It was bad.

Things that were bad:

-plot holes

-acting

-dialogue...when you first meet the love interest they do this cute lil recap like thing where you find out in a very upfront way that he is emotionally closed off and that she is a b*tch.

-CGI...okay okay...it was good in that the Hulk wasn't frozen or anything...but one thing that irked me throughout the movie <and i was sure to irk my watching companion with it) was the fact that no matter HOW BIG the Hulk got, his DENIM jeans stretched with him. At one point in the movie he got as big as a building and still had a modest amount of pants around him. And when he shrunk back down they still fit like a dream. Nevermind that at one point in the movie when he shrunk back down the pants fell off.

-Hardly anything was explained. Yeah, we get the ol story about gamma rays and that if you put to much to a frog it will explode in a gooey mess. But it didn't do a good enough job of where you could go "Oh!!! Now it's clear" like Spiderman did. What explaination we did get was choppy and rushed.

-The comic book scene shots: Cute every once in a while...but all the time??? My eyes were crossed halfway through the movie and were threatening to stay that way.

-The ending. What a way to bring a shoddy movie to an even shoddier ending. The last you see of the Hulk is him floating in a pond getting his energy sapped out of him. And then...after another lil hissy fit thrown by his ex-g/f a year later on the phone with her dad...you see him in a jungle with a lot of medicine helping out people. The thing that could have pulled it off would be this: if the audience could actually be left MOTIVATED to care how a man on the run from the US government could get away and live in the jungle with a lot of medicine.


anyway...my recommendation: Don't go see it.

i don't think i'm going to see it. ever. the whole thing just looks too cheesy, especially the cgi. i don't think it could ever compare to the tv series, and that was made with the latest special effects of the '70's...

well...it's not such a problem as CGI...it's just the terrible action and such.

The CGI was quite good considering...I mean, there's still no way that I would confuse a CGI character for a real person, but they are getting better all the time.

Did you pay attention to the score? If you listened you may have heard Set Me Free by Velvet Revolver :D

The future of music

Too bad it was a great movie!
I think Americans are stuck with expecting main characters to be heroes...guys who do good and win the day. Or if there are villain main characters, they're either noble criminals, or they're clear villains who get caught. Critic's small little minds simply can't grasp a different paradigm...a movie about a person who is a villain in any normal sense, the monster that other superheroes would be vanquishing, yet a person nonetheless, a bit appalled at his own dark side. The psychological implications are staggering.

No, you misunderstand me...

I am a huge fan of movies that's whole focus is exploring their inner selves and combating the demons within.

That stuff rocks. But this movie even failed in that!!!

There were a couple of puppy dog looks from Mr.Hulk and "Look at me...I have terrible lines, but that's alright cuz I'm just the pin-up girl!!!" from the ex-love interest.

Sure, we got to see his childhood...but it was so cut up and and spread out it was just stupid.

I did not feel any bit attatched to this character. I didn't get to know him and appreciate him well enough as a normal human being to fully appreciate his change.

It was bad writing. The end.

Well, I thought that thsi movie had promise, guess I should stop paying attention to hype! I wasn't about the spend the money to see it in the threatre anyway.

:fool: They think that just slapping down any ol' comic book would make a good movie.

I liked X-Men/X2. Spiderman to a lesser extent. Are there any other comic clones coming out? I could of sworn there were more...

I have NO intention of seeingthis - in fact still avoiding Spiderman AND Daredevil

Ah, yes, that was one...

Daredevil

Hmm... speaking of Daredevil....

this movie was ok, it was better than matrix "super gay" reloaded, but not as good as X2.

it was amusing to see Hulk roll in sand, probally the coolest scene in the movie, for anyone who has ever done any computer animation/rendering will realize how diffucult that is

That's my point.
You shouldn't attach to his character. He's a villain! He's the monster that Superman vanquishes. He's Grendel. What turns people into these things? Why do they exist? Rage, that's why...rage is a very powerful force. And that's what the Hulk's about, rage.

i want to become attached enough to see him as a rounded character and not just some personification of an emotion...

I understand what Kundor's saying... sort of how some critics claim Iago is just evil in human form (In Othello. By Shakespeare of course ;) ) But I'm not planning on watching the movie. It just looks kinda stupid from the previews. and what's with the stretching jeans? :blink:

Comic books only succeed as movies when they've had an nimated series about them. Like X-Men and spiderman.

Also, "Hulk smash!"

As for furthur comic adaptations, a 'Transformers' live action movie is in development. Expect to see it in about 2/3 years.

Transformers toys were teh r0x0r :glee: