# New Hulk: the worlds most expensive... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669 "2008-06-12T10:26:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/41 "2008-06-14T22:40:04Z")
I just noticed that Edward Norton’s original script apparently had a good quantity more character development in it, that was actually shot. It will be interesting if they do a DVD with a longer edit. [QUOTE=Cubsfan] This new trend in having big name high $$ actors in these hero movies is going to make a team up cost prohibitive. [/QUOTE] Edward Norton and Robert Downey Jr., while well known and respected, I don’t believe are in the highest tier of pay. Traditionally, they’ve done more serious movies than blockbusters, so they’re not bringing audiences in like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. I’d venture to guess that Mark Wahlberg makes more money per movie than Edward Norton. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/42 "2008-06-14T23:10:47Z")
[QUOTE=Atrael] About the only thing I didn’t like about the movie was the Hulks casual disregard for human life. I’m not that up on all the lore, but I thought one of the big points about the hulk was that he didn’t kill anyone. Yet this hulk had no problem smashing soldiers left and right. [/QUOTE] Depends. The regular-Marvel Hulk has apparently \*\*never \*\* killed anyone - even when he destroyed entire towns and stuff and waged war on the entire planet Earth, nearly destroying all of Manhatten (it was evacuated in a few hours, you see). The Ultimate-Hulk, which shares its origin a little closer to the movie Hulk, is a fricken’ mass-murderer, even \*\*eating \*\* people. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/43 "2008-06-14T23:24:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] I just noticed that Edward Norton’s original script apparently had a good quantity more character development in it, that was actually shot. It will be interesting if they do a DVD with a longer edit. Edward Norton and Robert Downey Jr., while well known and respected, I don’t believe are in the highest tier of pay. Traditionally, they’ve done more serious movies than blockbusters, so they’re not bringing audiences in like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. I’d venture to guess that Mark Wahlberg makes more money per movie than Edward Norton. [/QUOTE] Funny you should mention Brad Pitt – he’s reputedly being courted to play Thor. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/44 "2008-06-14T23:29:33Z")
[QUOTE=Atrael] About the only thing I didn’t like about the movie was the Hulks casual disregard for human life. I’m not that up on all the lore, but I thought one of the big points about the hulk was that he didn’t kill anyone. Yet this hulk had no problem smashing soldiers left and right. [/QUOTE] Well, he’s pretty aggresive when people start throwing down on him. He doesn’t go out of his way to kill people, but if they really screw with him, they are serious trouble. As far as it goes, he was pretty restrained in this movie. He could have pulped people’s bodies; instead, he only shattered some of their bones. The soldiers seem to have been pretty good at running out of the way and the Hulk didn’t particularly go after them, although some probably bought it. But I can’t feel too sorry for anyone dumb enough to shoot the Hulk. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/45 "2008-06-15T00:00:02Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Mrs. Rhymer, who is occasionally almost unspeakably filthy minded,… [/QUOTE] You lucky, lucky, man you. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/46 "2008-06-15T01:40:46Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Funny you should mention Brad Pitt – he’s reputedly being courted to play Thor. [/QUOTE] Forsooth! I say thee nay! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/47 "2008-06-15T03:00:20Z")
Norton took off for a one month vacation,and is not pushing the movie. What does that portend.? ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/48 "2008-06-15T03:01:54Z")
**Re: Brad Pitt as Thor** Personality-wise, he could do it, and very well at that. But I sincerely hope they don’t cast him in the role. Thor has to be super buff, like Ahnold was back when Predator came out. He’s a GOD, so he needs some godly muscles. Brad Pitt just isn’t big enough to pull it off. As for the Hulk, I can’t wait to see it! We’re gonna wait a few weeks, though, cause we’ve got free movie passes. I’ll pop back in and post my thoughts about it then. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/49 "2008-06-15T03:05:05Z")
I saw it tonight with my son and I was surprised at the fact that I really liked it. I thought about it and the thing I disliked about the first movie and liked about this one was the quality of the Banner character in this one vs the first. Basically, in the first movie, Bana’s Banner was a wimp. He let events control him and was far too passive about almost everything. Norton’s Banner, while physically less imposing, and while maintaining a perforce Zenlike calm through the movie, seemed to be an active player in his fate. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/50 "2008-06-15T03:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] Norton took off for a one month vacation,and is not pushing the movie. What does that portend.? [/QUOTE] Portends he didn’t like the fact they didn’t use his script. It’s a good flick. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/51 "2008-06-15T03:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=RikWriter] Portends he didn’t like the fact they didn’t use his script. It’s a good flick. [/QUOTE] Does Norton ever go out and promote his movies that much? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/52 "2008-06-15T08:34:43Z")
Just saw the movie tonight, and I rather liked it. Really the only thing that bugged me much about it was how the military was portrayed, especially in contrast to Iron Man, which came out a few months earlier at most. In the one movie, they’re professional, competent folks who even bother to wear the current uniforms, while in TIH they run around in public, occasionally in foreign sovereign countries, in the forest-green BDUs (IIRC, only still worn by the Air Force and the Navy, and the Air Force is rapidly switching to the grey tiger striped ABUs). A big example that stands out for me is towards the end… General Ross’s helo moves in to provide fire support for the Hulk against the Abomination, and not only gets dangerously close to the Abomination to take a shot at him, but at various points even lets him get _above_ them, something that I would assume an experienced military pilot would instinctively avoid, especially given the close range involved) Other than the military stuff, which was really a large collection of minor quibbles that stacked up for me, I loved the movie. Edward Norton makes a great Bruce Banner, a mild-mannered meek guy who has all sorts of fire built up inside him if someone is dumb enough to make him angry enough to let it loose. Liv Tyler is also quite hot. If she wasn’t as hot as Jennifer Connely, this is simply because Jennifer Connely is just that amazingly hot, and not any shortcoming on Liv Tyler’s part. There is no after-credits bit; it is instead at the end of the movie, pre-credits. Oh, and my favorite line: “I know some techniques that can help you manage this anger of yours–” “OH ZIP IT!” ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/53 "2008-06-15T12:34:01Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Just saw the movie tonight, and I rather liked it. Really the only thing that bugged me much about it was how the military was portrayed, especially in contrast to Iron Man, which came out a few months earlier at most. In the one movie, they’re professional, competent folks who even bother to wear the current uniforms, while in TIH they run around in public, occasionally in foreign sovereign countries, in the forest-green BDUs (IIRC, only still worn by the Air Force and the Navy, and the Air Force is rapidly switching to the grey tiger striped ABUs). [/QUOTE] Probably has something to do with the lack of military cooperation with the movie. I am sure the Army and Air Force refused to help make a movie that has a character like General Ross in it. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/54 "2008-06-15T13:32:26Z")
**Raguleader** , was Blonsky’s (Roth) Royal Marines uniform correct? I was slightly surprised to see it looking almost identical to Ross’s. The British go to the same store as us? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/55 "2008-06-15T13:46:42Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] **Raguleader** , was Blonsky’s (Roth) Royal Marines uniform correct? I was slightly surprised to see it looking almost identical to Ross’s. The British go to the same store as us? 🙂 [/QUOTE] It wasn’t a British uniform at all, it was a US Air Force Class A uniform with Army insignia on it. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/56 "2008-06-15T14:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I quite enjoyed it. Not as much as Iron Man, but I liked it. I liked the homage to the TV show. I thought it was occasionally slow. \*\*Can someone spoil the Tony Stark cameo? As soon as he came on, every-damn-body in my theater started murmuring and I couldn’t hear what he said. \*\* I liked how they set up the next villain. All-in-all a fun flick. [/QUOTE] No one? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/57 "2008-06-15T14:38:50Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] No one? [/QUOTE] He said something about how he had told Ross that it wouldn’t work and that technology was more reliable. Then he told him “We’re putting together a team,” and Ross replies “Who’s we?” ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/58 "2008-06-15T15:48:09Z")
[QUOTE=RikWriter] It wasn’t a British uniform at all, it was a US Air Force Class A uniform with Army insignia on it. [/QUOTE] Huh, I guess they loaned it to him. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/59 "2008-06-15T18:06:09Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] And does this mean Stan Lee has Hulk powers now? 😛 [/QUOTE] “[growls] I really did it once!” ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669/60 "2008-06-15T19:05:32Z")
Ed Norton might not be doing the talk show circuit, but he’s [doing some publicity!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEl4TLgNOeQ) [The Tony Stark scene](http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsISn_QBPDM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hulk-the-worlds-most-expensive/452669.md?page=4)