The Incredidible Hulk

[Shitty Dual]

Well Roger Ebert agrees with me on the Hulk.

That's his cancer talking.

 

[Conchaga]

Well Roger Ebert agrees with me on the Hulk.

I agree with Roger Ebert, too. All except for his judgements on action sequences. To me he seems like the old guy in the theater complaining that the volume is too loud.

As for my critiques on The Incredible Hulk, I think it wasn't all that great. Everyone expected it to be this awesome re-vamp and redemption from the Hulk we saw a few years ago. This was possibly due to the lineup for this movie. Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, how can you go wrong!? Norton is always really critical in the movies he chooses to star in. Everything he picks is hard-hitting and dramatically amazing. Liv Tyler, well, there's your LotR fanbase there, along with a semi-attractive damsel. It doesn't hurt to throw in a few images of her standing in the rain in a white blouse. Then you have William Hurt, whose Sci-Fi career is as long as my arm. The new addition was of Tim Roth. He's a relatively unknow actor who has only starred in some minor "artsy" films (most of his notoriety comes from his association with Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Reservoir Dogs, etc. The rest of his IMDB film listing looks like a Cannes Film Festival lineup). I do have to say I've been a fan of Roth's for quite a while and love his acting style. I wasn't disappointed in him starring in an action role.

Now, let's go after the director: Louis Leterrier. Who has ever heard of this guy? Nobody. That's who. The guy directed the sequel to The Transporter (he was credited as a first AD and a creative director for the first one). Let's face it folks, The Transporter wasn't all that great. Why make a sequel? Oh, that's right, because Hollywood is retarded. He also directed that wonderful piece of art/action garbage, Unleashed (raise your hand if you liked that movie). Either way, the director was shite. Why pick such a no-name director? Even Marvel couldn't decide. Maybe they thought that going with Sam Raimi (a cult favorite, but almost no-name director before the Spider-Man trillogy) for the Spider-Man moveis was a good idea, so they should go with another small-timer. Bad decision. I'm sure that this guy couldn't direct his way out of a paper bag.

Finally, the writer: Zak Penn. This is the guy who murdered the X-Men series on the big screen. He also ruined one of my favorite comic series, The Fantastic Four. This man is as notorious for writing bad comic movie scripts as Michael Jackson is for molesting little boys. Let's stroll through the comic movies this asshole has torn to shreds: X2, Electra, Fantastic Four, X3: The Last Stand, and now he's responsible for pissing on the Incredible Hulk. The only positive thing that this guy has contributed to cinema writing is PCU. Of course, he wrote that about real life and wrote it while extremely high. He should stick to real life stories instead of trying to tackle Comic Book series.

As for the two fan fave adds that were in the movie ("HULK SMASH!" and the Lou Ferrigno cameo), Lou Leterrier and Zak Penn can blow it out their ass.

So, what happens when you get an amazing cast, a no name director, and a writer who likes to use the pages of Incredible Hulk issue #1 for toilet paper? A giant steaming pile of disappointment.

Oh, watch out in 2011 folks. Zak Penn is writing the scripts for both of the Avengers movies that come out that year. I know where I'll be. Wrting checks to Avi Arad and Stan Lee, because those movies are going to bankrupt Marvel Studios again and someone should send them sympathy checks.

There's my official two cents.

 

[Shitty Dual]

I really need to see it this weekend.