Hulk Fail To Surprise
Jun. 13th, 2008 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
craigoxbrowWell, no, that's not quite true. I was surprised three times in 100 minutes. Once by a particular expression the Big Green CGI Standin pulled, once by the possibility of soldiers not escaping a bit of smashing, and once by the positioning of a wider-Marvel-Movieverse Easter Egg before the credits. (I'd have put it earlier still, myself, so that the story could end with a scene actually involving the main character.)
Some of the framing is nice. But ultimately the Hulk just doesn't look that good as played by a big chunk of CGI. I do wonder if advances in makeup and some perspective tricks with added CG manipulation wouldn't have worked better than what is, essentially, just a CG depiction of a big muscly green bloke.
Other than that, it's just what you'd expect and nothing more. Which is not a complaint you could level at the went-too-far-the-other-way Don't Make Me Ang Lee.
But hey, Hulk Hands are back in shops.
Some of the framing is nice. But ultimately the Hulk just doesn't look that good as played by a big chunk of CGI. I do wonder if advances in makeup and some perspective tricks with added CG manipulation wouldn't have worked better than what is, essentially, just a CG depiction of a big muscly green bloke.
Other than that, it's just what you'd expect and nothing more. Which is not a complaint you could level at the went-too-far-the-other-way Don't Make Me Ang Lee.
But hey, Hulk Hands are back in shops.
