The Hulk movie reviews

[Guest TonyJaymzV1]

He meant with the panel style, etc. Not the "picking up stuff" fighting.

 

and I know someone who can tear a tank apart....

[Agent_Bond34 0]

I went and seen it yesterday afternoon. I caught the 12:45 PM showing of it. The fucking place was packed! And the stupid shitheads who kept running and giggling should've been slapped.

 

For the most part, I enjoyed it, although I found it weird in some parts, but still enjoyed it.

 

By the way, I have one question:

 

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How the hell did Bruce Banner survive that bomb explosion?

[Guest SP-1]

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he survived everything else they threw at him. He was in Hulk Form at the time, frozen. Plus, chances are his dad absorbed most of that energy and it, coupled with bruce throwing everything emotionally at him, destroyed him.

[Agent_Bond34 0]

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he survived everything else they threw at him. He was in Hulk Form at the time, frozen. Plus, chances are his dad absorbed most of that energy and it, coupled with bruce throwing everything emotionally at him, destroyed him.

Ahh, I get it.

 

That makes a bit more sense, now.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

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I believe he was also underwater at the time.

[Guest Lil Naitch]

I thought the carmera work was wierd, but I enjoyed it otherwise.

[Guest Nanks]

Anyone who sees it and is disappointed by Bana, I plead with you not to totally dismiss him and re-re-reitirate my advice to see Chopper. See it now damnit, I watched it again last night and it's more awesome every time.

[Guest DrTom]

I thought Bana sleepwalked thru the movie. He's been good in other things I've seen, but it's still disappointing to see him turn in such a dismal performace when handed the lead role in a movie that's expected to do well.

 

TSM Review of The Hulk

[Guest wrestlingbs]

I saw it tonight. I've seen X-Men, X2, Spiderman, and Daredevil as well, and I have to say that Hulk may be the worst of the bunch.

 

I'll say this, the Hulk himself is awesome. Most of the fight scenes (I said most, I'll get to the ending later) were fun to watch. The Hulk looks incredible, and I agree with Stan Lee that the technology availible right now makes it a perfect time to release The Hulk. He's animated, emotional, and fun to watch. The fight scenes were perfectly executed. And, for what it's worth, Ang Lee sticks true to his vision of a "comic book" movie. You could take almost every scene straight from a comic book.

 

But this isn't a comic book, it's a movie. And as a movie, it blows. The acting, storyline, and execution are terrible. And before you say "It's just an action movie, it's not supposed to be deep," yeah, you're right. But the good ones are. Spiderman worked because Maguire, Defoe, and Dunst made you care about the characters. It had a decent story, too, which brought you easily into the characters shoes and quickly to the action.

 

But with Hulk you get nothing. The story setup is boring. It takes around 40 minutes before the Hulk shows up, and by then you don't care. Plotlines, such as the father-daughter relationship with Ross never go anywhere. A lot of this could have changed if the acting carried the story. After all, the Marvel movies aren't Shakespeare, they're not meant to be, but good actors can make a movie work. It just doesn't happen in the Hulk. Eric Bana may have been great in Chopper, but in this movie he's as unemotional as cardboard. Even for Bruce Banner he's too calm. Nick Nolte has his moments, but all too often he comes off as goofy. I don't know the name of the female lead, but she was the worst of the bunch. Eric can get away with it for playing Bruce Banner, but she shows no, and I mean NO emotion. She shows one facial expression, quiet saddness, and keeps at it throughout the entire movie.

 

As for the ending:

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They should have cut everything out after the scene in the streets of San Fran. The final battle, the epilogue, everything after was just plain stupid. And I can't believe they end it with Banner protecting some unknown people from a generic South American country, wearing the world's fakest beard ever made.

 

Maybe I'm wrong. A lot of people liked the movie. But personally I just didn't. The fight scenes were good, at least.

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

I saw it tonight. I've seen X-Men, X2, Spiderman, and Daredevil as well, and I have to say that Hulk may be the worst of the bunch.

 

I'll say this, the Hulk himself is awesome. Most of the fight scenes (I said most, I'll get to the ending later) were fun to watch. The Hulk looks incredible, and I agree with Stan Lee that the technology availible right now makes it a perfect time to release The Hulk. He's animated, emotional, and fun to watch. The fight scenes were perfectly executed. And, for what it's worth, Ang Lee sticks true to his vision of a "comic book" movie. You could take almost every scene straight from a comic book.

 

But this isn't a comic book, it's a movie. And as a movie, it blows. The acting, storyline, and execution are terrible. And before you say "It's just an action movie, it's not supposed to be deep," yeah, you're right. But the good ones are. Spiderman worked because Maguire, Defoe, and Dunst made you care about the characters. It had a decent story, too, which brought you easily into the characters shoes and quickly to the action.

 

But with Hulk you get nothing. The story setup is boring. It takes around 40 minutes before the Hulk shows up, and by then you don't care. Plotlines, such as the father-daughter relationship with Ross never go anywhere. A lot of this could have changed if the acting carried the story. After all, the Marvel movies aren't Shakespeare, they're not meant to be, but good actors can make a movie work. It just doesn't happen in the Hulk. Eric Bana may have been great in Chopper, but in this movie he's as unemotional as cardboard. Even for Bruce Banner he's too calm. Nick Nolte has his moments, but all too often he comes off as goofy. I don't know the name of the female lead, but she was the worst of the bunch. Eric can get away with it for playing Bruce Banner, but she shows no, and I mean NO emotion. She shows one facial expression, quiet saddness, and keeps at it throughout the entire movie.

 

As for the ending:

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They should have cut everything out after the scene in the streets of San Fran. The final battle, the epilogue, everything after was just plain stupid. And I can't believe they end it with Banner protecting some unknown people from a generic South American country, wearing the world's fakest beard ever made.

 

Maybe I'm wrong. A lot of people liked the movie. But personally I just didn't. The fight scenes were good, at least.

I have to disagree with you there. The HULK told the best story of any comic movie ever made, IMO. This is the first time ever a director has taken the time to set up the characters so in depth.

 

And Tom, I think Bana's perfprmance was supposed to come off that way.

 

But people complain about not having a good story for a comic movie and when they have one they say that there wasn't enough action and too much story.

[Guest wrestlingbs]

I have to disagree with you there. The HULK told the best story of any comic movie ever made, IMO. This is the first time ever a director has taken the time to set up the characters so in depth.

 

And Tom, I think Bana's perfprmance was supposed to come off that way.

 

But people complain about not having a good story for a comic movie and when they have one they say that there wasn't enough action and too much story.

I just didn't think the story was that great. Sure, his relationship with his parents was good, but I think it really didn't hit hard enough.

 

Maybe you're right about Bana. He could have just taken the character as a person with hardly any emotion. I just saw the character differently.

 

As for complaining, I thought X2 and Spiderman were great mixes of both action and drama. I have no problems with those movies. Actually, I think X2's director was better than Ang Lee.

[Guest DrTom]

And Tom, I think Bana's perfprmance was supposed to come off that way.

I hope so. If it was, it worked. If not, then he turned in a terrible performance. Bruce Banner may be 'bottled up,' but he's a very complex and interesting character, and Bana brought none of that to the screen. I saw his Banner as a ninny who finally a grew a set... that set just happened to be big and green.

[Guest DrTom]

Plotlines, such as the father-daughter relationship with Ross never go anywhere.

On the contrary, the relationship between Betty Ross and her father makes perfect sense in the context of the movie. It's similar to Bruce and David Banner's relationship. They both work because one of the movie's themes is the emptiness of forgiveness: rage and frustration define relationships and character change in the movie. The Ross' relationship was just fine, IMO.

[Guest SP-1]

I'm sort of in a middleground between the way Tom sees it and the thought that Bana was attempting to play Banner as very bottle up. If HULK is intended to be a franchise (and lets face it, it probably is), Bana may get to play Banner a little differently each film as he grows and deals with things internally with the added pressure of destroying small armies everytime he gets pissed off.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

But people complain about not having a good story for a comic movie and when they have one they say that there wasn't enough action and too much story.

See, my complaint is that it's not a good story. The general Hulk conceit is gold; it's a manifestation of rage, the "dark side" of an otherwise normal guy. It's Jekyll and Hyde. Timeless and always compelling.

 

What we got here, though, barely scraped at *that* aspect of the story. The one time Bruce Banner started to talk about it--the whole "When it comes over me, I like it" bit--he's interrupted by the military taking him off to the evil desert base. The movie dodged all the interesting moments about Banner himself, which is the truly intriguing part of the Hulk mythos, in favor of some absolutely vapid parent/child "relationships." You can't tell me with a straight face that Bruce Banner's relationship with his raving, ridiculous father in this movie was "in-depth." Neither father was anything more than a caricature after the first 20 minutes, and their children weren't much better.

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

But people complain about not having a good story for a comic movie and when they have one they say that there wasn't enough action and too much story.

See, my complaint is that it's not a good story. The general Hulk conceit is gold; it's a manifestation of rage, the "dark side" of an otherwise normal guy. It's Jekyll and Hyde. Timeless and always compelling.

 

What we got here, though, barely scraped at *that* aspect of the story. The one time Bruce Banner started to talk about it--the whole "When it comes over me, I like it" bit--he's interrupted by the military taking him off to the evil desert base. The movie dodged all the interesting moments about Banner himself, which is the truly intriguing part of the Hulk mythos, in favor of some absolutely vapid parent/child "relationships." You can't tell me with a straight face that Bruce Banner's relationship with his raving, ridiculous father in this movie was "in-depth." Neither father was anything more than a caricature after the first 20 minutes, and their children weren't much better.

I totally agre with what you just said and think that's what it was supposed to be. Going in you know there is going to be a sequel, so they were teasing you so to say. Giving you a taste of what you're going to see later.

 

I think it was done perfectly.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

Eh. I don't expect this gross to reach $200 million, so a sequel's in question. To me, I wanted more upfront. Now that...

 

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...the Hulk's off in South America as a defender of the oppressed, I don't hold out too much hope for coming back into a sequel that actually explores the duality of Banner and the simpler, more core Hulk values. I expect a big silly villain and more military shenanigans, if it does get made.

[Guest wrestlingbs]

Eh. I don't expect this gross to reach $200 million, so a sequel's in question. To me, I wanted more upfront. Now that...

 

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...the Hulk's off in South America as a defender of the oppressed, I don't hold out too much hope for coming back into a sequel that actually explores the duality of Banner and the simpler, more core Hulk values. I expect a big silly villain and more military shenanigans, if it does get made.

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Exactly what I think. After the weakness of this movie's villian (ohh, he's water, scary) I don't think Hulk II will be very deep. It will probably have what this Hulk was lacking: a big, mutated creature not unlike the hulk that the guy can actually fight with (not dogs, although that fight scene did rule).

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

I enjoyed this movie a lot.

It's my second favorite comic book movie coming in just behind Daredevil.

*btw my order for the marvel movies goes:

1)Daredevil

2)Hulk

3)X2

4)Spider Man

5) X-Men*

 

And to anyone complaining "this isn't a comic book, it's a movie! it should be more realistic"

do us a favor and can it. It's a movie based off of a comic book. It shouldn't try to be as real as possible because well......that's no fun. These Marvel comic movies should be as CLOSE to the comic book as possible.

[Guest Nanks]

Seems to me, with Ang Lee directing, if Bana was meant to deliver a complex character, Lee wouldn't have allowed him to just turn in a flat, emotionless character. After watching him play the insanely complex schizo in Chopper it would seem strange that he wouldn't be able to manage a torn and conflicted character if asked to.

[Guest Grand Slam]

Well, I enjoyed it very much. BUT... the Hulk is one of my favorite characters ever. Ever. Thus, like Spider-Man, if it was even ok then I would like it.

 

I didn't see Bana's performance as wooden or lacking. I thought he did a great job at showing a very repressed, quiet "keeps everything inside" man. I thought Gen. Ross was a little off character, but he worked in the context of the flick.

 

My biggest problem was Nick Nolte. As written, I could see this as being a great role for a great actor. Nick Nolte is not a "great actor". I groaned every time he came on screen. I get this feeling that his hamming it up came off better live than on film, so when it was edited they put in more than was really called for.

 

I thought the epilogue was uneeded. Bruce Banner's story ended when he and Betty embraced. Take out the father sub-plot and this movie would have been awesome. With it in, it was merely pretty good.

 

My friends I saw it with basically hated it. They all complained about the split-screen stuff. One went so far as to say all the stuff with the Hulk was great, but she disliked Bruce Banner.

[Guest Polish_Rifle]

I enjoyed the movie very much. Jennifer Connely’s performance, the plot and Ang Lee’s style really made the film enjoyable. I thought it was a very well thought out film with some nice elements of cartoonish action. Nick Nolte also turned in a very believable performance but I’m not sure if he was really acting. The dude just seems weird and looked almost identical to his last mug shot after he was arrested for drunk driving.

 

I would recommend this film and its definitely a DVD keeper.

[Guest Crucifixio Jones]

I enjoyed this movie a lot.

It's my second favorite comic book movie coming in just behind Daredevil.

*btw my order for the marvel movies goes:

1)Daredevil

2)Hulk

3)X2

4)Spider Man

5) X-Men*

Anyone who's favorite comic book adaption is DAREDEVIL deserves to be shot and have his posts ignored. That is all.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Excuse me for having an opinion there sir.

I like Daredevil. I like Affleck as an actor. I liked the movie and I enjoyed the plot. Excuse me for having different tastes than you sir. Next time I'll check with you to make sure I can like a movie before I declare to everyone that I do.

[The Dames 0]

Honestly CJ, what was SO bad about Daredevil?

 

Dames

[Guest Angle-plex]

I don't know about you guys, but the end of the movie seemed totally out of place in this movie. It went from a serious drama to a comic movie way to fast.

 

It was an OK movie, IMO. I'd give it ** out of ****.

 

EDIT: Oh, and Bana's performance wasn't that great, IMO.

 

I've hated almost every movie I've seen this year.

[Guest Grand Slam]

What else have you seen that you didn't like AP?

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

My picks.

 

1) Daredevil

2) Hulk

3) Spider-Man

4) X2

5) Blade

6) X-Men

7) Blade II

 

Daredevil was everything I wanted in a comic book movie. X2 was fun, but didn't flow well at all. Spider-Man had a fantastic first half, and mediocre second half. X-Men 1 was pretty terrible, as was the second Blade. Hulk was probably a better film than Daredevil, but is let down by a poor finale and a weak secondary villain in Talbot. Daredevil is simply a film that I could put on and watch at any time, Hulk isn't. Although Hulk is certainly better than the rest of them.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Acting-wise, Hulk is really Sam Elliot's movie. He completely overshadows everyone else in the film.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

Acting-wise, Hulk is really Sam Elliot's movie. He completely overshadows everyone else in the film.

I don't get it. He stood around with a mustache and was terrifyingly uncompelling, excepting his absolute pitch-perfect awkwardness during one or two of the one-on-one scenes with Jennifer Connelly--the scene at the restaurant was quick, sharp, and played very straightforward by Sam Elliott, which worked. Much of the crap performance evolves from an abysmally written character, but everyone phoned it in here, with the exception of Nick Nolte, who just wouldn't get off the goddamn phone.

 

As stated before, worst movie I've seen in a long time. We must come from different worlds.