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Every Hulk movie ranked from worst to best

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The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Incredible Hulk is probably on no one's list of top five favorite MCU films, but it isn't bad. It introduces the green guy much sooner than its 2003 predecessor, and we get a lot more action. Director Louis Leterrier gives us a classic Hulk villain, the Abomination (Tim Roth), and lays the foundation for the emergence of another in the form of Dr. Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson), a name Hulk fans would recognize belonging to the mastermind villain the Leader. William Hurt is a surprising choice for General Ross, but one that works so well he remains the only Incredible Hulk alumnus to show up in any other films.

Ed Norton could have been the perfect Bruce Banner. He built his career playing characters who were meek pushovers one second and intimidating bullies the next, but Leterrier never utilizes that part of Norton's talent. We get a formulaic action flick with no real glimpse of who Bruce Banner is.

The CGI rendering of the Hulk is definitely more consistent than what we saw in Ang Lee's Hulk. The filmmakers chose a slimmer, darker-skinned man-monster. The sound of the Hulk is a huge improvement from 2003's Hulk — when he roars in challenge at the soldiers at Culver University, he sounds like a bellowing T-Rex. Still, watching Incredible Hulk now, you can't help but think how the effects look primitive compared to what we see in Avengers and everything that comes after.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Good write-up, and mostly pretty fair and accurate save for this: "Still, watching Incredible Hulk now, you can't help but think how the effects look primitive compared to what we see in Avengers and everything that comes after."

It's a silly complaint to make because one day the Avengers' effects are going to look comparatively 'primitive'.

Judging the effects against the technology of its era, 2008's The Incredible Hulk does just fine.

The reason why the current Hulk is superior has nothing to do with the effects, and everything to do with Mark Ruffalo, who some how manages to give Bruce Banner, an understandably reserved and relatively emotionless man, a (anxious and nervous) personality where Eric Bana and Ed Norton felt compelled simply to portray him as a blank.