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Friday, April 11, 2008
The Incredible Hulk Movie Trailer
I thought it was about time I brought this one onto here. It's the movie that I am most interested in this summer. Edward Norton stars as Dr Bruce Banner alongside Liv Tyler and Tim Roth in The Incredible Hulk. Here's the trailer.
Plus, a little something extra...
This widget not only contains the trailer, but also a special behind the scenes video which tells you more about how the filmakers decided to pitch this film version of the Hulk.
They're hoping this will launch a possible Hulk film series in a way that the 2003 Ang Lee movie couldn't. There was nothing wrong with the Ang Lee movie in terms of staying true to the comics and the character, but since most people who'd had any experience with the Hulk had come across him in the 1970s live action TV show which had starred Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, the fact that it was so far removed from that whole surrounding meant that whatever fan base the TV show had built up, wasn't transferred to the Ang Lee film.
With this film being re-imagined more along the lines of the old TV show, with some comic-book elements kept in, they're hoping to combine the best of both worlds in one film, and it'll either be a great success cos it will put it off spectacularly well, or it will be a big flop because it will have failed miserably. It's not easy to combine two worlds into one like that, and I hope they've done it right.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Another "Incredible Hulk" Movie
The countdown has begun to the release of the new "Incredible Hulk" movie on June 13th 2008 in the US and one week later in the UK.
The official website is up, although there isn't much there currently, but no doubt there will be more in the weeks and months to come.
The 2003 movie, "Hulk" although decent, did fall flat in a few key areas. The stylised use of comic boxes, wipes and dissolves did not aid the story but distracted from it. The effects were very good, but they were unfortunately let down by one transformation in full daylight, which looked fake.
The performances were not bad, in fact very good in some cases, the casting was quite inspired. Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott was perfect as General Thunderbolt Ross. What let it down back then was a script that tried to do too much in too short a space of time.
Whether this new movie will come anywhere near to the quality of the orignal 1977 tv movies and series, well, I hope so, but I won't hold my breath waiting for it to reach there.
