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Hulk

Posted on September 30th, 2006 Chris Arndt 3 comments

Hulk is on Sci-Fi Channel right now (at least from where I am sitting in Pacific Daylight savings Time). When I first saw the schedule I assumed that it was one of the older television movies starring Bill Bixby. As it is Sci-Fi spent their promotional time budget on advertisements for the Travolta/Cage Face-Off. I don’t recall seeing one TV commercial for a broadcast of the Hulk.

I can understand why.

Hulk is a movie that starts out boring and ends pretentious.

When I first got back to my motel room and switched on the TV I was surprised and pleased to see the movie right at the start of the chase sequence and it was fun again watching the big-screen Hulk literally tear up some tanks.

Still, the movie is mostly crap with a few broad strokes that run contrary to the source material. That mostly means that the theme is different, the characterization is somewhat altered, and the scale was marginally different. None of the changes were neccessary. A lot of the similarities were coincidental.

I wouldn’t bother paying to see it.
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3 responses to “Hulk”
1. Maj Kerem July 29th, 2010 at 18:18
  
  “Everyone” didn’t agree on anything. I thought it was a great movie, though I didn’t care for the final battle sequence much.
  
  Its a mistake to assume just because you don’t like something that “everyone” agrees with you.
  
  SPIDER’S NOTE: Everyone but one person thinks this movie is boring pretentious crap.
2. Cpl_Otter October 1st, 2006 at 06:12
  
  I got it on DVD as a gift. Unfortunately, it was the full-screen version, not the wide-screen one. That meant that all the cool comic-book-like panels that are done in the montage sequences were cropped in awkward ways. I hated to be ungrateful, but I ended up selling it at a garage sale for a buck or two.
  
  I still contend that the movie should have ended at the point where he has fought the army and Betty has calmed him down. They’re standing in the street hugging each other, and he is Banner again. It felt like the end of a movie. All of the surreal stuff at the end with his father being the Absorbing Man felt wrong and unnecessary.
3. Mullon October 1st, 2006 at 11:10
  
  The movie sucked. Everyone agreed that it sucked, and yet Ang Lee is doing a sequel. How did that happen? I blam e Brokeback Mountain. Curse you gay cowboys.
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