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Grrrrr!!!
Ok.
I'll admit this: I was actually looking forward to seeing The Hulk. Ang Lee made something awesome out of the Tiger and Dragon, and I kind of remember Sense and Sensibility. He's got the touch. In fact, just the other night, I said, he's not like those Garfield guys, he would not be able to wake up in the morning and work on a piece of shit. He'd make it better. He'll make it ok to see that kind of crappy animation on the trailers.
I don't say this often.... but I was wrong.
Ang, despite your best efforts... uh ..it's a Steampile of Gamma-poo.
First of all, people, just because it is a comic book movie, please stop using the "comic book" font. We get it. This does nothing to help. Also, the split screen thing is kind of campy and I could see why you chose it, but it looked like the film was made using iMovie 2.4. You get the sense that the editors were all, "Hey Ang, that swipe fade button looks cool!!!" and Ang says, "Dude, let's do it!"
And though I thought the animation was going to be the worst part, it's noT. Nick Nolte is the worst part. But I don't even mind him as much as I minded the tedious set up. Why is this movie not all Hulk all the time. I do not care about genetic modification and parental abuse. I really do not think that has anything to do with a nerd changing into a rampaging mono-syllabic monster who smashes cars. Just let the dork get angry and do some damage. Jennifer Connelly looks great in this picture, especially when being hunted by a menacing mutant poodle... Uh... ok... here's another thing, doesn't the Hulk have any real like... villains? I don't think the bloated bulldog was part of the Brotherhood of Evil Baddies. They start to do something kind of almost interesting with Nolte, but it quickly dissolves into meaningless bad acting.
The finest part of the movie, and I am giving mad props to this guy for his sheer brilliance, was when a particularly annoying General says to Betty, "You know where I want to see you" (or something similar to that) and he leaves a huge, unnecessary pause, some dude in the back shouts, and I love him for it, "Behind bars!" Behind bars? I don't know why this cracked us up so much, maybe because of the angry tone the guy said it with, as if he was privy to some insider character information about the General, or maybe it was just the random suggestion, but it made the film for me. Every time I saw Jennifer Connelly I kept thinking "behind bars". In fact, if Connelly decides to do a women's prison movie, I would see it, guaranteed it's better than the Hulk.
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