While I am a big fan of comics, I can’t say that I’ve ever really read much Hulk. I know the basics of his whole story and happenings, but not very detailed. But I am a fan of smash’em up movies.
A couple years ago Ang Lee did the first big screen Hulk movie. But Ang Lee isn’t really the kind of director you want for something like this. While it had very good action it was bogged down with too much heavy story, not something associated with the Hulk. So it is kind of suprising that they green lighted another Hulk movie after that one bombed. This time around they got Louis Leterrier, who did The Transporter 2. Not only is a fun action director, he’s a big fan of the original television series for The Hulk, which you can see in many of the nods to the series throughout the movie. This seems to be the thing that Marvel has got right this year with their comic movies, actually getting fans of the comics to do the movies justice.
The special effects in this are much better then the last one as well. When I first saw the trailer I have to admit they didn’t look that good to me. But the more I saw of them, the more detailed I realized they were. They actually use Edward Norton and Tim Roth’s faces for their CGI counterparts. As well as using motion capture to get their movements to match the live action actors. This all made the fight scenes and action much more interesting and realistic.
The story is simple, but good. It’s not trying to be real in-depth or heavy, it has what it needs to move it along and get where it’s going. It even leaves stuff open for a sequel for the nerds that can catch what is happening during the movie.
Just like Iron Man, there are lots of easter eggs for fans of the comics. I personally only saw a few, but others have said its chock full of them. It doesn’t have a secret ending after the credits like Iron Man did, but it looks like there was going to be one, but they put it before the credits instead. And with where these endings between the two movies are going is pretty exciting for the comic nerds out there.
I really didn’t have many problems with the movie. The one thing that bugged me during the climax is all the pedestrians. There are two large monsters fighting on this street, are you really going to run back and forth on that same street? How about you get off that street and run another direction. With the amount of smash and destruction there is bound to be monstrous amounts of casualties, but they never really mention it. Especially when the army is trying to stop the hulk, the amount of firepower they are bringing into a University Campus is just asking for tones of friendly fire.
A couple years ago Ang Lee did the first big screen Hulk movie. But Ang Lee isn’t really the kind of director you want for something like this. While it had very good action it was bogged down with too much heavy story, not something associated with the Hulk. So it is kind of suprising that they green lighted another Hulk movie after that one bombed. This time around they got Louis Leterrier, who did The Transporter 2. Not only is a fun action director, he’s a big fan of the original television series for The Hulk, which you can see in many of the nods to the series throughout the movie. This seems to be the thing that Marvel has got right this year with their comic movies, actually getting fans of the comics to do the movies justice.
The special effects in this are much better then the last one as well. When I first saw the trailer I have to admit they didn’t look that good to me. But the more I saw of them, the more detailed I realized they were. They actually use Edward Norton and Tim Roth’s faces for their CGI counterparts. As well as using motion capture to get their movements to match the live action actors. This all made the fight scenes and action much more interesting and realistic.
The story is simple, but good. It’s not trying to be real in-depth or heavy, it has what it needs to move it along and get where it’s going. It even leaves stuff open for a sequel for the nerds that can catch what is happening during the movie.
Just like Iron Man, there are lots of easter eggs for fans of the comics. I personally only saw a few, but others have said its chock full of them. It doesn’t have a secret ending after the credits like Iron Man did, but it looks like there was going to be one, but they put it before the credits instead. And with where these endings between the two movies are going is pretty exciting for the comic nerds out there.
I really didn’t have many problems with the movie. The one thing that bugged me during the climax is all the pedestrians. There are two large monsters fighting on this street, are you really going to run back and forth on that same street? How about you get off that street and run another direction. With the amount of smash and destruction there is bound to be monstrous amounts of casualties, but they never really mention it. Especially when the army is trying to stop the hulk, the amount of firepower they are bringing into a University Campus is just asking for tones of friendly fire.
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