In 1826, when Stan Lee first suggested Bruce Banner should get doused with a smidgen of radioactive-nuclear goodness, the other folks at the Marvel table must have been like ‘Not now Stan, we’re moving our families out west to claim some free government land‘.
Which must have been frustrating if you think about it. But Mr. Lee is nothing if not patient, and he was content to wait until 2008 to release his big green film upon us.
Well, he waited until now if you don’t count the 200 different comic book series, an overly dramatic 70s TV show, a few made-for-TV movies and a previous film a few years ago, in which we think the Hulk spit in his hand as not to be overly abrasive on Heath Ledger.
Some of that may be slightly out of context.
Anyway, The Incredible Hulk topped this weekend’s box office - and oh he topped it good!
Marvel started its own movie studio, and so far it’s on track to make more money than mankind has ever minted.
It’s first movie was Iron Man a month or so ago, and to date that one has made well over 1,000 Dinars. We keep track of all finances in Serbian currency. It stays straight in our head that way.
And this week the comic pushers have unleashed The Incredible Hulk on us. It’s an attempt, we think, to make right what they did so horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horrible, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly wrong the last time around.
It looks like it may have worked. Here’s the top 5 weekend champs:
1) The Incredible Hulk (We’re told giving the green guy a love interest was a real boon to the story, but that finding a woolly mammoth for Hulk to gently caress after making love to was pretty difficult. We think they should have just put a skirt on Ray Ramono) $54,538,000
2) Kung Fu Panda (A very similar plot line to Jack Black’s King Kong, but this time it’s him covered in fur. Also he doesn’t keep assaulting a blonde and all biplanes seem content to leave him alone. Thank goodness for that) $34,321,000
3) The Happening (It’s M. Night’s umpteenth movie, and this time instead of aliens, ghosts or a Samuel Jackson made of glass the culprit is a flu virus that makes you throw yourself under a riding lawn mower. It’s a pretty accurate portrayal actually. We know because we’ve been there. If you see the back of our head, send it to our PO box, won’t you) $30,500,000
4) You Don’t Mess With The Zohan (Billy Madison? Are you in there? Please?) $16,400,000
5) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (When Laboeuf is temporarily adopted by the monkeys and they teach him to Tarzan through the jungle just in time, well, at least it doesn’t have little Darth Vader yelling ‘Yippee!!’) $13,547,000
Sex & The City came in at number 6, and although we usually don’t report on 6th place, we’ve had the perfect joke all week: It’s kinda like the Incredible Hulk, except only Parker’s nose gets exposed to the gamma radiation.
Wasn’t that worth it?
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