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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'm doing a chronological order MCU rewatch (meaning I watch CA:TFA and CM first) but only of the movies because I sure don't have enough time to watch the shows. I just finished the Avengers. This also resulted in me watching the Incredible Hulk for the first time which uh. At least satisfied my morbid curiosity about whether that movie is as aggressively mediocre as its reputation suggests. (It is. I fell asleep while watching it, but my computer also died so that meant it paused in the middle and I had to continue watching the rest when I woke up.)
When we're done, there won't be anything left.Incredible Hulk has some good action, good characterization of the villain (there's a reason people still remember Abomination enough to add him to their wish-lists of MCU villain teams), and a few moments of good cinematography. Aside from that, it is painfully mediocre, and there are quite a few bad elements that balance out what good there is.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 2nd 2019 at 2:41:41 AM
I've been rewatching all of the movies for the last week. I'm on Doctor Strange right now.
This song needs more love.Incredible Hulk and Hulk are both not good films, but for very different reasons.
Hulk is an overly ambitious arthouse drama film designed to provoke emotions and get to the core of the character, but the execution was poor so it just ended up boring and confusing most of the time.
Incredible Hulk went the other direction and tried to just be a big action monster movie. It did well with the action, but it neglected too much of the rest of the film, making the characters and story fall flat.
Personally, I think Incredible Hulk is better, but mostly because it aspired to be nothing greater than it turned out to be, while Hulk took greater risks in its desire to be True Art, so it had much further to fall when it failed.
I disagree. Hulk is a very flawed movie, yes, but it literally does everything better than Incredible Hulk except maybe the CGI. It has better characters, better drama, and is just plain more interesting than TIH will ever be. And TIH is at the least just as boring because it's incredibly generic and there's pretty much nothing to it other than Blonsky, who isn't even that great.
I can understand people disliking it, but it definitely has far more redeeming qualities than TIH and personally I think it's a better film than a lot of people have given it credit for.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Apr 2nd 2019 at 5:57:50 AM
Ang Lee's Hulk lost me at a lot of points. Like the cephalopod DNA mixing scene. Or the Hulk dogs. Or the terrible and incessant flashbacks. Or the really weird editing that kicks in just during the prison escape scene. Or how so much of the movie just doesn't matter because Bruce Banner just gets captured anyway.
Like, Incredible Hulk might be mediocre, but Ang Lee's Hulk just sucks. It's just straight-up bad.
I don't! It's great.
I'm assuming you mean how the films don't really acknowledge it, and not that well that first half of season 1 was bad (which I didn't think it was by the way), so it must still suck attitude that has been prevalent though I don't know why.
One Strip! One Strip!I’m not a fan of either Hulk movie, but it’s interesting for me to remember that Hulk was one of the early attempts to adapt literal comic panels onscreen, which was eventually perfected with Spider-Verse.
Except it resulted in Narm like this.
I can’t believe Talbot survived blowing himself up with a shell ricocheted off Hulk’s nipple only to get thrown into fucking space by Daisy
Edited by Bocaj on Apr 2nd 2019 at 6:49:13 AM
Forever liveblogging the Avengersyou know what? What if I decide to marathon the franchise!?
Already doing that. 1/3 done with Phase Two. Not sure how you can accomplish that before April 26.
Got my tickets for Sunday opening weekend. Everything was sold out except the earliest showing that day. At least there's assigned seating, so I'm not sitting in literally the first row like what happened to me for the Last Jedi.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
