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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 955089" data-attributes="member: 9298">i AM a comic book geek. i never deny it.maybe some of my points weren't clear since i wrote at 4am.so i'll try again.in the original hulk #1... bruce is a wimpy scientist working for the us govt under general thunderbolt ross. his parter is igor, the russian spy. betty is just a girl. cuz a woman scientist is just crazy talk. they arent testing animal mutations, they are testing a gamma BOMB. a big explosive weapon-type device. a random cool teenager wanders onto the testing ground on a dare, bruce goes out to save him, and gets caught in the blast. hundreds of issues later it is suggested that bruce becomes the hulk due to pent-up anger at the child abuse he suffered as a kid.im not saying that the movie should have had igor, rick and plain betty or its mandatory to call gen ross thunderbolt. but i do always think its important to note WHAT they cut out. did they feel rick was too robin-ish? is giving an army general a nickname too "comicbooky?"  (although ive apparently been corrected, thanks for the headsup mark, ill check that out in 6 months on the dvd)   i understand some of the changes but others i just wonder about...if you cut out the russian spy because he'd be dated, make betty a scientist because women cant just be damsels in distress anymore and tell the origin with bomb and rick.... it takes 10 minutes.  adding the father in a mad-scientist stopped by gen ross and bruce as an already mutated child who is then givien up for adoption etc etc just makes the backstory MORE complicated and more "silly" . which is exactly what the mainstream movie-goer doesnt like about comic book movies.  throw in hulk-dogs, abosrobing-dad becoming a giant jellyfish-like blob and the movie has reached a level of TOTAL GOOFINESS while attempting to be a serious movie.there is no way a person who "wouldnt be caught dead at a comic book movie" would 1> go see HULK in the first place and there is no way that they OR the regular non-comicgeek moviegoer would be able to sit through the goofiness of the dogs and the blob.  i think hulks "caveman-talk" is less goofy than either of these. and to make my review clear: if youre not a comic/scifi geek you will not like this movie...dont bother. if you ARE a comic/scifi geek you will still NOT like this movie, but you should see it because it comes with the job description, and you have a better chance of at least appreciating SOME of it.</blockquote>

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