LeosLifeLog: The Incredible Hulk

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Incredible Hulk

Tonight Lamia and I watched The Incredible Hulk.
I have seen the first Hulk movie from 2003 on a DVD I bought at Amazon for little money and back then I was positively surprised by it. The actors were quite good: Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, Jennifer Connelly as Betty Ross, Sam Elliot as General Ross and Nick Nolte as villain. On top, the movie was creatively edited and conveyed a comic book feeling - something that I have not seen in any other Marvel or DC Comics adaptation.
The current movie is loosing out on all of this: Edward Norton does a mediocre job as Bruce Banner, Liv Tyler as Betty fends off any thought that she has ever been an at least average actress, William Hurt is a pitiful Ross and Tim Roth remains a faceless and boring villain, which is not even made up for by the special effects.

Yawn.
Booooring!

Gee, I count on the upcoming Batman movie. The 2005 Batman Begins movie and an article I read in the July issue of Wired give hope that this might become a comic adaptation that is worth the money...

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Wired Quote

This 19th-century avian assemblage makes the turducken look like a snack Don't think for a second that Paul Prudhomme or John Madden invented the idea of nested meats. Centuries before the turkey/duck/chicken combo became a mainstay at Thanksgiving bowl games, French gastronomist Grimod de la Reynière came up with something that makes that fowl ménage à trois seem positively tame. In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, he outlined the recipe for a dish that required 17 birds. He dubbed his recursive creation the rôti sans pareil, or "roast without equal." The ingredients: [deep breath] a bustard stuffed with a turkey, which is in turn stuffed with a goose, which is in turn stuffed with a pheasant, which is in turn stuffed with a chicken, which is in turn stuffed with a duck, which is in turn stuffed with a guinea fowl, which is in turn stuffed with a teal, which is in turn stuffed with a woodcock, which is in turn stuffed with a partridge, which is in turn stuffed with a plover, which is in turn stuffed with a lapwing, which is in turn stuffed with a quail, which is in turn stuffed with a thrush, which is in turn stuffed with a lark, which is in turn stuffed with an ortolan bunting, which is in turn stuffed with a garden warbler. The warbler is very small, but it's large enough to hold a "beautiful olive stuffed with anchovies and capers." Anchovies and capers? Sounds a bit excessive.

Wired Roast Without Equal , August 2010

Memorable

"The thing that haunts a guy is the stuff he wasn't ordered to do." (from Gran Torino)
"During the day, the cows would hang out in the pasture, chewing their cud. (Cud is the cow word for gum.) In the early evening, the cows had to be rounded up and taken to the barn for milking. I didn't work alone; I had a cow-worker: a highly trained farm dog named Ringo. The cows respected Ringo. He was a natural leader. When he barked, the cows would instantly line up at the barn door and offer to milk themselves." (from The Joy of Work)
"What would you do if you weren't afraid?" (from Who Moved My Cheese?)
"Most companies build their bureaucratic rules to manage the small percentage of wrong people on the bus, which in turn drives away the right people on the bus, which then increases the percentage of wrong people on the bus, which increases the need for more bureaucracy to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which then further drives the right people away, and so forth." (from Good to Great)
"Let's put a *smile* on that face!" (from The Dark Knight)
"Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig. / Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. / Can he swing / from a web? / No he can't, / 'cause he's a pig. / Look out! / He is the Spider-Pig!" (from The Simpsons Movie)
"The Ministry has fallen. (...) They are coming." (from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
"The world's still the same - there's just less in it." (from Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End)
"Ich will Sex. Schnellen harten Sex. Jetzt. Und ohne Tiere!" (from GorillaDelphia)
"Fight as if you are right; listen as if you are wrong." (from The No Asshole Rule)