# Anyone else think it is a bad sign that we have not seen the digital Hulk yet?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 25, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864 "2003-01-25T15:38:01Z")
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### Author:  [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/1 "2003-01-25T15:38:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/2 "2003-01-25T15:48:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/3 "2003-01-25T15:50:45Z")
“You wouln’t like him when he’s Ang-Lee” …
No voting, not mine 😉
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/4 "2003-01-25T15:53:26Z")
I think Hulk smash tomorrow during the Super Bowl. What better place to reveal him than there?
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/5 "2003-01-25T15:55:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/6 "2003-01-25T15:57:36Z")
Whered you see him at?
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/7 "2003-01-25T16:13:38Z")
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.
It was goood.
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### Author:  [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/8 "2003-01-25T16:20:53Z")
> **[UPDATED! He's Green! He wears Purple Pants! And he just threw a tank across...](http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/14285)**
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> Harry here with an Update on the HULK Above is the first GREAT shot of the HULK up close and frankly He kicks all sorts of ass in my opinion. Second The folks at SUPERHEROHYPE.COM are who had this up and that they have several other HIGH...
The super-bowl advert and other trailer-clips can be found with this search string on google:
+streaming +movie +hulk -wrestling -hogan -psx
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/9 "2003-01-25T16:25:02Z")
That’s the one I saw, the one Harry took the mugshot from. Very nice.
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### Author:  [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/10 "2003-01-25T16:28:24Z")
HOLY SHIT!!! THAT IS AWSOME!!!
Mods lock this thread because the hulk looks FRICKING AWSOME!!
Looks like that is the TV commercial you saw Sabbath. He has PURPLE PANTS! And I am typing in CAPS for some reason.
Put that search string into google and check it out for those that have not seen.
YOINKS! HULK SMASH!!
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### Author:  [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/11 "2003-01-25T16:56:34Z")
He looks like Shrek 🙂
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/12 "2003-01-25T17:07:53Z")
But what about the sad walking away music? Important? Not important?
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### Author:  [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/13 "2003-01-25T17:19:09Z")
Very! Extremely! Very! Sad-walking-away-music is a must!
Moving on to another town, the poingnancy _sniff_
On the other hand, I trust Ang-Lee with my life, I have loved everything he has done so far. I am sure he won’t dissapoint me.
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### Author:  [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/14 "2003-01-25T17:28:53Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/15 "2003-01-25T17:52:39Z")
In the clip I saw, he picks up a tank and swirls it around to throw it. The whole commercial is pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/16 "2003-01-25T18:41:09Z")
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?_
[/hijack]
CGI Hulk looks to be a vast improvement over a painted Lou Ferrigno.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/17 "2003-01-25T19:39:35Z")
…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!
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/18 "2003-01-25T22:59:30Z")
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> \*Originally posted by E-Sabbath \*
> \*\*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 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.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/19 "2003-01-26T05:51:49Z")
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.
Looking forward to the Super Bowl spot.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-it-is-a-bad-sign-that-we-have-not-seen-the-digital-hulk-yet/150864/20 "2003-01-26T11:11:52Z")
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.”
I dunno, it just rankles in my mind…
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