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Though I'll admit that the CGI Hulk varied between looking pretty decent to vaguely better than graphics from the video game, I still stand by the movie as being good, and I think most of the people who found it to be slow and boring suffer from a lack of attention span. These are probably the same people who found the Lord of the Rings movies boring.

I've got to hand it to Ang Lee, he turned the Hulk movie into a fascinating character study and father-son Greek tragedy. While others found the unusual editing and scene transitions to be distracting or annoying, I thought they were brilliant. They really brought a comic book feel to the movie in a way that's never been done before.

I've never really been a fan of the Hulk, but I am reading the current run on the title by Bruce Jones (which is fucking fantastic), and I always had some vague knowledge about the character. Hulk never struck me as being particularly heroic, it's kind of hard for a guy who is pissed off all the time to be a champion for good (former membership in the Avengers notwithstanding). I always thought the whole point of the book was that Hulk was a fucking MONSTER, he's NOT a nice guy, and Banner is the hero. It's Banner's presence somewhere deep within Hulk alone that struggles to keep him from rampaging and killing everything in sight. Besides, the idea of the Hulk running for his life from the military is something we have seen in the comics before.

I didn't find this movie as outright entertaining as Spider-Man, and I didn't feel it was as good as X2, but I'd place it about on the same level as the first X-Men movie. It was a solid comic book movie that did a great job of introducing us to the characters and bringing them to life on the big screen.

And I think everyone who's seen all the Marvel comic movies can agree...at least it's better than Daredevil.