I managed to sneak out and see the Incredible Hulk under the cover of night and an elaborate disguise that the Impoosible Missions Force would have trouble seeing through.
Actually I asked KT to go to the midnight movie on Thursday. She said yes.
But, I'm glad I did.
The Incredible Hulk is good. The direction, production and storytelling is GREAT. Sounds like the same thing, no. It's not.
The story that happens on screen is very good. Son't get me wrong, watching Banner on the run, dealing with hiding and still being in love and trying to protect everyone from himself is great. Watching Tim Roth's creepy performance and vicious transformation is breathtaking. But the tools the writers, director and editor used are near perfect. EXPECIALLY for this reboot/reworking/reimagining... whatever it is called this week.
First and foremost, the most entertaining sequence really has to be the opening titles because they do 2 HUGE things here.
1. They give all the backstory you need, what happened, how it happened, etc. It basically gives you the origin movie in 4 minutes.
2. The better part of the footage is direct copies of the HULK TV series intro! Just with the new actors. Bad haircuts and all. It is a brilliant piece of work and the movie you came to see hasn't even started!
So everyone should know by now that Bruce Banner was working with Gamma Ray radiation experiments and thought that it was time for live human testing. He put himself in the chair and zapped himself. Now when he gets angry or excited, he turns into a 10 ft, 1500lb, bullettproof, green giant.
Skidoosh.
The government wants him back to weaponize him and he wants to create an anti-serum. Neither are working. Banner has been secretly contacting a fellow scientist working in Gamma Radiation, trying to create the antidote. The gov't has been bringing in international soldiers to put together a super hunter team.
The big bad General Thunderbolt Ross (Bruce's girlfriends dad) is the man in charge of the hunt and the program that Banner didn't know he was working on. Oh you lying generals, when will you learn? It turns out the program he's running here is actually a reboot of Project: Rebirth, the program that bore Captain America. He also gives the Super Soldier Serum to one of his international soliders, Emil Blonsky, who can then keep up with Hulk. Then Blonsky goes coo-coo for Cocoa-Puffs.
Banner manages to hook up with Dr. Stearns, the man online trying to help him create a cure. In their experiment, they manage to surpress Banner's Hulk-out. But has it cured him or just surpressed this one incident. Bonus: it has given Banner control.
Blonsky manages to get his hands on some other "juice" and turns into an "Abomination" of what the Hulk is. The fight that ensues between the two is truly spectacular. And probably the loudest 15 minutes of the summer movie season.
The film is really well designed, too. There is a storytelling tool used in a "Days Without Incident" clock that lets the audience follow the gaps in the story. This is brilliant.
Also there are some great nods to the Hulks that preceeded this one. Lou Ferrigno has a great cameo that sent the audience into applause and Stan "the man" Lee has his cutest cameo yet.
Over all, I totally dig The Incedible Hulk. It's way better than the Ang-Lee movie and has a nice tie-in to Iron Man that is making me more and more excited for The Avengers movie.
Actually I asked KT to go to the midnight movie on Thursday. She said yes.
But, I'm glad I did.
The Incredible Hulk is good. The direction, production and storytelling is GREAT. Sounds like the same thing, no. It's not.
The story that happens on screen is very good. Son't get me wrong, watching Banner on the run, dealing with hiding and still being in love and trying to protect everyone from himself is great. Watching Tim Roth's creepy performance and vicious transformation is breathtaking. But the tools the writers, director and editor used are near perfect. EXPECIALLY for this reboot/reworking/reimagining... whatever it is called this week.
First and foremost, the most entertaining sequence really has to be the opening titles because they do 2 HUGE things here.
1. They give all the backstory you need, what happened, how it happened, etc. It basically gives you the origin movie in 4 minutes.
2. The better part of the footage is direct copies of the HULK TV series intro! Just with the new actors. Bad haircuts and all. It is a brilliant piece of work and the movie you came to see hasn't even started!
So everyone should know by now that Bruce Banner was working with Gamma Ray radiation experiments and thought that it was time for live human testing. He put himself in the chair and zapped himself. Now when he gets angry or excited, he turns into a 10 ft, 1500lb, bullettproof, green giant.
Skidoosh.
The government wants him back to weaponize him and he wants to create an anti-serum. Neither are working. Banner has been secretly contacting a fellow scientist working in Gamma Radiation, trying to create the antidote. The gov't has been bringing in international soldiers to put together a super hunter team.
The big bad General Thunderbolt Ross (Bruce's girlfriends dad) is the man in charge of the hunt and the program that Banner didn't know he was working on. Oh you lying generals, when will you learn? It turns out the program he's running here is actually a reboot of Project: Rebirth, the program that bore Captain America. He also gives the Super Soldier Serum to one of his international soliders, Emil Blonsky, who can then keep up with Hulk. Then Blonsky goes coo-coo for Cocoa-Puffs.
Banner manages to hook up with Dr. Stearns, the man online trying to help him create a cure. In their experiment, they manage to surpress Banner's Hulk-out. But has it cured him or just surpressed this one incident. Bonus: it has given Banner control.
Blonsky manages to get his hands on some other "juice" and turns into an "Abomination" of what the Hulk is. The fight that ensues between the two is truly spectacular. And probably the loudest 15 minutes of the summer movie season.
The film is really well designed, too. There is a storytelling tool used in a "Days Without Incident" clock that lets the audience follow the gaps in the story. This is brilliant.
Also there are some great nods to the Hulks that preceeded this one. Lou Ferrigno has a great cameo that sent the audience into applause and Stan "the man" Lee has his cutest cameo yet.
Over all, I totally dig The Incedible Hulk. It's way better than the Ang-Lee movie and has a nice tie-in to Iron Man that is making me more and more excited for The Avengers movie.
