The Hulking ROSSMAN
Before I
start, let me just say that I remember this time at
summer camp that all the kids kept on throwing dead animals
into the latrine (i.e. a hole in the ground filled with noxious
chemicals and gasses) until everyone threw up whenever they
got within 15 feet of the thing.... Well, what made me remember
this fond little trek back into memory lane was the fact
that I have just seen Ang Lee's shitty shitty gang bang revision
of The Hulk. Somebody should just staple
this guy's ass cheeks together and feed him a sack of moldy
prunes and be done
with it. He royally fucked up all that is "the Hulk".
Don't ask
me how any film maker could possibly be that inept, but
he was and is. Mr. Lee actually took on a project about a
rampaging, giant, green angry fellow who likes to blow up
tanks and airplanes for kicks... and he made it boring. I
actually
fell asleep twice in the theater while watching it; and while
asleep I dreamed that I was enjoying Daredevil,
and then Batman
and Robin... and I was pissed when I woke
up and realized that I was still in the theater with the
boring
Bruce Banner
and the ever futuckable Jennifer Connelly as Betty Ross.
Who was hot and orgasmastic. Seriously, I wanted to bone
her ever since I first saw Labyrinth when
I was like 9. She is 100% responsible for my puberty. But
I lovingly digress.
"What's
really wrong with HULK," you ask? It never
gets any steam going until the last 20 minutes (and it's
2 1/2 hours long), and even
then it's not really all that exciting. Sure, it is pretty
sweet to see the Incredigle Hulk jump three miles per bounce,
swat stinger missiles out of the sky, and use tanks as hammer-throw
things... but you see all that stuff happen once and Ang
Lee makes sure that you're already bored with it. It's not
that the script or the acting was bad, as they really weren't...
especially
when it is compared to other gigantisaurus rampaging monster/superhero
movies. Even (the ever druggie) Nick Nolte was passable as
Papa Banner, Bruce's wacko-jacko dad. Although, granted,
he basically just plays himself. Sam Elliot was very good
at General "Thunderbolt" Ross, and even that smarmy
government asshole guy was good at playing the asshole that
he was.
Hell, even the CGI Hulk was believable in a lot of scenes.....
It was just the flow of the whole thing. Drove me batty.
Now, Ang
has a good eye for detail (and apparently moss too), but
he drags shit on for the sake of making it "art house-like".
He's been told that he's an "art house" director
for so long that now that's all he thinks he can do.
"Ang, baby...
Boobalah. See this Hulk thing you're doing is fine and dandy
and pretty and all, but why the FUCK do you have our $500K
per second CGI creation staring at a fucking LOG for two
minutes straight, especially right after he just trashed
out the entire U.S. Military's Western Defense Branch?!?!"
"Ah,
most honorable studio head person, you do not have vision
of me,
Ang Lee. This is art I make. You see? Art. It not 'popcorn
movie'. It is art. It better than Rembrandt! Rembrandt no
big and green. But Hulk feel too. He wish he was butterfly
and fly fly away. Art makes you butterfly."
Yeah, Ang,
so does following 20 shooters with a half dozen joints...
Doesn't mean it's healthy for you... You right bastard. YOU
FUCKING KILLED THE GODDAMN HULK! Fucking asscock. At least
he didn't have old bald guys with green swords flying around
bamboo shoots for 3 hours... But he did have those hyper-gay
hulk-dogs. A giant, man-eating poodle.... What a cumsucker.
So, what
did I think of the big, green and lumbering HULK?
It was
pretty to look at, but all in all it was laaaaaaame. It needed
to be 45 minutes to an hour shorter and move hella faster.
It actually made Phonebooth seem exciting. C--
from the Rossman.
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