As far as those 2003 and 2008 movies are concerned, I just couldn't respect either one. This classic tv series will always be superior IMO. I will take Lou Ferrigno over any CGI blob any day.. Does anyone agree? Any fans of the series out there that hate the recent movies?
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Count me in for the real deal. I loved the show when it aired and still love it on Netflix. I hated the CGI blob mess so much I never saw it. I also hated, hated, hated the way the CGI turned out for Casper (he was my favorite cartoon as a kid). I have nothing against animation or even CGI but I think they are so intent on selling products that they lose sight of what made the original characters so appealing.
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As a kid growing up in the 70s, a Hulk, ANY kind of Hulk was exciting. Yes, different to the comics, but great! So totally agreed mate.
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Problem is the more you pander to nostalgia or constantly remind people how great it is the more it is people the audience will become overly familiar and is just no longer interested, that happened with Superman and Batman.
shareThe only "Batman" that I can take at all seriously is the Chris Nolan DK films. C. Bale certainly wasn't the first guy to portray Batman, so it isn't really a nostalgia thing. The original tv show is silly and dated, and I don't even want to think about That Ben Affleck train wreck..The "best" isn't always the original..but with "The Hulk," it really was..
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All the constant talk about how great the Hulk show can get tiring and because of it you would end up with someone doing a cheap knock off of it, every adaptation being the exactly same version.
Hulk was a very 70's type of show, there are bits about it that don't quite work today.
The show IS dated in many respects. but it got one thing right; It cast a bodybuilder, a "real person" to portray the Hulk. That would have been the right choice for the films; casting a real person, and then slightly 'enhancing' them with subtle CGI. I know everyone has a different opinion, but personally, as soon as those CGI blobs appear those movies become straight up comedy..How is anyone supposed to feel anything towards something that is so obviously NOT THERE?
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What can I say all the practical VFX now are at a disadvantage and so is the whole "How they do that?".
Or if it was twenty years ago an animatronic torso Hulk.
The magic of the old show cannot be replicated. There is no definitive version, like Hamlet there so many literations, the two Hulk movies are a put down to people who only know the TV show, Hulk would have more scope in a TV series than a two hour. The TV show was made at a time where Marvel characters weren't well known and were people looked down on comic books, because it was made first people remember it as the general standard for all things Hulk rather than just an interpretation.
shareYou are right, but it doesn't change the fact that the movies did a rotten job bringing Hulk alive; it shouldn't be a CGI creation at all. Even if the tv show never existed, those CGI renditions are still pathetic. Hulk should be something tangible, something that is actually "there." I don't get how people can even watch those films without feeling a little bit silly..
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Reason why they go CG is to make him like the comics with his oversized arms, legs, hands and feet, he's drawn like a caveman not a muscle builder or wrestler painted green. We're not talking about a one way street anything can happen when making a movie or TV show.
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