In the comic books, the Incredible Hulk has the mind of a retarded child, but at least he has a mind. He talks Tarzan-Tonto-Frankenstein English, but at least he talks. Makes for much more interesting stories than if he were a raging mindless animal – which is what we got in the TV series, and what we got in the 2003 film, and what it looks like we’re gonna get in the upcoming film. Blech.
I agree. This is bullshit. What’s worse, though, is that it appears to be another fucking origin story. I’m sick of 3 out of 4 comic book movies being origin story. We know the origin! And those of us who don’t know don’t care! We want to see Hulk smash!
I saw the trailer for the new Hulk movie and was really excited…until the Hulk turned out to be a cartoon character. WTF? Can’t they do any better than that? He looks terrible!!!
Disagree here. I think he looks great. His face up close looks a little cartoony but what the hey. The abomination looks awesome. Can’t wait to see this thing.
As a life long diehard Hulk fan though I can’t help but wonder why every single representation of the Hulk in any medium seems to have his hands being larger than his head.
Am I the ony one who looks at The Abomination and see’s The Creature that Bill Paxton turned into in Wierd Science?
I guess that was an artistic decision by Stan Lee and/or Jack Kirby.
Jesus, what level of perfection do people expect in special effects? You should have seen what we grew up with.
Agreed about Hulk talking. (And I guess an NC-17 She-Hulk movie is out of the question. . . .)
The Formidable Mulk, on the other hand, seems to be well-proportioned. Watch out, wave!
He doesn’t talk in this one, either??
Sheesh!
That seems like such a weird thing to get wrong - one of the Hulk’s trademarks is “Hulk smash!”, after all. Heck, in the 60’s and 70’s comics, the Hulk never shuts up. He’s constantly whining about how the puny humans won’t just leave him alone and don’t understand him anyway.
A classic case of Marvel selling out creatively to cash in on merchandizing! They were trying to sell these: Hulk Hands - Wikipedia
What, they’re doing another “Hulk 1” only five years after the last one? What happened?
Yoda looked more real in the recent Star Wars movies than the Hulk looks in those trailers.
Which is one of the reasons I’m not a fan of the Hulk.
I welcome a Hulk who can’t talk, just to be rid of that crap.
‘Hulk smash puny human! Puny Banner! Hulk strongest!’ Argh.
Maybe “Hulk smash!” just comes out as invariably too comical in real life. Michael Chiklis never managed to make “It’s clobberin’ time!” sound formidable in the FF movies.
How can you not love that?!!
“[Current opponent] is strong, but HULK STRONGEST ONE THERE IS!!!”
Hulk is the best mainstream comic ever, period.
Cold reboot. Same thing as happened to the Batman franchise in 2005.
When I was five years of age I had an Incredible Hulk Big Wheel complete with electronic “Hulk Smash” voice action and patented Hulk “growl”.
Marc
Same reason they didn’t give the X-men costumes in the movies. Some stuff that works in comic books just comes across as silly in movies.
That was one of the problems with the Ang Lee version (which I actually liked), he made the Hulk look to much like the comic book Hulk, with the result looking like a cartoon. He would’ve done better (and saved a lot of money) just to spray paint a bodybuilder green like in the TV series.
I’m not so sure this IS a reboot though… I think its basically a follow on to the last movie, given that Banner is on the run at the begining, and General Ross is on his tail. All the actors have changed, so I would say it’s a sequel to the first movie as much as On Her Majesties Secret Service is a sequel to Thunderball.
Apparenty, they made more money from th Hulk Hands then they did from the movie.