The Incredible Hulk

Initial reviews on the geekier sites have been very positive, and with Marvel taking their properties back in-house and so far making a great job of it (Iron Man), I have a good feeling about this. I quite liked the Ang Lee one too (although it want a bit far after the whole Absorbing Man thing), but it was very silly, and didn't feel like the Marvel property.

BTW, Indy 4 was fine - people are just being sniffy about it because they have no Star Wars films to kick anymore. ;)
 
Watched it today and I have to say it was so much better than Ang Lee's 2003 mess

Every time I looked at Edward Norton I kept seeing a lot of Bix in him

LoaRAB of nice little tip of the hats to the TV series ranging from
The lonely man theme music, reporter Jack magee, Lou Ferrigno and of course Bix on the TV screen at the beginning

Highly recommended viewing and a good appetiser for the main course of The Dark Knight next month
 
Well I look at it this way. Big green monsters do not exist, so if you can stretch your imagination to accept that they do, then I don't see how CGI means that you can't. To me its no different to reading the comic and believing in the character.
 
Airbrushing a few wires out of place to make a load of buggys move is a lot easier than using the "old fashioned" way to create a huge monster....

The TV version wasn't true to the comics anyways, The Hulk is meant to be this huge mutated creature, not some Chippendale guy painted green!

Theres no way a convincing Hulk could be created without CGI. Yes make up and prostetics are still used, for close up scenes they can work great but if you want the action sequences you get in the Hulk, then cgi is really the only way!

The Hulk tv series, as great as it may have been back then, is very outdated for todays audience, to do anything on the scale theyve done with The Hulk, CGI is the only way.
 
I saw this film, I liked it but...I did not care for the CGI either. Not just the monsters but one scene in particular, when Hulk takes Betty to a cave of some sort, whilst not only being very reminiscent of King Kong, looked very fake to me.

I'm not really disappointed because I got what I expected from the trailers. The first part of the film, the section in Brazil, was well done. It's when it shifted to America that it lost something. And the ending just seemed like typical, blockbuster battle type stuff. I thought the Abomination looked ridiculous and I did not care for Tim Roth's portrayal. And then there's Liv Tyler...oh dear.

On the plus side, there was Ed Norton of course. He was good, but when isn't he? However, when he transformed into The Hulk it just became another popcorn movie. It almost felt like two different films slotted together. A shame.
 
Agreed. If it was all done in camera with man in a suit or painted green with a wig, or even an animatronic puppet people would still bitch about it :D
The Hulk ain't real people. And comics aren't an accurate representation of the real world. Give the F/X guys a break!
 
This was sort of what turned me off from the idea as well, but mainly because of how huge the CGI character was. When I saw the first film, I just thought to myself as he was changing, how big is he actually going to be? Is he going to stop growing? I think if they had kept him the original size of the character who played the original Incredible Hulk, then this might have appealed to me more. I guess they must have thought that if they made him much more bigger, actually huge, then this might have got the kiRAB and early teenagers more into it kind of thing. I'm actually not sure they were too bothered about getting the fans of the original Incredible Hulk back to see this. I think all they seemed to be bothered about was making him more impactish if you like. The kid sees something of his size in the film, therefore they'll go and tell their frienRAB about how big the character was on screen, thus the other kiRAB will want to see the film to see what all the fuss was about. It certainly would have been nice if they had kept the size of the original Hulk intact though, but I guess it's like all the action films these days that have monster characters in them..............bigger's better.
 
He wanted the film to run at approx 140 minutes but the film clocks in at just under 2 hours.

Probably a good thing in my opinion. Some films have too much unnecessary stuff on them......
 
I agree with this. I think if they had used an actor wearing make-up etc the wider audience would have been 'the hulk looked crap'. I would be interested to see what they could do with just make-up given what has been acheived in the Hellboy movies. But a muscle mary painted green? That isn't enough of a force these days.

I loved the TV series, but as a fan of the original comic, the TV show barely resembled it. I liked that it was a more human depiction and set in reality, much like Nolan is doing with Batman these days, but the Hulk lacked the impact that he had in the comic. They got away with it because all he had to do was smash through walls and throw blokes about, but on a movie scale an audience expects more.
 
It's the excising of the 'suicide' plotline that was the bone of contention between Norton (who was co-writer as well as star) and Leterrier, it seems.
 
where was the bill bixy one? and can someone explain the ending to me in a spolier please ie when robert downey junior coems on it left me:confused::confused::confused: but brill film.
 
I saw a preview screening at the IMAX in WAterloo yesterday and thought the film was very average. I was disappointed in Ed Norton, as he normally signs up to strongly written filmd with good characterisation, but here the characters and plot are side-lined for fight/chase scenes. The chase scenes in Brazil are great, reminiscent of the ones from the Bourne films, but the actual Hulk fails again with the too obvious CGI.

Without giving away spoilers, there were tonnes of cheesy moments and Liv Tyler was appalling. I could not believe she was meant to be a Doctor of Biology with the dippy lines she was given and the way she carried herself.

The IMAX presentation made it feel pretty good, and the Iron man cameo was great, although confused the hell out of my frienRAB who hadn't seen that film.

Worth a watch, but you won't be going back for seconRAB.
 
And at the start of the TV series he was very much presented as the former, very mutant-looking but the face was significantly toned down as the series progressed, suggesting producers had perhaps received complaints from parents.
 
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