The Incredible Hulk (Three-Disc Special Edition) | Edward Norton, Liv Tyler

The Incredible Hulk (Three-Disc Special Edition) | Edward Norton, Liv Tyler | Good Green Movie

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	The Incredible Hulk (Three-Disc Special Edition) Edward Norton, Liv Tyler Universal Studios, 2008 average customer review:based on 171 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Incredible Hulk (2008) kicks off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most popular Super Heroes of all time. In this new beginning, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows - cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) - Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power.

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BETTER HULK MOVIE. GREAT BLU RAY

whoa, this Hulk is way better than the one before. And this blu-ray is amazing.

a good blu-ray to add to the collection.

Good Green Movie

In an effort to redo the start of a potentially good franchise, Marvel Studios offers up a great story about the one character who doesn't want the power he has.

The Incredible Hulk starts the origins over with a bit of everything thrown into the mix. This movie is part comic book origin, part TV series origin and assumes most of the events that took place in the first movie still happened. Bruce Banner is the brilliant scientist who experimented on himself due to the confidence in his work and converted himself into the raging green giant that becomes The Hulk. His work was preliminary weapons research but he was not aware of it. He was lured into thinking it was research for making soldiers more resistant to toxins and radiation, but really it was for creating a new breed of soldier.

Ang Lee's Hulk that was released back in 2003 took a very deterred look at the Hulk and added elements of repressed anger and paternal gene splicing. In other words, the father messed with his own DNA and passed it on to his son, who then witnessed his mother's death at the hands of his father. Way too much existentialism added to what should have just been a man who had been given a power that came at a price. There is enough drama and character development in the basics of Bruce Banner/Hulk that you don't need to pull in sins of the father elements to make it more complicated.

This movie throws most of that into the trash and works with the premise that Banner (Edward Norton), now on the run, is hiding out and working to cure himself from a small town in Brazil. He is a fugitive, which draws on the serial plot of the original TV series. Bill Bixby's cameo is brilliant, BTW. Once he finds out that he must travel back to the US for a potential cure, the chase is on. Before he can pack up and start heading north, he is tracked down by General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt) and his squad of special forces led by Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth). They fail to capture him, but are successful at meeting The Hulk.

Blonsky finds himself curious as to the origins of the Green monster. When The General reveals to him that it was the result of experiments gone wrong (or right) he wants a piece of that power, which the General obliges. As Bruce makes his way to New York, he reveals himself to Betsy Ross, the Generals daughter, whom he was in love with before the accident. They find their way to Dr. Samual Sterns in New York for the ultimate cure and eventually the high end climax occurs.

The best thing Marvel did here was to just make a good movie. Too many times in Hollywood they make every movie the be-all-end-all...so how do your follow that up. Just make a good story. And this move does that. It's entertaining, it's got great action and a good script. Thank God Marvel has it's own studio to do their movies they way they should be done. All the actors perform well; Roth is a great villian (again), while Hurt shows a deep level of deceptive character that I've never seen before. Norton is well balanced as the brilliant scientist who wants no self pity and shows great determination to get rid of this rage driven curse. He and Tyler have good chemistry as well. And of course Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno make cameos along with Bill Bixby.

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Edge of your Seat Entertainment

The Incredible Hulk was extremely well casted with Edward Norton as the 'Hulk'. Although it was difficult to imagine Ed Norton in this role, I think he did a fabulous job. We also enjoyed the morphasis of the 'Hulk', which was more realistic than the original series. Incredible special effects and genuine great acting!

This Hulk Smashes Good.

When I was younger, I used to watch re-runs of the 1970's INCREDIBLE HULK television show. The show's executive producer, Kenneth Johnson, is a master storyteller and realized that if you tell a story that's nothing but action with no characterization, you don't have much of a story. I was excited to see Ang Lee's 2003 HULK movie when it was released in theatres, but like many viewers was disappointed. The film was a huge box office bomb and was stoned by most critics. After that, I thought that would be the last we would see of the Mean Green Machine on the big screen for awhile. But, Marvel wasn't ready to give up on one of their most famous characters soon announced plans for another Hulk film. They promised that the movie would be a better film and would relaunch the character into cinema stardom. The big wigs at Marvel believed in the project so much that they bet their future as an independent film company on it (IRON MAN was the other film that the studio hoped would turn them into a film studio of reckoning). At first I was skeptical about the project, but then I learned Ed Norton had signed on to star as Bruce Banner and I felt better about the whole thing. The result is THE INCREDIBLE HULK: an action comic-book movie full of character development that stays true not only to the spirit of the original comic book, but the beloved 1970s television show as well as loosely connecting with 2003's HULK.

The movie opens five years after HULK ended. If viewers will remember, the movie ended with Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) living in South America. He's (Edward Norton, now) still there and has been able to stay completely off the grid and below the radar, even though he has secretly been looking for a cure for his "disease". Correspondence with a Mr. Blue in the United States have made him very hopeful and he plans to visit Mr. Blue in the near future. However, those plans are thrown out of balance when the military, led by top soldier Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) and under the official command of Gen. Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt), discover Banner's location and seek to bring him in. The confrontation is a disaster, Blonsky's troops are wiped out and Blonsky is critically injured. Meanwhile, Banner escapes and finds his way to the U.S. to meet with the love of his life, Betty Ross, and attempts to locate Mr. Blue in hopes of eradicating the monster within.

I really enjoyed THE INCREDIBLE HULK. It's not the best comic book/super hero movie ever made, but it is a good one and is just a very entertaining and exciting overall film. The acting is superb, the special effects are great, there's just the right temperance of character development and action, etc. The film does a superb job of synthesizing the previous incarnations of Hulk and uniting them together in a coherent whole that both geeks and casual film-goers alike can enjoy.

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NOT SO JOLLY

It has been said that this film is "just as good as Iron Man".Though this new romp with Marvel's (not so jolly) green giant showcases some impressive fights and sheds most of the elements that plagued its predecessor,it's not completely without flaw.Following the story of the first film,we find Dr. Banner in Brazil where he is attempting to find a cure for his alter ego,all the while keeping it at bay by learning to control his anger.He is tracked down by the military after an accident at his workplace and from there the chase/fight returns to the United States.Unlike the previous Hulk incarnation which proved a severe dissapointment to fans,this new adventure gives the "Mean Green" plenty of screen time.Edward Norton and an excellent cast of supporting actors provide appropriate performances,although the human aspects of this film are mere buildups to the real show.Also,the script,while an improvement from the previous Hulk,still doesn't appear as strong as it could have been.Though the CGI effects and script are not the best,a good cast and great action have clearly put the Big Guy back on track.

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