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Raka Putra
I watched this for the very first time for this project and I must say, I'm quite pleased. It was an enjoyable enough movie. And I actually liked the lead actor here better than Mark Ruffalo. The setting and origin story were pretty fun. Too bad they basically threw everything out of the window.

Maniac64
Its to bad everything went bad with NOrton which basically made this movie forgotten for a long time. Though I do prefer Ruffalo as Bruce, as Norton's banner sometimes comes off more like an action hero than a dorky scientist. Still this movie gets more grief than it should imo, is it great? No. Was it a worthy follow-up to Iron Man? Definitely not. But was it entertaining to watch Hulk smash in the final fight? Yes, yes it was. And thats the main thing with a hulk movie imo.

Mr Crispy
Probably the most forgettable and skippable movie in the MCU. Nothing that happens in this movie gets brought up in any meaningful way in later movies. The whole plot of Bruce trying to find a cure? Nope. Abomination, or the guy they set up to be the villain in the next movie? Nope. Betty? Marvel would rather inflict pain on the audience with Bruce and Natasha instead. General Ross? Sure he comes back later, but he doesn't interact with Bruce or seem to have any goals related to the super soldier serum and didn't mention anything else from the Incredible Hulk so it might as well have been a new character. The tag with Ross and Tony where Marvel clearly didn't have any idea what they were doing when filming it? Well, I guess they put in a minimum amount of effort to try to retcon it away. I genuinely had no idea that this was actually considered to be in continuity with the rest of the MCU (instead of being a stand alone film), and thus didn't even bother watching it until after Infinity War came out.

The whole concept of the Hulk probably works better on the side of an ensemble movie like Avengers smashing things than as a standalone movie - at least when you're talking about a big budget Hollywood blockbuster. It's hard to sustain an entire action movie on Hulk Smashing. Which isn't to say that you couldn't do something interesting with Bruce being a fugitive or his psychology, it's just an approach that would be more slow burning with more build up before the explosion and would probably work better in a more serialized format. The Incredible Hulk tries to do both approaches, in the most middle of the road way possible for what you'd expect from a typical pre-MCU '00s superhero movie.

I originally intended to have the Incredible Hulk on the bottom of the list due to being the least relevant, but it ended up bubbling up a few places with the logic that it was probably worse to have something terrible about it or fail at what it was trying to do than being 'only' mediocre and forgettable.

Anagram
Its almost impossible to believe that this movie even exists. The Ang Lee movie is also bad, but it at least is attempting to have like artistic ideas by cutting the frames like comic book panels? This movie has nothing. In fact, Ill go ahead and say its the least creative, least interesting movie in the franchise. Its not the worst, but there is nothing in this movie to care about or connect with. Hell, they never even wrapped up that whole the Leader plotline. About the only thing in this movie I remember clearly is Bruce Banner being like I dont want to give the government my magic blood because theyll use it for bad things and then just giving them the Abomination, who has the same magic blood.

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