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rogerskg1979 posted...

The Incredible Hulk was a good movie.

It really wasn't.

It was relatively mediocre, and hurt by Edward Norton being a weak lead.



rogerskg1979 posted...

Nobody cared about it at the time simply because it was the 2nd movie in the MCU so the MCU was not yet a household name

But by that logic, how did Iron Man succeed in spite of being the first movie in the MCU, with a character with less brand recognition than the Hulk?

It's almost as if a good movie can succeed on its own, while weaker movies can't.



rogerskg1979 posted...

and people's memories were still fresh on the Ang Lee Hulk movie which did suck.

It arguably wasn't even THAT bad of a movie, as much as it was over-stylized (which isn't what people wanted from a comic book action movie) and explored aspects of the Hulk's personality that people didn't want to see (in spite of them being established ideas for more than 20+ years at that point in the comics).

Basically, most people went in expecting something like the old Hulk TV show and with a ton of "Hulk smash!"ing, and pouted when they got something that was trying to be slightly more intellectual.

The Incredible Hulk tried to dial back on that, but wound up being bad and disliked in other ways. Which is a large part of why the interpretation of the character in The Avengers tried to boil the character back to its most basic elements (and succeeded by doing so).


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