Watching The Hulk again on Sci-Fi; man, this movie is absolutely AWESOME

[Honey Vibe]

This is so good I can't flip to any other channels. Hulk didn't get the credit it deserved. It's one of the best superhero films ever made.

 

[Hades]

I agree.

Great movie.

one of the best superhero films released.

 

[patrickbateman]

i still dont get why people say he looks fake.. but what sucked is the comic book style editing that really took away the serious part of the script. i still want to see it without that editing

 

[jaydawg]

Word. This movie was better than every comic book movie save for the Spider-man series.

 

[SuperFerret]

i still dont get why people say he looks fake.. but what sucked is the comic book style editing that really took away the serious part of the script. i still want to see it without that editing

You mean the on-screen panels they did? I loved that. Made it visually unique and interesting.

 

[Honey Vibe]

i still dont get why people say he looks fake.. but what sucked is the comic book style editing that really took away the serious part of the script. i still want to see it without that editing

Someone else told me that too. People are entitled to their opinions, but I think the panels made it unique, visually engrossing, and actually enhanced the drama and story.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

Hulk SmAsH !

good movie.

 

[Rac]

I've always liked Hulk. It has only like two flaws, the origin **** up and hulkdogs.

 

[Joker]

why does everyone hate on the hulk dogs? they are from the comics...

 

[Venom.Symbiote]

I've always liked Hulk. It has only like two flaws, the origin **** up and hulkdogs.

I have to agree about always liking the Hulk. I used to watch the show when it came on Friday nights back in the late 70's - early 80's. I've enjoyed the comic books and cartoons for many years and aside from a few of the names and Hulk being a big green powerhouse, I didn't see too many similarities in the movie. I understand that you must update some things like his origin, but they could have at least made it an explosion of some kind. The way he got irradiated seemed rather stupid to me. I also hated the fact that his father was basically responsible for him turning into the Hulk as well. Hulk being 15 feet tall? When did that happen? The tallest I remember him being was 7' 6". He never uttered a word either, something else I didn't like. If the movie were about a new character I would have enjoyed it a lot more but it was about an established character that already had a complete origin and history and that origin and history were pretty much ignored. I have a feeling that Ang Lee never actually read a Hulk comic in his life. I hope the next one is a much better film. I'm actually surprised that they're making another one considering that it cost them about $162,000,000 to make the first one and it earned $132,122,995 in the U.S. (I don't know how much it made worldwide but I can't imagine it being much more considering the way the first one was).

I personally saw "Hulk" as a big disappointment and a serious letdown. I won't judge the next one until I see it but for right now, my expectations are very low.

 

[Bi-Polar Bear]

Ang Lee will be forever in my cool book for making The Hulk.
He took something that could have been a mindless, soulless, summer movie and made it great. But I guess that's what people were expecting since everyone I knew claimed it was too boring. I hope the next one doesn't have him going "HULK SMASH!" every ten minutes.

 

[jaydawg]

why does everyone hate on the hulk dogs? they are from the comics...

Sometimes being from the comics isnt a good thing. Besides, i think they only appeared once in comics continuity anyways. And there was no gamma poodle that didnt do anything but bark like a *****. Seriously, that dog didnt attack Hulk and had all the time in the world to freaking kill Betty. Damn that dog was incompetent.

 

[Sava]

great movie, flawed but great

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Hulk is one of THE best marvel CB movies and is very underrated. It was more than just some mindless popcorn movie and actually did something different than the now tired old formula for origin CB movies.

 

[GL1]

The Hulk movie is Unique, and because it is unique, the world cannot tolerate it's existance.

Perhaps Ang Lee even knew it wouldn't do well because it wasn't the same old same old. I've always liked Hulk overall...

Things I didn't like:
The Hulk Poodle.
The Darkness of the climactic battle (couldn't see much).
Using Josh Lucas for physical comedy
Lack of Numbers from the military.

Things I Loved:
Smoothest Double Cameo Ever
REAL Psychology... this made the movie for me, Banner had a realistic psychological struggle and it showed me how cliched movies had become...
Hulk's action scenes were extremely clean and quite exciting.

On the "fakeness:"
I think the fact that Hulk was BRIGHT GREEN led a lot of people to feel he was cartoony, even though he wasn't... if Hulk had been a darker green, as he is in the comics sometimes, I think it would have gone over a LOT better.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

This movie definitely tends to grow on you with subsequent viewings...

 

[Charlie No-One]

I agree. I loved it.


Quick Question:

Anyone know where I can find Hulk gifs?

 

[Sava]

I agree. I loved it.


Quick Question:

Anyone know where I can find Hulk gifs?

what kinda ones are you looking for?

 

[Irony-Man]

Frankly, until I saw the movie I never actually "got" the character. I could never understand the Hulk being a "superhero". It was only after seeing the film that I understood that the Hulk really is a classic tragedy.

Banner's hubris has brought him great power but with a great price. He is being punished for thinking that he could duplicate a god's power. And like every great tragedy there is a sense of inevitable doom around the story. The Hulk cannot have a happy ending, and everyone involved in the story senses that. The best Banner can hope for is redemption for his past deeds, and in the context of the movie, the sins of his father.

After seeing the film, I started to look at the character from a different viewpoint and now he's become one of my favourites. Stan Lee said that with The Hulk he was trying to do a modern version of Frankenstein and I think he has succeeded.

The Hulk is searching for his identity and place in the world and finding only rejection, fear and hatred. In response to this he transfers his fear and hatred to Banner, his "creator". Banner, on the other hand, fears losing control to his own implulses and emotions, which really are the genesis of the Hulk and also feels he must be punished for them. He also fears the fact, and the movie brought this out very well, that he enjoys the loss of control that triggers his transformation. In Frankenstein, the monster felt that the only way he could enter society was to replace his own creator. This is the classic situation that the Hulk is in. Both the Hulk and Banner are in competition with each other, which means they are in competition with themselves. And in this competition there can only be one victor and even that victor is not the winner.

Comic books are not a genre they are a medium. Tha means you can use them to tell any type of story you want. Ang Lee understood that. He wanted to tell a story of alienation and of a man railing against his preordained fate. Look at Hulk in a cursory manner and you see what are the traditional trappings of a superhero comic. A secret identity concealing a powerful doppeganger capable of seemingly dealing with problems the original can't. But if you look deeper you see that those trappings are merely trappings. There is no secret identity in Hulk. There are two competing and antagonistic identities. Unlike other "superheroes" Banner is not, for most of the movie, trying to balance the two sides of his life, he is trying to suppress one. And the Hulk is trying to emerge and suppress Banner.

The story cannot have a happy ending. It shouldn't have a happy ending, that would be cheating. If Banner suppresses the Hulk, or vice versa, it is a tragic loss of a character, essentially a death of one of our protaganists. What we end with in the movie is a compromise between Banner and Hulk. And in the parameters of the story, a compromise is a triumph.
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[Charlie No-One]

what kinda ones are you looking for?

More action based ones...like him jumping down some where. Do you have the one where he is changing at his house?

 

[Honey Vibe]

why does everyone hate on the hulk dogs? they are from the comics...

Well, specifically, the poodle.

 

[Sava]

More action based ones...like him jumping down some where. Do you have the one where he is changing at his house?

these are all the ones i have now, what kinda things from the House are you looking for?

 

[Sava]

watching this for the first time in months, the score is awesome

 

[Charlie No-One]

these are all the ones i have now, what kinda things from the House are you looking for?

Thanks!

I was thinking the one where he starts to turn green and his face starts shaking...then you see that close up of his eye.

 

[Honey Vibe]

The Hulk is searching for his identity and place in the world and finding only rejection, fear and hatred. In response to this he transfers his fear and hatred to Banner, his "creator". Banner, on the other hand, fears losing control to his own implulses and emotions, which really are the genesis of the Hulk and also feels he must be punished for them. He also fears the fact, and the movie brought this out very well, that he enjoys the loss of control that triggers his transformation. In Frankenstein, the monster felt that the only way he could enter society was to replace his own creator. This is the classic situation that the Hulk is in. Both the Hulk and Banner are in competition with each other, which means they are in competition with themselves. And in this competition there can only be one victor and even that victor is not the winner.

Comic books are not a genre they are a medium. Tha means you can use them to tell any type of story you want. Ang Lee understood that. He wanted to tell a story of alienation and of a man railing against his preordained fate. Look at Hulk in a cursory manner and you see what are the traditional trappings of a superhero comic. A secret identity concealing a powerful doppeganger capable of seemingly dealing with problems the original can't. But if you look deeper you see that those trappings are merely trappings. There is no secret identity in Hulk. There are two competing and antagonistic identities. Unlike other "superheroes" Banner is not, for most of the movie, trying to balance the two sides of his life, he is trying to suppress one. And the Hulk is trying to emerge and suppress Banner.

This was an excellent post. You truly hit the nail on the head on why this movie and its hero was so extraordinairy.