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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 956131" data-attributes="member: 6791">Its friday night, and I just got back from seeing "The Hulk".- - - Some Spoilers - - - Let me preface my review with some indications as to what kind of reviewer I am and from what perspective I'm coming from. I am a comic book reader, but not a die hard fanatic. In other words, I didn't get upset that Peter Parker generated his own webbing from his wrist rather than invent the 'web formula' from his home science lab. I'm not upset that Hugh Jackman is taller than the comic book version of Wolverine. I found both "Spiderman" and "X-Men 2" to be excellent super hero comic book movies. I found "Daredevil" to be just a slightly below average comic book movie.Okay, now for my review."The Hulk" (in my opinion & of my entire group of friends I saw it with) was a piece of crud. Very surprisingly bad considered this director is the same man that gave us "Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon" and "The Icestorm".I could try to write a lengthy blow by blow as to all the aspects that made this movie score so low (for me), but I'm short on time at the moment so I'll keep it semi-brief. Plus, after this post, I'm sure others that like the movie will retort and then perhaps then I'll elaborate further.The editing style in this movie is the most glaringly bad artistic decision recognizable right off the start. Not sure who to blame for this, is it Ang , or the producer who told him to do it like this, or the editor doing it for the producer behind Ang's back....who knows. But it is just plain bad.Scenes are often shown to us in little picture in picture like 'comic panels' and split screens that enter and travel into view upon the main image. Think of some older anime with big robots where suddenly the guy piloting the 'left leg' gets his own square at the bottom right hand corner to say his line. At first, this happens in the beginning back history part of the story so it isn't noticable. You think to yourself that they're using that editing presentation style in order shove as much exposition back story into the beginning as possible. But then the film goes into modern day with Bruce and that style is still going on. Its very distracting and very annoying.The pinnacle of this bad multi-panel style comes when a character dies due to an explosion and flys toward screen but his form is frozen in mid air like the beginning jump pose Austin Powers does at the beginning of his first movie. That and he has a white outline around him.Okay, I can only theorize what was going through their heads when they decided to employ this visual style. Maybe they thought, " oh...it will be like a comic book! Its got panels like a comic book. The comic book diehard fans will love it because they'll feel like they're reading a comic! Yeah! They'll feel right at home!"Dumb idea. And even a worse execution of that idea.The script is bad too.  There is a mystery behind Bruce's past and it doesn't get revealed until around Act 3 of the movie. Well, I guess I'll respect that decision to string the audience along for that long...although they really shouldn't. But oh well. What was annoying however is all the dialogue scenes we hat to sit through of characters talking to Bruce about his past without actually really 'saying' what his past was. It was so annoying. Its like, " you're special , what happened to you is special but I'm not going to say what it is because the audience isn't suppose to know yet, so i'll be vague and dance around the issue for as long as I possibly can".A lot of the dialogue these wonderful actors had to spit out was bad too. Nick Nolte's speech at the end....my goodness....I understood the Architect's speech in "Reloaded" better than that spittle spewing tyrade.There's so much wrong with this movie its amazing. Not just the above mentioned points. There are more bad things I could talk about, but I'll cut my post shorter tonight.  I had no clue it was going to be this bad.  I went it neutral, no expectations, and I walked away absolutely stunned at the poor quality of this interpretation of the Hulk to the big screen.If I could give any advice to people who haven't seen it yet...it is to say this: Don't go see this movie. It is horrible. Its "Dreamcatcher" bad....that's how bad it is.I felt bad contributing money to the folks that brought this piece of horrible cinema to the big screen. Normally I don't get that upset over movies that end up costing me to lose $9.50. If it was bad...oh well. But when movies are this bad, part of me feels mad for giving the makers any profit.I urge other film watchers who have any level of decent taste in quality to NOT SEE THIS FILM.Thankyou for you time.</blockquote>

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