The Avengers The Official 'Hulk in Avengers' thread. - Part 6

[Gamma Burst]

Am I the onlyone who is is very disappointed the Hulk looks waaaayyyyyy too cartoonish in the trailers? He looks like a grayer Banna Hulk. I really like the Edward Norton Hulk. Now it seems they've taken a step back .

A step back from the horrible cartoonish Hulk from IH? Not at all.
This Hulk looks amazing. It's ILM after all.

 

[The Morningstar]

lol yea, Rhythm and Hues are certainly no ILM. From what i've seen Hulk is one of the best fully CGI humanoid characters ever. You can even see the pores in his skin and his teeth and eyes look great.

 

[Gamma Burst]

True. So far he looks damn impressive!

 

[The Morningstar]

I mean, the guys who did TIH's idea of skin texture was to have loads of veins popping out and muscle sinew showing. But the skin itself just looked like plastic. Like an action figure.

 

[Gamma Burst]

I mean, the guys who did TIH's idea of skin texture was to have loads of veins popping out and muscle sinew showing. But the skin itself just looked like plastic. Like an action figure.

Yeah, that was my main issue with it. Also, the horrible transformatio scene in the Campus... Compare that to my avatar: it's not even close.

 

[Kirmit]

Yeah, that was my main issue with it. Also, the horrible transformatio scene in the Campus... Compare that to my avatar: it's not even close.

What was wong with the tranfsformation scene at the campus?

 

[samsnee]

What was wong with the tranfsformation scene at the campus?

It was bad FX?

 

[Gamma Burst]

What was wong with the tranfsformation scene at the campus?

The fact that he looked like a cartoon after he jumped from that corridor... :/

 

[samsnee]

If you think about it, Ang Lee's Hulk could be a lead in to Avengers as much as TIH. Lee's Hulk ended with him in some remote part of the world. He's slowly accepting the hulk. There's really nothing in the movie that explicitly contradicts it from being in the MCU besides a lack of SHIELD references.

 

[Kirmit]

The fact that he looked like a cartoon after he jumped from that corridor... :/

That's not the transfromation though, that's post transformation.

 

[Smashlilman]

If you think about it, Ang Lee's Hulk could be a lead in to Avengers as much as TIH. Lee's Hulk ended with him in some remote part of the world. He's slowly accepting the hulk. There's really nothing in the movie that explicitly contradicts it from being in the MCU besides a lack of SHIELD references.

like i said before THI is a requeal to Hulk 2003. It's safe to assume that all the event that took place in Hulk happened in THI. That's why THI starts off where Hulk 2003 left off.

 

[Kirmit]

like i said before THI is a requeal to Hulk 2003. It's safe to assume that all the event that took place in Hulk happened in THI. That's why THI starts off where Hulk 2003 left off.

Not really since TIH showed a different origin to 'Hulk'.

 

[metaphysician]

And completely changed the character of General Ross.

While I'd certainly *prefer* the backstory from Ang Lee Hulk, its definitely not in meaningful continuity anymore.

 

[warcam]

Am I the onlyone who is is very disappointed the Hulk looks waaaayyyyyy too cartoonish in the trailers? He looks like a grayer Banna Hulk. I really like the Edward Norton Hulk. Now it seems they've taken a step back .

Maybe not the only one, but more than likely in a very small minority.

A step back from the horrible cartoonish Hulk from IH? Not at all.
This Hulk looks amazing. It's ILM after all.

lol yea, Rhythm and Hues are certainly no ILM. From what i've seen Hulk is one of the best fully CGI humanoid characters ever. You can even see the pores in his skin and his teeth and eyes look great.

True. So far he looks damn impressive!

I mean, the guys who did TIH's idea of skin texture was to have loads of veins popping out and muscle sinew showing. But the skin itself just looked like plastic. Like an action figure.

Yeah, that was my main issue with it. Also, the horrible transformatio scene in the Campus... Compare that to my avatar: it's not even close.

The fact that he looked like a cartoon after he jumped from that corridor... :/

^^Agree with all of this.
They say 1st impressions are everything. TIH was the only MCU film I didn't see at the theater because I couldn't get past the crappy VFX in the trailer. The 1st time I saw it was before IM, and when they showed him jumping out of the bridge on the campus, I thought "Seriously? In 2008 this is the best it can look?" Everyone else in the theater seemed to have the same "meh" response. Granted, it's one of the best looking and sounding Blu's I own, but virtually any scene with the Hulk just takes me out of the movie. Even in the few scenes where I think he does look halfway decent, his movements say otherwise.

One of my biggest concerns was if they were finally going to make a Hulk that looked like he could actually exist and interact with human characters in a believable way. If the footage we've seen so far is indicative of things to come, I think we're finally going to get it.

 

[BigThor]

I think the VFX in TIH gets more flack than it really deserves, yeah it was kinda bad in some scenes but overall the was actually decent.

 

[redhawk23]

As I said several pages ago, TIH had many of the same effects problems as I am Legend, and as others have pointed out, Rhythm and Hues did both.

 

[Rock Sexton]

The 1st time I saw it was before IM, and when they showed him jumping out of the bridge on the campus, I thought "Seriously? In 2008 this is the best it can look?" Everyone else in the theater seemed to have the same "meh" response. Granted, it's one of the best looking and sounding Blu's I own, but virtually any scene with the Hulk just takes me out of the movie. Even in the few scenes where I think he does look halfway decent, his movements say otherwise.

Wait ..... You're in a movie theater with your eyes tied to a giant screen and you had time to survey the entire crowd's reaction to that scene with the Hulk jumping down onto the campus?

Posters say the darn'dest things sometimes.

 

[Smashlilman]

Wait ..... You're in a movie theater with your eyes tied to a giant screen and you had time to survey the entire crowd's reaction to that scene with the Hulk jumping down onto the campus?

Posters say the darn'dest things sometimes.

You can gauge the audience reaction to moments in the movie. Kind of remind me of when i saw The Dark Knight and the audience lit up when the Joker slammed that guys head into that pencil.

 

[Rock Sexton]

You can gauge the audience reaction to moments in the movie. Kind of remind me of when i saw The Dark Knight and the audience lit up when the Joker slammed that guys head into that pencil.

Ya, keyword "moments" as in the impact of the scene ..... it would be next to impossible to gauge what people think of the actual SFX unless they broke out in straight up laughter at it.

 

[Kirmit]

Ya, keyword "moments" as in the impact of the scene ..... it would be next to impossible to gauge what people think of the actual SFX unless they broke out in straight up laughter at it.

I agree, even if there was a laugh there's no way to tell that it's about the SFX unless the person actually said 'That looks crap!'.

 

[Smashlilman]

Ya, keyword "moments" as in the impact of the scene ..... it would be next to impossible to gauge what people think of the actual SFX unless they broke out in straight up laughter at it.

Ok I get what you mean. No ones psychic and you can't tell exactly what people were thinking at that moment.

Even with me i enjoyed TIH when i first saw it. The SFX weren't a problem for me. I didn't hear about the SFX being bad until i started visiting the boards.

 

[Rock Sexton]

Ok I get what you mean. No ones psychic and you can't tell exactly what people were thinking at that moment.

Even with me i enjoyed TIH when i first saw it. The SFX weren't a problem for me. I didn't hear about the SFX being bad until i started visiting the boards.

I never understood the exaggerated criticisms either. There's definitely a bit of the snooty elitism that goes on here when it comes to movie SFX. There were moments when Hulk looked amazing and there were some that were not quite as clean as they should've been ..... but it was never to a point where it took me out of the moment or anything.

 

[BigThor]

I never understood the exaggerated criticisms either. There's definitely a bit of the snooty elitism that goes on here when it comes to movie SFX. There were moments when Hulk looked amazing and there were some that were not quite as clean as they should've been ..... but it was never to a point where it took me out of the moment or anything.

I agree with both of these posts

 

[The Morningstar]

The only part that actually took me out of the movie and really bothered me was the bit in the cave. That was truly terrible. For 2008? For a 150 million dollar budgeted movie? Awful.

 

[Rock Sexton]

The only part that actually took me out of the movie and really bothered me was the bit in the cave. That was truly terrible. For 2008? For a 150 million dollar budgeted movie? Awful.

Serious? Wow man. That was actually one of my favorite SFX moments in the film, especially when they were sitting down together.