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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 973125" data-attributes="member: 259">My wife and I just got back from seeing it, and we *loved* it.  The action sequences were good, but it was really the relationships between the four main characters that made the movie worthwhile.  Nick Nolte, with his Ted Kaczinski attitude, chewed his scenes up like a military power cable.  Eric Bana managed the repressed-emotion character quite well, I thought:  rather than finding him wooden, I found his neck-muscle-twitching emotionlessness to be frightening.Betty as a scientist made perfect sense, and it was great to see a superhero movie with an intelligent, effective, non-superpowered heroine.  Her father was more sympathetic, ultimately, than I'd expected him to be:  despite being a cold-hearted arrogant killer, he was doing the best he could to love his daughter and fulfill what he saw as his moral duty.Repressed Memory Syndrome is almost certainly a manufactured, fictitious disease.  When I first realized that it was going to be a major plot point in the movie, I groaned a little.  But then I thought, "Uh, Daniel?  Fusing the DNA of a starfish into human DNA to create an instantaneously regenerating person is also a fictitious condition," and I stopped worrying about RMS.Sure, we knew early on that Bruce's mom got killed by Bruce's dad.  But the character didn't know.  That's textbook dramatic irony, and it was used to excellent effect here.  The scene in which Betty and Bruce both realize what happened was carried off with tremendous skill.The comic-booky splitscreens worried me at first.  But then I noticed that they were advancing the storyline:  a closing door appeared in a rapidly narrowing window, symbolizing an opportunity that was rapidly slipping away.  Banner Sr's wild eyes shown above scenes of his imprisonment, reminding us that the apparently weak old man was dangerously insane.  I've seen splitscreens before, but I've never seen them used in a way that was functional.  I approved.My biggest problem with the movie (half an hour after seeing it) was the ending.  It just didn't hold together very well for me, and moved the film beyond pseudoscience into magic.  If there'd been more time to handle the final interactions between father & son, it could've been done well; but it seemed like they ran out of time and had to resolve everything too quickly.I'm a little bit amused by the reviews from folks who say, "I'm not a comic-book fanatic:  I didn't mind that Spiderman's webs were organic."  Uh, wha-?  If you know that Spiderman's webs were originally not organic, trust me:  you're a comic-book fanatic, and you may not be qualified to tell us non-fanboys whether we'd enjoy the movie.Overall, a fantastic time at the theater.  My recommendation:  if you're considering going to see it, decide whether you're a comic-book fanboy or not.  Be honest about it.  Then read reviews by fanboys and nonfanboys, and figure out which group's tastes you match.Daniel</blockquote>

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