Director: Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me, Grimsby)
Budget: $150million
Box Office: $263million
- Damn, this isn’t the Ang Lee one. Which is a shame as then I could have made the “Don’t make me Ang Lee, you wouldn’t like me when I’m Ang Lee” joke. Now I can’t 😦 I hate life and everybody in it.
- Random fact, the director wanted Mark Ruffalo as the lead but was declined. As such we will now never ever know what Mark Ruffalo would look like as The Hulk. Never, ever, ever.
- Entire origin story takes place during the opening credits. Thank god for that otherwise it would have added like an extra two hours onto the run time.
- “The best way to control your anger is to control your body”. It’s taken him years to be told this? I’d have thought that would be the first lesson.
- One slap round the face gets him that annoyed? If I got that annoyed everytime I got slapped in the face it would just distract me from the prostitute I paid for.
- Edward Norton is being smart and scientific, you can tell this because he’s wearing glasses.
- How did he miss that REALLY obvious blood on the bottle?
- Everyone’s looking at him like he’s crazy, as if we’re supposed to think that everyone doesn’t know why he’s worried about his blood getting in the drink. Even without it being Hulk blood, that’s still not something a business wants in their drink. And I know “but they’re a Brazilian company, they don’t have health codes like we do”, maybe, but even Coca Cola wouldn’t want blood in their drink, and they’re practically Satan.
- “get lost, gringo” That’s racist, I think.
- “You wouldn’t like me when I’m hungry”. Ok, let’s get this clarified: “Angry” in Portuguese is either: Irritado, com raiva, zangado, furioso, colerico, or amarrado, whilst “Hungry” is: com fome, faminto, esfomeado, avido, ansioso, desejoso, pobre, esteril, arido, or pouco productivo. There’s no way you can mistake the two in that language, it really only works in English. You’d think Edward “Everything Must Be Perfect Or Else I Will Stab Everyone” Norton would have picked that up. Cute joke though.
- “another failure” The exact same language was used by my family when they announced my birth.
- “living with gamma poisoning not safe”. Thank god for scientists, I never would have known that.
- Hey Tim Roth’s in this movie.
- Oh god, Tim Roth’s in this movie. Poor Tim Roth.
- Still, better than United Passions.
- Sure, just shut down your laptop. Don’t wait for him to answer or anything. Dick.
- These guys didn’t even check the exits? They’re awful planners.
- Tim Roth shoots a dog.
- Yeah, that’s good, hide your identity and then stare straight at the the guy hunting you. You’re an idiot.
- “Do not lose him” oh really? Well I was going to just let him escape but now you said that.
- I’ve never had to run across rooftops to escape people, yet it seems to happen in almost every film.
- All those coke bottles behind him, Holy product placement Batman!
- “Not so tough now are you?” Yeah, you show what a strong guy you are by hitting him when two other people holding him down. You big man, you very very strong man.
- We’ve already established this factory is not doing that great financially, repairing all this damage could bankrupt it. People talk about the damage done to New York in the Avengers movie, but they’re able to pay it off. This company is ruined.
- “who’s this woman in this newspaper clipping?”. Wait, so you didn’t even take a look at the newspaper clipping and see that this woman has the same name as the guy giving you orders? You suck, Tim Roth (please note the punctuation there, there’s an important difference between “You suck, Tim Roth”, and “You suck Tim Roth”).
- “He threw a forklift truck like it was a softball”. No Russian person who was raised in England would ever use the word “softball”. At all.
- “Days without incident: 1”. No, it’s zero, he had an incident just before, it doesn’t count as one if it’s on the same day. You wouldn’t say “I haven’t had chocolate for a whole day” just because you’re not eating chocolate right at that moment.
- Distance between Brazil and Guatemala: 3,000 miles. How on earth did he go that far without people noticing?
- Music from the original Incredible Hulk series reminds us that this is in fact, a movie. Maybe that’s the problem with this film, everyone is really familiar with the character, a lot more than they are any other of the characters from the MCU. So everyone goes in with preconceptions about the character which makes it hard to bring something new to the table.
- “In WW2” Don’t be that guy, just say “world war 2”. Don’t say “WW2”, you sound like a prick and it takes longer to say, it’s like double the syllables.
- “he thought he was working on radiation resistance. I would never have told him what the project really was”. That’s the perfect way to get accurate scientific data, have them attempt something else.
- “that mans whole body is the property of the US army”. Sounds a bit rapey.
- Edward Norton is using Norton antivirus. Hah!
- Yeah, that’s it Liv Tyler, walk out on your date without saying a word. Rude!
- Rain powered entirely by emotion.
- “he wants to make it a weapon” A weapon he can’t control or order around. Having an army of Hulks would cause a lot of damage, yes, but a lot of it would be to your own army. It would be like having an army of bears.
- Note to self: find army costumes for bears.
- Ok, this is a visually impressive set-up, the whole “Hulk in the glass covered room which is full of smoke”, but it’s not really done effectively. They showed the transformation and the view from inside the room. What they should have done is the last we see is him as Banner, then silence, and then Hulk bursts out of the smoke.
- Why does everyone keep shooting him? Surely after the first shots have absolutely no effect you’d think of a different tactic?
- So this takes place on a University campus in middle of the day, and there’s only two bystanders? There were more bystanders at college when a car crashed into a lamp-post.
- Do they ever use these sonic cannons again? Does every Marvel film feature a fantastic weapon which for some reason is never used again?
- This movie is pretty much responsible for keeping rain machines in business.
- Jesus how much did Coke pay to be in this film so much?
- So he can swallow a usb stick and it still works? Yet I have one in my pocket for a twenty minute walk to uni and it stops.
- Wait, so he can’t have sex without hulking out? What about masturbation? So he hasn’t jacked off for years? That might be why he’s so angry, I stopped for two weeks once and committed a small genocide in Rwanda.
- Can The Hulk get high? Serious question, couldn’t he just get really really stoned? Or maybe he tried and that’s why he’s so green.
- “I had to make more” Wait, you can just make more blood? Then why the fuck do the NHS keep asking for mine?
- “I will never forgive what you’ve done to him” for some reason I hate that sentence. It just sounds really clunky, like it’s been translated into english from a foreign language.
- “The mixture could be……….an Abomination”. Hmmm, I wonder which Marvel character Tim Roth will turn into.
- I’ve realised where I know that guy from: he was in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmdit.
- Unbreakable. They alive, damnit. It’s a miracle.
- I love that show.
- Ooooo season 2 came out a few days ago. Yay.
- Bruce’s blood landed on his head wound, what are the odds of that?
- “That’s impossible”, oh so now you start to question things.
- So the lead character has to fight someone with the same superpowers as him? Just like Iron Man then? Or Thor. Or Ant-Man
- “You think a rifle’s going to hurt that?” Most logical sentence in this film.
- So his plan involves jumping out of a plane with no parachute? I tried that once, I didn’t save anybodies life and now I’m banned from British Airways
- Hulk and Abomination just holding onto each other. Now kiss!
- Did Hulk just stop the fire by clapping? I’m going to try that next time I see a fire heading towards me. If it doesn’t work and I die, someone sue Marvel.
- Look, we know you’re in the Army but “reload” instead of “another drink”? Just makes you sound like a twat.
- This is the only Marvel film without a post-credits scene. Instead it puts it just before the ending credits, like a normal film does.
the ethics of justice with the brash Kurt Russel, or stopping everyone from shooting each other. Walton Goggins on the other hand is just having a blast as the fun loving, dorky, hill-billy-esque former confederate, who is so country and western he says things like, “I’ll be double dog dammed”, and you can’t help but smile at his every slapstick manoeuvre. He and Roth are like the two sides to the same chocolate and cheese coin. Goggin’s character also has the best (and I think only) arc in the film.
But the cabin is large and surprisingly complex, with each corner, from the bar to the fireplace, becoming their own country and safe ground for the characters. What I’m saying I guess is for a film predominantly set in one room, it still feels large and epic.
talk about it. It’s bloody, it’s fun, its ambiguous, yet somehow also satisfying enough, as those you want to see get it do (for the most part) and those you want to see make good also do (for the most part), without resorting to anything overly happy….Though the more I think about it the more it seems like a re-tread of Reservoir Dogs. Still for a film that gets so messy in every way, it has strong closing minutes.
Demián Bichir’s character’s biggest trait is that he’s Mexican…oh and he played piano in that one scene. For a film this long and boasting an apparently hateful 8 (even though theres like ten of them really), its inexcusable that almost half the cast are uninteresting 
underdeveloped characters, there just to pad out the length like tissue in a bra.
But it gets so bogged down with detours, homage, pointless scenes, sucking it’s own dick, and having a bullshit twist it never really gets there. And it could have been great if it did! A Tarantino whodunit, that just sounds amazing. With the same set of
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