Well, I’m tempted to go and see it. We just watched a documentary about it on Five, which was fairly interesting. Oh, that green guy above? It’s Hulk. I bet you didn’t know that.
I have mixed feelings about the CGI. In order to make a creature that even vaguely resembles the comic book version, special effects are obviously necessary. From the scenes I’ve seen, it looks incredibly good in parts—but not so good in others. You know, I think the colour is partly the problem. The CGI Hulk looks best in scenes where there’s a lot of shadowing and the colour is subdued… but where the lighting is strong, it’s just too vivid. That shade can work in the comics, but it adds to the unreality of things on film. I think I might have gone for a more olive shade of green.
The other problems with the film seem to be: unlike Spider-Man, no supervillains as such. The Hulk needs big villains… he needs a foe as big and as impressive as he is (whether it’s another huge monster or a character like the Leader, who had loads of fabulous gadgets and robots). And, of course, it looks like they’ve chickened out of making the Hulk speak again, which personally I think is a real bummer.
Still, it looks like it has its good points. I am very tempted to go see it.
Go. It’s the Hulk. What’s not to like?
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