Hulk Smash... Box Office?
Saw The Incredible Hulk tonight at a preview screening.
I could go into all the nitty-gritty but now I'm sitting here thinking, "Why? No one else has seen the movie, so they can't discuss it with me, and by the time they do see it, this post will be buried pages and pages back."
Maybe I'm assuming too much. I seem to be thinking you read my posts in the first place. I won't put this post behind a cut, but I'll keep it plot-spoiler-free.
But anyway. There were all these rumors I kept hearing that Ed Norton kept demanding they change the script, to the point of temper tantrums. If that's true, well, then either it didn't really matter or maybe he had some good ideas, because the movie was pretty good. It was mercifully sparse of the juvenile humor that permeates... all superhero movies. Maybe because the Hulk is more a monster than a hero, which is what makes the Hulk so interesting. And the movie got that. Of course, this also explains why I was never a Hulk fan to start with (though I had heehaw_tng to fill me in on some of the more obscure bits of Hulk lore pertinent to the film).
Liv Tyler was good, her hair was not. I find her exceedingly adorable. She's not Jennifer Connelly, but she did her own thing and that was fine.
It was definitely better than the 2003 movie. It took about oh, 40 seconds of opening credits to be better than that film. And mind you, I didn't even hate that movie. I thought cutting up the screen into comic panels and doing all these weird wipes was stupid as shit; the example I usually bring up is the scene with the helicopters carrying the Hulk, and there's three but it looks like five because of the way they cut it from different angles. And then there was, oh, the last half-hour with his dad and that awful battle.
None of that here. You want giant monsters fighting? You got it. You want lots of shit getting blown up? Done. You want General Ross actually being General Ross? Check. The military was actually more than just a plot device, there were characters! (Which reminds me, tom_kiper, there was a pair of soldiers who could have been Bob the Hydra Agent's cousins.) You want stupid jokes referring to the old television show and minor things from the comics and oh, the obligatory appearance by Stan Lee? Done and done!
Maybe in a few years we'll look at the CG Hulk in this film and cringe, but right now it's decent and most important, he can emote! I kept waiting for him to say, "Hulk's cereal is getting soggy."
Final word (for now, anyway)? I liked Iron Man better, but this was pretty cool.
I could go into all the nitty-gritty but now I'm sitting here thinking, "Why? No one else has seen the movie, so they can't discuss it with me, and by the time they do see it, this post will be buried pages and pages back."
Maybe I'm assuming too much. I seem to be thinking you read my posts in the first place. I won't put this post behind a cut, but I'll keep it plot-spoiler-free.
But anyway. There were all these rumors I kept hearing that Ed Norton kept demanding they change the script, to the point of temper tantrums. If that's true, well, then either it didn't really matter or maybe he had some good ideas, because the movie was pretty good. It was mercifully sparse of the juvenile humor that permeates... all superhero movies. Maybe because the Hulk is more a monster than a hero, which is what makes the Hulk so interesting. And the movie got that. Of course, this also explains why I was never a Hulk fan to start with (though I had heehaw_tng to fill me in on some of the more obscure bits of Hulk lore pertinent to the film).
Liv Tyler was good, her hair was not. I find her exceedingly adorable. She's not Jennifer Connelly, but she did her own thing and that was fine.
It was definitely better than the 2003 movie. It took about oh, 40 seconds of opening credits to be better than that film. And mind you, I didn't even hate that movie. I thought cutting up the screen into comic panels and doing all these weird wipes was stupid as shit; the example I usually bring up is the scene with the helicopters carrying the Hulk, and there's three but it looks like five because of the way they cut it from different angles. And then there was, oh, the last half-hour with his dad and that awful battle.
None of that here. You want giant monsters fighting? You got it. You want lots of shit getting blown up? Done. You want General Ross actually being General Ross? Check. The military was actually more than just a plot device, there were characters! (Which reminds me, tom_kiper, there was a pair of soldiers who could have been Bob the Hydra Agent's cousins.) You want stupid jokes referring to the old television show and minor things from the comics and oh, the obligatory appearance by Stan Lee? Done and done!
Maybe in a few years we'll look at the CG Hulk in this film and cringe, but right now it's decent and most important, he can emote! I kept waiting for him to say, "Hulk's cereal is getting soggy."
Final word (for now, anyway)? I liked Iron Man better, but this was pretty cool.