Is the Hulk in trouble even before the first ticket has been purchased?

Right, your fanboy impatience is a direct collation to a lack of worthy presentable material.
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Right, no confidence, they gave millions of dollars to a movie they don't believe in. Because Marvel, a comic book company FINALLY venturing into movies for themselves wants to just throw money in the toilet.

Yeah.


Okay.

 

While Webhead38 may be jumping the gun slightly, he does have a good point.

Look back at most films...this close to release they would have already had the teaser out and possible a full trailer.

I don't know what Marvel/Universal are waiting on but waiting 4 months before the film is released to show just the teaser(unless they skip that and go straight to full trailer) is bad marketing for the film.

They need to get this in everyone's face. The ads list for the Superbowl has Universal down, so hopefully we get a sneak peak tomorrow.

 

Didn't say they weren't dropping the ball marketing wise.

Did say they weren't deliberately ignoring it.

How about you heed your own advice eh kid?

 

What I'm saying is, we NEED a trailer and SOON. And the trailer should be so good, it's just like "DAMN!" and everyone is shocked.

The Dark what? Iron who?

 

Ok, I write this one last time so all (especially Webhead38) might understand the marketing that Marvel is setting up for both Marvel movies. First and foremost, Iron Man is the first movie up this year and he seems ignorant to the fact that even though the Hulk hasn't shown anything of real significance, its because they are thumping away at promoting IM. There is no lack of confidence there, just a methodical purpose to the marketing. If they bombard the market with Hulk stuff now, we would be the only ones satisfied, not the general consensus. They want the Hulk to remain fresh in the minds of the non-Hulk fans they seek and target. You and I will see this movie anyway. As far as the movie being in trouble, the only ones panicking are the fan boys and no one else. Oh, and for your information, Universal was the one promoting the 2003 movie and in charge of marketing, not Marvel. We don't need a teaser during the Super Bowl, Iron Man needs the promos at this time. I will take three straight months of heavy promos any day. So anxious to see a character we know already. You guys obviously don't understand marketing and there's nothing you can write or offer to change that statement. Once again, Marvel knows what they are doing. That is a fact. get over it.

 

We are all so spoiled by places like this that practically tell us everything about a movie before it comes out. Ya know, I remember as a kid, we didn't have the net, so we actually had to wait until the release date to find out if Vader was truly Luke's father. How do you think that felt?......Pretty damn exciting to be honest.

 

well, that as very well said. i agree totally with the batman refference. batman begins had a huge problem with bringing fans back after batman and robin. hulk was by no means as bad as that movie, but it didnt give any one what if promised in trailers. take out the hulk bits, your left with utter crap. and even some hulk bits are cringe worthy. i dont know of any other movie with such a huge fan base, huge cast, that has left marketing this late in the game. its a joke, and sorry eb, you know i respect ya, but its a pathetic joke at best.

 

Obviously you are overreacting, you know nothing of Marvel marketing plans.
Edward Norton is into this for the long run, he wants sequels to this film, he wrote the script, I don't think failure is an option for him nor Marvel, your speculations are just nonsensical.

 

They need to work on this, it would seem.

 

Maybe it's just me, but the simple fact that I know I'll see Hulk and Abomb duke it out on the screen.....it's all I need. Word of mouth can in itself be a huge marketing tool and free advertisment to boot. I've never been a big IM fan....will I see it, yes, but amoung my fellow collectors and other people in the comic book business....IM needs more marketing. People outside of comics have heard or know of the Hulk outside the bomb of the 03 film. The TV show and succesful Saturday cartoon morning etc., most know of the Hulk in some form or fashion. However, people outside the hobby/industry have never even heard of IM. So, IM needs the marketing more so than the Hulk at this point. I say IM gets the SB plug, while I expect the Hulk to get some airtime during the NCAA tournament, which plays to a huge audience as well and over a longer span in which to market the film and keep it fresh in the general publics mind.

 

I don't believe the film is in trouble. I believe it's on the path that the franchise should have taken from the beginning.

I do believe that the studio is carefully considering the aftertaste left behind from the failed Ang Lee Hulk. When they do advertise the upcoming film, they should be thinking of ways to differentiate it from Ang's flop.

I have come to believe that the overwhelming majority of viewers in the target audiences for summer blockbusters are already so saturated by advertising, and media in general...that early looks and sneak-peeks are really not as effective as we would like to think. In other words, the people who get excited over Superbowl trailers and mark their calendars are the ones who would've gone to see the movies anyway. Most people will stare at it, react one way or another, and then FORGET about it until opening weekend.

 

I tend to agree with everything you just said. The general audience that makes or breaks a movie...start thinking about the movie a week or two before the movie opens

Die hard fans such as MOST OF US HERE are different. The 2nd we heard this movie was coming off for 2008, we all started to think about it...many...just like me wind uprushing to the hype every day hopeing for more news. Some tiny morsel to keep our hopes...and machinations going

face it...we're freaks. :gray:

 

Superfreaks.

 

It's a bad job on Marvel's part... you don't reboot after five years... they should have went Thor... then C.A in 09... then the Hulk in 2010... Hulk will suffer from the Ang Lee factor.

 

You've got a good point.
Why the heck would they immediately jump to make a Hulk remake, when they've got other fresh properties that they could have established.

Maybe Iron Man will be so stellar that people will have a huge burst of confidence towards Marvel productions and the Hulk will benefit from that.

But the disappointment of Angs Hulk still lingers, as many of you have pointed out, and as I've noticed, whenever I mention the Hulk remake people are less then enthused.
That is directly linked to the previous failure.

Seeing Thor this summer probably would have been much cooler and if done well would do wonders for Marvels popularity.

But I'll still be seeing the Hulk opening day! t:

 

very well said. i think this is one of those situations where both sides have a point.. you both are right and wrong at the same time..you both have good points and you both have bad points but im leaning towards webhead cuz frankly we have gotten absolutly nothing and the stuff that is out of the hulk was leaked.. like the bust and stuff. so technically they havent shown the hulk at all yet. like a good clear pic.. which i find baffling..

 

LOL, bull**** on all counts. Methodical purpose to the marketing???

I'm also really eager to see The Incredible Hulk, but 4-5 months away and no teaser is horrible...absolutely horrible marketing.

Don't try and use Iron Man as an excuse. It's not because they want to just show off Iron Man. If that were the case, I guess their going to show off Hulk in May...only a month before release. Bad news.

As far as the bombarding, there has been no bombarding and won't be. If they were to have shown a teaser in January and then a month or two later shown a full trailer, that wouldn't have been bombarding.

It's the general 'consesus' that needs to be shown what their going to show to get them pumped. Waiting till the last minute is not a good marketing plan, especially in a summer with so many big movies coming out.

 

Guy #1: DUDE WASN'T EMPIRE FREAKING AMAZING!?

Guy #2: YEAH I COULDN'T BELIEVE VADER WAS LUKE'S FATHER!

Guy #3 who has not seen the film: Buh-buh-buh WHaaa!!???

 

Right on the ball good sir!

I know you're trying to prove a point but heh heh...that'll never happen.