I agree w/him though–Liv Tyler was a drag on this one. Casting her 4 Betty & Hulk not terminating Abomination was what gave it “A-” in my book, instead of “A+”.

Ang Lee’s Hulk will remain “B” for me, though. I really enjoyed his angry child fighting style w/the dogs & army, especially after waiting 2/3rds thru film before he turned.

–Godspeed–

Repeat the process until one of us falls over unconscious. I don’t think Ang Lee made a bad film. Had I been writing reviews at the time, I’d have given it a B.

But it’s not a good Hulk film. It’s a shame that because Hulk wasn’t well received, Ang won’t get to do a film like Iron Fist or Daredevil where wire-fu would be completely appropriate.

And as David mentioned it was really soon. For a sequel that’s acceptable but however Marvel meant the movie to be taken, if you change the director and the entire cast people consider it a remake.

That would be like somebody remaking the Lord of the Rings and releasing it next year. Everybody would be wondering what the heck happened. I thought Bana, Jennifer Connelly and especially Sam Elliott were all great. Ed Norton and William Hurt are hard to argue against but Liv Tyler replacing Jennifer was really pointless.

As we know, sometimes good movies don’t make the money we’d hoped. I think this is a way better take on Hulk, but it will turn about the same profit.

There are also the problem of Hulk’s villains. Army in the first movie, Abomination in the second and they had set up Leader for the third. After that you’re out of decent Hulk enemies. Who next, the U-Foes? Man, this comment turned into a post, sorry.

Marvel didn’t do enough pre pub for this one either I don’t think. I mean how long have we known about Iron Man? There was much more buzz and much bigger box office.

Even Marvel seemed to be overly cautious about this movie, so you can’t expect much fan reaction if the company doesn’t act like they’re excited.