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The TVClubHouse: Archives: Movies & Library 2003 -2004: Movies: May 2003 - April 2004: The Hulk users admin

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Ketchuplover

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 6:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
will smash the other summer flicks!!! :)

Yankee_In_Ca

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have to say -- I'm not against comic/superhero movies (I like them) -- but the trailers for this movie leave me a little cold.

Weenerlobo

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm looking forward to seeing it, but we saw an extended trailer at the X2 movie and DH is kinda pissed. He's a big Hulk fan and from what we saw the movie doesn't look like it's gonna stay true to the story line. It made it look like Hulk is gonna be 2003's King Kong. I sure hope not.

Crazydog

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think "The Hulk" is going to be as craptacular as the Daredevil movie. The computer generated Hulk looks pathetic. No real desire to see this movie.

Ketchuplover

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm sorry y'all feel that way :(

Wargod

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, Ketchup, I'm waiting for this to come out with you. The Hulk was one of my first heroes when I was a kid...the others being every member of the band Kiss...yes, I'm odd.

Bob2112

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 2:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't get KL mad. You won't like him when he's mad!

Yankee_In_Ca

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 2:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry, ketchuplover -- I WANT to like this movie, and I WANT it to be good (and it may well be), but the trailers just don't appeal to me for some reason. May be the CGI Hulk, I dunno...

In any case, my reaction is based solely on the trailer I've seen so far (at the X2 opening).

Squaredsc

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 7:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
sorry kl, got to agree with the others. i loved the series, but this movie looks like crap. esp the special effects for the hulk himself. they should have just made a toon.

Ketchuplover

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 8:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didnt see the trailer in the theatre yet but I saw it online. I thought the Hulk looked alright. Different strokes I guess :)

Weenerlobo

Friday, May 09, 2003 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I'm still looking forward to it, because I really like Hulk. Hulkie is DH's favorite of all favorites and is a purist. I mean, the guy still has a subscription to the comic book. I think he might be aggravated because he was already pointing out discrepancies during the movie trailer! Maybe I should sit across the theater from him, so he doesn't distract me with his muttering!

Fabnsab

Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know anything about the Hulk but the trailers do make him seem like he's a cross between Godzilla and King Kong. My husband said he gets quite large in the comics but not the tv show.

I do know that the marketing people deserve awards because I have two little ones already asking me daily when we're going to see it.There was a large inflatable hulk at the store and both begged to go see him- they looked like they were worshipping at a Gods feet. They have Hulk cereal and hulk shoes. I know, I had to buy them though. They wanted them :)

Ketchuplover

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
fabnsab I want 1 trillion dollars please...thx :)

ps. 7 days :)

Hummingbird

Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 10:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My six year old grandson is awaiting the release of the movie. I hope isn't too violent for him to see because they have really been pushing it to kids. I showed him a website the other day with photos from the old TV show with Bill Bixby. He gave me that know-it-all look and said, "Nana, that guy is SOOO not the Hulk."

Ketchuplover

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I heard that the scene with the HULK DOGS may be to intense for children. Also I heard the first hour is mostly dialog and the second is quality HULK time :)

Hermione69

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It got a pretty good review in Newsweek. I'd like to see it, but they haven't brought any good movies to my area lately in the open caption format.

Hermione69

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
BTW, I loved the TV show when I was a kid. I didn't need to hear well to appreciate that you didn't make this man mad or he would turn big and green and beat you up!

Kitt

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didn't particularly want to see this, but was "persuaded" by my husband - I was very surprised to find I really liked it! The story was a little lacking maybe, but the special effects were surprisingly realistic, once you got over the fact it was a huge monster, not a muscular version of Banner. It was much better than I'd expected.

Ketchuplover

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It was good except for a couple scenes being too dark to make out what happens.

Muse

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 12:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I actually really disliked it. I too was dragged along, and I thought it'd be like Spider-Man (a movie that was tolerable, but nothing I'd normally pay to see at the theater). But it was much worse. I just thought it was very dull, and while the special effects weren't bad, they weren't fantastic, either. It seemed like the whole script could have used some major revision. The movie took itself very seriously at times (more of a look at the psychological stuff than the action), but I just wasn't into it. I also tired of the comic book camera/editing tricks early on...thought they were more annoying and showy than relevant or interesting. I also thought Eric Bana (sp?) was just so-so as Bruce Banner, and that he and Jennifer Connelly had zero chemistry a good part of the time. It improved as it went on, but eh...it's not a movie I'd recommend. I went with two other people, and none of us enjoyed it.

Ketchuplover

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seems Ang Lee made this movie for himself.

Jedisan

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
elaborate please KL.
thumbs up or down?

Ketchuplover

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thumbs up :) I'm not good at splainin stuff :(
I just like it :) But I don't know why :(

Halfunit

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
KL - your reviews are short, sweet, and simple and I love when you go to see a new movie and come here and talk about it - I really do!!

You and Unit have similar tastes in movies, so I always know what to spend $$ on based on your opinions. Thank you!!

Ketchuplover

Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ketchup is glad to be of service :)

Fabnsab

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, this movie was lacking. I love Ang Lee but he brought too much artistic imaging to a movie that was advertised as a comic book action movie. I can appreciate his split screens trying to simulate comic pages. The studio must have liked what he did but my two kids sure didn't. They had a countdown to this movie and wanted to leave early once they got to see it. BTW, they will sit through any movie.

If you're going to fill our grocery store aisles with hulk images on kids food and stuff our walmart shelves with hulk toys, you darn well better deliver an action adventure movie the kids will love. I am sorry but I think that was false advertising.

Azriel

Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I went and saw the movie today. Fabnsab, I told my bf that I didn't understand why they were marketing so much Hulk merchandise for kids because there is no way a kid would get excited about the Hulk from watching that movie.

The artsy fartsy frame within a frame scenes and horrible music irritated me. Muse, I agree about the zero chemistry between the two lead characters, too. The movie was just a big bore fest for me.

Ketchuplover

Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm sorry that people feel ripped off. I feel your pain. Hopefully the sequel will be more up your alleys :)