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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 16, 2007 8:09:20 GMT -5
www.mania.com/54368.htmlI believe this is a good choice. Norton is a terrific actor. His work in The Illusionist was superb. This is (in my opinion) a great beginning to the Hulk restart. We might even be able to forget there was another Hulk film.
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Post by prorider514 on Mar 31, 2008 18:44:27 GMT -5
He's certainly convincing in American History X but I dont know how hes gonna work as Bruce Banner. Whatever though, as long as they make another hulk movie. I loves me some incredible hulk
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 15, 2008 5:36:55 GMT -5
He's certainly convincing in American History X but I dont know how hes gonna work as Bruce Banner. Whatever though, as long as they make another hulk movie. I loves me some incredible hulk I had misgivings too. I've watched some of the new trailers and I'm beginning to see it. Of course the new CGI Hulk doesn't seem to be any better than the last one.  |
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Post by prorider514 on Apr 20, 2008 12:03:01 GMT -5
rats
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 29, 2008 6:07:25 GMT -5
In answer to your four letter response I have to say that I too was disappointed however we all know how trailers go. There may be some aspect of the new HULK that doesn't translate all that well in the trailer but is mind blowing in the theater. We'll of course see it and decide for ourselves. |
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 30, 2008 5:32:26 GMT -5
 See this doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. It's kind of cool but also very...cgi. |
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Post by ram on May 9, 2008 13:44:10 GMT -5
I don't mean to add to the negativity, but...looking at that shot, I fail to see how this Hulk is any improvement over the Hulk in the previous movie. Is he supposed to resemble Norton now, as opposed to Eric Bana?  |
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Post by thomasallencummins on May 9, 2008 14:03:47 GMT -5
One thing I have to mention here. After watching the HULK trailer before Iron man I had a better feeling about the HULK. I don't know if it's the way Old Purple Pants looks on the big screen or if the difference lay with how jacked up I was on Iron man adrenaline. However my biggest complaint are those lifeless, plastic eyes. Maybe there's time to fix that up a bit before the premiere. As to the Hulk looking more like Norton, I guess that could be why he looks a bit different.  Now that I see the old Hulk as a comparison I'm not sure he was all that bad. |
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Post by ram on May 13, 2008 0:48:15 GMT -5
You are so right about the eyes.
I'm thinking they should consider going back to having a "real" person as the Hulk. Is there a law that says the Hulk has to be CG? Call me retro or old-fashioned, but why not hire a world-class bodybuilder to play the Hulk? It worked for the old TV series. Lou Ferrigno was terrific in the role. His tangible, rock solid presence remains more impressive than these green Jello CG Hulks, IMO.
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Post by thomasallencummins on May 13, 2008 7:01:12 GMT -5
I tend to agree with you ram but I must confess to being a little confused. Whatever the complaints about Peter Jackson's King Kong, Kong himself was rendered near flawlessly. CG animation is capable of some pretty amazing things. I'm not sure if its the fact that HULK is a huge, green humanoid that looks kind of silly regardless or what. Fact is said HULK, if he's going to be a representation of the comic (not a re imagining like the tv series was) HULK will have to perform feats of motion and strength that are quite difficult to display with a live actor. Using a live actor can sometimes be the real trick to making things work, on the other hand the "guy in a suit" ala The Thing from Fantastic Four can be less than impressive. I'm waiting for someone with far more talent than I can imagination, to shock me with a new, effective approach. Maybe it takes an Andy Serkis type motion capture performance to really make this work.
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Post by ram on May 14, 2008 14:44:53 GMT -5
Whatever the complaints about Peter Jackson's King Kong, Kong himself was rendered near flawlessly. I saw the film just once, but yeah, I remember Kong looking pretty good. He was close to being photorealistic. Unfortunately, the Hulk still isn't. Lou Ferrigno's Hulk didn't look silly to me, though. Ferrigno may be no master thespian, but his Hulk still possessed a human dignity that shone through regardless of the fact that he was a huge green thing. I agree that the CG Hulk could benefit from motion capture a la Andy Serkis. Also, Gollum was pretty realistic-looking himself. But the CG Hulk still looks like jello. (This is why I have a lot of hope for James Cameron's Avatar project, which will supposedly be the most ambitious attempt yet at creating photorealistic CG human beings.) |
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Post by thomasallencummins on May 15, 2008 13:33:40 GMT -5
It might not be possible to get away from the "jello man" effect with the Hulk. As I've mentioned before, it might have something to do with his color. I agree about Lou Ferrigno. His Hulk is definitely iconic. He really wasn't the massive, jump over skyscrapers, HULK from the comics but the television show handled the stories in such an appropriate way that the differences meant nothing. We loved the character and the show for its own take on the character.  |
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 5, 2008 11:15:53 GMT -5
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Post by ram on Jun 5, 2008 13:40:45 GMT -5
Thinking about this some more, I must reluctantly agree that CGI is the best way to render the Hulk - if you want to be as faithful as possible to the comic book. The TV show was an anomaly. (I don't know how Marvel Comics felt about the show.) Still, I don't think I'll be going to the new movie. I'll wait for it to arrive on TV. (And by then we will have switched over to digital TV reception, right?  |
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 9, 2008 12:14:45 GMT -5
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