The Marvelous Marvel Rewatch (Now Playing: Avengers: Infinity War)

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Watched The Incredible Hulk movie last night, because I doubt I'll be able to see it this weekend.  (Spoilers below.  Don't read if you've never seen the movie.)

Pluses:
Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, and William Hurt all did a great job acting.  I was into all 3 characters.  William Hurt, in particular, just totally embodies General Ross.  I was impressed since that is not the type of role I normally see him do.

My favorite scene in the movie is the beginning where there is a chase in the streets and rooftops of Brazil.  Very cool and exciting scene.

Loved that there was all of this build up about "Mr. Blue" and in the end you gradually find out its a scientist who is not quite right in the head.  That is an interesting twist.

Liked that he wore a heart monitor for the film.  It was a great way to communicate the tension of him potentially turning into the Hulk.



Minuses:
I feel they made several choices in this movie because it was made so recently after the Eric Bana film, and the movie is worse for it.  A big one is that they did a quick montage at the beginning explaining the Hulk's origin.  I think in 2008, I preferred this because, I didn't want to see another Hulk origin.  Now in 2018 I see that the film would have been a lot better with a good fleshed out origin like Iron Man or Captain America.  Because this movie is connected to the MCU, this is the Hulk movie that people are going to watch more from here til the end of time.

The Incredible Hulk movie seems very disconnected to the MCU.  Ed Norton and Mark Ruffalo do Bruce Banner so differently that they feel like two different characters.  We never see Betty Ross, or the Leader or Abomination ever again.  The only character we see again is General Ross and that is not until Civil War 8 years later.  It is very easy to miss this character appeared before unless you are really paying attention.  This movie is the red headed step child of the MCU.

The end battle with Abomination was kind of meh.

Confused about SHIELD's role in this movie.  Seems like SHIELD is working for General Ross.  Then at the end Tony Stark comes in and says they are putting together a super team.  What?  Didn't SHIELD approach Tony Stark?

Why did Betty Ross stop the Hulk from killing Abomination?  It's basically just as dangerous as Godzilla.  How are they going to contain it?  Since I just saw Iron Man, I find it ironic that Stain had to die, but Abomination gets to live.  WTF?



This movie had a lot of parts I liked, but it had several other things pulling it down.

5/10

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 03 January 2018