The Incredible (Edible) Hulk

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Are you interested in how damn cool I am?  I went to see the The Incredible Hulk, starring Edward Norton by myself.  This would be the the new Marvel-produced sequel to Ang Lee’s horrible crapfest of a movie.  It was freaking awesome.  I would leave it at that, but that hardly makes for a good article, especially when everyone is saying the same thing about it.  A friend reassured me I did not go alone as a loser, I went as a true fan.

Although the Bruce Banner that I envisioned when reading the (few) comics of his I did, and watched in the animated Ultimate Avengers series.  I do not mean to say that Edward Norton did any less than a great job, he most certainly did, but it was a less pathetic and annoying Banner than I am used to.

Comparisons will most obviously be made between the Ang Lee film and the new Louis Leterrier one.  I am a very big Edward Norton fan, but Eric Bana did a semi-half-decent job on Banner (his name also sounds a like), the last film’s flop was hardly his fault.  But the best way to bring production to an ill-fated film as such is to show producers a totally new shot.

Alas, Marvel is shedding a new light on super-hero movies, a genre tainted by the likes of Elektra, Catwoman and Daredevil.  This awesome-ness insurgence weighed heavily on the success of Iron Man, starring RDJ.  Iron Man was the first to show Marvel had it in them to kick some serious ass, and they have been doing so all Summer.

The new Bruce Banner was hiding in Brazil.  A bloody cramped Brazil.  His peace did not last long, however, as he was attacked by the same (although different actor) Mr. Ross that was after him in the movie.  It was this scene that summarized how well Norton was.  Some of the best scenes were that of Bruce Banner as Bruce Banner.  You finally got to see what stress Banner was going under, and what lengths he was taking to protect his family and his city.  This was more than a movie about a green giant (not the Jolly one) jumping his ass around the dessert.

Of all the awesomeness that was in the movie (spoken as a nerd jaded by nerdy glasses, admittedly) was how damn real the Hulk was.  Emotion in CGI characters is as hard to come by as a date in my actual life.  They were not just CGI beings dukeing out, they were the two actors.  The scene in the cave had emotion, and you felt really bad, and Hulk looking freaking terrible.

This movie also showed that Marvel is capable of making a movie without a secret ending,  But who needs a secret ending when the real one is this?

Tony Stark: What would you say if I told you we’re putting a team together?
Gen. Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross: Who’s “we”?

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