As far as the Incredible Hulk is concerned....
I enjoyed it. This shits all over the ang lee crapfest.
Let me refresh you all on how terrible the ang lee version is-
You have Bruce Banner walking around talky talky to so much talky for over 30 minutes while jennifer connely occasionally looks on being really hot.
Then the accident occurs and you get a lame poorly directed action sequence with hulk that's a very poor way to introduce him to the big screen. Following this we get more slow talky talky bullshit and backstory about characters no one even WANTS to give a shit about , including the retarded "nick nolte injects his son with super dna in a drunken stupor before getting arrested for a DUI" plotline and how it connects to the ZZZzzz sorry I fell asleep. Eventually I seem to recall hulk escapes from the military installation and bunny hops throughout the dessert punching tanks, I was mildly entertained there but just as it really gets rolling it's over again for more talky talky mostly involving nick nolte and his horribly acted and written role as a drunk hobo living in a trailer. This leads into the worst action scene of the film, hulk fighting hulk dogs ... in the dark .. in a forest, they could have just not animated any special effects for how well I could actually see anything. Just make it a black scene with lots of growling and grunting and the occasional snapping twig , maybe throw a few screeching tires from Nick nolte's 73' ford POS driving up to the set and smashing through a few light posts in the distance. Finally this stupid lame man punching dog scene ends with a punch to the nuts that the audience likely felt in their wallets. Not content to simply end the movie shortly after that scene and pretend nick nolte was killed after driving onto the set in a drunken stupor , the film keeps going. The hulk has been captured, nick nolte has been persuaded with a 40 ounce of gin to stay in a seat with eric bana nearby. We've had a scene explaining that nick nolte tried to inject himself with super dna like he did to his son but it leaves his DNA unstable and one of the big marvel super villians- Absorbing Man- gets wasted. So back on set nick nolte having finished his bottle of gin off in mere seconds mumbles something incoherent and bites into an electrical cord and turns into a gigantic lightning bolt . Afterwards hulk starts having one of the worst hero VS villain superbattles in cinematic history and eventually a nuclear bomb is dropped seemingly destroying the 2 characters for good saving us the agony of a sequel to this mess. But alas it was not to be as a final scene shows bruce banner wandering the streets of a random part of south america.
The film had so many problems it's not even worth mentioning where it actually went right but I"ll say I actually liked the comic book panel editing techniques and didn't mind the cast... aside from nick nolte.
I just recall being so hyped for it and walking out of the theatre thinking it was pretty awful. Character development is all well and good but it needs to be interesting to watch still and if you're going to do action in a film that should be so easy to do action IN you'd better make sure it's atleast fun to watch instead of laughable.
Incredible Hulk though... it was actually an entertaining film, the action was excellent edge of my seat stuff, the special effects were better , hulk no longer looked like gumby for one thing. This was what the original should have been, there's no nick nolte as an insane drunk hobo with a baboon semen filled syringe careening wildly around city streets drinking up life in all it's forms, just an understated and well used norton making kissy sad faces at liv tyler while hulk smashes tanks , missiles and the ABOMINATION. The further setup leading up to Avengers was well done as well, here's hoping that THOR and CAPTAIN AMERICA will continue marvels film success.
Let me refresh you all on how terrible the ang lee version is-
You have Bruce Banner walking around talky talky to so much talky for over 30 minutes while jennifer connely occasionally looks on being really hot.
Then the accident occurs and you get a lame poorly directed action sequence with hulk that's a very poor way to introduce him to the big screen. Following this we get more slow talky talky bullshit and backstory about characters no one even WANTS to give a shit about , including the retarded "nick nolte injects his son with super dna in a drunken stupor before getting arrested for a DUI" plotline and how it connects to the ZZZzzz sorry I fell asleep. Eventually I seem to recall hulk escapes from the military installation and bunny hops throughout the dessert punching tanks, I was mildly entertained there but just as it really gets rolling it's over again for more talky talky mostly involving nick nolte and his horribly acted and written role as a drunk hobo living in a trailer. This leads into the worst action scene of the film, hulk fighting hulk dogs ... in the dark .. in a forest, they could have just not animated any special effects for how well I could actually see anything. Just make it a black scene with lots of growling and grunting and the occasional snapping twig , maybe throw a few screeching tires from Nick nolte's 73' ford POS driving up to the set and smashing through a few light posts in the distance. Finally this stupid lame man punching dog scene ends with a punch to the nuts that the audience likely felt in their wallets. Not content to simply end the movie shortly after that scene and pretend nick nolte was killed after driving onto the set in a drunken stupor , the film keeps going. The hulk has been captured, nick nolte has been persuaded with a 40 ounce of gin to stay in a seat with eric bana nearby. We've had a scene explaining that nick nolte tried to inject himself with super dna like he did to his son but it leaves his DNA unstable and one of the big marvel super villians- Absorbing Man- gets wasted. So back on set nick nolte having finished his bottle of gin off in mere seconds mumbles something incoherent and bites into an electrical cord and turns into a gigantic lightning bolt . Afterwards hulk starts having one of the worst hero VS villain superbattles in cinematic history and eventually a nuclear bomb is dropped seemingly destroying the 2 characters for good saving us the agony of a sequel to this mess. But alas it was not to be as a final scene shows bruce banner wandering the streets of a random part of south america.
The film had so many problems it's not even worth mentioning where it actually went right but I"ll say I actually liked the comic book panel editing techniques and didn't mind the cast... aside from nick nolte.
I just recall being so hyped for it and walking out of the theatre thinking it was pretty awful. Character development is all well and good but it needs to be interesting to watch still and if you're going to do action in a film that should be so easy to do action IN you'd better make sure it's atleast fun to watch instead of laughable.
Incredible Hulk though... it was actually an entertaining film, the action was excellent edge of my seat stuff, the special effects were better , hulk no longer looked like gumby for one thing. This was what the original should have been, there's no nick nolte as an insane drunk hobo with a baboon semen filled syringe careening wildly around city streets drinking up life in all it's forms, just an understated and well used norton making kissy sad faces at liv tyler while hulk smashes tanks , missiles and the ABOMINATION. The further setup leading up to Avengers was well done as well, here's hoping that THOR and CAPTAIN AMERICA will continue marvels film success.