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The Not-so-Incredible Hulk
I've been a little confiused lately by television ads for the new Incredible Hulk movie. I mean, didn't Ang Lee make Hulk, like, 5 years ago? Seems to me they even parodied it on Robot Chicken. And now there's a new one with Edward Norton as Bruce Banner with memorable lines such as "I have trouble controlling certain aspects of my personality" (Tyler Durden, anyone?) My first thought was that is was a sequel but then I read that THIS version is made by Marvel Comics as a tie-in wth Iron Man. With a different cast director & pretty much an entirely new origin story it seems not like a sequel but a re-make, and this has gotta be a record for re-make turnaround — 5 years! So my confusion stems from - if this isn't a sequel, why make a new Hulk movie so soon? Is anyone actually going to go see this? (Answer - of course they will — moviegoers are sheep.) OK, so it's NOT a remake — it's a "New Interpretation".
Popular opinion has it the first version sucked out loud but I had never seen it, until they showed it Saturday night on Space - sponsored by the NEW Hulk movie. OK, now I'm doubly confused. So, what, they're using the old version to promote the new version by showing us how bad it was?
It wasn't that terrible, but perhaps a bit more thought-provoking than the usual fan-boy might want or expect, but I confess I was too tired to watch the whole thing - it was on past my bedtime, after all. The casting was pretty good - I found Nick Nolte's turn as Banner's father kind of interesting - and the CGI was adequate (better than the first Harry Potter flick, anyway.) Ang Lee was a pretty off-beat choice to direct it. It DID have the Marvel Stamp Of Approval - and Stan Lee even had a cameo in it. So what's with the revisionism on Marvel's part?
Because Robert Downey Jr. has an appearance in it as Tony Stark I'm guessing cross- promotional tie-in to Iron Man, but the Iron Man movie is made by a different production company. (The Incredible Hulk is made by Marvel Enterprises, Iron Man by Dark Blade Films.) Anyway, I'll likely wait until this one comes out on TV, but I think I might buy/watch Iron Man when it comes out on DVD.
But the whole thing just serves to point out how Hollywood has more money to throw around making pointless dumb-ass movies than is humanly imaginable. Myself, I'd rather see more movies like Fargo or The Darjeeling Limited.
Filed under Pop Culture, Jun 2, 2008
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