Hulk Movies

Don't worry OP, I liked the first Hulk better. 3 big reasons:

1) Better story and character development.

2) The Hulk looked more real, IMO, and not fake and plasticy (a word I made up) like in the second one.

3) Bana > Norton.

YMMV.

Some of you keep bringing up that in Hulk, Bruce was a “baby” when his father killed his mother. But after going over those scenes again, I find that he was 4-5 years old. He was big enough that his shoulders are about at the same level as the dining table. That’s plenty old enough for an impressionable mind to equate losing control of emotions with people dying.

There’s also some hints in the beginning of the movie that Bruce had something in him from the get-go. When his father takes purposefully takes his pacifier away and watches what happens, we are shown some strange bruise like discolorations that show up on his legs. In another quick scene where Bruce comes on from playing with a friend, and his friend reports that “Jack hit him with the stick, but Bruce wouldn’t hit him back. He just stood there shaking.” After Bruces mom puts a band-aid on his forehead, we are treated to a close-up of his arm, which has the same bruise-like patterns (though more greenish this time) on his elbow and wrist.

Of course, the theory of Bruce seeing his mom killed by his father causing him to keep his emotions inside is undermined by this same scene when his mom responds to her visiting friend’s comment about how Bruce didn’t cry by telling the friend “That’s Bruce. He’s like that. He’s just so…bottled up.” And this is maybe a five year old Bruce. Of course, if there was ongoing physical abuse of his mother by his father (however unseen), coupled with what we are shown of the emotional abuse by his father, this could mean that at an early age Bruce equated strong emotions with someone getting hurt.

But the movie does show in a few scenes Bruce’s dad was not nice to him on a regular basis. This is the emotional abuse. And this leads him to suppress his early childhood after his mother is killed. It would also be where the split personality comes from.

Of course both Hulk movies gel with the comics with Bruce having something in his genetic makeup that lets him survive the massive dose of gamma radiation. In the comics it’s a gamma bomb, and it’s something about his genes that let him absorb the energy and change. Just like the Fantastic Four had something special about them that allowed them to survive the cosmic radiation that changed them into what they are. And Spiderman had something special in him that reacted to the irradiated spider venom that changed him. In Marvel, all the Mutates (which are different from Mutants in that Mutants are born with their powers, while a Mutate is changed by some event) have something special about their make-up that not only allows them to survive things that should kill them, but tends to give them powers derived from the thing that should have killed them. Heck, it’s even been suggested a couple times that Steve Rogers responded so well to the Super Soldier serum because of his genetic make-up. (also why the Super Soldier Serum hasn’t been successfully replicated in others.)

Another thing about the Hulk movie that most people don’t mention (or perhaps they don’t know) is that the motion capture model for all the CGI Hulk stuff was Ang Lee himself. He knew exactly how he wanted the Hulk to act, and did so himself. And I can’t say he did a bad job.

It was mentioned in this very thread and it is also right on the DVD, you can see him doing the motion capture.

Ah. I musta missed that part of the post.

Anyways, I liked both Hulk movies. I also felt that even though Marvel tried to distance the Incredible Hulk movie from the Hulk movie, the Banners in one to the other was a progression of the character.

Banner in Hulk was the one who just found out about his curse he has to deal with. Only at the end do we see him starting to use it and look for solitude and a way to control it or get rid of it.

Banner in Incredible Hulk starts in South America, where Hulk ended, and is actively trying to find a cure for the conditiona and while that, trying to find ways to control it.

To me the Banner of Hulk naturally flows into the Banner of Incredible Hulk. But, that's just my mind. Yours might work differently.

Hulk only had 3 flaws...

1) Over use of the comic style frames. It wasn't bad. It was just over used.

2) Talbot's WTF IS THAT outline when he's caught in an explosion.

3) End fight scene. While I liked the "YOU WANT IT! YOU CAN HAVE IT!" style line, maybe they should of had a better fight scene before it got to that point.

With Incredible Hulk, I really just didnt have any complaints.

Sorry for the tangent, Jayboh, but I just saw Hulk vs Thor recently...
And I enjoyed that a lot more than I expected.

Not only were the characters well performed, but the fight was something fun.




Somewhat Spoileristic!!!!

Continuously punching someone through a thick mountain is classic!

I think he was so worked up that it could have been anyone in there and he'd be punching them into a pulpy mush at that stage. Until an ally pulled him back gently.