Thanks **RikWriter **and ArizonaTeach
Air Force doesn’t have Class A’s as far as I know 
The nearest equivilant for the USAF is Service Dress, which looks an awful lot like a business suit with military insignia in comparison to the Army Class A’s.
Blonsky appeared to just be wearing a US Army Class A uniform, presumably with either his Brit insignia on it (authorized on US military uniforms under certain circumstances), or with equivalent/bullshitted-so-he-would-blend-in-for-the-mission Army insignia.
There’s a couple of reasons why he might not be walking around in a Royal Marines uniform, including the presence of a British military operator on a US military mission being kept discrete, or just lack of available British uniforms for him to wear (a practical consideration, similar to how Airmen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan wore the US Army ACUs for a while between when they stopped wearing the DCUs (the desert BDUs) and when they started wearing the ABUs (Grey tigerstriped better-fitting BDUs with more pockets). This really didn’t bother me much.
I figured his relatively lax grooming standards were a combination of his special forces background (I hear they play uniform regs a little fast and loose) and the fact that he was hanging out with a Lieutenant General who obviously didn’t care.
One thing that amused me more than it bothered me: Does General Ross even own any caps? I don’t think we once see him outdoors with any kind of cover on. 
Then why was it blue?
My question was, does he own any civilian clothes? He’s in a bar at the end, getting tanked, in full uniform.
My gf and I were laughing at that to. I imagine the army encourages its Generals to wear civilian clothing when they go out to get wasted.
Indeed, I think the US Military in general encourages its members to “Drink Responsibly”, leading to an occasionally used expression amongst my friends: “Responsibly Sloshed”
RikWriter: I don’t recall it being blue, although the Army does have some blue uniforms too, though I’ve never seen them in person.
Speaking of Army vs. Air Force uniforms, I really wish we could get some marksmenship badges for our uniforms like the Army and Marines do. All we get is a little ribbon. The Navy at least gets separate ribbons for handguns and rifles.
HULK IS STRONGEST ONE THERE IS!!!
I just really wanted him to say this. He had EVERY opportunity, and yet didn’t.
Ah well.
Unless things have changed a lot since I was in, I think the Army Class A uniform is still green. Maybe it’s my eyes or the projector at the local theater, but I coulda sworn his dress uniform was a USAF blue.
Hm… I can’t find a screen shot of him in uniform (the best one would be from when he’s walking-and-talking with General Ross in the hallway towards the beginning of the film), but I seem to recall that it was the same color as whatever the General was wearing.
Uh…really ? I agree he’s no Lou Ferrigno (still huge!), but if they really want Pitt, he could pull it off I think. And one could also argue that if you’re a god you don’t need to be enormous; godly powers don’t require muscles.
That said, I saw The Incredible Hulk last night and liked it quite a lot! After reading some crap reviews I expected to be disapointed. Ang Lee’s *Hulk *was an admirable effort, but it was too leadenly-paced and serious for a summer action blockbuster. I thought this one struck the balance really well - good pacing, intelligent characters, a dash of humor without being campy, eeeevil villians and a believable love story. And I do think this Hulk had more of the confused self-awareness that the comic book character had. I agree with other posters that his emoting at the cave and during the final fight scene was especially great. And I simply like Ed Norton and Liv Tyler better in these roles. Don’t know why, but I do. Jennifer Connelly bugs me for some reason.
CGI characters always seem too light on their feet, but I felt it worked a lot better in this film than the previous one. Probably because the technology is a few years more advanced, and the design of Hulk just feels more real. He’s smaller, too, which I think improves the sense of reality. Although every review seems to say he’s 15 feet tall he seemed more like 10 to me, and that helps you buy that the 6-ft. Norton could turn into him.
And I loved Tim Roth, in all his scenery-chewing glory. He’s just so great. By the way, did anyone catch the *Reservoir Dogs *reference? 
Was the scientist guy (Tim Blake Nelson) a regular in the comic books? It seemed like that was leading to something.
I hadn’t seen the trailer in a while so I didn’t notice until today, but it does look like there was a cut scene between the shrink and Bruce: After Betty picks up Bruce in the rain after spotting him at the pizza parlor, she takes him home. It is implied that she lives there alone, but later when the General comes to ransack the house, the shrink is there, so it appears they lived together (thus, the separate bedroom for Bruce). That night the shrink talks to Bruce and they have the “there are aspects of my personality that I can’t control” chat. Then we find out in the conversation between the shrink and the General that the shrink ratted out Bruce, later regretting it when he sees that the Hulk actually protected Betty.
Also in the trailer but not the film is Bruce walking through some very snowy mountains and a scene of the General getting ripped a new one by a superior (is there a superior to a General? Maybe another General?) for his bio-weapons experiment going awry. Which would give him more motivation for wanting to stop the Abomination than simply concern for the well-being of Harlem denizens.
Well, General Ross in the movie would be more properly titled as “Lieutenant General Ross”, one star is Brigadier General, two stars is Major General, three is Lieutenant General, and four stars is General. So a General would outrank General Ross, and even that aside, you will on occasion have officers of equal rank in positions of seniority over other officers of their rank for organizational reasons, especially when you get into the very top tiers of military organization where everyone has four stars on their collar.
That’s been done before, right?
My mind immediately went to the Highlander “sequels,” but there should be better examples.
Where was that? In retrospect I remember Stan Lee and Ferigno, but I missed Bixbie (and he seems not to be listed in IMDB.)
At one point, Banner is watching TV, and it is an old Bill Bixby show (The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, maybe?).
RE: the uniforms. In the theater where I saw it, they looked green to me. And Ross’s cap had army-style oak leaves on the visor. I could have sworn Blonski was wearing a US uniform, with US-style captain’s bars on the shoulder straps.
I really hated the portrayal of General Ross. In the first movie, he was an adversary, but you could understand his viewpoint and motivation. In this one, he was simply a cartoon villain.
One thing that struck me: Liv Tyler is several inches taller, and a lot more muscular, than Ed Norton.
Overall, I enjoyed it. Not great art, but good entertainment.
Yes.
Edward Norton is 6’0’ to 6’1" depending on who is reporting, and Liv Tyler is 5’10". Granted, Ed is a skinny guy, and she is quite shapely, which makes her look larger, but Liv is not any taller than him unless she wears very high heels.
I stand corrected. But in some of their scenes together, she looked like she could break him in half.
Regarding the disagreements about the color of the uniforms: with digital projectors, is it possible for the projectionist to tweak the color balance?
FWIW, I noticed that at one point they were wearing blue uniforms as well. At one point they were both walking down the hallway in some military base or something discussing Hulk related matters, and they’re both wearing the same color blue.
It was odd enough that I remembered it, since Ross is wearing green for the rest of the movie. Seems pretty blatant for a continuity error, but I can’t really think why they’d stick an Army General in a blue uniform for one scene.
If we are thinking of the same scene, the hall was dimly lit, and all of the colors were a bit washed-out. The scene where Blonski says, "If you took what I know now, and put it in the body I had ten years ago . . . "?
Yea, that’s the scene.
The dim light gave everything a grayish tinge, but they still looked green to me. I think there must be different color balances in different theaters.
Another thought just occurred to me. In the early comic books, General Ross and Major Talbot were often depicted wearing blue uniforms. Ross’ command always seemed to include both air and land forces. Until fairly recently (late 1980s, I think), I don’t believe they ever explicitly stated whether Ross was Army or Air Force.
Perhaps the filmakers deliberately filmed that scene under blue lights, as an homage to the old comic books.