How do you want the transformation from Banner to Hulk, to look?

[Naite22]

How do I want the transformation to look?... In a word: PAINFUL!

 

[Dirty Harry]

Me likee!

My personal hope is that I feel the same thing I felt when Banner transformed in the TV show. The "oh s***, it's all going down" feeling. I wonder how they'll accomplish that with his run-ins with Abom, since we know Abom is initially stronger.

Well the cool thing about that is that we, as Hulk CB fans, know that A-Bom is stronger, but Joe Sixpack who is unfamiliar with the CB gallery of villains might be shocked to see Mean Green get his handed to him - which will make the ass-whipping Hulk dishes out later all the sweeter!t:

 

[Doc Samson]

Exactly. It was bad acting or a bad script if you ask me.

"Talbot, you're making me angry."

"Oh am I?" Talbot says in the gayest voice possible.

From there, we get the second Hulkout... one that conveniently enough has Talbot landing on a couch when he's initially thrown. Like, "Don't inflict any pain just yet -- we're being NICE to Talbot during this transformation. In a minute, we're going to have the Hulk throw the couch through the window and then toss Talbot a SECOND time. THEN Talbot will feel pain..." It was just all too drawn out and I hardly engaged with whatever anger Banner might've been feeling.

Lol!! I had such a problem with that dude thru the whole film. Talbot is a very important character especially in early comics lore, and I felt not only was Lucas' performance poor, but the script was also. They never introduced the fact that Talbot and Betty used to be an item, unless you were into the comics you had no idea how Betty knew of him or why she was so mad to see him the first time he shows up. Not to mention the fact that Talbot was the ideal man for Betty in her father's eyes, which is where all the tension should've come from in the first place, none of that was written for his character and it definitely would've helped.

I do agree too, that the tension was lacking, at least after that first Hulk-out. That buildup and suspense is what it's all about, I feel those scenes happened a little too quick...

 

[Ebonywolf]

Personally, I liked the way they handled it in the 1996 animated series, at least in the first episode. It should be painful, because obviously that sort of thing would be incredibly painful, and at the same time I liked how they showed Bruce resisting and ultimately losing. Something like that would be fine by me. And in The Avengers the first transformation was slow and extremely painful because he was resisting, but the second one was consensual and so a lot faster and less painful, so including elements of that would be good, too.
As for this debate on whether or not the Hulk is a release of tension or not... I say yes and no. Indeed, in some ways it's a release, as anyone who has bottled up their anger and then unleashed it can attest to. Getting really angry about something at work and then coming home to punch the crap out of a punching bag does feel pretty good, lol. However, if the transformation is due to some other adrenaline-causing event, say fear instead of anger, then it's probably less fun. At the same time, it'd still be painful and scary because Bruce would be losing control and afraid of hurting others.
Like another said, the Hulk is more than just a physical transformation, but a psychological one, too. I like the idea of transforming into the Hulk being both frightening (because a)you're losing control of your body and b)you might hurt/kill someone, especially someone you care about) and a guilty pleasure for Bruce, because in some ways it's also dropping the mask and letting out his repressed anger.
Also, I imagine transforming into the Hulk would not only be all these above things, but a little like being put under or falling asleep. Have you ever been given anesthesia or just been really really tired and tried staying awake? It's hard, and I feel it must feel a little like that for Bruce except instead of passing out or falling asleep he blacks out and turns into the Hulk.