TheRus 0 #1 June 20, 2003 Is anyone else going to see this this weekend? I'm taking my 6-year-old son as my excuse. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TequilaGirl 0 #2 June 20, 2003 No - they ruined the TV series with this movie...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #3 June 20, 2003 Actually, I was a fan of the comic b4 the TV show and I'm kinda glad they are doing the movie this way. No human is big enough to play Hulk correctly so I am very interested in seeing how they pull off the CGI in it. Hopefully better than in Matrix: Refunded. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #4 June 20, 2003 The only reason it's on my radar is it's got a good start time tonight. 6:30, time for a light dinner and a drink before at Left Bank in Pleasant Hill. I want to see Italian Job, but it starts at 7:30 and the sitter is only booked until 9:00. REALLY sounds like it belongs in the who's gonna be 40 thread, you think? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #5 June 20, 2003 QuoteThe Hulk.........TheRus very creative there buddy. I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
clrarch 0 #6 June 20, 2003 I'm going in 1/2 hour to see The Hulk. Bring on the big green man Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #7 June 20, 2003 [monotone cartman] God you suck. [/monotone cartman] Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #8 June 20, 2003 LOL... ya know what? The more I think about that Deuce, the more I think you might be right! Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #9 June 20, 2003 LOL sorry dude i had toI swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #10 June 20, 2003 Oh that's ok Little Brother... yours is coming... Just keep it up. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Laurel 0 #11 June 20, 2003 Quote [monotone cartman] God you suck. [/monotone cartman] I love this quote from Cartman. Also, I am not going to see the Hulk - I love Lou Frigno (I know I am bastardizing the spelling of his name) too much...................................................................... PMS#28, Pelogrande Rodriguez#1074 My Pink M Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #12 June 20, 2003 Full props to Lou for enduring that paint job. He's great. ...and you weren't off by much - Ferigno. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #13 June 20, 2003 Quote Also, I am not going to see the Hulk - I love Lou Frigno (I know I am bastardizing the spelling of his name) too much. isnt he in it too?____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #14 June 20, 2003 He might be in some bit part just for the fans to get a kick out of. I am actually interested to see Nick Nolte as Banner's dad... should be interesting! Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WFFC 1 #15 June 21, 2003 There was a thread a week or so ago that said it sucked... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #16 June 21, 2003 My teenage sons saw it at the pre-opening (one works at the theater, so they are allowed to see a movie before the release dateMay your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #17 June 21, 2003 Well, I'm off to go get my son and see it myself... I'll let you know what I thought of it later today. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #18 June 21, 2003 actually - I felt long ago they ruined the comic book with the tv show. While the comic was always about a man that was struggling with his inner demons and broken mind the TV show seemed to be The Fugitive with a big green guy instead of the one-armed man._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #19 June 21, 2003 True enough... and I think the movie got back to that basis a little more again. I just got back from seeing it and I liked it. I thought there were some things that might have been done different, but I can say that about any movie. Some of the cinematography and editting was done in a way that gave it a more "comic book" feel and once I got used to it, it quit anoying me. Yes, Lou Ferigno IS in the movie (briefly) playing a security guard. He appears in the scene with Stan Lee (also a security guard). They DID change the character history some, but if you accept it as just being another possible way it COULD have been told, then it was cool. I recommend seeing it, but only if you don't go in judging it ahead of time or with preconceived notions. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #20 June 21, 2003 Don't forget - almost every author of the Hulk has changed the story some. Grey Hulk anyone? Pantheon? Maestro? See what I mean. I haven't seen the movie yet - but if Ang Lee heavily relied upon the Peter David stories, I would be a happy man._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #21 June 21, 2003 I agree completely with your point. There HAVE been many various storylines in the comic book. I just don't like it when people go to see a movie and dismiss it as "all bad" just because it wans't exactly the way some other version was. I wish I had followed the comics more closely... Either way, my ultimate point was nothing more than to say this - I liked it and I would recommend it to others. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skycat 0 #22 June 22, 2003 Well I never read the comic, and I barely remember the TV show. Anyway, I did not like the movie at all. The plot stopped about half way threw the movie and it was just gratuitous violence after that. The comic book editing was kind of cool and 70s feelish. The rest of the editing sucked and looked like my 1st attempt at editing a skydiving movie on my VCR. As for the CGI, it reminded me of roger rabbit. A cartoon in the real world. Derek and I gave it 2 thumbs down.Fly it like you stole it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #23 June 25, 2003 SPOILER ALERT BELOW!!!! QuoteWell I never read the comic, and I barely remember the TV show. Anyway, I did not like the movie at all. The plot stopped about half way threw the movie and it was just gratuitous violence after that. The comic book editing was kind of cool and 70s feelish. The rest of the editing sucked and looked like my 1st attempt at editing a skydiving movie on my VCR. As for the CGI, it reminded me of roger rabbit. A cartoon in the real world. Derek and I gave it 2 thumbs down. Spoiler Alert Saw the movie - it was eh, ok, I guess. Some of the editing to make it look/feel like a comic book was annoying at times, and perfectly executed at other times. The story moved painfully slow - almost no need for this to be a two hour movie. What little story there was in the beginning was handled well and acted out convincingly......the background was changed on how/why he became the Hulk and it wasn't that bad....in fact, it helped drive the story more. From the first hints of the bottled rage/anger that Bruce had (showing the Hulk behind a door) including the first appearance of the beast was done great. Any other time Hulk was on screen the story and movie came to a halt. It seems that the movie is all about how a dad can screw up his kid for years, then in one instant become Dr. Phil and realize they have repressed memories, etc etc...... The Hulk CGI? Well, he looks like a big green thing...do we have anything else we can put it up against for comparison? Since there isn't any 20 foot tall green men in the world, there is no doubt that this is a computer image on screen that has the ability to show two emotions - blank face and angry face. Suspension of disbelief? Eh, maybe the first time you see him. They never explain why David Banner sets off a Gamma Bomb at the military base back in the 60s. Other than trying to stick true to the comic book by having a gamma explosion (which is what created the hulk), that entire sequence doesn't make sense - nor the payoff of the accident that follows. My only guess as to why they have this explosion? It can be used as a device for the sequel - someone else that had too much gamma exposure. The movie has two endings - where it should have ended in San Fran, and the predictable "we need a big fight against another big monster" sequence which was too dark to see what was going on (most likely to hide poor CGI - just like the non-stop rain in Godzilla). I guess the only way for a father and son to work out their anger with each other is to turn into huge monsters and beat each other up. Gen. Thunderbolt Ross was probably the best character in the movie - and also the closest to what he was in the comics. Nolte did another good job of over acting, Eric Bana did a good job of showing no emotions for the first half then looking like a very constipated angry man the second half. Jennifer Connely has taken yet another "victim wife/girlfriend of a mad scientist who loses his mind" role. She seems like a great actor, I would love to see her in a better role someday. An ok comic book movie. But a bad movie overall._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trent 0 #24 June 25, 2003 The movie sucked ass. Seriously. I can't beleive any critics gave it a nod. All I could think while watching it was that movie studios OWN all the critics. I'm really surprised I didn't fall asleep or walk out and see if anyone would give me a refund.Oh, hello again! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
