The Dark Knight (2008)
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The Dark Knight (2008)

It’s somewhat appropriate that The Dark Knight is the only Batman film so far that doesn’t name its hero in the title: after all, this isn’t so much a film about Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale) as it is about Gotham City

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Wanted (2008)
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Wanted (2008)

So you’ve spent years waiting, and it’s finally here: at last you have the chance to see Angelina Jolie in a film about…yep, knitting assassins. Cool, or what?

So that might be a somewhat tenuous description, but it’s true: Wanted features Jolie as Fox, an assassin.

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The Incredible Hulk (2008)
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The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Batman Begins really raised the bar a few years ago in terms of superhero remakes (okay, truth be told, nothing can ever beat Adam West’s shot at a Batman movie…but that was long before the 90s and Joel Schumacher gave us George Clooney in rubber in a way that would never wash out of our minds no matter how hard we tried.) To keep things fair though, I’ll try to avoid comparing The Incredible Hulk to Ang Lee’s Hulk (or the late 70s TV series) except for saying one thing: IT’S MUCH BETTER (to a certain extent…)

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