Comic Book Busts: "Hulk"
Let's kick of my Top 5 Comic Book Busts with the granddaddy of them all, "Hulk."
Rare is the comic feature with a better pedigree, but the project was doomed from the drawing board.
Director Ang Lee used traditional comic book frames to spice his compositions, but nothing could save this dour, drab mess.
Eric Bana stars, or rather snores, as our addled hero, Bruce Banner. His alter ego is a CGI disaster, a monster who isn't convincingly real for a moment. The technology just wasn't ready for this assignment back in 2003, and boy, does it show. The upcoming Hulk reboot must do a better job of blending the big green guy with his surroundings.
"Hulk's" final battle, involving a deranged Nick Nolte, merely puts an exclamation point on this four-color mess.
I haven't even touched upon the utter waste of Jennifer Connelly as a weepy Betty Ross, or a ridiculous sequence involving gamma-radiated dogs.
Hulk mad. Audiences madder.
Labels: Comic book movies, Hulk
posted by Toto @ 7:48 PM
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you cut Ang deep, Shrek - but your coda brings the funny (you Apatow-lover)...definitely a high-concept disappointment, but to place it in the Top 5? Hm. Which are your criteria? "Catwoman," "Tank Girl," etc. were worse messes, and by comparison, "Hulk" is just mediocre, if one ignores its pedigree.
~ Dagnabbitt
I judged it by the pedigree and the results combined. Does anyone expect "Resident Evil: Extinction" to have an Oscar campaign? But Ang Lee + Hulk should = quality entertainment.
Bill Bixby's mad. You really don't want to see him when he's mad.
(okay, he's actually dead. But he's still mad).
OK, this is the proper, critic's perspective, and I cannot then disagree: Ang cut himself deep....
~ Dagnabbitt
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