Still a huge fan of the Ang Lee Hulk with how well it conveyed character psychology and kept that at the forefront of the story. The Norton one was solid though as an action film, though on rewatches the Abomination fight scenes go on too long (the campus fight is enjoyable though)
Norton was a fail cast and I think Ruffalo ended up also being a fail cast. I don't even know who could reasonably play the Hulk and Bruce Bannerbut it ain't those two
I think Bana was the best of the three so far. He brought the right amount of intellect and frailty a Bruce should have before shedding himself and becoming the id of ids.
Bana is best
Norton being a farthuffing moron thought Marvel would let him make some jekyl and hyde character study tragedy of their fricking iron man spinoff.
Ruffalo somehow got hulk nuetered for the sake of more ruffalo screentime.
Bana was just Banner and Hulk was a CGI monstrosity as we all wanted
>Norton wanted a comic-accurate loner who's constantly fighting himself >"That wuhs stew-pid!"
You tasteless homosexual, there's a reason Incredible Hulk's the shit
>norton wanted comic accuracy
thats not at all what he wanted. He wanted overlydramatic slop, and it was shot down a thousand times. Norton doesnt give a frick about comics, he wanted yet another egoproject
Ang Lee Hulk, while visually shit, was the only Hulk that seemed to have the impossible strength and rage that I think of when I think of Hulk. How he got bigger and stronger when he was attacked and further angered made it feel like he could kick Superman's ass or something. Somehow the other Hulks seem like pussies compared to him.
Ang Lee by far, like says, it's the only one that gets The Hulk's anger across, like the scene where he bursts out of containment and looks simultaneously like a giant rage-monster and a frightened toddler. They also got The Hulk jumping ridiculous distances right, that looked great in theatres.
Norton wasn't a great casting choice, but him running around in the favelas speaking fluent portugrease was such a bizarrely stupid choice for the story, it was very hard to suspend disbelief, even for a movie about a man who turns into a giant monster when angry because he stood too close to a nuke. Why they didn't just set it in LA/ the remote American West I'll never know.
this. Hulk gets buttfricked too frequently in all of his outtings, which is ridiculous given what Norton wanted to do. The idea should always be meek scientist turned unstoppable killing machine but here we are every couple minutes with Hulk getting buttfricked by like, a missile, or a magic antihulk device, completely trivializing the utility of big strong green guy
I liked Norton's Bruce. He would've been a great addition to the Avenger's line up and might've had some actual chemistry with Black Widow. As for the Hulks, it's a tough call. I liked Norton's Hulk best but he's not really that impressive compared to what we saw in the other versions.
The CGI was very good. People hate the 2003 film for no reason. I like it even more after being spammed with the quip filled cheap rushed repetitive and soulless marvel films.
The while comic book editing was too corny, even back then. Lee's Hulk is the best potrayal of pure rage and I dont fricking get why the others left the bigger-as-he-gets-angrier ability
>I dont fricking get why the others left the bigger-as-he-gets-angrier ability
Because that isn't an ability of his. He's supposed to get smarter the angrier he gets.
That's not the same, you moron. Anything he can't just smash he simply figures out the weakness of and exploits. It's how every fight in the comics goes.
>Anything he can't just smash he simply figures out the weakness of and exploits. It's how every fight in the comics goes.
Not even close, you moronic mongoloid.
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>hulk encounters an enemy >smashing them doesn't work >notices power source/achilles heel >exploits/smashes that and then smashes enemy >jumps away
Any given solo fight with the hulk goes like this, if it isn't wanking some new character off.
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Not even close. Hulk was always pure power.
You got filtered by capeshit source material and don't even know it. No wonder Marvel films can keep their fan base. I r smrrart hulk is most powerful hulk when you break down the power levels of enemies he defeats VS dumb smash only hulk
>ESL >IESLB
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Hulk was always pure power
Nope. He has Banner's brain no matter how simple they make him talk, and it shows in any hulk comic made in the silver age.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Idk why they're even disagreeing with you, this storytelling format is still the character's bread and butter to this day.
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Anonymous
You got filtered by capeshit source material and don't even know it. No wonder Marvel films can keep their fan base. I r smrrart hulk is most powerful hulk when you break down the power levels of enemies he defeats VS dumb smash only hulk
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Someone should edit that scene side-by-side with nuHulk getting overwhelmed by She-Hulk clapping her hands at him
>downey jr fresh out of jail and favreau begging the studio to use him to make an iron man movie >Tim Roth being a villain in a Hulk movie >Kenneth Branagh making a Thor movie with Antony Hopkins as Odin
2008-2011 marvel films were interesting as hell. shame they were all a bit meh
Thor is still easily my favorite MCU movie and I don't see anything coming to dethrone it. These days I would have preferred if it did more with the fantasy realms to set itself apart from all the other superhero movies but when it came out it was still different enough to feel unique (at least coming at it as someone who hasn't read a single Thor comic).
I saw the second one in the theater and I liked it at the time but I cannot remember a single thing about it today except the fakeout ending with Loki that they wasted on the garbage third movie.
Why no matter what Bruce Banner is wearing prior to transforming into Hulk does Hulk suddenly have size 15x purple spandex shorts on? It's such a stupid oversight for the character of Hulk over the decades.
>le purple shorts stupid >but iron man gets a pass and can nanomachine a mark 20 suit that takes up as much space as a small stack of papers
frick off
Yes, but other physical laws of nature are observed and not broken in that universe. So his pants turning into 15x purple basketball shorts doesn't make any sense. It's fricking stupid.
Stan Lee answered this question in an interview with Eric Spitznagel of Vanity Fair (March, 2011).
VF: "If it weren’t for the Comics Code, would the Hulk’s pants have ripped off like his shirt"?
Stan Lee: "I guess it probably would have. So occasionally the Code did some good things".
VF: "Did you ever try to make sense of the Hulk’s magical purple pants? Why did they always conveniently remain intact while the rest of his clothes were ripped to shreds"?
Stan Lee: "I just figured that Bruce Banner had probably been a friend of Reed Richards [Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four], and Reed had given him some elastic trousers. There’s an explanation for everything, but you may not be technically advanced enough to follow me on all of this"
There elastic pants. Satisfied?
>Logan is announced >cumming my pants at the thought of gritty wolverine killing a bunch of inbred hulks >its just Johnny Cash's Hurt set to mixed race kid propaganda
It's unironically Ruffalo in the first Avengers movie. He actually did a good job of playing a Bruce Banner who's just constantly exhausted and depressed that he has to contain a monster inside all the time. There's this one moment I really like when he transforms in the Helicarrier, just before he loses himself in uncontrollable rage, for a split second he looks at Natasha with this sad/scared expression like he knows he's about to hurt people but he can't stop it. It's a moment that shows good understanding of the character's struggle but gets overlooked because of how quippy the movie as a whole is.
In Age of Ultron he's still pretty good although it's repetitive how he's just made to lose control by a villain again. After this the character quickly degrades into comic relief and Ruffalo absolutely stops trying.
nah Ruffalo sucked and his character was heinously written. >Thats the secret cap, Im always angry >says the moron who just lost his fricking shit for touching the magic pokey >in the same film where hes being strengthmatched by everyone around him.
If your only gimmick is how fricking stupid strong you are, maybe dont make everyone else 90% as strong as you
You just learned why the hulk doesn't work in teams. Can't have him upstage all the other heroes, or it just becomes boring. Same with superman and the justice league.
Reading Immortal Hulk and the newest Incredible Hulk's run, I have to say Bana. He really did seem neurotic as Banner. Shame Marvel doesn't take risks with the hulk.
Would it be possible to make a Hulk movie where the Hulk is both the hero and the villain? I don't mean like Jekyll & Hyde where Banner is "good" and Hulk is "bad", but have the Hulk serve both roles?
I miss the hulk being popular bros. There's a whole generation of kids now who aren't made familiar with the character's stories or iconic arcs, hell most people probably don't even realize he has a rogues gallery of villains to begin with. We could've had an actual running storyline with MCU Hulk if Disney and Universal had been willing to play ball with each other.
AnG Lee gave the pointer about Bruce's past life and he still remember it despite he was just a baby back then and took a little trick to awakening the dark part of his memory.
Still a huge fan of the Ang Lee Hulk with how well it conveyed character psychology and kept that at the forefront of the story. The Norton one was solid though as an action film, though on rewatches the Abomination fight scenes go on too long (the campus fight is enjoyable though)
Norton was a fail cast and I think Ruffalo ended up also being a fail cast. I don't even know who could reasonably play the Hulk and Bruce Bannerbut it ain't those two
I think Bana was the best of the three so far. He brought the right amount of intellect and frailty a Bruce should have before shedding himself and becoming the id of ids.
Bana is best
Norton being a farthuffing moron thought Marvel would let him make some jekyl and hyde character study tragedy of their fricking iron man spinoff.
Ruffalo somehow got hulk nuetered for the sake of more ruffalo screentime.
Bana was just Banner and Hulk was a CGI monstrosity as we all wanted
>Norton wanted a comic-accurate loner who's constantly fighting himself
>"That wuhs stew-pid!"
You tasteless homosexual, there's a reason Incredible Hulk's the shit
>norton wanted comic accuracy
thats not at all what he wanted. He wanted overlydramatic slop, and it was shot down a thousand times. Norton doesnt give a frick about comics, he wanted yet another egoproject
Radcliffe
fpwp
The long fight scenes are part of the charm
Ang Lee Hulk, while visually shit, was the only Hulk that seemed to have the impossible strength and rage that I think of when I think of Hulk. How he got bigger and stronger when he was attacked and further angered made it feel like he could kick Superman's ass or something. Somehow the other Hulks seem like pussies compared to him.
Ang Lee by far, like says, it's the only one that gets The Hulk's anger across, like the scene where he bursts out of containment and looks simultaneously like a giant rage-monster and a frightened toddler. They also got The Hulk jumping ridiculous distances right, that looked great in theatres.
Norton wasn't a great casting choice, but him running around in the favelas speaking fluent portugrease was such a bizarrely stupid choice for the story, it was very hard to suspend disbelief, even for a movie about a man who turns into a giant monster when angry because he stood too close to a nuke. Why they didn't just set it in LA/ the remote American West I'll never know.
this. Hulk gets buttfricked too frequently in all of his outtings, which is ridiculous given what Norton wanted to do. The idea should always be meek scientist turned unstoppable killing machine but here we are every couple minutes with Hulk getting buttfricked by like, a missile, or a magic antihulk device, completely trivializing the utility of big strong green guy
The guy was on the run from the government, how was he going to hide in LA?
In plain sight, like a lot of criminals do.
I liked Norton's Bruce. He would've been a great addition to the Avenger's line up and might've had some actual chemistry with Black Widow. As for the Hulks, it's a tough call. I liked Norton's Hulk best but he's not really that impressive compared to what we saw in the other versions.
Ang Lee but Pic Related is a Honorable Mention.
The CGI was very good. People hate the 2003 film for no reason. I like it even more after being spammed with the quip filled cheap rushed repetitive and soulless marvel films.
Some shots were great and some were shit. And the color green was off.
The while comic book editing was too corny, even back then. Lee's Hulk is the best potrayal of pure rage and I dont fricking get why the others left the bigger-as-he-gets-angrier ability
>I dont fricking get why the others left the bigger-as-he-gets-angrier ability
Because that isn't an ability of his. He's supposed to get smarter the angrier he gets.
>He's supposed to get smarter the angrier he gets.
Not even close. Professor Hulk is kne of the weakest Hulks.
That's not the same, you moron. Anything he can't just smash he simply figures out the weakness of and exploits. It's how every fight in the comics goes.
>Anything he can't just smash he simply figures out the weakness of and exploits. It's how every fight in the comics goes.
Not even close, you moronic mongoloid.
>hulk encounters an enemy
>smashing them doesn't work
>notices power source/achilles heel
>exploits/smashes that and then smashes enemy
>jumps away
Any given solo fight with the hulk goes like this, if it isn't wanking some new character off.
Not even close. Hulk was always pure power.
>ESL
>IESLB
>Hulk was always pure power
Nope. He has Banner's brain no matter how simple they make him talk, and it shows in any hulk comic made in the silver age.
Idk why they're even disagreeing with you, this storytelling format is still the character's bread and butter to this day.
You got filtered by capeshit source material and don't even know it. No wonder Marvel films can keep their fan base. I r smrrart hulk is most powerful hulk when you break down the power levels of enemies he defeats VS dumb smash only hulk
Someone should edit that scene side-by-side with nuHulk getting overwhelmed by She-Hulk clapping her hands at him
>downey jr fresh out of jail and favreau begging the studio to use him to make an iron man movie
>Tim Roth being a villain in a Hulk movie
>Kenneth Branagh making a Thor movie with Antony Hopkins as Odin
2008-2011 marvel films were interesting as hell. shame they were all a bit meh
Thor is still easily my favorite MCU movie and I don't see anything coming to dethrone it. These days I would have preferred if it did more with the fantasy realms to set itself apart from all the other superhero movies but when it came out it was still different enough to feel unique (at least coming at it as someone who hasn't read a single Thor comic).
I saw the second one in the theater and I liked it at the time but I cannot remember a single thing about it today except the fakeout ending with Loki that they wasted on the garbage third movie.
Wheres the rest?
You motherfricker
Why no matter what Bruce Banner is wearing prior to transforming into Hulk does Hulk suddenly have size 15x purple spandex shorts on? It's such a stupid oversight for the character of Hulk over the decades.
Who cares its a comic book character. It doesn't need to be realistic or really make sense.
Yes, but other physical laws of nature are observed and not broken in that universe. So his pants turning into 15x purple basketball shorts doesn't make any sense. It's fricking stupid.
Stan Lee answered this question in an interview with Eric Spitznagel of Vanity Fair (March, 2011).
VF: "If it weren’t for the Comics Code, would the Hulk’s pants have ripped off like his shirt"?
Stan Lee: "I guess it probably would have. So occasionally the Code did some good things".
VF: "Did you ever try to make sense of the Hulk’s magical purple pants? Why did they always conveniently remain intact while the rest of his clothes were ripped to shreds"?
Stan Lee: "I just figured that Bruce Banner had probably been a friend of Reed Richards [Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four], and Reed had given him some elastic trousers. There’s an explanation for everything, but you may not be technically advanced enough to follow me on all of this"
There elastic pants. Satisfied?
Stan Lee is a serial liar who did not create or write Hulk, that's why he never had a cameo in the most famous Marvel TV show.
>le purple shorts stupid
>but iron man gets a pass and can nanomachine a mark 20 suit that takes up as much space as a small stack of papers
frick off
Banner wears stretchy underwear at all times under his normal clothes just in case he Hulks out
Cast him
>Logan is announced
>cumming my pants at the thought of gritty wolverine killing a bunch of inbred hulks
>its just Johnny Cash's Hurt set to mixed race kid propaganda
Hulk 2008. Avengers Hulk is great too but they ruined and assassinated the fricker afterward for 0 reason so 2008 wins
It's unironically Ruffalo in the first Avengers movie. He actually did a good job of playing a Bruce Banner who's just constantly exhausted and depressed that he has to contain a monster inside all the time. There's this one moment I really like when he transforms in the Helicarrier, just before he loses himself in uncontrollable rage, for a split second he looks at Natasha with this sad/scared expression like he knows he's about to hurt people but he can't stop it. It's a moment that shows good understanding of the character's struggle but gets overlooked because of how quippy the movie as a whole is.
In Age of Ultron he's still pretty good although it's repetitive how he's just made to lose control by a villain again. After this the character quickly degrades into comic relief and Ruffalo absolutely stops trying.
nah Ruffalo sucked and his character was heinously written.
>Thats the secret cap, Im always angry
>says the moron who just lost his fricking shit for touching the magic pokey
>in the same film where hes being strengthmatched by everyone around him.
If your only gimmick is how fricking stupid strong you are, maybe dont make everyone else 90% as strong as you
You just learned why the hulk doesn't work in teams. Can't have him upstage all the other heroes, or it just becomes boring. Same with superman and the justice league.
Reading Immortal Hulk and the newest Incredible Hulk's run, I have to say Bana. He really did seem neurotic as Banner. Shame Marvel doesn't take risks with the hulk.
They don't ever get Hulk and Bruce right together in the same movie
>we will never get an adaptation of Planet Hulk to World War Hulk to Fall of the Hulks
I hate nuMarvel.
KINO run. I don't know why Marvel simply doesn't copy the way the manga is translated to anime and have certain runs adapted to cartoons.
Appearance-wise I would say Hulk in OP but for behavior and overall vibe i'd say Ang Lee Hulk
Would it be possible to make a Hulk movie where the Hulk is both the hero and the villain? I don't mean like Jekyll & Hyde where Banner is "good" and Hulk is "bad", but have the Hulk serve both roles?
The Hulk being his own worst enemy is the best way to handle the character, in my opinion. He should be as scary as he is pitiful.
I miss the hulk being popular bros. There's a whole generation of kids now who aren't made familiar with the character's stories or iconic arcs, hell most people probably don't even realize he has a rogues gallery of villains to begin with. We could've had an actual running storyline with MCU Hulk if Disney and Universal had been willing to play ball with each other.
Lee Hulk comes the closest to reaching the character's horror roots.
Bana..
AnG Lee gave the pointer about Bruce's past life and he still remember it despite he was just a baby back then and took a little trick to awakening the dark part of his memory.