Theater or Renter: June 2008
June 2, 2008 in Movies by Brian Logee
It’s time once again for our favorite game “Theater Or Renter?”
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then Put in your comments below the trailer: does the trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?
For June we have eight movies: Mongol, Kung Fu Panda, The Incredible Hulk, The Happening, Get Smart, The Love Guru, WALL·E, Wanted
Mongol:Release Date: June 6th Listed as: Drama, History Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment Director: Sergei Bodrov Written by: Sergei Bodrov with Arif Aliyev Produced by: Sergei Selyanov, Anton Melnik, and Bulat Galimgereyev Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun The Plot / Story: Mongol looks at the life and legend of Genghis Khan. It follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood through to his adulthood and the battle that sealed his destiny as Genghis Kahn. (The Official Site) |
Kung Fu Panda:Release Date: June 6th Listed as: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family Studio: DreamWorks Animation Director: Mark Osborne John Stevenson Written by: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger Stars: Jack Black, Ian McShane, Angelina Jolie The Plot / Story: Kung Fu Panda is about Po (Jack Black) who is a panda bear that is recruited by a team of Kung Fu masters to help protect the Valley of Peace from an evil snow leopard. (The Official Site) get your copy here |
The Incredible Hulk:Release Date: June 13th Listed as: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Superhero Flix Studio: Marvel Enterprises Director: Universal Pictures Produced by: Written by: Zak Penn, Edward Norton Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt The Plot / Story: The Incredible Hulk, also known as Hulk 2, is a tale about Bruce Banner the Geneticist and his quest for a cure for a condition that turns him into a raging monster known as the Hulk that lives within him. The military wants to learn how to control the Hulk and use Bruce’s research to create super soldiers. In the end they only create an even more deadly monster known as The Abomination. Even though this is the second in the recent Hulk series they are not ignoring the original nor continuing events put forth in that film. (The Official Site) |
The Happening:Release Date: June 13th Listed as: Drama, Sci-Fi Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Director: M. Night Shyamalan Produced by: Written by: M. Night Shyamalan Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo The Plot / Story: Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and other people begin encountering breakdowns in human behavior in major American cities that lead to chilling deaths that seem to be willing suicides committed by the victims. Appearing to be a disease of some sort, the victims undergo a series of steps: loss of speech, followed by disorientation, and the third step is “fatal.” Moore flees from the crisis into Pennsylvania farmlands with his estranged wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), math teacher friend Julian (John Leguizamo), and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) (via Wikipedai). (via Wikipedai) (The Official Site) |
Get Smart:Release Date: June 20th Listed as: Action, Comedy Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Peter Segal Produced by: Alex Gartner, Charles Roven, Andrew Lazar Written by: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember Stars: Steve Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwane Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, James Caan The Plot / Story: Control agent Maxwell Smart (Carrell) is sent on his first mission which is to stop KAOS in their latest plot for world domination. Agent 99 (Hathaway) is sent with him to keep Maxwell Smart out of trouble. (The Official Site) Get your copy of Get Smart here |
The Love Guru:Release Date: June 20th Listed as: Comedy Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: Marco Schnabel Produced by: Mike Myers, Gary Barber Written by: Graham Gordy, Mike Myers Stars: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake The Plot / Story: Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus devotes his life to helping troubled couples. He returns to the States to get into the self-help business. He uses unorthodox methods to resolve his first challenge which is to settle the romantic troubles of a professional hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival lover (Timberlake) before the NHL Stanley Cup. (The Official Site) |
WALL·E:Release Date: June 27th Listed as: Action, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Pixar Director: Andrew Stanton Produced by: Jim Morris, John Lasseter, Lindsey Collins Written by: Andrew Stanton Stars: Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy The Plot / Story: According to John Lasseter:
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Wanted:Release Date: June 27th Listed as: Action, Thriller Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment Director: Timur Bekmambetov Produced by: Marc Platt, Jason Netter, Jim Lemley Written by: Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Chris Morgan, Dean Georgaris Stars: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Angelina Jolie The Plot / Story: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is offered the opportunity to seek revenge in the murder of his father, who was an assassin. Gibson is invited by his father’s partner, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), to follow in his father’s footsteps.[2] Sloan’s second-in-command (Angelina Jolie) mentors Gibson,[3] who follows the death orders issued by the Fates, weavers who read individuals’ destinies in fabrics produced by mystical looms (via wikipedia). (The Official Site) |
