The Hulk

Jul. 3rd, 2003 09:49 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] bugsybanana came by to see a movie. I was in the mood to see stuff smashed and blown up, so we went with The Hulk; [livejournal.com profile] ladymondegreen came along.

I liked about half of it, LadyM didn’t like any of it, and I think Bugsy is somewhere in between. It’s paced much too slow, for one thing, and the editing is very self-conscious.


The big fight between the Hulk and the army is pretty well done. Lots of classic comic-book action. I’d have liked it if someone in the army had noticed and remembered that shooting the Hulk just makes him angrier and stronger; we figure maybe the fight takes place at the end of the fiscal year and they need to use up their supply of bullets or they won’t be budgeted for as many next year.

It was apparently easier to make superheroes back in the ’60s. Just slap a little radiation on ’em, and you’re set. Today’s Hulk needs three different kinds of pseudoscience — gamma radiation, gene-splicing, and nanotechnology. I guess they were padding the grant application.

The movie moves much too slowly, and goes on too long. Just as you think they’ve built to a satisfying conclusion, the Absorbing Man shows up (though he’s never given that name) and we get another big fight sequence, one that doesn’t actually make a great deal of sense, and feels shoehorned into the movie. There’s a lot of clever stuff they could have done with a character like that, and they didn’t do any of it. Better to have made him a major part of the movie, or left him out entirely.

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