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Have to say it: Hated the goddamn thing.
SPOILERS
1) Rage : Hulk - Not quite so. What does The Hulk do in the movie that makes the audience realise they're seeing a power-house of untamable fury? Nothing. The Hulk is just a big green man fighting half-heartedly for his life. He tosses a sofa, knocks a few tanks (looking strangely calm and restrained in the sequence, *walking* from target to target, understandably looking confused, but not showing any rage, any muscle-flexing, ven-popping, holy-shit-now-I'm-mad goddam fury. No. He paces undecided, leaps and looks around, delicately and dexterously grabing a missile on flight, biting and mischievoulsy spitting its head back at the shooter. The screen didn't shake with Hulks roars, because, well, he was alarmingly mute for the entire movie. How are we supposed to buy the fact that The Hulk is scary?
Being supposed to represent the repressed urges of man, his actions are alarmingly non-consequential. Nobody dies in those helicopters, like if we were watching a shitty Rambo cartoon from the eighties. Everything feels restrained and hesitant. I was expecting more destruction, mayhem and chaos. I was given none. The fight was pretty unbalanced from the start, with those stupid tanks and choppers... how do you expect to make a fight sequence last for long enough, or how you make it interesting, when you put such unbalanced contenders at each end of it?
This movie didn't manage to grab my attention, didn't make me worry or care about the characters, it was ridiculous in its usage of... those dogs (boy were they crap).
The Hulk was the most boring animated character i've seen in a long time. He could have done much, much, much, much more - if only those hacks who wrote it had any clue of what they were doing.
1) Hulk : Id? - They tried to make an "adult" movie of a stupid comic book character, forgetting that you cannot tackle complex concepts if you're an over-adulated idiot whose cheesy imagetic pantheon is constantly confused with high art and sensibility by the post-modern thrash gourmands. "Yes, because this material is unusable, it's too childish and shallow. Let's, let's make people realize - in the less subtle manner possible - that the Hulk is a metaphore for the repressed anger in every one of us, and who cares if we maim and kill any excitement in the plot that might have been possible to create? Yes, let's make dream sequences and alegories (as the mirror sequence) to hammer into people's heads the message that we're too clever to make an interesting and exciting story about a comic book character, and that we're using this material instead to convey a much deeper and important message, completely forgetting to put any fun - the smart or the dumb kind - in it.
3)The plot? - Full of holes. Boring, detached, seemed like something written in a hurry, with explanatorial sequences dragging for too long, and the only interesting bits not being worth the wait because they were majorly shot in the dark (I didn't understand or care for what happened in the end, couldn't even figure out what was going on, it was so dark and blurry. The villain was a dark blot somewhere on the screen. And the Hulk won the fight by using his brains. WTF??).
Eric Bana is mostly made of processed cheese.
Some good points: Thank God Jennifer Connely got some interesting lines: "What exists beyond your limits, sir, is other people". Ace.
Nolte was good also, but he had so little to work with, those dogs always accompanying him...
To me, the only moment where the story got more tangible, and dealt with in a sensible, tension-building, attention-grabbing manner, was when young Bruce witnessed his mother's demise. This is for you people that might think I'm only doin' some hatin' - I'm not. That scene was fucked up, man, and in a very good way! Father trying to stab his own son - wait, it gets even better - in an act of mercy!, fuck, just describing the scene already makes you imagination tingle with excitement: the developments! the resolution!. And then it even gets better and fucked-upper - The man trips and kills his wife in front of his son. The wife dies in the desert, her arm trying to grab something in the distance as the nuclear mushroom rises in the horizon. How much did this sequence last? Not enough, I tell you.
Oh, and there's another good thing that they managed to accomplish, but it was unintentional: If the Hulk was used to represent something else, the movie was successful in alegorically representing its subject: Just like The Hulk itself, this film meandered, it seemed to be operating under a heavy dose of sedatives, it had no clue of what was going on and of where it should be going next, and lastly, just like The Hulk, it would be better for everybody if it just never got unleashed. |
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