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Overview

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Director:
Ang Lee
Writers (WGA):
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book character) and
Jack Kirby (Marvel comic book character) ...
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Release Date:
20 June 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline:
Unleash the fury! more
Plot:
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 8 nominations more
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(316 articles)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Big Green (USA) (fake working title)
The Hulk (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some disturbing images and brief partial nudity.
Runtime:
138 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more

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Trivia:
Nick Nolte was always the producers' first choice to play Bruce Banner's father. more
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Continuity: When Betty is drinking the beer, the bottle turns round between shots. more
Quotes:
Talbot: You and I have never had the chance to get to know each other properly.
Bruce Banner: Well, that's because I don't want to get to know you. Properly or improperly.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Six Feet Under: In Case of Rapture (#4.2)" (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Hulk Escapes more

FAQ

Are there any references in the film to the Hulk mythology?
Why did Bruce's father try to kill Bruce when he was a kid?
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189 out of 324 people found the following comment useful.
"Hulk" & the state of criticism of it, 29 June 2005
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Author: jriddle73 from United States

Ang Lee's "Hulk", at two years after.

Perusing the negative reviews of the film collected at the Rotten Tomatoes site, I'm stricken by the degree to which the negativity directed at it by allegedly professional film critics is based upon the fact that it dashed (rather than living up to) their rather low expectations for it. The assumptions underlying so many of the criticisms are that the film is supposed to be a brainless "summer blockbuster," but isn't. Another variation: that it's a film based upon a comic book, and that all such projects are supposed to be mindless rubbish for dazzling bumpkins (To those of us with some genuine knowledge of the field, this variant is particularly entertaining in that it's inevitably accompanied by a string of authoritative assertions regarding comics which demonstrate only the offended critics' abysmal ignorance of the medium). "Hulk," it seems, doesn't know its place; it commits the sin of aiming for something more than mediocrity. In a sense, this is a testament to the film's quality. It clearly doesn't cater to such low expectations.

Criticism of the film's CGI--a more common one at places like IMDb where there's far less pretense that a poster actually has anything of value to say--can be set aside as the superficial whining it is. In spite of what so many "summer blockbuster" fans seem to think, special effects aren't a story; they're just a means of telling one. The CGI in "Hulk" is competent. Beyond that, it doesn't matter.

Likewise the vacuous "it's boring" complaint. Modern viewers with no attention span be advised up front that you will find "Hulk" challenging, and would be better served by spending your "entertainment" budget on trash like "The Phantom Menace" and "The Day After Tomorrow," and leaving the real movies to the adults.

I don't insist that a fan of typical Hollywood summer fare actually offer some rational critique of the picture--I'm not a cruel man. I do, however, insist that, for anyone who expects to be taken seriously, "Hulk" must be accepted or rejected for what it really is. For my part, I think it's a misunderstood minor masterpiece, a film in the vein of "Blade Runner", "Excalibur," and "Once Upon A Time In The West"--all generally snubbed in their day, all now just as generally hailed as classics. I'd like to think I live in a society where this is the fate that one day awaits "Hulk"; it certainly deserves it. Time will tell, I suppose.

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