Sunday, November 16, 2003
Mmmmm...smells like ass. 
OKOKOK...The Hulk had its merits. The Hulk himself (the special effect) was cool as shit. The action was great - what there was of it. And the scene transition effects were nifty. That's it.
This movie is over two hours long and about 1:45 could have been chopped out with no loss. Look, The Hulk story is very simple - Bruce Banner gets caught in a nuclear explosion...gamma ray overload...Hulk smash. Simple.
So why the hell do we need an origin story that takes about an hour and a half of time, and involves Banner being bred, injected, manipulated, tested, radiated and nanoteched...just to become the Big Guy. I mean, you're sitting there thinking, "OK, now will he Hulk out? OK, now? How about now?" Boooring.
The Incredible Hulk is one of the most successful characters in comics history. Why the heck couldn't they just have opened a comic book, read the story, and adapted the screenplay. I know, I know, a good comics story doesn't necessarily translate well onto the screen. Well let me tell you, the screenplay they wrote didn't translate onto the screen, so how much worse could it have been? If I told you once, I told you a thousand times, if you're going to mess with a story everybody knows (are you listening Peter Jackson?), you damn well better be sure you do a good job with it.
My advice? Go ahead and rent the DVD, but keep the remote at hand, and don't feel badly about fast forwarding until you see some action happening. I guarantee you're not missing anything.
Oh, and my wife actually liked it quite a bit. Go figure.
yeah I found myself intensely bored watching the movie, and I'm a comic grrl. I was mighty disappointed.
and I really felt bad for the parents who took their kids to see this since it was in NO way a kids movie. Those marketing idiots who put out everything from Hulk pj's to Hulk Kraft Dinner ought to be shot for pysching kids up to see the movie, and then boring them to tears and scaring them with content that was far beyond their years.
I couldn't stand the movie, and I'm usually pretty tolerant.
Yup...I try not to be too judgemental, but in this case...
My three-year-old was psyched to see this. She knows about Hulk because of all the marketing...the toys, etc...he's everywhere. So when I asked her, "OK, you wanna watch Hulk movie?" she was screaming and running to the couch (she loves to sit and watch movies, anyway). About an hour in she was falling asleep. She got excited when the Hulk finally came on screen, but that was it. The biggest excitement was the ending credits music (Stone Temple Pilots, maybe?). She was running and dancing around for that!