Legatus Legionis
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And to be honest I thought Ang Lee's Hulk is a bit underrated and a better movie overall, but perhaps not well received because of how dark it was.
But for the MCU?
While by themselves they are OK, but as a full over-lining story-arc (yay I know it all leads up to the Infinity Wars), the movies are too... disconnected for my liking to view as a marathon.
I don't think it was poorly received because of how "dark" it was. I think it was poorly received because Ang Lee could not decide if he was making an action movie, or a moody drama, and he split the difference poorly.
And because of mutated poodles, because that was just dumb.
The Hulk should have been presented as a horror/thriller movie, a dark drama in the vein of its literary predecessors.
But Ang Lee thought he was making a Superhero movie.
It's not even as simple as that: for Avengers 2, Whedon also decided to ignore Iron Man 3 - note that War Machine appears instead of the Iron Patriot. Plus there's the small matter of Tony deciding to blow up all his suits at the end of IM3...
I don't think it was poorly received because of how "dark" it was. I think it was poorly received because Ang Lee could not decide if he was making an action movie, or a moody drama, and he split the difference poorly.
And because of mutated poodles, because that was just dumb.
That could be done, yes - The Hulk as a kind of modern Frankenstein.
However, going that route would have set the Hulk up to be in thematic conflict with the rest of the MCU, making working him into the Avengers extremely difficult.
Jekyll & Hyde, surely?.