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July 2003 | |
Interview: As They Say In The Bible ... Industrial: Just Doing It Unions: Breaking Into the Boys Club Activists: Making the Hard Yards Bad Boss: In the Pooh Unions: National Focus Economics: Pop Will Eat Itself Technology: Dean for President International: Rangoon Rumble Education: Blackboard Jungle Review: From Weakness to Strength Poetry: Downsized
The Soapbox The Locker Room Postcard
A Recipe for Conflict
Aussie Workers Cradle-Snatched Morris McMahon Workers Say Thanks Violence: Emerson Fingers Abbott Coke Called on to Stop the Rot Bridgestone Drops Doughnut on Workers Maternity Breakthrough in Hotels Labour Rights: Even Bush is Better! Long Winter for Seasonal Workers
Orange Peel After the Accident Cuba - the Debate Continues Old Ted Greetings from Japan
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Review From Weakness to Strength
*********** The best way to describe how I feel about The Hulk movie is to liken it to the transformation of Bruce Banner to the Hulk. Bruce is boring, unexciting, and has a few inner problems. This also sums up the first hour of The Hulk. But when Bruce Banner transforms into the raging, exciting, on the edge of your seat Hulk so does the movie. It is almost as if the writers of the script purposely set out to give the audience a first hand experience of what it feels like to go from weakness to strength.
I must confess that the Hulk was always my favourite Marvel superhero. And why not? A bloke who can take on the might of the US military and win against all the odds must have something going for him.
The Hulk movie extends the comic book theme to one where the real villain in the plot is corporate capitalism. A private sector company seeks to capture the Hulk and clone his genes so that they can produce a ready made invincible army to sell off to governments. Of course the Hulk soon puts the villains in their place. He destroys the military base where they had him imprisoned and then takes us on a fantastic desert battle where military tanks, helicopters and fighter planes are no match for the green monster. But alas, the Hulk does have a weakness. You guessed it - a woman - Betty Connolly. The Hulk gets lured into a false sense of security and it takes a woman to do it. Then the Hulk is captured for a second time (again no thanks to Betty) only to be nuked out of existence (or so it seems). But you can bet your bottom dollar the Hulk will return. ****** Tara's Rating: 3 Ernie nominations for Chris
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