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What Happens When You Move Harlem To Toronto?? HULK Smash!!
Merrick here...
Okay, so I got a bunch of pictures of the Incredible Hulk shoot tonight.
When I got off the subway all I could see was a huge fire at the end of the street. I ran down the back streets with 7 heavy textbooks in my backpack to get to the end of the block where all the commotion was.The entire area was totally blocked off so I had to stand on the very edge of the shoot with about 200 other people.
Tried to find a roof to shoot from but no luck. You would think there would a ladder on at least one building.
They basically had the bus blow up every 15 minutes while the extras ran out of the Apollo and around the corner where I was standing.
Well, here are the shots. They are all high res so I have to send 'em in 2 batches.
Cheers!
JvG
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Balls I say! BALLS!
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first posters
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Ha! I was driving by the street yesterday and was wondering why someone was opening an Apollo theater in Toronto.
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Spoiler posters
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PEOPLE BOO HULK
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Roll on 2008 - potentially as great as '82 or '94 for movies.
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just as I was getting ready to look at another article, and when I clicked it, I was told I wasn't authorized to look at it. Refreshed, and it was off the main page. read another article and it popped up again. I liked Eric Bana... but I really hope this one doesn't suck as bad as the last one. Is that pathetic or what? Our expectations have gone from "It's going to be the greatest experience a human can survive", to "MAN I hope this doesn't make me slit my wrists"
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was bad doesn't know what they're talking about. That film's the best Marvel film adaptation to date. Anyone who is afraid this won't be as good as the first one, should rest assured that it most certainly won't be anywhere near as good as the first one.
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http://tinyurl.com/37bk9c - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you may even learn a lil' something.
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Sept. 18, 2007, 9:36 a.m. CST
Ugh. Two articles of HULK and we've still seen nothing.
by Darth Bauer
Post pics of something worth viewing please.
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Loser gets mercilessly booed and dragged offstage by Mr. Sandman as siren noises fill the theatre!!!
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How did they get up there?
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again
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Because of Hulk's smashing, not because of black people you racists.
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I'd like to EMBIGGEN my foot up your goddamned ASS. Die merrick, die! YOU SUCK!
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... revitalization of historic old Harlem and Harlem unique African American culture. It great hertitage. Hulk sorry had to destroy Harlem and half New York when smash ugly fin-ears man. Hulk blame no one but ugly fin-ears man, though. But Hulk want to help relief effort. Hulk do telethon, save Harlem! But Kanye West dis Hulk! Say gamma irradiated people not care about black people. That not true! Hulk have black kid sidekick once before Peter David gave him AIDS. Stupid Peter David. Hulk hate more than Kanye West. Hulk Smash!!!
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We are a Multi-cultural nation. We are equal yet blended; like Neopolitian Ice Cream. We welcome eveyone and recieve them as our own. <p> Execept Native Indians. Then it seems to get all Klan-y.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YeV8QNPFM
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I was there yesterday in the day, before filming. The Jon Stewart sign isn't an in-joke. It's just one of the billboards that is really there. Notice it's for the Comedy Network (A Canadian specialty TV channel) rather than Comedy Central. Next to it is a billboard for CTV (a Canadian non-specialty TV channel). Besides the Apollo sign they also made a Harlem community centre. Other than that all the other businesses are just the regular yonge street businesses. I'll be curious to see what it looks like in the movie. As for black people in Canada: Look up the "Underground Railroad". Canada was where slaves ran to when they escaped from you people.
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... Politely lynch people?
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Damn! I wanted to fuck her in the worst way. Then she got all religious and became a bible-thumper. Just goes to show you - That the Lord is the ultimate Cockblocker.
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He had that Canadian accent (about=aboot, out=oot, etc). Sounded kinda weird, but he was a nice guy. Used to tell us about (aboot) the whole Underground Railroad thing, too.
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And I haven't liked Ang Lee since Crouching Tiger. The Ice Storm was tedious and precious and predictable, the Hulk was "Meh." Brokeback Mountain was Brokeback Awful, especially Heath Ledger but also the fact that it was a movie where nothing goes on, really. It could have been 2 hours of Ang Lee facing the camera saying, "They're cowboys. But they're gay! Get it?" and it would have been more interesting.<br><br>Or it could have been a loop of the scene where Anne Hathaway whips off her shirt, I perked up for that.<br><br> Hulk was hardly the best Marvel adaption ever, and they were smart to go in another direction.
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His "white people do this and green people do this" act didn't go ver too well. <p><lb> He Hulks out when he finds he doesn't have exact change for the bus.
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That said, HULK SMASH!
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It's NOT COOL NEWS. you guys have done this with Spiderman and Dark Knight too. Fuck this shit. Unless the shot has CGI HULK in it, FORGET ABOUT POSTING! LAME!
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It lacking in soul and authenticity! Soloist sing off key! Hulk demand money back! Then Hulk smash puny box-office man!
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but I kinda liked Ang Lee's Hulk and kinda didn't. I wouldn't watch it again, so that says a lot. I hope this new one is going to be better.
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Hulk enjoy Showtime at the Apollo, even if in Canada.
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Um, Im gonna go with no it's not joke. I'm no Canadian, but it looks like an ad for their Comedy network.....call me crazy
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Scarlem.
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And now they let him loose on Hulk? In more than one copy? And no, I don't care if he's shooting in Harlem.
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finally a good HULK movie... this movie is gonna kickAss!
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I wondered down here yesterday before filming started and all along the streets are trash cans and bags with "Hulk, set dressing, do not move" written on them.<br /><br />Either it's trash day when Hulk smashes up Harlem or the streets of Toronto are just too clean....
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Haha, as in Scarborough, Ontario, where Mike Myers grew up! And speaking of Mike Myers, he's in town too shooting his new movie 'The Love Guru' with Jessica Alba. I wanna see pictures of that set!
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I 110% agree with you. Bana as Hulk has been so underrated. The movie was far better then most of the comic shit thats been hitting theaters lately. Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four...few to mention.
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Hulk still blown away by universal healthcare.
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America Jr. is the best country on earth.
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Because there are always going to people who like stuff that is ambiguous, bloated, self-referential, precious, self-congratulatory, and complicated. And Ang Lee's hulk was not without it's neat stuff. There were scenes I really liked, it was just the movie as a whole never gelled (nor did Jennifer Connely, who is gorgeous, as the love interest). Bana was great but the worst part had to be at the end, where Banner was about to Hulk-out on some Central American thugs--finally, the good movie was about to start, and then the credits rolled. 2 hours waiting for a good movie to start, and I see five minutes of it at the end and then the credits! Fuck you, Ang Lee! You made me angry! I SMASH! SMASH!<br><Br> They also liked it because it wasn't parodic in the way the Fantastic Four films are, which I also understand. But then, Fantastic Four harkens back to the days of the original FF comic--light hearted, insubstantial, paper-thin plots, and lots of "look how far that guy can stretch! that guy is on fire!" type of gee-whiz "plotting". Ang Lee's Hulk was deeper and more complicated than that, but the deepness led nowhere and the complication had no payoff. Hey, if he had pulled it off, it could have been brilliant. But the only film in his oeuvre that suggests he could have pulled it off was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Perhaps if Chow Yun Fat had been Banner . . . hmmm. Ice Storm? Meh. Brokeback Mountain (admittedly, after Hulk). Double-meh with a terrible accent, and a terrible performance, by Heath Ledger on top.
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I don't think the new superhero movie craze was in it's full swing when he decided to make the Hulk. Or anywhere near. I also think he saw it as something else, a tragic monster story like Frankenstein or The Wolfman. I think the failings happen when he tries to pull it back into comic book territory; The confusing transformation of his father into whatever the fuck he was supposed to be. It was like he was compelled to bring in a super foe after the hulk had dealt with the army. I still think it's an interesting attempt at taking a character out of that genre somehwere else that almost works.
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was very interesting and was more like an arthouse project than a major summer blockbuster. Whether you liked it or not anybody thinking that a Hulk movie from Louis Letterier is going to be better than a Hulk movie from Ang Lee is clearly deranged.
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In the sum of all things, I also have to admit I'm not an Ang Lee 'fan' as it were. I enjoy seeing a director tackle so many different subjects, but they all don't hit the notes to become Great. That said, I was surprised to see Ledger singled out. His performance entirely changed my concept of him from being the guy in Knight's Tale/The Patriot to a true actor.
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because it didn't have enough Hulk. It didn't have enough destruction. People who didn't like the Ang Lee Hulk wanted it to be the Fantastic Four. They wanted it to be twenty minutes of set up followed by ninety minutes of Hulking out. Hulk was great because of it's ambitions. It wasn't perfect by any standard, but as a film, it was the most artful adaptation of and of the Marvel titles. It wasn't all that ambiguous or self-congratulatory. It may have been precious, and it may have been a bit bloated at times, but I think its strengths and ambitions place it on par with any origins picture since Superman (which everyone knows is far from a perfect film).
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is like Lawrence of Arabia compared to Superman Returns. At least the people playing the leads in Hulk could act.
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I could not be less excited for this if I tried.
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Granted, there was more demand pre-2003. Or do you mean this version of the Hulk... Or...?
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Sept. 18, 2007, 12:41 p.m. CST
I probably wouldn't go that far kwisatzhaderach..
by just pillow talk
however, I will watch some of Ang's Hulk when it's on TV, whereas with Superman Returns, I have no interest in viewing that again. That movie was a huge non-event as well. Plus Hulk has Jennifer Connelly, which is got go count for something. <p>I really think his version of the Hulk was close to being good...
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Nail. In. Coffin.
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I really don't see how this movie could be worse than the Lee version. That movie had potential but it really petered out toward the end with the stupid lake stuff. A smaller ending could have suited the movie well. Also why is it they feel they have to give the Hulk something or someone to fight other than the good ol' US military? That is all that is needed for a good Hulk movie IMO.
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it was just an analogy to point out how bad Superman Returns was. Hulk has a lot of flaws (not least the ending confontation with Nick Nolte and the giant jello monster thing) but it was an interesting film, and an unusual approach for a comic book film. Whereas Superman Returns was badly written, badly cast, badly directed, badly staged and just generally a cinematic abomination. The actors playing Superman and Lois (I can't even remember their names) were just bland moppets, whereas Reeve and Kidder brought real likeability and spark to their portrayals. Ultimately Returns was a film made by a fanboy paying homage that could not hope to hold a candle to the original.
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Granted, the Hulk dog sequence was a bad idea, terribly realised.
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Returns was definitely missing heart. Clearly the ending of Hulk and the Hulk canines did not work. I do think you have a valid point Engelhast, that a smaller ending would have worked well, especially with how the movie went up until the ending. Then Nolte became the absorbing man or something.
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in which a giant Zoidberg stomped the Apollo because he got booed at their open mic night. Come to think of it, they should just make a movie about Giant Zoidberg instead of a Hulk reboot.
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=Cloverfield.
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Doesn't anyone care?
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Is actually the most comic book aspect to the entire movie!
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Who knew the Hulk had a beef with Harlem?
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There's a line for every occasion in that series, eh? (And it was only *after* ending the previous sentence with "eh" that I realized the movie was being filmed in Canada. Eh?)
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If there's any green in there at all, it's just glare from the traffic light. Time to clean those glasses.
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And that doesn't look anything like 125th street. Maybe if they digitally remove the tall buildings in the background and the huge ads. Maybe.
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hahhaha
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But he was his own parody in Brokeback, compared to Jack Gyllenhall's much more believable, much less excruciating performance. I've never seen a movie where I though Ed Norton, for example, was excruciating, even if his range seems a little more limited to me than it once did. But, Ledger took a risk with his mumble-method acting, and I respect that.
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Hulk buy both albums, though. Hulk represent.
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Hulk feel Kanye is too arrogant, new album not on par with two previous efforts. Having said that, Hulk not love 'Curtis' either. Hulk think both 50 and Kanye need to work a little harder on their rhymes. Hulk still represent, though.
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Hulk love Run-DMC and EPMD. Hulk in the hizzouse.
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He also liked Van Helsing.... AND Superman Returns! <p><p> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!! Now that I think about it, this guy's movie taste is pretty fucking bad.
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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1010/1397126640_43cb0b0927_b.jpg <P>Remove spaces
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HULK EAT ONE TOO MANY GRILLED STUFFED BURRITOS AT TACO HELL.
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'cause he so badass, this confirms it.
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sorry about double.
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Make sure that dude's in the picture.
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I didn't. But I wanted to. I wanted to like Ang Lee's Hulk. I didn't. But I wanted to.
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Hulk like Louis Letterier. Louis Letterier make Hulk fun. Ang make Hulk boring. Hulk smash puny asian man!
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Hulk fuck Betty in the name of Pzuzu.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but is the 'Apollo theatre' actually the Zanzibar strip club on Yonge Street. *ahem, not that I would know these sort of things*
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Sept. 18, 2007, 4:26 p.m. CST
HULK PREFER CURTIS MAYFIELD
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
MOVE ON UP
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The problem with making the Hulk into a deep movie is...what do you need the Hulk for? If you want to explore father son abuse dynamics there is no green monster necessary. If you are GOING to add a big green monster, please try to remember WHY you are doing it in the first place. Try to incorporate the elements that made the character popular in the first place and give the audience the popcorn escapism they want. We aren't stupid because we want popcorn escapism. We just are pissed at not getting what we ordered. In the Hulk case I remember the publicity. It all said the same thing. The Hulk sucks but we managed to polish that turd property into a real movie for grown ups. Honestly, if you think your job is to put lipstick on a pig, you probably aren't the right director for the project. All the action scenes seemed obligatory. "OK lets get the 14 year olds some jump around in the desert time so we can get back to the interesting movie we are trying to make. yawn." ......(can someone tell me the codes for paragraph breaks in AICN)............ Second, the climax of Ang Lee's Hulk was unwatchable. I couldn't SEE it. The screen went completely black. Every once in a while I saw a flash of Hulk head. That climax was just completely incompetent.
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I propose that from now on we refer to the new hulk movie as "the Mulligan Hulk" after the golf term for a do over. Fitting eh?
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Sept. 18, 2007, 4:38 p.m. CST
HULK MAD AT AL SHARPTON .. AL NO STAND UP FOR GREEN
by BringingSexyBack
NAPPY HEADS.
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Big mistake.
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Hulk like 305 small block with mild cam 350 tranny. Hulk drive at low speed to look at She-Hulks.
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I literally walked by there yesterday, and was like "When the fuck did this Apollo theatre pop up, and why is it a hair dresser inside?" Guess I know now.
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Just misguided. Watchable when only really, really awake. To the canadian that referenced the racial demographics of Canada to Neopolitan Ice Cream, sound much like separate but equal. Sounds like Canada stole segregation from us.
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Sure it was far from perfect,but atleast it had an interesting subplot and a good bit of action. Can't say the same for Superman returns in which the best part of the movie was the plane rescue. And speaking of Supes thumbs up on the Sperman Doomsday DVD (with the exception of voiceovers and Superman overdrawn face.)Had Singer filmed the movie based on the Death of Superman, it would have been the number 1 movie last year. Too little,too fucking late.
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1. The Incredible Hulk isn't really a super hero. 2. I know a lot of people who loved the Hulk, and I don't know anybody who even liked Superman Returns. Ang Lee's Hulk is much more connected to the original Donner picture (in structure) than it is Singer's. It's even more connected to the Donner picture than Singer's was.
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...but that doesn't redeem Ang Lee's Hulk. They can both blow. It's ok. There's no quota.
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And paragraph breaks can be accomplished by typing < br > twice (without the spaces, of course).
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Guess Paramount sent their squad over huh?
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...Indy spoiler? I made it go away!
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Was just walking down Yonge Street and was wondering why there was smashed up cars and NY city yellowcabs everywhere.
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AICN, SPEAK!!!!! Please? :)
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Some argue that the point of this site is to give spoilers to all the upcoming anticipated movies...but I think its possible to give news about upcoming projects without entirely spoiling the experience. I don't want to hear about script reviews or leaked info from people who signed secrecy contracts...and yeah, I could simply not click on articles that read 'spoiler alert', but if such articles were to become the main purpose of this site, I'd probably stop coming here.
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Sept. 18, 2007, 7:57 p.m. CST
Well, this link still has the story - BEWARE - SPOILERS
by wackybantha
http://www.cinecon.com/
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RIGHT AFTER HULK SMASH THE BELL JAR!!!!
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<ul> <li>I Had To Pull The Theater Seat Out Of My Ass Afterwards</li> <li>There Were Vietnam Vets In The Audience Saying 'This Is The Worst Thing I've Ever Seen'</li> <li>Al Qaeda Tried To Claim Credit For It</li><li>Ang Lee Looked Into Officially Changing His Name To 'Uwe Boll' To Reduce The Amount Criticism Directed At Him</li><li>It Gave My Mom Cancer, And She Didn't Even See It</li><li>The Doctors Had A Secret Experimental Formula Which Would Instantly Cure Her Cancer And Offered To Give It To Her If I Would Watch Just The Opening Credit Sequence Of 'Hulk' Again And I Said 'Hey Thanks For The Cookies Mom Nice Knowing You' And To This Day I Still Feel I Made The Right Choice</li> </ul>
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I WILL ACCEPT NO REBUTTAL. I HAVE TO GO NOW. MY HOME PLANET NEEDS ME!
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I thought Superman Returns was merely mediocre. As with all Bryan Singer's films.
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The Usual Suspects is mediocre? Bullshit.
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Toronto.
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Can't you feel the pain?
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Sept. 18, 2007, 10:25 p.m. CST
Hulk lost at Amateur Night at Apollo, Hulk now SMASH!
by MrMysteryGuest
Hulk smash booing audience--throw dancing fool-man through roof!
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Really, think of all the dialogue possibilities...
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Have they even started animating him yet?
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Now Hulk wants a cuddle...
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and just ok. Let's hope this time they forget the auteur wank and just make a solid movie.
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And I'm not one of them! Lucky cunts... http://tinyurl.com/ytkeeg
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Nowhere to be seen? Disappointing I say...
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Are they in the sequel?
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out of anuses. the xmen series with the homo-y undertones, gimp suits aplenty, wolverine is surrounded by a background supporting cast, the spiderman series is an off shoot of some emo WB show, shit actors, raimi needs to get back in his cabin. batman begins aside from its phenomenal cast and origin, the rest was bland and dull. the fantastic four movies are DTV for the theaters. daredevil obviously. then there's singerman returns, superman peeps, or superman lifts whatever you want to call it. the only one that has a chance at being a real classic is the upcoming iron man.
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Sure, 70´s Spiderman movies were better. Superman IV kicked ass! Batman and Robin is great!
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Sept. 19, 2007, 5:39 a.m. CST
Hulk smashed ex-Indy actor / future gogo dancer Tyler.
by JackPumpkinhead
All that's left of Tyler is stored e.g. here: http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=11392
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"There Were Vietnam Vets In The Audience Saying 'This Is The Worst Thing I've Ever Seen' " <--- I LOLed at that one
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^ I LOLed at that one (don't know why it cut off my above post...)
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if your brain can wipe out the poodle, the dog fight really wasn't so bad. It's just that...well, poodles are gay. And Glenn Talbot was a little over the top. And the end when he transforms back to Bruce at Betty's feet in San Fran, that looked kinda dumb. It shouldn't happen quite that fast.
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All the people running from the Hulk bus smash are very young and decidedly non-white. I wonder who was playing at the 'Apollo' that night. And I guess this Hulk world is a Logan's Run-esque world where no one lives over 30.
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Seeing anything other than damaged cars and shit. Ed Norton as Banner would be nice.
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"Life ain't nuthin' but bitches and money." Hulk know what's up.
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"Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice." You know why? Cause Hulk got his mind on his money and his money on his mind.
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"they turned it into Harlem first. so what the hulk does to it is almost gentrification. Sort of a Hurricane Katrina with legs.<br><br>'Hulk create preconditions for urban renewal!' " <br><br> Incidentally, Lost Jarv, Ive been getting tired of the Hulk jokes but your ikea one just made me spit up my tim horton's ice cappuccino. thanks. :)
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Seriously, though, his Hulk was like a perfect origami version of the Hulk, multifaceted and beautifully crafted. But a scribbly Todd McFarlane drawing or even a blocky old-school Jack Kirby masterpiece would have sufficed, actually, was expected, even.<p> I Hulk's Overactive Pituitary Gland...I Make Hulk...FIGHT CLUB TOO HARD UNDERSTAND!! HULK SMASH!
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I honestly have a picture of the Rat Man from The Stand (RIP) going WHAT THE FUCK?! Man, motherfuckers is speakin' Franch! FUCK! Motherfuckin' Francophiles!
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me do better job than jon stewart...
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classic! :)
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I used to and still love the theme music to the show, alwasy thought that it could be slightly updated and i mean slightly and could be used as the main theme for a movie or HULK movie
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Hulk not know at what distance naked lady picture too blurry to enjoy.
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That was supposed to be in a bullet list... <p> Can you do that using "<ul>" and "</ul>?" Anyone? I saw it done before in a post. Took me forever just to realize you could add "<p>" and make a new paragraph.
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The Jon Stewart sign is not an in joke since it features the Comedy Network logo, which is one of the channels that airs Daily Show in Canada.
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Hulk hate police brutality.
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Could you tell us how? It blanks out < ul> and < /ul > like its doing something but it won't make the list. I saw on on here before so I know it can be done.
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when Hulk breaks the dogs jawbone with his trap muscle, that's a win in my book. sure it was ridiculous, but who cares, it was great to see a bunch of hulk dogs get the shit kicked out of them. especially the poodle.
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