(Vote): Ed Norton "Incredible Hulk 2008" (Vote): Mark Ruffalo "Avengers Ensemble"
Ed Norton's "Incredible Hulk 2008" Hulk?
Mark Ruffalo's "Avengers Ensemble" Hulk?
I'm gonna have to go with Ed Norton on this one. The colouring, the size and the downright ferocity of the Hulk was accurately captured in this film. No bollocks. Mark ruffalo's hulk was too apeish and I felt was irregularly shaped. I also didn't like the fact that it retained much of Mark Ruffalo's facial features.
Moreover, I thought the Hulk's behaviour in general was pretty lame - I wasn't once wowed by its power or temper, unlike the 2008 version. I guess some of that can be attributed to the fact that the antagonists in the Avengers film were a complete joke and each and every one of the Avengers could have stood toe-to-toe with Loki, somewhat watering down Hulk's presence..
The Ed Norton one was a monster. That's probably the most important part of a good Hulk. Avengers... not so much. I didn't really feel scared when the Hulk got mad. I didn't feel like everyone should run for the hills in that one. Granted, part of that can easily be explained by the fact that everyone there was well equipped to kill him, but still, he didn't seem as good as the Norton one.
On October 31 2012 11:30 ThreeAcross wrote: The Eric Bana Hulk shouldn't be mentioned.
Why is that? (The obvious incoming question)
Because it is without question the worst looking hulk of any hulk ever. The texture looks terrible and all wrong. They really didn't know how to make cgi skin look right back then. It's also a bad movie, but that's a tangent.
Definitely Norton's Hulk. I dislike that the Avenger's Hulk kept Ruffalo's ugly facial features, and his semi-fro going on. As others have pointed out, his Hulk was far too mild mannered. The scene where Black Widow was being chased would have been far more intense with a Hulk more like the one that Norton transformed into.
Norton's Hulk was scarier, but he was given more to do. I thought the scene where the Hulk first appeared did a very good job of showing just how powerless you would be in that situation. Black Widow could kill pretty much anyone without breaking a sweat and she was terrified by the Hulk. Looks-wise, I'd probably give it to Norton's, though as Dr Banner Mark Ruffalo did the best job, showing his humility and the cost of living with the fear of knowing you could wreck anything and everything if you lose control.
Personally I liked Hulk taking on Ruffalo's features. Thought that was neat. But I would've liked it way more if Ed Norton had played Hulk in the Avengers. :'( Therefore, Ed Norton Hulk is da best.
People seem to be voting Mark Ruffalo simply because they think that Avengers was a better movie. The film was garbage in my opinion.. Nothing more than CGI masturbation and Scarlet Johanssons ass.
The Hulk needs to be the embodiment of every primal instinct that Human beings are capable of - and this is exactly what Ed Norton's Hulk. I don't want to be watching a Hulk that changes when he feels like it "because he is always angry" (Mark Ruffalo), deliberately caps his power (Mark Ruffalo), acts like a clown (Mark Ruffalo).
Just seeing the Hulk lay a serious smackdown on Abomination in 2008 sent chills up my spine and had ME wishing that I could've been him.
It felt like the avengers Hulk was more friendly family. He was entertaining but it didn't feel like the Hulk. (Except that one part where he was chasing Black Widow, that was really cool)
I really thought that the Avengers movies was the most like I remember it like, when I was in a kid in the late 70s and 80s, and on the basis of that, the portrait of the Hulk from that point of perspective was the most spot on.
No other superhero movie made before this, have captured this feel of the comics from back then, save maybe Spiderman(though not perfectly).
I think it makes sense that the face of Hulk has the one of the Original ego. When it comes to scary, maybe Nortons. When it comes to persona, I am not sure anyone has captured Banner, as I remember him. I love Norton, as an actor, but Ruffalo surprised me positively, and as a "rewrite" of a Banner, I find him the most believable.
I am aware there have been a lot of rewrites of Super heroes since then, though I do not follow these comics anymore, and haven't since the 80s.
Eh. I've only seen the Eric Bana Hulk. At that point super hero movies were still.. well, not great but alright. Worth wasting a few hours once. At this point it's just silly nonsense to me. I can't in good faith vote for either because I haven't seen the movies but neither one looked terribly convincing from the trailers.
I prefer Mark Ruffalo's Hulk, sure he wasn't really SCARY, but look at the Avengers for god's sake, theres a fucking demigod mixed in there.
I really liked that Ruffalo's Hulk kept Ruffalo's facial features, mostly just because it does a good job of linking Banner to the Hulk and uniting them as a single being with two sides.
Anyways, this may just because I fucking manloved the Avengers.
I'm going to say the Edward Norton Hulk. I think the Hulk typically looks better with longer hair, but thats just my opinion. Overall I think the Hulk looked best in his 1990's iterations.
Norton had almost everything perfectly, but the veins and almost tightness of the skin sort of freaked me out. Really, that probably is (by far) the best depiction of what the hulk should look like, but it at times seemed a little bit much in terms of the muscular detail.
I personally think the Avenger's Hulk is superior is every way.
The picture in the OP sets up a bit of a strawman, imo, because you have contrasting shots of different emotions. Ruffalo's Hulk looks the most organic. He may not seem like the most intensely angry and savage Hulk, but by far, he looks like the most REAL Hulk (pores in the skin, better anatomical structure, more careful luminescence in the eyes), and they lay the groundwork for him having a personality that somewhat emerges through.
Mark Ruffalo's Hulk definitely had moments where he looks every bit as fierce as Norton's Hulk, too: When he jumps on that F-22 after taking shots to the back, he's pretty angry looking.
I also think that both Hulk movies leading up to Avenger's were garbage. The Eric Bana one was trash, and the Ed Norton one was also not that good. I don't think that Ed Norton makes a good scientist at all, while Mark Ruffalo not only had some of the most poignant lines as Dr. Banner ("We are a chemical reaction that causes chaos";"What is S.H.I.E.L.D. even doing in the energy business"; for example), but we were worried for Black Widow when she tries to recruit Banner and he yells at her.
The other Hulks were melodramatic and most centered around him babysitting his girlfriend. I was very unimpressed by every Hulk movie ever made thus far, except for what they did with him in The Avengers. Of course, I could be wrong.
I will agree that Ed Norton as a scientist was kind of terrible. He seemed more like a bum living in Brazil than a genius trying to outwit the US army.
However Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner wasn't all that great either.. as someone who is well read in Physics, I wasn't impressed by anything he said nor did I feel as if he exuberated intelligence beyond average intellect.
Going back to the Hulk comparisons, there was no fight here which resulted from Bruce Banner being provoked - he was always angry. This simple notion kind of kills the concept for me.
On November 02 2012 09:32 Inertiaddict wrote: he looks like the most REAL Hulk (pores in the skin, better anatomical structure, more careful luminescence in the eyes), and they lay the groundwork for him having a personality that somewhat emerges through.
It's definitely not like there were advances in technology that allowed the more recent hulk to look better animated than the one from 2008.
I think they tried to make ruffalo's hulk terrifying when he goes crazy on the ship, but I don't think they pulled it off well. Mark ruffalo was the best banner I think but norton had the better hulk
but at the same time the norton hulk scene in the forest that reminded me of king kong was really really really stupid.
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