The Glade 4.0

You're missing the point of the Hulk. It's never the Hulk that's in danger. It's everything around the Hulk that's in danger. The story is in Banner attempting to reign in the beast and control it.

Part of what I like about Hulk is the "Oh ****!" looks and reactions he gets when they try their damndest to do what they think will take him down and he barely flinches.

Norton was okay, but I like Banner being more soft spoken than he portrayed. Banner needs to radiate calm, even when he's in danger of not being. Norton's too high-energy to ever believe he's calm.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

This. The Hulk is Quake on godmode. Sometimes it's just plain fun to go nuts without repercussions.

I was laughing my *** off when the Hulk roflstomped Loki.

Yeah, as I said, I thought he did a good job, but Rufalo was unquestionably better.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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That is why Captain America grand strategy for the big fight is simply to turn the Hulk loose. He could not be channeled into a even semi detailed plan, but worked best as a localized disaster.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Heh. Alexis Denisof played The Other (the one who was directing Loki and who briefed Thanos in the Easter egg).

There were also at least one or two other actors from other Whedon projects (e.g., Dollhouse).

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

This article has a pretty good take on the Hulk:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/c ... -hulk.html

I have to agree that it's put the finger on what I liked about the portrayal. I thought Ruffalo did a fantastic job, especially when interacting with the other characters. I expected Cap to be the central character, the one to pull the Avengers together, but he wasn't really. I think the Hulk did that in this movie. He was the elephant in the room, so to speak, and until they accepted him as he was and stopped fearing him, they couldn't coalesce as a team.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

That was pretty good. Even if the caps are a bit distracting.

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Raell Kromwell

I know. Apparently Hulk smashed the caps lock key a little too hard.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

As a man who's read practically every Hulk comic, I will say that I liked Ruffalo the best out of all the other Banner actors. I didn't dislike the others, but Ruffalo definitely was more akin to Banner in the comics (especially Peter David's version). Ruffalo comes across as more of a science geek than the others. This Banner has a sense of humor and is even a little self-deprecating. He's soft-spoken and easy-going.

That's Bruce Banner.

I personally didn't love the fact that Hulk looked/moved a little gorilla-ish, but the fact that they were likely basing him off of Marie Severin or Sal Buscema's versions and they drew him a little more gorilla-like, I'm fine with it (I'm just a Dale Keown fan, so I am a little biased).

I thought it was a good movie. No one character seemed to completely take away the movie from the others, which I think is critical when you have an ensemble cast like that.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

may I say that watching Hulk 1-punch the flying-space-dragon-troop-transport was my favorite hero moment though.

Yeah, I still preferred the Loki roflstomping.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Thanks, Farsky. That just doesn't get old.

The Hulk sucker-punching Thor was also a great moment.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Why not sucker punch Thor? Of all the characters he will take it and understand it the best.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

It looses something without Loki's whine.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Looking back, after a second viewing, I think one of my favorite dialog lines was Tony Stark deducing that he and Loki are the exact same type of raging egomaniac. "This guy is a prima donna, he wants a statue to himself in lights up in the sky with his name on it....oh crap!" (paraphrased)

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

And it took a few days, but some one finally got their undies in a twist over something in a movie. Can not be a movie without some one getting "offended"

Apparently Thor's distancing himself from Loki has the adoption community (did not know there was one) riled up.

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_new ... unity?lite

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Seems there's little traction for outrage over that:

Oh for ****'s sake. Apparently they didn't see the movie Thor, where he goes WAY above and beyond to try and bring his brother back into the fold, or the beginning of the Avengers where again he tried to bring his brother around.

oh yeah. 'They're trying to say that being adopted makes you a sociopath!'

No, Thor's trying to distance himself from Loki's action. It's a funnier way of saying "Yeah, there's actually no blood between us."

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Which he only had to say, because being adopted made Loki a sociopath!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

The true moral message is to not adopt Frost Giants from the Royal line! God I hope there is not a advancement of the Frost Giants people association network!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore