Which Hulk Is Stronger? (2008 or 2003)

[Lantern Venom]

I'm going to give the slight edge to the '03 Hulk. The new Hulk had his share of awesome feats but he was more contemplative during battles, looking more for a way out and only going crazy when he had to do so.

 

[ironwez20]

Fat guys don't have 6 pack abs.

more like six fatty pack for 03 hulk

 

[Lantern Venom]

more like six fatty pack for 08 hulk

Seriously, I have no idea what you are seeing. The '03 Hulk was bulkier but he was still ripped. The newer version was lankier and have more striations along the pectorals but those were the only body structure differences.

 

[Comicfan]

cause thats how Ang describs Hulk, he isnt born a full grown man, he's born a child, then changes to a teenager and then, finally, a full grown Man. He said that somewhere, i forget where.

I think its on the DVD... Ang´s HULK wasn´t gonna grow anymore, he reached his max height by the time of the mutated dog fight

 

[LadyVader]

Although I liked both movies, there's so much so wrong with both of them. I do feel however that Hulk 2003 is more memorable and just taps into what makes Hulk an interesting character to me, and that is the whole Jekyl and Hyde aspect of the Hulk. In TIH, the Hulk is treated more like a disease than an aspect of Banner's personality. If you noticed, he Hulks out whenever he reaches a certain level of excitement, it doesn't matter if it's caused by anger, effort or sexual arousal. At least that's what it's heavily implied by the movie.

But I don't know, the movies are just so different, and meant for different people. I place them at about the same level for the people they're intended to but for me like I said, Hulk 2003 gets the slightest edge. I would say Hulk - 8 and TIH 8,5.

 

[Anubis Raptor]

Seriously, I have no idea what you are seeing. The '03 Hulk was bulkier but he was still ripped. The newer version was lankier and have more striations along the pectorals but those were the only body structure differences.

I agree with you dude. This version TIH had more of a bigfoot/sasquatch
shape to him. I thought that was cool. It made him look scary to me for some reason....

 

[Anubis Raptor]

Although I liked both movies, there's so much so wrong with both of them. I do feel however that Hulk 2003 is more memorable and just taps into what makes Hulk an interesting character to me, and that is the whole Jekyl and Hyde aspect of the Hulk. In TIH, the Hulk is treated more like a disease than an aspect of Banner's personality. If you noticed, he Hulks out whenever he reaches a certain level of excitement, it doesn't matter if it's caused by anger, effort or sexual arousal. At least that's what it's heavily implied by the movie.

But I don't know, the movies are just so different, and meant for different people. I place them at about the same level for the people they're intended to but for me like I said, Hulk 2003 gets the slightest edge. I would say Hulk - 8 and TIH 8,5.

I think this is because this film's hulk outs were based on ADRENALINE
levels and adrenaline is released through more emotional difficulties (Sexual arousal, fear, etc.) other than anger. So it would only make sense to portray this aspect on screen.


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[Anubis Raptor]

Although I liked both movies, there's so much so wrong with both of them. I do feel however that Hulk 2003 is more memorable and just taps into what makes Hulk an interesting character to me, and that is the whole Jekyl and Hyde aspect of the Hulk. In TIH, the Hulk is treated more like a disease than an aspect of Banner's personality. If you noticed, he Hulks out whenever he reaches a certain level of excitement, it doesn't matter if it's caused by anger, effort or sexual arousal. At least that's what it's heavily implied by the movie.

But I don't know, the movies are just so different, and meant for different people. I place them at about the same level for the people they're intended to but for me like I said, Hulk 2003 gets the slightest edge. I would say Hulk - 8 and TIH 8,5.

I think this is because this film's hulk outs were based on ADRENALINE
levels and adrenaline is released through more emotional difficulties (Sexual arousal, fear, etc.) other than anger. So it would only make sense to portray this aspect on screen.


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[November Rain]

yeah it was more adrenaline based here while in the other film the nanomeds reacted to trauma.

 

[November Rain]

wow, 39 people are just blatantly wrong.

let's not forget the hulk took a nuke at ground zero (water is not going to protect you) at a weakened state based on his dad absorbing a large amount of his power.

based on 08, if he brought his a game to abomination and got dealt with relatively easily. I don't think he has the range, or ammunition to really compete with ang's.

Those dogs would have ripped him apart.

You also need to take into consideration that this hulk can't heal, he was covered in cuts from his fight with abomination, ang's had the nanomeds repairing him at an exponential rate so even 08 did get some good licks in, he'd eventually be worn down.

 

[LadyVader]

Oh, this thread is about strength levels.

Ohhhh...

Hulk 2003. No question. I mean the guy could basically jump himself out of the stratosphere. Hulk '08 didn't look that tall, that strong or that menacing to be honest. What he had going for him was determination. He was the little Hulk that could.

 

[November Rain]

yeah, he was the wolverine of sluggers, the lil puppy biting at your ankles...

the scrappy doo of hulklings

 

[Savage]

wow, 39 people are just blatantly wrong.

let's not forget the hulk took a nuke at ground zero (water is not going to protect you) at a weakened state based on his dad absorbing a large amount of his power.

based on 08, if he brought his a game to abomination and got dealt with relatively easily. I don't think he has the range, or ammunition to really compete with ang's.

Those dogs would have ripped him apart.

You also need to take into consideration that this hulk can't heal, he was covered in cuts from his fight with abomination, ang's had the nanomeds repairing him at an exponential rate so even 08 did get some good licks in, he'd eventually be worn down.

Yeah, I didn't really like the cuts. They've gotta bring that healing factor in. I mean otherwise if someone just kept at it enough they could kill him. I hope they show that he's just getting more and more powerful and healing quicker and quicker and from more insane injuries because that's part of what makes him scarily unstoppable. You can't kill the Hulk. You shouldn't be able to.

 

[J.Howlett]

'03 Hulk would literally rip this new apart. Seriously, he used pieces of machinery to bang and smash crap the whole film. That's pretty much it. And none of it was even remotely impressive. His opponent was killing him at the end of this film. It was kind of embarassing.

'03 Hulk took on three mutated dogs and literally ripped two of them apart with is bare hands. That was a street brawl compared to this final showdown. I mean, is there anything in this new film that's even remotely cooler than Hulk taking his entire arm and shoving it into the mouth of one of the dogs before smashing it to green mist or the Hulk enlarging his shoulder muscles to rip apart the jaw of the other dog before ripping that totally apart?

And I don't need to really mention the Hulk vs. the military in Lee's film. Easily greater feats of strength in those action set pieces compared to this film....

 

[Sarg92]

Yeah, I didn't really like the cuts. They've gotta bring that healing factor in. I mean otherwise if someone just kept at it enough they could kill him. I hope they show that he's just getting more and more powerful and healing quicker and quicker and from more insane injuries because that's part of what makes him scarily unstoppable. You can't kill the Hulk. You shouldn't be able to.

Hulk does have his healing factor in this film but it just slower compared to Ang's Hulk.

But both Hulk's have the same concept right, angrier they get, the stronger they get. So you do not know how angry/strong Hulk in this film when fighting the military compared to Ang's Hulk anger/stength when fighting the military.

You cannot compare them for their strength cos you don't know how angry they were but you can compare how durable, brutal, etc... they were.

 

[November Rain]

actually there's nothing in this film that shows he gets stronger the angrier he is. That's bringing in pre-perceived knowledge into it.

but that's a nit pick (i was expecting them to say something like that but they never did, it goes to show he is more like the tv series hulk)

 

[Sarg92]

actually there's nothing in this film that shows he gets stronger the angrier he is. That's bringing in pre-perceived knowledge into it.

but that's a nit pick (i was expecting them to say something like that but they never did, it goes to show he is more like the tv series hulk)

When Hulk was getting him by those sonic waves from those canons he was on his knees, covering his ears he then looked up towards Betty and saw here being held back by soldiers and screaming, with the sonic Hulk just heard it as if she was in pain, straight away you see Hulk get angry, he starts to snarl and gets back on his feet to destroy the canons.

When he battled Abomination, he was being stabbed in his chest and pinned up against a wall, he saw Betty with the helicopter crash and he couldn't overpower Abomination to break free so there was a close up of his eyes where you saw the "gamma fire" in his eyes get brighter and he got angry and overpowered Abomination, gave him some hits, threw him into a building and did the thunder clap.

It was pretty clear that he got angry and stronger despite it not being said in dialogue.

 

[co2]

actually there's nothing in this film that shows he gets stronger the angrier he is. That's bringing in pre-perceived knowledge into it.

Yeah, they missed the boat on that. That is one of the best aspects of the character and they didn't capitalize on making it clear to the audience.
Ang's movie made a point use this aspect of Hulk..even though they didn't exactly make it too clear (see the ending fight vs Absorbing Dad). I think if the audience had gotten that, they would have understood the ending battle a bit more.

 

[james283126]

first things first i loved this movie and the cast more, and the hulks body seemed fine to me and his height was fine as well u could really see how tall he was by the fight at the end right b4 he roared, and the cgi could have used some improvement because hulk 03's face felt more realistic, but thats a different conversation,,,,,,but hulk 08 did anyone notice that he struggled to smash the humvee? i waz pissed because hulk 03 could swing a tank like holy hell but this hulk is struggilng to smash a hummer, and the jumping thing sucked 4 08 because he was like using buildings and i was just thinking of ninja turtles,lol but yea they need to work out some kinks for the next movie so he can match up to 03's hulk in jumping strength and watever else!

 

[J.Howlett]

Sarg,

No. That just showed that the Hulk got smart, not stronger...

 

[Kirmit]

actually there's nothing in this film that shows he gets stronger the angrier he is. That's bringing in pre-perceived knowledge into it.

Wrong, it was shown atleast twice. First with the sonic canons, hulk heard betty, got angrier and got strong enough to overcome the effects of th canons. Second time was in the fight with Abomb, Hulk sees betty in trouble, gets angry, gets stronger and over powers Abomb.

 

[Sarg92]

Sarg,

No. That just showed that the Hulk got smart, not stronger...

Could you point out all the parts in the film which you consider Hulk getting smarter?

 

[Kirmit]

It's not hulk getting smarter, it's hulk getting stronger , he smarter so he can suddenly get the strength to over power the effects of the canons? He's smarter so he can all of a sudden overpower Abomb? Don't think so, I don't know why people are ignoring the blatantly obvious, he got angrier so he got stronger.

 

[Savage]

actually there's nothing in this film that shows he gets stronger the angrier he is. That's bringing in pre-perceived knowledge into it.

but that's a nit pick (i was expecting them to say something like that but they never did, it goes to show he is more like the tv series hulk)

Well considering how he overpowered Abomination out of nowhere (along with other scenes like the sonic cannons) I thought they made it obvious. He didn't use trickery or cunning. He just saw Betty and used raw force to overpower things that were clearly more powerful at the time.

 

[Spiderine]

first things first i loved this movie and the cast more, and the hulks body seemed fine to me and his height was fine as well u could really see how tall he was by the fight at the end right b4 he roared, and the cgi could have used some improvement because hulk 03's face felt more realistic, but thats a different conversation,,,,,,but hulk 08 did anyone notice that he struggled to smash the humvee? i waz pissed because hulk 03 could swing a tank like holy hell but this hulk is struggilng to smash a hummer, and the jumping thing sucked 4 08 because he was like using buildings and i was just thinking of ninja turtles,lol but yea they need to work out some kinks for the next movie so he can match up to 03's hulk in jumping strength and watever else!

I would understand if he was out in the dessert jumping over canyons 3 or 4 miles but there was really no situation that called for mile high jumping in this movie.