Word on this was mixed, people either loved it or hated it and having watched this twice put me into the loath it group.
Technically this is one of the best looking comic films ever made. My guess is that had the TV show producers had the technology they might have made something that looked like this. The fact that they didn't is a real shame since what they lacked in special effects budget they made up for in the story department. The film makers here had the opposite problem, a special effects budget but no story.
The film has been praised as being deeply thoughtful. My guess is that people confuse "meaningful" silences for meaning. The vast majority of this film comes across as people looking intently not saying anything, granted its a metaphor for the inability to speak, or act, and that the Hulk is the opposite, the man of unrestrained action, or some such garbage, what ever it is its boring and there is no point trying to find deep meaning in it.
The performances are flatter than the comic book. Sam Elliot is one note. Jennifer Connelly is so stiff I thought she had her Oscar give the performance. The worst is Eric Bana who is so stiff, so empty, so un-breathing that all I can do is wonder where in the hell they dug his corpse up? I wouldn't call his performance a performance, unless you think the creations in a wax museum perform. He isn't bad, he isn't good he's just there. I screamed at one point "Will you do something?" only to be rightfully told to shut up, after all inanimate objects don't move. Buildings and statues in the background have more personality than Bana.
Much of the problem I have to lay at the feet of director Ang Lee who seems to have put together a film of discards, he got rid of everything but the silence. What was he thinking? You can't even get lost in the action since the Hulk doesn't even show up until an hour into the movie, and then the score runs counter to any excitement the scenes might generate.
I don't know what these people were thinking.
What I do know is that I hope never to see this movie again.
Technically this is one of the best looking comic films ever made. My guess is that had the TV show producers had the technology they might have made something that looked like this. The fact that they didn't is a real shame since what they lacked in special effects budget they made up for in the story department. The film makers here had the opposite problem, a special effects budget but no story.
The film has been praised as being deeply thoughtful. My guess is that people confuse "meaningful" silences for meaning. The vast majority of this film comes across as people looking intently not saying anything, granted its a metaphor for the inability to speak, or act, and that the Hulk is the opposite, the man of unrestrained action, or some such garbage, what ever it is its boring and there is no point trying to find deep meaning in it.
The performances are flatter than the comic book. Sam Elliot is one note. Jennifer Connelly is so stiff I thought she had her Oscar give the performance. The worst is Eric Bana who is so stiff, so empty, so un-breathing that all I can do is wonder where in the hell they dug his corpse up? I wouldn't call his performance a performance, unless you think the creations in a wax museum perform. He isn't bad, he isn't good he's just there. I screamed at one point "Will you do something?" only to be rightfully told to shut up, after all inanimate objects don't move. Buildings and statues in the background have more personality than Bana.
Much of the problem I have to lay at the feet of director Ang Lee who seems to have put together a film of discards, he got rid of everything but the silence. What was he thinking? You can't even get lost in the action since the Hulk doesn't even show up until an hour into the movie, and then the score runs counter to any excitement the scenes might generate.
I don't know what these people were thinking.
What I do know is that I hope never to see this movie again.