Rating:
3 Stars
So I am at work now, so am unable to load pretty pictures for the Hulk. Sorry. Hopefully the video above is alright, as I could not even preview it. However, I felt it was still necessary to continue working on my Avenger blogs. A good thing to do as I'm sitting here waiting for the phone to ring...getting paid $20 an hour, right? Glad they are paying me for this. Haha. Oh Summer help desk jobs.
So after I watched Thor and Captain America, I continued on my Avenger movie list. There was more than one version of the Hulk, so I picked the Ed Norton one, which seems to connect to the Avenger movies. This movie was made after the first Iron Man, but before any of the other Avenger movies so it was interesting to view this one when I did....last.
Now my only real experience for the Hulk has been...I think old Saturday morning cartoons. My brother Dane and I would watch a lot of old superhero cartoons. He read the comics and explained them to me. I never really read the comics, but I guess he felt in order to play action figures I needed some basis of knowledge. Yeah I guess I was my brother's little 'brother'. Oh well. It gave me a ridiculous knowledge base for superhero comics without actually having read the comics themselves.
But back to the Hulk. I think I knew the least about him. I think in all the cartoons it was pretty straightforward. He got angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry. When he's angry he...smashes. I don't think there was much else. But in my mind he was a good guy, so that makes the movie a bit interesting. His lack of control and some of the not-so-good things he does is weird to me.
The movie starts by showing his experiments on himself, which is interesting. I don't think I realized that he did it to himself. I knew he was a scientist when he wasn't the Hulk, but that's about all I knew. I like Ed Norton. I think he did a decent job. After he becomes a Hulk, and goes crazy, he beats the crap and hospitalizes a lot of people, including his girlfriend, which is sad. He then goes into hiding. He hides in the slums, in a variety of places. His only communication is with another scientist he's never met who's trying to help 'cure' him. Eventually he does go back because he needs the data from the initial experiment. Liv Tyler plays his girlfriend, and he spots her. He needs to find the data, and he realizes the only way to get it is from her. Despite everything he has done, she's happy to see him. Their romance kind of rekindles...although she has another boyfriend. So that sucks for Bruce Banner (The Hulk). But she has the data, and gives it to him. Then they are chased by the General, who just happens to be his girlfriend's dad.
They make it to the scientist and they give him the data. They find out, though, that he has kept a lot of the blood that the Hulk has sent him, which is dangerous. They start to trust him a lot less, but he thinks that he can still help cure him of his problem. So They go through the injection process, and he becomes the Hulk. Liv Tyler is sort of able to control him, but it certainly helps that he's strapped down.
But it doesn't really work too well, and then they are raided by the government. One of the Army guys notices all the blood. The army guy is played by the dude from Lie to Me! I loved that show. So sad that it's over. He's great at being evil though.
He gets the scientist dude to inject him with the Hulk's blood. He becomes a bigger and badder monster than the Hulk. He's left lose on the city and starts to destroy everything. The General realizing the horrors that are beginning, agrees to let lose the Hulk, who thinks he can control it.
The Hulk jumps out of the plane, but then realizes that he might not actually change, because of the injections. He does change in the end, and does manage to control himself enough to kill the Monster in a pretty crazy battle that destroys...Harlem.
Then the General open fires at the Hulk. Liv Tyler goes crazy and tries to defend him. The General in the end gives up, realizing it would cost his daughter's life. The Hulk goes back into hiding. Liv goes back to being pissed at the General. The General goes back to drinking a lot. Jerk.
After the credits is the interesting part. Tony Stark (Iron Man) walks up to the General and tells him that he has a problem, and he has to listen. The General, of course, doesn't really listen. That's the end though. We don't really find out what happens in that conversation until the extras in Thor.
So overall The Hulk was alright. I was just surprised by the lack of control. His control plays a huge part in the Avengers, who obviously cannot use him until he learns to control himself. So I think this was a decent movie, not my favorite, but it's alright.
--LJ
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