ain't got the power

[extemporanea]

As you must all have realised by now, I list "superheroes" as one of my Low Reprehensible Passions. This is not really the only reason why I rather liked Ang Lee's Hulk, which was a good movie for its first two-thirds despite being a truly dire one for the last third, and which moreover had its interesting character arc and cinematography

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Hulk

[first_fallen]

He has no control, and it's that control which we most expect from superheroes

I see your point, and raise you one Grey Hulk (that bit at the end where he learns to change at will). We were wondering if he would be a villain (a la the Ultimates graphic novels) or a team member in the eventual Avengers movie, now we know.

I didn't think he was big enough, actually.

Re: Hulk

[extemporanea]

No, see, that ending change-at-will bit annoyed me. The problem is not learning to change at will, the problem is controlling himself when he's Hulking. The film assumed throughout that the only thing which controlled him in his rages was Betty, then conveniently forgot about that: apparently Hulk Controls Smash when a bigger, nastier villain pops up. He hates and wants to smash the military, except when he decides not to. There's no rationale for it in the film. Phooey.

I'm actually going to quite enjoy seeing Edward Norton be an Avenger, if only because of the reflected glory of Robert Downey Jr., but the character is going to have to take a giant hairy sinewy-green-thighed quantum leap from the way it's been set up in the film.

Re: Hulk

[first_fallen]

When he's the Grey Hulk he can control himself. He's basically him, only big (and grey, not green).

Also, it's a comic book, it doesn't have to have internal logical consistency :P.

Check out the Wikipedia article, all the different personalities get a bit redonkulous.