Work Hiatus Update, Incredible Hulk
UPDATE: Was too busy to catch The Hulk this weekend, but the good news is comics might be returning late this week or early next week. More to come...
I seem to be making decent progress on my work (over)load, but I will know more after this weekend. Thanks for your patience.
In the meantime, Incredible Hulk has a solid 72% on the good old Tomatometer and I'm going to try and play the Father's Day card to squeeze in a screening this weekend. Message to the CGI-haters and man-baby besserwissers: Eat me. I liked the first Hulk movie, I expect to like this one and I'm gonna go watch the shit out of it. I hope the thought of me buying a ticket for less than the price of two gallons of gas keeps you up all night.
I was a wee lad of 5 or 6 when the Hulk TV show was in its prime, and I've manged to catch a few of the early episodes on Hulu. I think that it still holds up. It may have been the first TV show to take a comic book superhero concept and treat it as a serious drama, a precursor to shows like Buffy and Smallville.
Best thing about the Hulk TV show? They had to keep coming up with new ways to piss Banner off week after week for four years, and nothing was off limits. Show Runner/Creator Kenneth Johnson has actually compiled a complete list of Hulk-out inducing traumas here. (My personal favorite: Number 52: Locked in a drunk tank with a crazy person who insists he is Ernest Hemingway and then beats the stuffing out of [Banner].)
Here are some YouTube clips illustrating two of these instances. You may think that they are intensely dumb reasons to "Hulk out," but I find both of them completely relatable, and a little ingenious. I even have vague recollections of watching the pay phone scene with my parents & grandparents as a kid and everyone was cheering the Hulk on as he trashed that phone booth.
See you at the movies! Next up: The Dark Knight!
2 Comments:
I liked the first one as well. Which means I won't be going to see this one since, other than to appease the fanboys, there was no reason to make it to restart the franchise. There wasn't even a franchise yet that needed restarting.
I too liked Ang Lee's Hulk. But I have to say I like what i see in the previews for the new TIH. Maybe there is some appeasement going on, but that doeesn't mean that the movie will suck.
I LOVED the tv series when I was 8. I was right in the demographic crosshairs of that show and it hit me like accidental overdose of gamma radiation in my brain. the melancholy piano theme at the end was always great, He walks down the road, hitching to the next town, wanted for a murder he didn't commit. David Banner must let the world think that he is dead, until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
Good stuff.
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