you are or are you done ask­ing this ques­tion? It’s not easy to answer at best and it may not be some­thing you’d like to speak out loud at worst. Even worse, the answer changes with you. If you once knew, you may not know any­more because you’ve evolved. I don’t reg­u­larly think of it but now and then peo­ple say some­thing that prompts me to pon­der this very ques­tion and it is get­ting harder and harder to come up with an answer.

Truth is, I don’t know who I am. Not for sure, any­way. I know that there is some­thing dark in me. Still, I’m not an evil per­son even though peo­ple accuse me of being too detached. I fake a lot of human inter­ac­tions because it is the eas­i­est way to han­dle peo­ple. To give them some­thing they can under­stand. Fact is, I don’t under­stand quite a lot of human … liv­ing. I don’t feel like oth­ers do. I see things … dif­fer­ently. I’m cold and remote. I’m charm­ing if I so choose. No mat­ter how much I think on that the answer eludes me. I do not know who I am. Per­haps I should start by assert­ing who I am not.

Seems like it’s worth con­sid­er­ing. Right now, I don’t have the answer and I really won­der: does anyone?

On Sat­ur­day, I went to the the­ater with my girl­friend and we watched 10,000 B.C. With almost $36 mil­lion 10,000 B.C. didn’t do too bad at the box office on the open­ing week­end. Of course, the movie has been hyped since the first trailer came out. I didn’t have any expec­ta­tions and still I was very dis­ap­pointed. I promise that this isn’t a small feat – that’s usu­ally not eas­ily achieved. Now, let’s get on with this sorry excuse of a movie. Be warned, there are mas­sive spoil­ers ahead!

The trailer promised a lot of action and quite a spec­ta­cle. Unfor­tu­nately, the movie com­pletely failed to deliver. One of the first things I noticed was the unnat­ural white teeth of the peo­ple sup­posed to live a whop­ping 10,000 years before Christ. Quite obvi­ously the old mys­tic did a good job in tak­ing care for her peo­ple, includ­ing den­tal ser­vice on a highly sophis­ti­cated level. Of course, the old woman also hap­pens to have some abil­i­ties like pre­cog­ni­tion, farsee­ing and stuff like that. That was to be expected.

Let’s get to our hero, D’Leh, who was quite a sucker. When his betrothed Evo­let is cap­tured and enslaved by peo­ple way more advanced than our pseudo-Neanderthalers, he has to fol­low the “demons” to get her back. (Did you notice that I wrote “way more advanced”? D’Leh’s peo­ple are depicted as hunters liv­ing in the Stone Age, hunt­ing mam­moths. The slavers look like they came rid­den right out of medieval times, hav­ing tamed horses and steel(!) weapons.) Our hero and three of his peo­ple start out to retrieve Evo­let and the other cap­tives. They fol­low the slavers over the moun­tains through a short strip of des­o­late steppes into some kind of tropic jun­gle, all within a few weeks. OK, time to for­get about plau­si­bil­ity here.

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I got a mail with movie posters for the upcom­ing movie The For­bid­den King­dom. I already wrote about that movie ear­lier on. I was sup­plied with a link too, point­ing me to Screen Power. The folks over there report that the film will screen at the AFI Dal­las Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val that runs from March 27 through April 6. Any­way, here are the movie posters.