Comments on: The Incredible Hulk Marketing – Did They Show Too Much? 4 Reasons The Answer Is No

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:34:10 +0000

Why did Marvel make a Hulk movie and rate it pg13? The only hope of this movie doing well was for it to be made for younger kids.2nd, why spend 150 million on this movie and not aim for the biggest possible audience?

By: Da hunter

Da hunter — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:10:39 +0000

This is the first superhero movie that has two huge monsters fighting so i am going to see this movie whatever it takes i will see this movie.

By: mojomann

mojomann — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:17:57 +0000

…and on another note, some of the ‘oh my God why did they spoil that shot by showing it in a commercial/trailer’ could be red herrings. If the Ironman ad campagin is any indication there were bits shown that WERE NOT IN THE MOVIE. Sure some may have been edited out for one reason or another, but sometimes Hollywood likes to put some extra WOW in trailers and include shots that were never intended for the movie itself. The ‘arrow shot’ from Robin Hood is a good example. That shot was only for the trailer and after fan reaction, they worked it into the edit of the film. Yeah I agree they have shown a lot, but most of it has been just reshuffled from trailer to commercial. They needed to do some extra work to get people to forget or feel compeled to see this Hulk after the bad taste left in some people’s mouths from the Ang Lee film. Personaly I liked his version, there are plenty of things I would have prefered he not do (HULK DOGS = STUPID!) but the FX on that film were so good, you never felt that the Hulk was not really there. Some of the shots seen for the new flick, look a little too CG. Still can’t wait to see it.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:30:30 +0000

Absolutely right Alfie.

In fact, that sort of ruined the film for me a bit (not as much as the idiot in front of me answering his phone, or the 4 idiots who snuck into the film and then started talking during the FINAL BATTLE).

When the battle was over, I was still expecting it to start up again, and continue. (because to be honest, it’s hardly a definitive victory… Abomination… what? Gives up?). So instead of enjoying the end, I was still waiting for it to keep going, because I’d heard again and again about this alleged 27 minute final battle.

By: Bishop

Bishop — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:27:52 +0000

“The Hulk makes his first appearance in the first 3 minutes of the film” = True.

By: alfie

alfie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:05:19 +0000

oh one more thing and this is
SPOILER BASED KIND OF SO READ WITH CAUTION

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whoever said that the end fight was 27 minutes long lied. I didn’t count it or anything but it is not half an hour long.

and hulk doesn’t appear in the first 3 minutes…well he kinda does but not really. not the way the guy who said that was making it sound like.
you will see what I mean

By: alfie

alfie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:54:49 +0000

I have seen this film twice now. If I was posting after my first viewing I would be saying “this film is fucking amazing” but having had the pleasure of seeing it twice I will lower that to “this film is fucking good”

I like this film..A LOT…Not quite as good as Iron Man but its definitely better than Ang Lee’s and certainly ranks up there with the beetter comic films.

The problems the film does have and there are many for me all seem to lie in the direction. He just isn’t a very good director it has to be said. I never liked the transporter films and he is much better here but it is still rather sloppy. He can do action fine as the fight scenes are terrific but his pacing is terrible. It jumps from scene to scene almost at random…little itty bitty scenes that all kind of mash together rather than flow into a nice narrative. He just doesn’t seem to be able to make a nice flowing story. His films all very disjointed and all of the place. But the good stuff makes up for it.

But that aside its just a big giant monster movie and on that level its great. Its amazing how much having ferrigno do the grunts and hulks voice actually have an effect. if you grew up on the old show the first hulk grunt you hear is exactly like the grunts from the show and for me that ruled.

Norton is great. tyler is great too…but I love her so thats to be expected. Its a good summer smash ‘em up comic book film. I think most people will be happy with it.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:49:29 +0000

The inclusion of Stark in the ads was great, because Iron Man did really well. For the common man on the street, they don’t know that Hulk and Iron Man are a part of the same universe, and wouldn’t even expect the cameo in their wildest dreams. Especially when IM only came out about a month ago.

So this way, fans of Iron Man who were pleasantly surprised by it will hopefully be persuaded into seeing Hulk, and being pleasantly surprised by it as well.

I saw it today, and it is fantastic. Every bit as good as Iron Man. Now I really can’t wait to see the next few films that interconnect.

*POSSIBLE SPOILER*
Cool to see the see that a second possible villain was also introduced. But I was thinking for the first half of the movie that a ‘blue’ genius with a knowledge of genetic modification would have to have been linking this film in with X-Men as well, with Hank ‘Beast’ McCoy being Banners online buddy.

By: Gutpunch

Gutpunch — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:42:17 +0000

I’m afraid that it’s too little too late for this film to do good numbers at the box office. I guess the bad taste from Ang Lee’s Hulk still lingers in many people’s mouths (not mine though I liked it). And perhaps the Hulk isn’t a character that people really are interested in, being that he’s totally CGI, big and green which makes him very hard to do so that people buy in to him.
Hopefully word of mouth will do its work and people will flock to see this.

By: bigsampson

bigsampson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:08:37 +0000

i liked the movie alot i seen it monday…..but 2 things i would have changed

1.) wtf i was told hulk right away pew pew…nope 30 min later hey its hulk sweet…..30 min till hulk!

2.) ok ya tony stark is iron man….but iron man aint in this flick guys sorry