The HULK

Ok guys and gals I just got back from seeing the Hulk in theathers today and they should have changed the name to HUNK because it was a HUNK OF CRAP I kept falling asleep during the movie so save your $8.00 dollars and wait till the hulk comes on dvd at your local blockbuster

I realize everyones views are differant on movies. I had not intended on seeing it, however my kids wanted to go this weekend. Now I'm thinking how possibly could this keep kids up if you were getting sleepy? Not exciting? Crappy, but how, to an adult, or to even kids?
Just curoius , would hate for them to spend there hard earned chore money and hate it. At least this way I could explain to them it's faults before choosing to o or wait.
Thanks:cool:

The HULK was a pretty good movie.

They took aspects from every incarnation of the comic as well as the TV show of the 70's and turned it into a pretty good story. Anyone going just for an all out sci-fi slug fest of destruction is gong to be a bit disappointed... they put a story in there instead.

The scene changes and shifts done are done to make it look as if you're reading a comic book. Very creative.

While the HULK was no Batman or Spider-man I thank god it wasn't Daredevil (now there's a movie that was pointless).

Hey Wild...

Yeah... there is a lot more story than action in this nearly 2 1/2 hour film.

Too many people go into the film thinking its going to be just like the tv show or its going to be just like the comic books because that is the only point of refrence they have. The script mixes both of them into a very decent story. You also have to keep in mind this is the first (and possibly only) Hulk movie so they have to do the origin story of the characters. A good chunk of the story has to be devoted to telling the audiance who these people are and why we should care about them.

The Hulk was as real as you're going to get considering he is a ten foot tall beast of raw emotional fury. I didn't like the fact that I could tell when they switched to CGI in the Matrix or Die Another Day or any number of other movies. The technology has gotten better but its still not perfect and probably won't ever be seemsless because its very tough to trick the human eye like that visualy.

What's funny is had Ang Lee made a 2 hour CGI slugfest with the Hulk we would hear critics and people ***** and moan that there was no characters and no story.

CGI is short for Computer Generated Imagery.

It can be anything from as simple as a flower in the background to entire sets to humans and creatures such as the Hulk. James Cameron's the Abyss was the first movie to use advanced CGI and it was created by one of the same F/X wizards that created new techniques for Lucas on Star Wars.

CGI replaced stop motion animation/claymation and blue/green screening as the primary way of doing complex and advanced shots and images for films. Without CGI the Hulk would either be a stop motion figure (the At-At's in EMpire Stirkes Back or King Kong) or a man painted green (like ol Lou).

There is CGI everywhere in Matrix. Everything from the fight scenes to the multiple Mr. Smith's to the robots and the hovercrafts. Creating total realism out of unreal images and characters, thoughts and ideas is exactly as you put it., the ultimate intention of CGI.

Hope that answered a few of your questions.

I liked the movie. I really enjoyed the over-the-top insanity of Nick Nolte's character, and how they turned him into a combination of Crusher Creel, The Absorbing Man, and Xaxx, the electrical supervillain. I'm not sure what he was at the end, but I'm betting that isn't the last we've seen of Brucie's father.

The one thing I don't like about Marvel Comics made into movies is they isolate the superheroes, as if they are the only one in existence. Daredevil's fought the Hulk, Spiderman has fought the Hulk. It would have been nice if they'd had newspaper headlines talking about Spiderman, or something.

I realize it is hard to figure out what to do with superheroes, and the X-Men are the only two movies in this genre that have more than one or two superhuman beings in them, but when the current run of first time big screen events is over I hope they take a few bigger steps, more risks, blah blah blah....:)

The reason that films can't cross over like Ben Urich working for the Daily Planet like he does in the comics instead of the NY Post like he does in the Daredevil movie is because of different production companies.

If every Marvel movie was done by the same company and released by the same company these crossovers would work. Sadly they can't due to legal ramifications.