The Incredible Hulk 2008
March 13th, 2008 by Frank
Well Eoin blogged when Edwart Norton got cast as the Hulk, and judging by the amount of hits that post gets, there are a lot of Hulk fans out there. I’m a big Hulk fan myself, but I felt let down by the 2003 film ‘Hulk’, despite great casting of Eric Bana as Hulk.
I loved the old TV series, so I love the fact that the trailer for the 2008 film ‘The Incredible Hulk’ seems to pay homage to the series… Edward Norton’s performance seems very reminiscent of Bill Bixby’s and some of the shots look like they were very deliberately recreating the look of the old series. Where the TV series excelled was when they took the human angle and showed a man struggling with his anger and his ‘inner demons’, and again the trailer for the new film seems to play on this angle as well.
Of course it also has two big CGI monsters doing battle in a city center, as it has to really, but the question in my mind is, which will win out – the psychological drama or the Hollywood blow-em-up. I think we all know the answer to that one, it is a Summer blockbuster hopeful after all. Pity really.
The only other film I’ve seen by thie director Louis Leterrier was Danny the Dog which was all style and no substance so, while I have my fingers crossed, I think the trailer may be as good as this film gets…
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March 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
We’re parting company again Frank. I thought Ang Lee’s Hulk was beautiful, great casting, breathtakingly innovative editing that nodded to the material’s origins, the Hulk as an elemental force, the delicacy of his flight through the landscape, some of the best visual foreshadowing I’ve ever seen in a movie… I could wax on about it for paragraphs. What scuppered it was the Superbowl commercial where raw CGI was mistakenly used, hence the Shrek comparisons and low audience turn out.
The “requel” is going to be the usual brainless smashfest that the Marvel movies in the main have been.
Ironman looks the shit though.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Ah Green Ink… my faith in your taste in movies is taking an awful hammering this past few weeks…
Eric Bana was an inspired piece of casting, and he would have been so capable of playing a deeper more three dimensional Banner had the script allowed.
I had no problem with the CGI, I thought it was great fun… I loved watching Hulk leap through the desert..
But the story… ack… the story… it’s killing me, it was so boring, it lacked a basic human aspect which would have allowed us to actually engage and instead focussed too much on er, comicbook baddies and the like.
I know, I know, it’s a comic, but you have to bring another dimension to it when you bring it to the big screen, otherwise just read the damn comics and leave them alone!
As for Marvel films… Spiderman was great I thought, as was X-Men… (that was Marvel wasn’t it?) and hey, Daredevil’s suit was great
March 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Daredevil’s suit was funny. I believe it was an accurate recreation of the comic book’s suit but it was still funny.
The Ironman trailer made me laugh loudly several times, but it did remind me of the Ang Lee Hulk, so if you’re into that kind of thing I guess you’ll be happy.
The first two Spider-man films and the first X-Men were good.
That’s the wonderful thing about superhero films though. There’s something for everyone out there. I’m encouraged by this trailer. It’s much better than I thought it could be.
Still though, give me Batman any day.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
It’s ok Frank. It’s just that you’re wrong.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Ah… that explains it.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
May 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
You all need to see the updated CGI in this STREET FIGHT sequence. THEN tell me whether or not this movie’s going to ROCK!:
http://movies.yahoo.com/summer-movies/Incredible-Hulk/1808495230/trailers/106/902
Smashing, indeed.
HULK WILL SMASH ALL BOX OFFICE EXPECTATION ! ! !
June 17th, 2008 at 11:44 am
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