The Incredible Hulk Coming To Blu-ray November 25th

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Originally Posted by Aygie

Jason from reading many of your previous posts its an understatement to say that your a Hulk fan.

But i i dont get how you can like this more than the original? I've watched this twice and can't believe how bad this was. Its a big ball of CGI and they completely missed the whole point of the Hulk/Banner character.

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Yeah, I was a big fan of the TV show and the comic when I was younger (obviously still a fan but don't buy the comic anymore). I've seen this 6 times now and I can honestly say (I'm always careful with my statements or try to be) that the CGI Hulk is the best CG created character yet. Including Gollum, King Kong, The first Hulk, all of them. I wasn't positive the first couple of times I watched the movie, because I was watching the movie. But later I watched it once concentrating on trying to pick apart the look of the Hulk. Looking for flaws. So far I have found none. None. Are there CG flaws in the movie? Yes. I won't point them out because others may not have noticed. But there were no flaws with The Hulk himself.

Compare that to the original movie 5 years ago. The Hulk was constantly changing. He looked more like Ang Lee than Eric Bana. Even his body shape (sans muscles) was a copy of Ang Lee. I watch that movie and I see Lee playing the Hulk. It was a terrible rendition of The Hulk period. Very inconsistent in size as well (they got around this by saying that the madder he got the bigger he got. ) They didn't know how to convey the 'Madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets' aspect of The Hulk. The new movie did it perfectly. Twice. Once when he was

[Show spoiler]attacked by the sound wave cannons (a Stark Industries product)

and then again when

[Show spoiler]The Abomination had him pinned against the Wall ans he stabbed the Hulk in the chest with his extended arm bone.

So CGI in new Hulk was great. Everyone will see for themselves when they get or rent the blu and can analyze it better at home.

As for the story, it was a great chase movie. It really started out using the formula from the TV show (almost pace for pace) and then morphed into the comic book (the morph happened at the college when he and Betty left for the bus station. The only problem I had with the pacing was the Tony Stark scene. They should have put that after the credits. A better ending to the film would have been the last shot of Norton in the cabin. There were some scenes I wish would've made the cut, but I'm glad they cut most of them. I would of liked the prologue of Bruce in the Arctic. They could have put that in before the montage at the beginning. I'm sure the cut scene will be somewhere on the blu release. Pacing was very good for a chase movie though and adding much more would've taken away from that.

The first movie's story just wasn't a Hulk tale. The new one was taken from the comics from the late 70's early 80's (IMO) with the Savage Hulk. The Ang Lee version was too convoluted. I understood what he was trying to do, but the Hulk didn't need such a giant reinvention. And to make his Dad into the Absorbing man was terrible (The Absorbing man is a Thor villain). The Hulk's main villain is Banner and Banner's is the Hulk. The new movie hit this much better than Lee's Hulk. Banner wanted 'to get rid of it, not control it.' The pacing in Lee's Hulk was terrible. It was start and stop the entire film. Then theres the ending of the Hulk fighting, well, a metaphor. WTF?! Honestly the movie would've been better if Lee's Hulk would've been another color and they would've called him something else besides The Hulk. It just wasn't the Hulk. Not an entirely bad movie, just a bad Hulk movie. There's much more bad I could talk about in Lee's film, but I think it would be easier just to say watch the new version AND THEN go back and watch the 2003 version. I did. It was the most upset I had been about the movie (Lee's). I will say one last thing: The sound mix on Lee's Hulk was terrible (culminating in the embarrassing sounds they had the Hulk making). The sound mix in the new Hulk was off the charts.

I'm not sure what your problems with the movie are. I'd be happy to address them if you want to be more specific. I'm not into attacking anyone (I'm not perfect). But I'd be into a healthy debate with anyone except PSPlayer .