Saw the Hulk last night....

[The Shadow]

...save your money....in the top 20 worst movies I have ever seen...maybe the top 10.

Storyline was a clusterfuck....first 35 minutes are weird flashbacks and the entire movie(50%) is split screen.

In one scene the Hulk was about 7 feet tall and then was over 10 feet in the same scene...his relative size kept changing from scene to scene and even within scenes.

The last 15 mintes are a mystery to me.....really weird.


On the plus side...a couple of the animated scenes were very nice and of course Jennifer Connley was beyond hot.

 

[Testosterone boy]

I noticed that in the reviews but then I get up pretty early in the morning. Or do I?

 

[gymrat]

i heard on the raido that a bunch of critics saw an early preview and ripped upart the special effects.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[macDbol]

bastards,,whats wrong with painting a bodybuilder green? screw that computer crap

 

[The Shadow]

lol


it was so bad that his pants kept disappearing in places

 

[gymrat]

bastards,,whats wrong with painting a bodybuilder green? screw that computer crap

excatly.

If you can't do it right, why bother?

 

[casavant]

LOL. This review sounds like a total crock of shit. Then again, it's from The Hollywood Reporter and posted on Fandango.



The Hulk is at once a cutting-edge special effects extravaganza and a throwback to those science fiction classics of the '50s, where B-movie makers actually had things to say about the human condition. It's the best of both worlds, filled with visual energy, genuine artistry and compelling human emotions. In its own way every bit as inspiring and exciting as his last film, the international hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee's Hulk reconfirms the director's status as an Asian-born filmmaker who understands the heart and soul of the Occidental world perhaps better than we do ourselves.

Destined to be one of the summer's big hits, Hulk plants tentpoles far into the future for a series of Hulk films. The biggest challenge facing its producers, though, is to find filmmakers as imaginative as Lee.

Actually, two Lees form part of the creative force that drives this vehicle. The Hulk goes back to the Marvel Comics character created in 1962 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. Ang Lee and longtime collaborator James Schamus (credited with the story as well as being co-writer and co-producer) rely heavily on the comic books to tell this tale of a man unwittingly transformed into a monster - a character with a bloodline going back to Robert Lewis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley and James Whale.

Throughout the movie, Ang Lee engages the viewer with the visual spectacle of comic book graphics transformed by movie magic. Wipes, split screens, zip pans and other optical effects replicate the experience of reading a comic's panels. Tight shots of characters under stress remind one of those huge panels where artists zero in on big emotions. In some sequences, the split screens move and multiply, catching characters at various angles at once.

In a brilliant opening titles sequence, we see a maverick scientist experiment in genetic modification. Failures result, but he perseveres. Then the consequences of his own self-experimental research hits home, literally, when his wife has a baby. Whatever mutation he conjured up in that devil's brew is passed on to his son. His boss, a military commander, tosses the scientist out of his own lab, but not before the scientist sabotages the lab and rushes home to relieve his son of the burden the boy carries without his knowledge.

Years later, scientist Bruce Banner (Australian actor Eric Bana) follows unknowingly in his father's footsteps as a researcher in genetic technology. He has repressed all memory of his first four years of life, believing that his parents died when he was an infant. Bruce is so emotionally cut off from others that it has undermined his relationship with girlfriend and fellow researcher Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly).

Then their lab experiments attract the unwanted attention of Betty's estranged father, Gen. Ross (Sam Elliott), and rival researcher Glenn Talbot (Josh Lucas). Someone else mysteriously lurks around the lab, the new night janitor David (Nick Nolte), who turns out to be Bruce's father, recently released from prison.

A lab accident exposes Bruce to what should be a fatal dose of gamma radiation. But his dad's mutating gene not only allows him to withstand the gammas, the combination serves to kick-start the "monster" within. Now when severely angered, the scrambled DNA turns Bruce into the Hulk. Unlike the old CBS series The Incredible Hulk (1977-82), in which Bill Bixby's Bruce steps off camera in favor of bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno's Hulk, Bruce's alter ego here is a massive, green CGI creature that can withstand missiles, leap into the sky and shake up the entire U.S. military.

This character has already caused controversy, the major complaint from some moviegoers being that they have a hard time investing emotionally in a CGI-created character. But not only does this character conform to the Hulk from the Marvel Comics, this is a true-blue (make that green) superhero.

Desperate to understand these transformations, Bruce delves into his own origins. But he is in a race against the blowhard Gen. Ross and conniving Talbot, who seek power and money from the Hulk's genetic makeup. Equally as puzzling, Bruce must admit that he rather enjoys his other self, knocking about people, cars, ferocious dogs and eventually flying aircraft. The climatic sequence when the Hulk escapes a desert lab and rampages all the way to San Francisco is event moviemaking at its best.

This is a long film that moves at lightning speed, egged on by Danny Elfman's bold theatrical score and Tim Squyres' fluid editing. For all the considerable contributions by designer Rick Heinrichs and cinematographer Frederick Elmes, though, Hulk takes its energy from character development and conflict.

Bana conveys the inner turmoil of a man at odds with his very essence. Connelly, too, gets torn in different directions, unable to trust any man in her life, from this normal guy who becomes a monster to her monstrous father who experiences occasional moments of tenderness. Finally, there is Nolte's character, a new and interesting twist on the "mad scientist." One sympathizes with his drive for knowledge only to see it corrode as logic deteriorates and the quest for "science" overrides all human concerns.

Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

Now was that the workprint floating around on the net or did you see a sneak preview? I'd hope to God's they'd have the disappearing pants issue fixed in the official release. But no matter how much they polished it up it's not a good movie from want I saw. The story with his father was dragged on and confusing. It's not what people going to see a summer superhero movie blockbuster what to see.

 

[The Shadow]

Now was that the workprint floating around on the net or did you see a sneak preview? I'd hope to God's they'd have the disappearing pants issue fixed in the official release. But no matter how much they polished it up it's not a good movie from want I saw. The story with his father was dragged on and confusing. It's not what people going to see a summer superhero movie blockbuster what to see.

....supposedly was the beofre the final editing cut...but still...

 

[biteme]

...save your money....in the top 20 worst movies I have ever seen...maybe the top 10.

Storyline was a clusterfuck....first 35 minutes are weird flashbacks and the entire movie(50%) is split screen.

In one scene the Hulk was about 7 feet tall and then was over 10 feet in the same scene...his relative size kept changing from scene to scene and even within scenes.

The last 15 mintes are a mystery to me.....really weird.


On the plus side...a couple of the animated scenes were very nice and of course Jennifer Connley was beyond hot.

Thanks. I was going to see it. Won't now.

 

[TheProject]

Corn, are you a comic fan? Would the movie maybe be better for someone that has some background?

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

Oh ok Corn. The final is supposed to be better. But it could only be so much better. I am a long time comic book fan. This was not a good movie or good comic book movie.

Some GOOD comic book movies:
Superman & Superman 2(my fav) batman 1, X-men 1 & 2, and Spider-man.

OK Comic Book Movies:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Daredevil, Batman Fovever

Bad Comic Book Movies:
Superman 4, Batman and Robin, Spawn, Captain America (yeeeesh!!!! str8 to video)

Hulk looks to be somewhere between ok and bad to me from the version I saw.

 

[Austin316]

the final version BETTER be good or Im gonna be PISSED!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

bastards,,whats wrong with painting a bodybuilder green? screw that computer crap

Yeah, no shit, he looks like he lost a fight with a fucking TRASH COMPACTOR. You think they would be able to make a realistic looking computer generated model by now, I mean geez, those t rexes in Jurassic Park looked a hell of a lot better 5 years ago.

 

[The Shadow]

Im a huge comic fan - so I might be a little over-reactive but HELL they storyline was terrible.

 

[Bullit]

I told y'all so.

 

[gettinlarger]

Yeah, no shit, he looks like he lost a fight with a fucking TRASH COMPACTOR. You think they would be able to make a realistic looking computer generated model by now, I mean geez, those t rexes in Jurassic Park looked a hell of a lot better 5 years ago.

It was actually a decade ago this year.

 

[Bullit]

I've seen better acting in tough actin' Tinactin.

 

[gettinlarger]

I've seen better acting in tough actin' Tinactin.

Yeah. That has to stop.

 

[curling]

Oh ok Corn. The final is supposed to be better. But it could only be so much better. I am a long time comic book fan. This was not a good movie or good comic book movie.

Some GOOD comic book movies:
Superman & Superman 2(my fav) batman 1, X-men 1 & 2, and Spider-man.

OK Comic Book Movies:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Daredevil, Batman Fovever

Bad Comic Book Movies:
Superman 4, Batman and Robin, Spawn, Captain America (yeeeesh!!!! str8 to video)

Hulk looks to be somewhere between ok and bad to me from the version I saw.

I agree with this post other than "Spawn". I thought it was quite good.

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

I agree with this post other than "Spawn". I thought it was quite good.

Yeah I didn't really like Spawn. I didn't think the movie was good but the effects were great. It really sucked when compared to the HBO series before it got weird. Still Spawn and Superman 4 had parts I liked. There was nothing at all good about Batman and Robin or Captain American.

 

[powerforward]

spawn= horrible, all of the batman movies after 1 and 2. all the superman movies after 2.
but according to all that have actually seen it, the fantastic four movie that was originally straight to video, is
the worst comic movie ever.
a couple of other comic book movies that were good, men in black and from hell.
i also really liked the original blade.

 

[velvett]

Ahhhhhhhhhh


$8 or so dollars I won't have to spend.

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

spawn= horrible, all of the batman movies after 1 and 2. all the superman movies after 2.
but according to all that have actually seen it, the fantastic four movie that was originally straight to video, is
the worst comic movie ever.
a couple of other comic book movies that were good, men in black and from hell.
i also really liked the original blade.

yeah you can download the fantastic four movie on kazaa. It doesn't even look like a real movie. It looks like something some film students did as a goof. It's just that bad.

 

[casavant]

Worst case scenario, just have a shitload of "Bad guys pickin' on nerd, nerd gets pissed, nerd gets huge, nerd kicks ASS" scenes. That's always a winner.

-= nav =-

LMAO- that's a good point. Very true.

 

[Parabellum]

lol


it was so bad that his pants kept disappearing in places

Yeah I noticed that too. Extremely obvious.

 

[Parabellum]

lol


it was so bad that his pants kept disappearing in places

Yeah I noticed that too, it would flash then then not there. Someone did a shitty job reviewing. Extremely obvious.

 

[Outtlaw]

I think they should have gotten a real bodybuilder type person to play the hulk instead of this computer animated crap.

 

[curling]

Yeah I didn't really like Spawn. I didn't think the movie was good but the effects were great.

Yea, guess that is why I liked it was because of the effects.

 

[Optimus B]

the only good part was when he beat the shit out of the helicopters and tanks.

batman 1 is still the undefeated champion of comic book movies.

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

Are you telling me they have disappearing pants in the final movie???

 

[evolvng]

I dont know. somethin about a big, jakked up pissed off martha focker beating the shit out of tanks and helicopters, that gets bigger the madder he gets(which is why he was bigger from scene to scene)... i thought the shit was pretty tight. it was boring at parts, but definitely had a story and it was easy to follow if you paid attention. who gives a shit if his pants disappear or flicker, I didnt even notice and im sure aap liked lookin at the green machines unit. why be so critical, overall teh effects were cool and he kicked the shit out of everybody. didnt have to deal with the whole indestructable hero until the end when her gets his arse handed to him and he somehow finds a way to beat the badguy. the hulk got all the way crunk. i think he was takin some a50's and some cheque drops... maybe soem growth too. his forehead was pretty big. i say if you like seeing shit blown up, beat up and utterly destroyed then the hulks watchable. just my .02

MJ