#hulk 2008 | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

kingoftieland · 3 months

Text

The Incredible Hulk film from 2008 was GREEN in more ways than one! ♻️

13 notes · View notes

madmanwonder · 8 months

Text

Which Hulk Movies did you watch?

The 2003

The 2008

#the incredible hulk #hulk 2003 #hulk 2008 #bruce banner #the incredible hulk (character)

19 notes · View notes

supersonicdp · 2 months

Text

#hulk #the hulk #the incredible hulk #bruce banner #hulkedit #the hulk edit #the incredible hulk edit #hulk 2008 #Bruce banner edit #marvel

2 notes · View notes

savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 11 months

Text

"LET'S START FROM SCRATCH AGAIN AND DO IT RIGHT THIS TIME" -- A 2008 MARVEL STUDIOS STORY.

FILM: "The Incredible Hulk" (2008)

DIRECTOR: Louis Leterrier

SCREENWRITER: Zack Penn

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Menzies Jr.

PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Marvel Studios & Valhalla Motion Pictures

DISTRIBUTION: Universal Pictures

OVERVIEW: "In 2003, Universal released Ang Lee's adaptation of "The Incredible Hulk," one of the most popular and enduring Marvel superheroes (titled "Hulk"). Five years later, Universal has released yet another version of "The Incredible Hulk" (which opened June 13th). This new Hulk movie is actually a "let's start from scratch again and do it right this time" concept. That's because Lee's cerebral approach did not wow the fan base.

PART II: Five years later, Marvel Studios is trying to re-launch the franchise on its own -- Universal is only distributing the movie. French action specialist Louis Leterrier ("The Transporter") directed a brand new cast, featuring Edward Norton as Bruce Banner/The Hulk, and opted for a completely different approach to visual effects.

In 2003, Industrial Light & Magic created some 600 effects shots. In 2008, VFX Supervisor Kurt Williams and VFX Producer Paul Molles oversaw about 800 shots produced by seven different facilities. Rhythm & Hues (including R&H India) produced 224 character animation shots, plus 10 composites, while Hydraulx realized 248 shots featuring complex composites, CG environments, CG helicopter and a full CG Abomination transformation.

Other key vendors included Soho VFX (114 shots -- composites and CG environments) and Image Engine (75 shots -- blood drop shot, plus a CG environment for Rhythm & Hues). Lola VFX, G Creative and X1 also worked on the project."

-- ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK (AWN), ""The Incredible Hulk": Back to Basics," Alain Bielik gets the jump on "The Incredible Hulk" by speaking with Rhythm & Hues, by Alain Bielik, c. June 2008

Sources: Pinterest, Twitter, www.awn.com/vfxworld/incredible-hulk-back-basics, various, etc...

8 notes · View notes

age-of-moonknight · 2 years

Text

“Jackpot,” Hulk (vol. 2/2008), #9.

Writer: Jeph Loeb; Penciler: Arthur Adams; Inker: Walden Wong; Colorist: Peter Steigerwald; Letterer: Albert Deschesne

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Hulk vol. 2 #Hulk 2008 #Moon Knight comics #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #The Sentry #Bob Reynolds #THIS #this is all I could ask for in a Sentry-Moon Knight meet-up. so glad I found this #I wonder if part of Marc’s dismissal of Bob’s invitation is because of the poor mental health tool that can develop where one tries to #convince themselves that their condition isn’t THAT bad unlike this other guy

25 notes · View notes

rocksrntpeople · 1 year

Text

MCU Rewatch - The Incredible Hulk

There are many people who are begging for a proper go at the origin story for the Hulk. The Incredible Hulk shows how Bruce Banner, a brilliant scientist, got wrapped up in his own hubris (and the U.S. military), had a horrible accident, went on the run (from the U.S. military), and finally ended up in Brazil where he got a job and anger management training. All in all, a pretty good introduction for the Hulk on paper. On the screen? This all happens within about 45 seconds.

So you watch this intro and then see Banner sipping a drink and taking a deep breath, and it just feels like the movie is staring you right in the eyes, whispering, Fin.

WHAT THE FUCK.

What the fuck else am I supposed to watch now? You just told me all of the interesting bits, minus the interesting part. I felt like Mason in Black Ops, just getting flashed with images that I just know mean something, are part of something I heard about long ago, but I just can’t tell what it all means.

So this movie begins with visual torture and is immediately followed up by about a hundred questions that are way more interesting than anything that’s actually part of the plot.

What was the incident that happened 158 days earlier? The lab, or something closer to Banner’s current location?

Who the hell is his trainer? Does he know he’s the Hulk? Did he find him after an incident?

Matter of fact, how long has it been since he ran away?

Who is that gorgeous chick??

Literally none of these questions are answered. There are different implied timelines for the initial incident, with both 5 months and 3 years thrown around. My guess is that his initial incident happened 3 years ago and 5 months earlier was whatever happened that got him in Brazil. It’s honestly not even worth Googling.

After you’ve been pumped through the first, and most engaging, half hour of the movie, suffering from story whiplash and generally confused as to where the movie thinks it's going…

…you’ll finally arrive at the point where the movie begins to beat you over the head with the fact that Bruce Banner is Hulk.

Yay.

Where Iron Man was perfectly orchestrated to amplify everything about him through small details that really fit his personality and his world, The Incredible Hulk manages to mirror Banner’s slapped-in existence in some random ghetto.

I mean, how many Hulk-green pieces of cloth are actually hanging in the world? Because I think at least half of them are in this specific Brazilian slum. I mean, even the fucking soda being bottled is god damn gamma green. I bet the producers were like, “Oh yeah, that looks sick with the blood in it; just like how Hulk happened probably!”

And honestly, the rest of the movie is BORING. Holy shit, this is a clear example of what superhero movies were before Iron Man. Both movies were in production at the same time, as they released within months of each other, so it seems pretty clear that the whole Marvel team weren’t sure how this whole, “just make it like the comic book” thing was gonna work out with Iron Man.

Probably shouldn’t have countered with one of the least relatable characters in Marvel who’d also just had a horrific flop of a movie less than ten years earlier, huh?

I mean, obviously some people are going to enjoy the rest of this movie. I’ve mentioned before that I’m actually not a huge fan of action movies. They’re boring. I see why people watch them; it’s the same reason I still love isekai anime; but they’re all the same:

“Omg, some military guy is doing something horrible and one guy is simultaneously wrapped up in it and the target of this military guy, and since this is an action flick, literally no one on the planet — no law enforcement, no governments, no other high-ranking military guy — can stop them except for this unassuming guy who, again, helped (or at least failed to stop) the military guy be evil in the first place.”

The Incredible Hulk does all of this and then has the added bonus of trying to redeem the military guy who almost kidnapped a man and threw him in a hole because he refused to commit crimes against humanity.

Yep, they find an even eviler guy who wants raw power to combat Hulk and lead a new age of super-soldier slaves that definitely would never be approved by anyone and would definitely violate the Geneva convention.

Also, can we talk about the “raw power” trope. Who the fuck wants raw anything?! Even fucking raw dogging ends up with a disease or a kid half the time, so what the fuck is with this “raw power” shit? Does anyone actually think that if they were the strongest person on the planet, but looked like a horrifying monster, that they would be able to do anything significant besides get killed? What’s the end goal there? You become all-powerful, a horrifying monster, win everything and then…go to Disney? Guess what fuckwit, you’re too big to even get through the gates. Have fun with sex too; you weigh like 3 tons now, so hopefully they make car sized fleshlights. Oh, and don’t even ask how much you have drink and smoke just to get a quick hit of vertigo.

This is the kind of shit that completely takes me out of action movies, but not out of superhero movies (because they often answer these kinds of questions, or at least don’t ignore them! We’ll talk about this more when Thanos shows up). And it’s this kind of shit that makes The Incredible Hulk incredibly bad.

On top of all of this. On top of all of the in-your-face symbolism, the dual villains who have completely lost touch with reality and how the world works, the lack of ingenuity and originality, and the missing origins for this origin story.

This movie was horribly cast.

Liv Tyler, William Hurt, Edward Norton, Lou fucking Ferrigno — it’s tough to see how this cast could fail, but they managed it.

Honestly, their acting wasn’t bad, it just totally didn’t fit…with anything! There was no chemistry between any characters, good or bad. The most human interaction we see is when he’s quietly working in the bottling factory. Even as he’s being interrogated and threatened, Norton doesn’t look anything but confident that he’s going to have lunch with Hurt later.

Overall, this movie was plagued by fear. Fear that people didn’t want another Hulk movie, fear that Iron Man would be a total misfire, fear that without big names behind the film nobody would be willing to watch it, fear that the origin story of the Hulk had been overdone.

In truth, Hulk’s story was essentially perfected in the minds of millions with the TV show from the 70’s. Even though many of us are not fans, when this movie came out that’s all anyone was talking about (we had societally agreed not to discuss Hulk); it’s part of the reason they got Lou Ferrigno again, to garner trust with the fans. But, it’s tough to beat perceived perfection, as we will all probably find out when they start trying to remake these movies in a few decades. Tbf though, they could have tried a little harder.

In addition to this, the unreasonably-angry-and-overbearing-military-guy trope is on its way out. It’s just totally unrealistic and annoying to have so much power being put behind such blatant disregard for diplomacy, money, and the most basic sense of humanity, plus of course they always have to throw in a woman to be verbally/physically abused by this character archetype and that’s just not fun to watch (it never was).

While I now agree that Hulk has been done dirty by the MCU as far as origins go, there’s no way to go back now. A new origin movie would flop almost as much as the Black Widow movie and have about as much substance. We can always hope for a redemptive movie for Hulk; there are only about a hundred reasons why the Hulk should not have a standalone movie at all.

My verdict: 2/10

If you want to stay true to the MCU and/or if you have someone in your life who isn’t into superhero movies but likes action films, watch The Incredible Hulk as part of an MCU rewatch. If you aren’t doing a full rewatch, just watch the first 2 minutes and you’ll have a better experience.

.

Next week is Iron Man 2. We do see him at the end of The Incredible Hulk, where he mentions “putting together a team”, apparently inviting this military guy? But not really, because why the fuck would he even be in cahoots with a big weapons enthusiast?? Also, spoiler alert: this general is not in the Avengers.

.

Anyways, I truly remember nothing about Iron Man 2 so…

I’m sure it’s fine.

#the incredible hulk #hulk #incredible hulk movie #hulk 2008 #mcu rewatch #mcu #marvel #edward norton #Iron Man

2 notes · View notes

billykcplan · 1 year

Photo

THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008) dir. Louis Leterrier ↪ marvel cinematic universe characters [ 2/? ]

519 notes · View notes

crimsonscloud · 3 months

Text

EDWARD NORTON and LIV TYLER

as Bruce Banner and Betty Ross in THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008)

#the incredible hulk (2008)#mcu #bruce banner #betty ross #bruce banner x betty ross #my gifs #edward norton #liv tyler #them...#is it any wonder i made this as soon as the dvd came in the mail #i have priorities/j

52 notes · View notes

gotham-at-nightfall · 3 months

Text

Marvel: Phase I

By Lyle Cruse

#iron man (2008)#the incredible hulk #iron man 2 #thor (2011)#captain america: the first avenger #marvel #mcu phase 1 #fanart #twitter art #witty queue name

37 notes · View notes

webdiggerxxx · 5 months

Text

꧁★꧂

#halloween #spooky #creepy #halloween costumes #zombie #werewolf #alien #the hulk #sunset #trick or treat #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #childhood #flickr #oldweb #old web #2008

53 notes · View notes

kingoftieland · 8 months

Text

youtube

Why Edward Norton PARTED WAYS with Marvel Studios! 🎬

6 notes · View notes

swiftpolls · 12 days

Text

#polls #* my polls #swiftpolls #swift polls #mcu #* movie polls #movie polls #random polls #poll time #tumblr polls #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #iron man #iron man 2008 #the incredible hulk #the incredible hulk 2008 #hulk #incredible hulk

14 notes · View notes

artist-issues · 10 months

Text

And you know what else about female characters? BETTY ROSS.

The whole movie everyone's trying to control the Hulk. Bruce is trying to control it with breathing exercises. General Ross is trying to capture it and control it as a weapon. Mr. Blue is trying to awaken it and control it as a science experiment. And Abomination!

Nobody can do it. Nobody can control the Hulk. Except Betty Ross!

That's her superpower. She just loves him. She's just kind to him. She just trusts him, and believes it's still Bruce in there, and believes he won't hurt her. She jumps right on him when he's the Hulk to calm him down! She walks right up to him! She tells him to stop choking Abomination with the chains, and he stops.

The whole Incredible Hulk movie everyone's shooting guns and juicing themselves up with science and trying to get stronger. And Betty Ross is over here like "I just love him." And that turns out to be the most powerful thing in the movie.

#So shut up about captain marvel and strong women #the Incredible Hulk #the Incredible Hulk 2008 #hulk #the hulk #MCU #marvel cinematic universe #meta #Betty Ross #abomination

55 notes · View notes

age-of-moonknight · 2 years

Text

“World’s Finest,” Hulk (vol. 2/2008), #8.

Writer: Jeph Loeb; Penciler: Arthur Adams; Inker: Walden Wong; Colorist: Peter Steigerwald; Letterer: Albert Deschesne

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Hulk vol. 2 #Hulk 2008 #Moon Knight comics #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #Hulk #Mr. Fix-It #Bruce Banner #Ms. Marvel #Carol Danvers #The Sentry #Bob Reynolds #I’M-#hELP #Marc is going THROUGH it #and by “it” I could quite possibly mean the upper atmosphere

21 notes · View notes

mobius-m-mobius · 2 years

Photo

#how it started vs. how it's going

The Incredible Hulk (2008) // She Hulk 1.09 (2022)

#emil blonsky #bruce banner #she hulk #mcuedit #marveledit #tbh abomination's old design was superior :'))#maybe i prefer 2008 emil but it was actually SO sweet when he protected jen don't look at me 😭#the incredible hulk #abomination #hulk #jennifer walters #marvel #she hulk spoilers #dianagifs

224 notes · View notes

strawberrywindow · 2 months

Text

my friends, it is once again comfort characters after therapy thursday 😀

emil was absolutely unhinged enough by this point to be saying shit like this and major sparr and every random soldier that had to put up with him post the second round of serum injections deserve immediate financial compensation 😔

my fav part of the deleted scene this shitpost is inspired by is when she gives him this look after he bitches about how he wants a real rematch with the hulk 😭

also this is the og tumblr textpost

#the incredible hulk #the incredible hulk 2008 #emil blonsky #abomination #fan art #marvel #mcu #tim roth

11 notes · View notes