I love this movie. LOVE THIS MOVIE. I didn't think it was possible to improve on the original starfleet uniforms.

THAT is an abomination.

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What a letdown, isn't it?

The upside is: the guy has 132 (A HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO!!!) videos on youtube. I recommand the "Ghost Starscream" review: it's a riot.

Who knows, maybe big pointy bat-wing-ears wouldn't work on screen. But at least echo the original design, give a nod to it. When I see "updates" like this, I imagine 20-something Hollywood designers who think they're better than Kirby, Buscema, Romita, Ditko, etc. Note to them: YOU'RE NOT.

What bothers me about guys like him, and the whole business of collectibles is that they often give fanboys like you and me (and basically every TBer) a bad name. General people can't dissociate the artistic aspects of comics, anime or video games from the whole merchandising anymore. And this aspect of the business grew so fucking huge that I wouldn't be surprised if it became Marvel's main resource now. They're not a publishing house anymore, just as Lucas is more a toy manufacturer than a moviemaker. And the worst part is that it's affecting the source of it all: dumb characters are defacing the franchises just for the sake of selling new toys. I was maybe a little harsh on DCompose earlier, but it was a result of years of Jar-Jar or Clone Saga buttfucking.

Besides, I read a few days ago an interesting article about Lucasfilm in Vanity Fair. It basically says that when LucasArts was restructured, one of the main reasons they used to hire new people was (I paraphrase here) that they knew the Star Wars universe, but didn't cross the line by going to conventions dressed as SW characters. "Cross the line": it's an awfully contemptuous thing to say to the people that made them rich in the first place. But I can understand why they're saying so. Deep in their heart they know that they sold out, and useless merchandising is a huge part of the problem.

Oh, and the Abomination's name is Emil Blonsky, and it's in my opinion a good idea to not refer to him other than by this name. Too bad they made him american instead of Russian because (according to Tim Roth) the production wouldn't pay for a dialect coach!! How stingy is that?

Obviously a no-win situation. You want it to look like Ferrigno then? Well, seeing as the story is a rip-off of the TV show which was a shameless rip-off of the original Fugitive show, that's probably appropriate. I don't see the point of making him look exactly like a muscle-y guy zoomed up to 20 feet tall though. They could (and did) do that 50 years ago. Now why aren't we talking about breasts and short skirts? The other shit just isn't important.

For the record, I thought it was pretty shit first time, with a near unwatchable end, and it has actually got worse with time.

It isn't the worst superhero movie ever made, but I honesty don't think it is very good at all- 2 words for you all: MUTANT POODLES

I get it, and some of the character stuff is good, but....

Stupid starfish rubbish, Mutant Poodles, and an unwatchable ending.

C'mon man, Hulk-Pitbulls are awesome!!

Although you could say it's redundant because pitbulls are ostensibly ALREADY "hulked out". Hmm. May have just defeated my own argument there.

I can understand reasonable criticism but the hatred just went out of control with Ang Lee.

Jarv, yeah the end. It works in theory, but the jellyfish/air bubble/whatever, however thematically appropriate has that VISUAL thing of looking non-threatening. Even though Node tried to defend it he illustrates that point exactly. Rock beast, sure! Lightning, yup O.K.. Air bubble. Uh... Water and tentacles and things look soft. Not very threatening in a direct way. Unless it's one of those manga rape-tentacles I guess. Yikes.

Well Ang Lee made a very smart movie with great characters and great acting.

there are some tragically silly ideas like hulk Dogs. Giant electricity man/teleporter through the clouds was out-there too. But the pay off for that one was the finale of the film:

Absorbing Man/Dad took on the essence of whatever he touched. He wanted Hulk's strength, but that wasn't his essence; it was anger, fear, etc. Or a jelly mushroom cloud

With the end- It is a good idea, and it is marvellously comic book-ey, but it is badly filmed. To put it simply, I found it hugely difficult to see what the fuck was going on- Rock was great, water wasn't. It was just a nasty confused mess.

With the dogs- again it was a good idea, but it was appallingly executed. In fact, thinking about it- that version of Hulk wanted 2 directors: Ang Lee to handle the psychological stuff, and someone else to shoot the action.

As I said before, it isn't the worst adptation. But it certainly isn't the best.

There was lots about the film I liked, but lots I hated. Overall: C+ Could do better (as opposed to Superman Returns= F)