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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!”
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.
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?
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?”
