the new Hulk film (no spoilers)

[pausanias_usa]

Surprised there's not a thread, but saw this yesterday: liked it even better than IRONMAN! I think Marvel has another hit on its hands: perhaps that's the key, a comic book company can do sequels MUCH better than Hollywood,
if only because that's their business delivery.

Don't let the stinker of a first film put you against this one; they have the Hulk CGI down pat, and Norton (whose casting surprised me at first) is actually a younger, thinner Bill Bixby who manages to carry the film.

 

[VaseFace808]

I'll def. say that just by the promos this one looks better than the 1st.

I do think it may be a tad too soon after the last one, but I'm glad they made it anyway, it looks enjoyable & I agree that Marvel can make better movies than Hollywood, because they know their characters & their fans

 

[Spiff]

In trailers the CG hulk still doesn't look convincingly real to me. Even though technology has come along way in the last 5 years, there's still not that much coming out of Hollywood where CG creatures look convincingly real. Although one big exception is Gollum in the LOTR movies, among the other creatures in those movies.

 

[chas007]

I saw the film last night. I think it ranks just under Ironman. Marvel comics might have scored a double play so to speak.


I especially liked the LAST MINUTE of the film. My lips are sealed!!!

* * * Go See It * * *
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[senorserio]

This one was a shocker. The Hulk has never been one of my favorite comic characters. Was not a big fan of the old TV series (I was pretty young and it kind of scared me actually) and thought the last Hulk movie was blah at best. This newer version, though, blew me away! Very action packed, respectable plot (for a comic caper), and Ed Norton definitely swanks it up in the acting department. My friend and I both left huge Hulk fans afterwards. I am a little worried about Norton's falling out with the studio, however, and wonder if it will prevent a sequel as this one's well worth a part II. I agree too that this one ranks just below Ironman....we'll see where Batman fits in later this summer.

 

[Paxton]

UPDATE​

"The Incredible Hulk" was a box-office bruiser, yanking in $54.5 million over opening weekend and laying to rest the stigma of his unappreciated big-screen adventure five years ago.

"The Hulk got a second chance, got angry and came back with a vengeance," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "This was a big question mark going in. The film had a history or a checkered past."

Ang Lee's "Hulk" opened in 2003 with a whopping $62.1 million weekend but then rolled over and died in subsequent weeks amid terrible word of mouth. That movie crawled to $132.2 million in sales, seemingly a respectable total but actually meager considering its huge first weekend.

 

[pausanias_usa]

Well, here's why I'll put it before IRONMAN -- that was an "origin" story, but very wisely, this movie pretends the first one happened, but does it much better for "after that."

Origin stories, by necessity, spend a lot of the movie just introducing the situation. This one started out with a bang!

 

[neoachilles]

I loved this movie. It's almost as if the studio was apologizing for its predecessor. And, like Chas007 said, the last minute was great.