HULK SMASH(ING)!!!

[Oddboy]

HUUULLK SMMAAAASH!!



Ahh that was a great film.

Best bit: "PUNY HUMAN!!"

I didn't like the jumping from mountain to mountain bits though, it looked wrong, but other then that..

I liked the panel-esque screen, thought that was a neat styly touch.

[John Caliber]

The 'revelation' that the hulk was shaped by Bruce Banner's represssed childhood anger at being beaten by his father [according to the comic] has been about in the comic for years; the movie didn't invent it.

I haven't yet seen Hulk BTW due to some transport problems that should be sorted this week; I hope the movie is worth it!

- John

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[zep]

will there be a hulk2?

[Buddy]

Hope so. I heard the grey Hulk was gonna make an apperance.

Don't really know much about the Hulk really, I don't think there is a 'supervillan' associated with the character (is there?), so don't really know where the next movie could go.

[Bolt-01]

John, Theissu of hulk where it is most explained about his childhood is #308, by Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema and Gerry Talaoc. It was about 7 or 8 issues before Byrnes ill fated run.

Sad Fanboy from the '80's.
Rotts

[John Caliber]

That's right. I forgot about that run; I thought it was Peter David who came up with the repressed anger bit, but my Hulk guidebook tells me otherwise. I'll have to remember to pick up John Byrne's run on Hulk too....

- John

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[McNulty]

Seen the movie this week, and much like you, I was totally blown away by the Hulk laying the smack down on those tanks!
 The whole thing with his dad was pretty weird though, but it seems most of you were on board with it.
Best moments: Puny Human! and "You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

All in all, I thought it was a very good merging of the comic Hulk with the TV Hulk, use of medical Gamma exposure, and the Gamma explosion on the military base in the desert, Bruce and David Banner...etc, etc.

Nice cameo by Stan again. I've seen Spiderman, but not Daredevil. Does he cameo in Daredevil at all?

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[SmallBlueThing]

He does- stopped from walking under a car by a young Matt Murdock. And Daredevil is absolutely marvellous. My personal favourite of all the marvel movies so far.

Steev

[John Caliber]

My memory is hazy from the disappointment of watching Daredevil, but I believe that Stan Lee was the old guy whom Matt Murdock saved from the chemical truck that dropped its chemicals onto the Daredevil-to be? At least, that was the story about Lee's cameo during the film's production.

- John

[McNulty]

Two differing opinions! Looks like I'll have to rent the DVD and judge for myself. Thanks!

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[SmallBlueThing]

It's weird how people seem not to like the DD movie. I thought it was dark and funky and fabulous, with great performances by Ben Affleck (who I normally care not one joy about) and Colin Farrell. Having never been a fan of The Crow movies, I thought that DD was how The Crow should have been.

For the record, here's my very adolescent "top list" of Marvel movies...

1. daredevil, 2. Spider-man, 3. Blade, 4. Blade 2, 5. X-Men 2, 6. X-Men, 7. Dr Strange, 8. Captain America, 176. Those old Thor cartoons where he didn't move much ("Over the rainbow bridge of AaaaasGARD, the god of THUNder the MIghty THOR") 7970. Hulk- which I loathed.

Steev

[John Caliber]

I've not been overly thilled by any of the superhero movies. Certainly they look and sound fantastic, but I prefer the comic strip stories to their movie incarnations, probably because the comics don't spend half their duration trying to blow your head off with state-of-the-art special effects [though some go way OTT with CG colouring filters].

- John

[SmallBlueThing]

No arguments there- no matter how great Spider-Man was as an adaptation, If it came to a choice, I'd take the comics any day. I would be very unhappy not to have access to the Stan Lee/ John Romita issues. They're some of the very first things little Bram is going to get thrust under his nose when he learns to read.

Actually, my mother tells me that I learned to read thanks to her buying me marvel comics. This does explain why my school reports at infant and junior school went something like this:

"Steev is a careful and imaginative writer of stories and has a reading ability far in advance of his age. However, there is no such word as "thwipp", nor is there any need write every story with aliterative character names. The world does not need to be threatened by giant aliens in purple pants each time and bad things don't always happen to good people."

Steev