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New Hulk Trailer!

For a movie coming out in June, mid-March is a bit late to be just now releasing the trailer, but I guess better late than never, no?

Check it out!

CBR has screen grabs of the trailer here!

  • Posted on March 13, 2008 @ 03:08 AM

20 Comments

The Hulk still looks a little too computer-y for my taste, but otherwise, I'm interested.

Rohan Williams

March 13, 2008 at 4:02 am

It's just kinda there, really. Nothing special yet.

looks pretty good to me. the cgi is fine, it's an eight foot, green human...they can't cgi regular humans yet so people need to quit moaning

i'm still shock that i saw a trailer for a brand new indiana jones before hulk. hell, i saw the teaser for jj abram's star trek already!

I'm more surprised it got this close to release date without a bunch of viral promotions or leaked photos. Pretty impressive.

Yeah, I don't understand people saying the Hulk looks like a special effect either. He's an eight foot tall, 1000-pound green guy. Exactly how much naturalism are you expecting from that?

Also, I have to wonder how much the relative lack of pre-release material before now is due to Edward Norton's clashing with the director over edits.

"I’m more surprised it got this close to release date without a bunch of viral promotions or leaked photos. Pretty impressive. "

Here in Brazil there were a lot of leaked photos. They recorded some scenes in a slam in Rio de Janeiro. It was even mentioned in LIG.

Exactly how much naturalism are you expecting from that?

As much as they're giving the Abomination. He doesn't walk like a robot.

The movie looks pretty mediocre. Directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Zack Penn? Bleh, at least the script was rewritten by Ed Norton. But as much as I love the guy, he is not to Bruce Banner as Robert Downey, Jr. is to Iron Man or Christian Bale is to Batman.

I would have preferred a more squamous-looking Abomination, but apparently the director didn't have imagination enough (despite doing a movie about a ginormous green man tearing shit up) to figure out why Abomination would be scaly and reptilian (actually there would have been a cute way to do it working in some info from the first film that I thought of in like 6 seconds after reading that excuse- think about it- you'll all probably figure it out too).

Visually, the "classic" Abomination is just so much more dynamic than what we end up with, which kind of looks like a Zombified version of the Hulk with an Iguana fin on his back (so much for no "reptillian" look). Bit disappointing, that.

I hope for the best, but the trailer just left me cold- nowhere near the excitement that Iron Man and Dark Knight generated for me.

*That* looks like a Hulk movie. My poor wife's going to have to sit through yet another super-hero movie.

Take that, Downtown Toronto! Yes folks, that is indeed beautiful downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The big tip off was the Zanzibar sign in the last 30 seconds or so of the trailer, Toronto's most famous...er...gentleman's club. Yep.

And once again, I don't really like the look of the CGI-Hulk. Why can't they just do an adaptation of Kirby's original simian/Frankenstein Monster look? Would that be so hard?

Other than that major problem, the movie looks good.

I think that's a case of trying to please everyone at once John, first time viewers, 70's show watchers, people who saw the first film, comic fans who each have their own favorite artists who ever drew Hulk over the decades...

And then you need some vague resemblance to Norton's face (which truth be told I don't see, so maybe they aren't doing that- they did do it with Bana though).

That's a tough one- just take everyone from this site for instance - how hard do you think it would be to get a majority consensus from all these comic book fans with their aesthetic choices and favorite artists?

The Mad Monkey

March 13, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Yeah...it'd be wonderful if I was able to actually see it, instead of being told "video not accessible".

Last I checked, there were versions on YouTube that hadn't been pulled yet, so try searching there.
I really hope that they don't do a full origin.

Random Stranger

March 13, 2008 at 4:22 pm

That looked weak. Starting promotion three months in advance is not a good sign and I saw nothing in that trailer to give me any kind of hope for the film. Putting in some actual action shots rather than the poorly done effects shots (and I'm not just talking about the CGI quality which was fairly weak in general) might have helped but that trailer was nothing.

I was actually with it right up until the end, when I realized that the hulk is 15 feet tall again. No thanks. To me, the reason the Hulk was always one of my favorite comics, and the reason the Hulk TV show worked, was how believable it was. This guy goes on rages and secrets his own mega-steroids, then calms down. But if he grows twice as tall too, I just can't buy it. For some reason that looks less convincing to me than anything in the Superman or Spiderman movies. They should make it like the the TV show and cast a combo --say Topher Grace and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson-- in the roles. What am I saying? After two flop movies, we won't see this concept again for a loooong time.

That would be terrible. There is nothing less intimidating than a normal guy in green paint.

Feh. And again I say "feh."

I love The Hulk. This trailer? It does nothing for me. Not interested in Bruce. Not interested in Samson, or Abomination, or Ross, or Betty. Was there any semblance of a plot there? Did Bruce Banner seem tortured by what he'd become? Did he seem even a little bit nuts?

Did I mention "feh"?

Does anyone know anywhere that people in Britain can see this trailer?

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