Hulk Smash!
So anyway, I saw The Hulk on Saturday night. Wanna know what I thought of it? I think Hollywood may have actually produced a comic book movie worse than Daredevil. Really.
The scene where Bruce first turns into the Hulk is shrouded in darkness. It was kinda tough to see what he was doing aside from the occasional explosion. They probably wanted to shroud him in darkness to build up to his big reveal, but everybody already knows what Hulk looks like, so there's no point to that. But in a later scene, he saves his girlfriend from a pack of dogs with the same powers as Hulk, but it's almost totally black! I couldn't see one stinking thing that happened! Wouldn't the producers want viewers to see a big action scene?
So they had this plotline about Bruce suppressing this really nasty memory from when he was little. Turns out his dad tried to kill him, but when his mom tried to stop him, they fell and she landed on a butcher knife and died. I discovered today that the same thing happened in the comics, but I didn't know that prior to seeing the movie on Saturday. Having said that, I can say that I saw the whole "Mr. Banner killed Mrs. Banner" thing coming from a mile away, just 15 minutes into the movie.
Another thing I didn't get was the ending. What happens is halfway through the flick, Nick Nolte (Bruce's dad) injects himself with some serum and gets the power to absorb the essence of anything he touches. What that means is that he can touch something, and it can basically become part of him. He demonstrates this power by touching a giant piece of machinery, merging with it, then squashing a cop under it. Anyway, the Army captures Bruce and straps him into a giant electric chair so if he hulks up, they'll fry him. They let Nolte in to talk to him, and Nolte loses his temper, grabs the cord the electric chair is hooked up to, and bites it. Doing so turns him into a giant bolt of lighning. Bruce freaks out, hulks up, and Lightning Nolte grabs him. Hulk jumps through the ceiling, and lands about five miles away in a lake. Again, the scene is super dark, so it's hard to really tell what's going on. The confusion lasts around three days before, from what I can gather, that Nolte wanted to take Hulk's powers from him, so instead of fighting, Hulk just says "You want it, you got it!" Nolte makes an attempt, but something happens and Nolte explodes or something. I really don't know, and I don't think the movie did either. It's like the movie just threw up its hands and gave up. If the movie itself doesn't care, why should I?
The only real worthwhile part of the movie itself was the cameos of Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno. Outside of that and the trailers for Terminator 3 and the new Punisher movie, I cannot in good faith recommend this movie to anyone that isn't a hardcore "Hulkamaniac." Even if you are a big fan of the big green guy, you'll be disappointed. Thumbs in the middle, leaning down.
That's all for now. G'nite.
The scene where Bruce first turns into the Hulk is shrouded in darkness. It was kinda tough to see what he was doing aside from the occasional explosion. They probably wanted to shroud him in darkness to build up to his big reveal, but everybody already knows what Hulk looks like, so there's no point to that. But in a later scene, he saves his girlfriend from a pack of dogs with the same powers as Hulk, but it's almost totally black! I couldn't see one stinking thing that happened! Wouldn't the producers want viewers to see a big action scene?
So they had this plotline about Bruce suppressing this really nasty memory from when he was little. Turns out his dad tried to kill him, but when his mom tried to stop him, they fell and she landed on a butcher knife and died. I discovered today that the same thing happened in the comics, but I didn't know that prior to seeing the movie on Saturday. Having said that, I can say that I saw the whole "Mr. Banner killed Mrs. Banner" thing coming from a mile away, just 15 minutes into the movie.
Another thing I didn't get was the ending. What happens is halfway through the flick, Nick Nolte (Bruce's dad) injects himself with some serum and gets the power to absorb the essence of anything he touches. What that means is that he can touch something, and it can basically become part of him. He demonstrates this power by touching a giant piece of machinery, merging with it, then squashing a cop under it. Anyway, the Army captures Bruce and straps him into a giant electric chair so if he hulks up, they'll fry him. They let Nolte in to talk to him, and Nolte loses his temper, grabs the cord the electric chair is hooked up to, and bites it. Doing so turns him into a giant bolt of lighning. Bruce freaks out, hulks up, and Lightning Nolte grabs him. Hulk jumps through the ceiling, and lands about five miles away in a lake. Again, the scene is super dark, so it's hard to really tell what's going on. The confusion lasts around three days before, from what I can gather, that Nolte wanted to take Hulk's powers from him, so instead of fighting, Hulk just says "You want it, you got it!" Nolte makes an attempt, but something happens and Nolte explodes or something. I really don't know, and I don't think the movie did either. It's like the movie just threw up its hands and gave up. If the movie itself doesn't care, why should I?
The only real worthwhile part of the movie itself was the cameos of Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno. Outside of that and the trailers for Terminator 3 and the new Punisher movie, I cannot in good faith recommend this movie to anyone that isn't a hardcore "Hulkamaniac." Even if you are a big fan of the big green guy, you'll be disappointed. Thumbs in the middle, leaning down.
That's all for now. G'nite.
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