Holy Crap! It looks AMAZING! I’m a diehard life long Hulk fan and this Hulk KILLS the first Hulk. I have SUCH high hopes for this film. I hope it’s as awesome as it looks.
Please be great…
Oh, I want to make it clear though that I thought the first CGI Hulk was great for the time and was a great first stab at doing him digitally.
This one just destroys it though.
I’m a big fan of Ang Lee’s movie.
I hope this Hulk isn’t done. Those images have him mostly shrouded in darkness, and it kind of looks like “more of the same” to me. . .battling hulks jumping at each other over flaming cars at night in front of a marquee?
I already saw Transformers.
But, Ed Norton gives hope that they can give some depth to the character.
Two demerits to the first person in this thread that uses the construction “<blank> smash!”
One of the problems I had with the first film was the way the directer split the screen into two or four parts with action happening in each little sub-screen. I guess he was aiming towards looking like a comic book, but I just found it annoying.
Of all the comic book movies I’ve watched, the last Hulk film was the only one that I really disliked.
I’ll see this one.
Could be dark because they are night time scenes but I haven’t seen the movie yet so…
Hulk fighting the Abomination. What more are you looking for from a Hulk movie? Up until recent years he didn’t do much other than be strong, break shit, smash shit and roar. Looks like that’s what he’s doing here.
The only point I was making was that his CGI self looks awesome and from the blurry picture so does Abom.
So is this a sequel to the 2003 Hulk, or another reboot?
My understanding is a reboot.
Well, the scenes are at night, for sure.
But, why show the scenes that are at night? It’s like showing Godzilla in the rain. . .because you’re not proud of the look.
I don’t think he looks that good.
In the final shot of Hulk on that page, look at his abs and core. . .his muscles are perfectly symmetrical. His torso looks two-dimensional, and in all the stills, the texturing looks very plastic. I expect more. Perhaps in motion, he looks better.
First impression, he reminds me of how spidey looked in Spiderman 1. . .cartoonish.
This movie is directed by the guy who made Transporter and Transporter 2. he’s gonna give you what you want. I’m sure that it will make $300,000,000 and people will go, “oh, they got it right.”
Personally, I loved Ang Lee’s split-screen, and the lesser amount of action in “Hulk 2003”.
I’m just looking for something different at this point from my comic book movies.
Here’s the trailer. Not sure what I think yet.
All Hulk and Abomination shots at night.
He might yet rock. I just don’t think he’s finished yet.
I still have nightmares about how awful Ang Lee’s Hulk movie was, so I approach this one with trepidation.
Ed Norton as Bruce Banner and knowing that they’re using the Abomination help a lot, though.
I think the new CGI Hulk looks fine. Doesn’t really blow me away, but the Hulk is a pretty simple character, visually. As long as he’s big and green, I don’t see that there’s much to complain about.
Actually I rather enjoyed that part. It made the movie *feel *like a comic book to me. I remember Schumacher destroyed the earlier vesion of the Batman movies by trying to make everything look like a comic book. I thought the Hulk movie succeeded where those films failed.
All the other parts of the the 2003 Hulk movie annoyed me though. I wanted to watch The Hulk to see a big green monster bash the shit out of other big monsters. In the dog scene you couldn’t make out shit, except for the crotch bite; and I’m still not too sure WTF was going on in that last scene.
This new movie was exactly what I was asking for. I just want to see Bruce Banner running for his life and hiding from the army. And I want to see the Hulk and the Abomination beat the crap out of each other while leveling a city in the process.
Is it me, or does the Abomination’s head look distractingly small?
Not really. It kind of looks like that in the comics (depending on who is drawing him).
I just watched the trailer (thanks for the link) and I’m pumped. I just PRAY that this isn’t going to be 70% build-up/exposition and only 30% Hulk breaking stuff. I’m tired of comic book movies spending so much time on origins, especially when they are well known characters like Hulk, Superman, Batman etc…
When they show him walking after he climbs out of the whole something doesn’t look totally right. Like he’s limping or something.
Ed Norton’s chest in that strapped-down shot is wigging me right out.
Hm. I’ll give it a chance, to be sure, but I’m a fan of the Ang Lee Hulk movie, which I feel is very unfairly maligned. I loved Sam Elliot, Jennifer Connolly, Nick Nolte, and even Eric Bana. And yes, I really dug the Hulk action scenes. I had misgivings about a Hulk poodle, but the fight with the dogs was animalistic and brutal, just as it should have been, with biting and headbutting and using one dog as a club to beat the others and ripping a dog to shreds with his bare hands. Awesome.
I suppose what turned people off were the editing, which I found very clever, and the in-between bits, which were heavy on the daddy issues, but I thought the story added a lot of character depth and tragedy. And Nolte was brilliant. “Do you really think that I am separate from you?” Also, I seriously doubt anyone else can pull off “Thunderbolt” Ross like Sam Elliot.
The new trailer is kind of a mess. “I don’t want to control it, I want to get rid of it.” Then later, “Maybe if I can control it…” Erm, weren’t you going to get rid of it earlier? Hokay, whatever then. It all looks very superficial and insubstantial, like a Michael Bay fiery-explosion fest. Also, the Hulk himself doesn’t look anything like Norton. In the Ang Lee film, at least some effort was put into giving the Hulk features that looked like Eric Bana really did get all big and hulking; if you looked at the face, you could still see Bana in there. This new Hulk is sort of generic.
I agree. I thought all the actors were good and the Hulk action scenes were very well done. The whole scene with him fighting the army in the desert were exactly as I pictured them as a kid. He was maybe a litle bit too flabby, but I was okay with that.
For me there was no reason to change the origin story for this very simple character. This was one superhero movie where he should have gotten his powers in the first 15 minutes and went on a rampage for the next 75. The ending was terrible and ruined the story aspect of the movie for me. I agree with you about Ross. Elliot was born to play that roll, and did so well in the first one. Hurt has very big shoes to fill there.
Other than the last movie when has the Hulk ever retained Banner like features?
Just as the Hulk was hooking up with the Pantheon his three “personalities” got smerged by Ringmaster, the result being a Hulk who looked facially much more like Banner than any previous incarnation.
Besides, I don’t care what the comics ever did or didn’t do.
It’s logical that a hulked up version of a man should resemble the man. I like that touch.
This is actually going to be the second movie where Tim Roth squares off against Edward Norton. The first was Woody Allen’s musical Everyone Says I Love You, where Roth played an intimidating ex-con who became goody two-shoes Norton’s rival for Drew Barrymore’s affections.
Oh, and look for a cameo (in this Hulk, not the Woody Allen movie) by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, reprising his role from Iron Man!