We are only like 6 months away from release of the movie and we haven’t even seen any still shots of the digital hulk yet. I am thinking that this may be a bad sign. I have been hoping that he won’t look crappy since he is my favorite comic hero of all time, but my hope if fading. If he looks anything like the little pieces that we see around the logo on the website we are screwed.
BTW, Daredevil is going to suck and would have had a fighting chance if they had picked a no name actor to play the title role.
I think they’re keeping the Hulk under wraps so they can have a kind of “unveiling.” Soon there will be trailers/teasers where you get to see his strength and bits and pieces of him (like the early Gozilla “size matters” trailers where you saw the water part and got a look into his big eye).
But won’t be closer to the release date before you get to see him in all his flexing “Hulk will smash!” glory.
I’ve seen him. He looks darn good. Just like the comics. Though he has a bit of the Spiderman flaw, he moves too fast sometimes. Rami says that he did that on purpose, but… well.
I love how he just bursts through the concrete wall and takes out most of it. He’s HUGE! Looks just like the comic. You see him kicking doors… and most of the wall, and tipping tanks… Is the wild-haired guy General Ross?
The bit where he picks the tank up and swings it around just looks too fast for me.
I will not be happy unless there is sad walking away music somewhere. We need the sad walking away music.
Er. I’d prefer not to discuss such topics as where I saw him at. It was in the form of streaming media, and I didn’t have to sign a NDA to see it. It is perhaps possible that I shouldn’t have seen it. But I did.
In general though, just because you don’t see the big digital special effect beforehand, it can be taken either way:
Jurassic Park: They would not show the dinosaurs before the release of the original movie. They were well recieved by the audiences.
The smoking piece of crap that starred Mathew Broderick and the studio called Godzilla, forever tarnishing the name: They didn’t show the giant iguauna before release, and many Godzilla fans hated it, felt it looked nothing like what it should have.
The sad walking-away music is essential! (It used to cause tears to well up in my eyes, but then I was only seven.)
Talking of the sad-walking-away music, it’s been a coupla decades since I’ve heard it, but I’d like to know one thing–
It’s similarity to “Super Heroes” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Coincidence? My imagination? Or deliberate?
Whenever I hear “I’ve done a lot / God knows I’ve tried / To find the truth / I’ve even lied / But all I know / Is down inside I’m / Bleeding” and “And super heroes / Come to feast / To taste the flesh / Not yet deceased / And all I know / Is still the beast is / Feeding”, I picture Bill Bixby walking down that road.
Am I misremembering the sad-walking-away music terribly, or was it practically note-for-note from Super Heroes?
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CGI Hulk looks to be a vast improvement over a painted Lou Ferrigno.
…not EXACTLY the same, but similarly emotionally-evocative
and also much closer to each other than they are to another piece of music that has the same impact on me- the instrumental JOHN 19:41 concluding JC SUPERSTAR
Btw- a bit of coolness- a long-time college friend of mine wrote THE HULK TV-series folks at CBS when it was on asking how to get a copy of the sad walking away music for piano- they sent it to her free!
I heard a talk by the supervising animator on Spider-Man, and it was he who wanted Spidey to have that cartoony motion rather than a realistic one. his reasoning was flawed, though, as he was just someone who hated motion capture, and preferred hand animating, and so inevitably the believability was compromised.
I imagine it’s the same with The Hulk, he’ll be hand animated because animators can’t bring themselves to accept motion capture as an option.
I personally think they are compromising realism for tradition, which misses the point for special effects - i.e. believable spectacle. They’d be better served working at Pixar or Dreamworks Animation, I think.
Well, Mychael Danna (who scores most of Ang Lee’s movies) is doing the music for The Hulk, too, and if you’re at all familiar with the music from The Sweet Hereafter or The Ice Storm, then you know he can do sad music quite well.
Am I the only one who’s a little unsure about mixing in the canon from the TV show with the canon from the comic, as a lot of people here seem to be wanting? I mean, the two were so totally different, the only real commonality was “guy turns into big green monster.”
