Steve Pulaski
17Feb12
Amen.
Hugely underappreciated. Ang Lee gave us a Hulk that works brilliantly when it works, and is a little bit silly when it doesn't. The character work for a comic book film is top notch and it's miles better than the 2008 incarnation which was nothing more than Hulk SMASH. That, and the music is just fantastic.
An underrated film that has some of the best character development in a comic book movie.
As an action movie it doesn't really work, but as a drama about a "dangerous" relationship between a father and a son it is one hell of a movie!
The ambition of Hulk is impressive enough to outweigh the lackluster product. It combines, for better or for worse, art house imagery, emotional gravitas, and downright philosophical themes concealed by comic book vapidity. If Ang Lee could've have made Hulk in the wake of something as grounded and visceral as The Dark Knight, this film would have been wholly expressive and a riveting spectacle of a tragic hero.
One of my personal favorites. the movie is more like a family drama about parents and children rather than the "hulk smash" kind of superhero movie we expect. To me the drama and the thought that actually went in to the identity of the hulk made the movie more much more thoughtful and compelling.
This was actually the first superhero film I could get into in a long time. I'm tired of mindless, incomprehensible action. This worked in my favor and I really enjoyed it.
Ang Lee tried to focus too much on the sadness of the Incredible Hulk and this is where this movie falls apart. I remember being bored out of my mind in the theater and I found the literal comic strip framing mildly hilarious. Not even Danny Elfman or the hotness of Jennifer Connelly could save it. Thank God Marvel properly rebooted it and made a better movie years later. Big pile of crap and undeniably Lee's worst.
"Ang Lee...you have directed the Hulk film, you must be very excited and proud, but...don't make me anglee...you won't like it when I'm anglee." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHC13MYcrR4
Ang Lee made the wrong movie, not enough intellectual, not enough block-buster, kinda rhetoric and totally out of focus regard the character, the aim and the audience. A great fail that only movie-technician could like.
i studied special effect on school and i can like this very mutch for that. it has had wery good effect on action part and also good looking female. i would give five if she naked! i liked be hulk one day for ;).
To me, this would have been perfect had it had a less jarring editing style. I didn't need to be reminded that I was watching a comic book through every sequence. What I love about this film is the domestic drama aspects. I think the conflict between Bruce and his father, along with General Ross was powerful stuff. This movie is way more interesting than the Hulk reboot that came out in 2008.
i prefered the look and feel of the hulk in this movie, but Eric Bana didn't pull off the role as Bruce Banner. My perfect Hulk movie would be the HULK from this movie but with a weedy Edward Norton type as the scientist Banner.
Ver a Ang Lee dirigir una cinta de estas caracteristicas fue como ver una nueva versiòn de The Sound of music dirigida por Quentin Tarantino: de plano, no es su tipo de cine. Fuera del evidente miscast de Eric Bana, lo que màs desconcierta es el formato de comic en movimiento elegido por Lee para narrar la historia (aunque, desde ese punto de vista, le comiò el mandado al mismisimo Peter Greenaway).
This is a strange and interesting piece of work. Ang Lee made an insightful and psychological film that peers into the mind of a giant... but is that what makes a good Hulk movie?
Nothing wrong with this movie, but we want a balance portion between drama and Hulk Smash!
Still very flawed, this is regardless a fascinating item – a dialogue and angst heavy Marvel comic book film directed by a man who has directed a Jane Austin adaptation, a western, Brokeback Mountain and dramas. You don’t see films like this often, let me tell you…