Carl's Movie Mini-Review: The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk
Let's go ahead and address the elephant in the room. What do you want? A thoughtful examination of a troubled character or a pretty picture? If the former, Ang Lee's Hulk is the better one. If the latter, Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk is a monstruous visual spectacular.
I won't really talk about the story in much depth, but my comic book fan friend absolutely hated it. (They had plenty of fan service, though, especially nods to the TV series.) What I can say is that they do a lot of weird things and go a lot of weird place with little in the way of logic or introduction. Of course, the other one had mutant poodles as enemies, so...
If there's one thing I have to give this movie props for, it is that--with the exception of a couple sequences in the climax--the CG is super-spectacular and further puts to shame's Sony's horrible treatment of Spider-Man. Cinematography is also top notch with the camerawork truly playing its own character. Especially impressive is the war-zone photographer framing and dynamic use of focus. Equally impressive is the restraint kept from quick cuts in the action sequences, allowing the audience to really drink in the visions put before them. There is truly a lot of money visible on the screen.
Is it a crowd pleaser? I'd say so. Is it better than Iron Man? Hell, no, and anyone that says so is retarded. Would I recommend it? Well, it is a very, very pretty picture.
Let's go ahead and address the elephant in the room. What do you want? A thoughtful examination of a troubled character or a pretty picture? If the former, Ang Lee's Hulk is the better one. If the latter, Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk is a monstruous visual spectacular.
I won't really talk about the story in much depth, but my comic book fan friend absolutely hated it. (They had plenty of fan service, though, especially nods to the TV series.) What I can say is that they do a lot of weird things and go a lot of weird place with little in the way of logic or introduction. Of course, the other one had mutant poodles as enemies, so...
If there's one thing I have to give this movie props for, it is that--with the exception of a couple sequences in the climax--the CG is super-spectacular and further puts to shame's Sony's horrible treatment of Spider-Man. Cinematography is also top notch with the camerawork truly playing its own character. Especially impressive is the war-zone photographer framing and dynamic use of focus. Equally impressive is the restraint kept from quick cuts in the action sequences, allowing the audience to really drink in the visions put before them. There is truly a lot of money visible on the screen.
Is it a crowd pleaser? I'd say so. Is it better than Iron Man? Hell, no, and anyone that says so is retarded. Would I recommend it? Well, it is a very, very pretty picture.