The original HULK DVD has the special features that I look for in a DVD, specifically, how the movie was made. I liked the background story about Stan Lee and his role in creating the Hulk comic book and his comments on the movie. Jennifer Connelly was outstanding in her role.
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Not too far removed from his success with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain) couldn’t have chosen a more difficult undertaking than 2003’s box office disappointment—(based on how much they actually spent to make this film) The Hulk. Seriously, there really isn’t a lot of cinematic material to work with when it comes to a character such as The Hulk that usually focuses on the most basic tenets of needs such as: anger, safety, love, and fear. In addition, the concept of being gifted with seemingly unearthly strength but at the same time cursed with intelligence so feeble is sure to glue patrons of all ages in their seats. However, Lee may have taken this as a challenge and shook things up by doing away with The Hulk’s crude comic origins (that of Bruce Banner being belted by gamarays while attempting to save the life of civilian Rick Jones) in lieu of a more modern approach with elements such as genetic experimentation, gamarays and nanomites, domestic violence, and repressed emotions that combine to bring this cinematic and computer generated version of Marvel’s dark-haired green goliath to life. I don’t buy it. Green is still Green, whichever way you look at it.Read full review
This movie is clearly just "plain old average". It's a movie that I believe people want to really like. The main character, The Hulk is one that most comic book fans really want to see do well on the big screen. But really, the acting is average, the story line is average and the directing is average. If they could "re-imagine" this script, it could be very good because the CGI of the Hulk is actually outstanding. The Hulk graphics are excellent. Excellent!! But the villians are campy, and boring--not scary. The Hulk is cool. Compared to X-Men, Spiderman and even The Fantastic 4, and the older Christopher Reeves Superman, this doesn't hold up. Its much comparable to Superman Returns in the respect that fans wanted it to be much better than the end results turned out. Better luck next time.Read full review
I first watch this movie in the theather with my buddies when it first came out and, I wasn't really impress; it was actually kind of dissaponting. Then one day my fiancee told me she hasn't seen it and on a bargain we bought the special edition DVD set. We finished watching it in 3 sittings because the movie is really slow and lacks the spirit to draw you in. The directors does a great job with the editing and the sound of the DVD but the direction and the story of the movie didn't help very much. The CGI Hulk transform in sizes all the time wich was kind of weird. This is something that "mostly" Hulk fans will enjoy. I have read the comics in the past and they are as slow as this movie.
So after being sorely disappointed by the new Hulk I went back to watch this one and honestly even though it drags a bit in my opinion it's the better overall film. Eric Bana fit the Bruce Banner character much better than Edward Norton. I'm a big fan of Norton too and really wanted the new Hulk to be great but it was mediocre at best. This film catches more of the drama of being the hulk and I felt for the characters more where in the new version I didn't care for any of them.
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