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03/14/08

Text: Nik Mercer

This writer might just be presenting a comics-obsessed biased opinion, but the forthcoming Marvel comics movie, The Incredible Hulk, looks like a smash hit. If you've not seen the trailer already, we ask you devote a couple minutes to doing so now (since when did YouTube HD video look so great!?)

Casting: Ed Norton as the shrimpy super-wuss scientist Bruce Banner blows lame Eric Bana out of the water. Wasn't Bana sort of bulky to begin with? Norton convinces us that he's just a lovesick insecure nuclear physicist, making his transformation to the lumbering mass that is the Hulk all the more awesome.

And Liv Tyler!? So much better than Jennifer Connelly. Additionally, the word is that Robert Downey Jr. will appear as Iron Man in the movie, finally translating Marvel's penchant for outrageously complex cross-over stories and miniseries to film.

Computer Graphics: Hulk has never been done right (re: the 1978 T.V. show and the 2003 uber-pretentious Ang Lee feature film in which the Hulk looked like a melting Jolly Green Giant with purple spray paint in lieu of tattered pants), but this time, things look promising. The world's dumbest crime fighter looks weighty and convincingly charged up on steroids. Additionally, they finally got that goofy haircut down pat!

So many explosions, too! Bang bang bang!

Villain: WTF? That nastiness looks like a tabled Ghostbusters slime ball. Gross.

Theme: "[T]he film continues from Hulk but will be more similar to "The Incredible Hulk"; he compared the two films to Ridley Scott's Alien and its sequel, James Cameron's Aliens, which were very different films but still in the same continuity." Sound like something that Garth could've said, but we dig.

YouTube Action:

Fan Trailer No. 1―Patrick Wolf + the Hulk = completely confusing, irritating, and disturbingly out of place. Who the hell spent time rendering this crap?

Fake Trailer No. 1―Hey, I've got an idea. How about use Windows Movie Maker to splice together some footage from Fight Club, paint Ed Norton bright green, and throw in a few slow-motion clips from the 70s T.V. show. That'll get people pumped.

Fake Trailer No. 2―Uh... don't watch this. It's a still of Ed Norton screaming while chained to a lab chair. There isn't even a funny dubbed voice or anything. Again, YouTube, you should kick these bandwidth waters off!