Movies.ie advanced screening for The Incredible Hulk

humanji

Movies.ie are how doing a competition for The Incredible Hulk advanced screening for anyone who's interested.

oxygen_old

humanji wrote: »

Movies.ie are how doing a competition for The Incredible Hulk advanced screening for anyone who's interested.

Thx for the tip humanji. Think is tho, if they send out a ticket, wont be in the post till Tuesday, since I pressume no post on a bank holiday Monday.

Anyone know if I can get in with an email to this screening?
Or where its on, I could ring and book a ticket?

*really want to see this flick Tues, dont want to wait till Monday week like a chump

johnny_ultimate

oxygen wrote: »

Thx for the tip humanji. Think is tho, if they send out a ticket, wont be in the post till Tuesday, since I pressume no post on a bank holiday Monday.

Anyone know if I can get in with an email to this screening?
Or where its on, I could ring and book a ticket?

*really want to see this flick Tues, dont want to wait till Monday week like a chump

Well for Gone Baby Gone you just had to collect it from the foyer. No post involved, just said your name.

And the screening for this is on June the 10th right?

oxygen_old

crap it is the 10th

The Artist

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Well for Gone Baby Gone you just had to collect it from the foyer. No post involved, just said your name.

And the screening for this is on June the 10th right?

i think its the 13th,i may be wrong.

Jello

It's the 10th indeed.

The Artist

Incredible Hulk, The

• Currently -2147483648/5 Stars.

Release Date 13 Jun 2008
95% of raters want to see this
Cast: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt
Writer(s): Edward Norton, Zak Penn, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby,
Producers(s): Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd, Kevin Feige, Directors(s): Louis Leterrier

bigslick

The movies.ie screening is the 10th as it is an early screening. The film is released on the 13th.

constitutionus

the add on the bus's rolling around dublin today say its out the 12th !

have to admit kinda jazzed to see this now. cant wait to see the

iron man cameo, dont care if its as stark or his alter ego it'd be fun nonetheless

II+II=V

Hi all.

Anyone got their tickets yet? I haven't heard but checked the site today, and saw someone thanking them for their tickets. Does this mean they are all gone. You guys heard?

johnny_ultimate

Just got an email confirming tickets Postage tickets again.
Movies.ie is proving a damn good site for some free tickets at this point!

humanji

Got an email today saying I'd won woo. Huzzah for Movies.IE, I say!!!

I didnt get them this time

The Artist

humanji will give you the winning ticket:p

humanji

Alan Ford wrote: »

humanji will give you the winning ticket:p

Oh, do I have to? Dammit, I was looking forward to this.

edit: just read that it's just the first batch of 100 tickets that have been sent out, so you could still get called.

The Artist

humanji wrote: »

Oh, do I have to? Dammit, I was looking forward to this.

edit: just read that it's just the first batch of 100 tickets that have been sent out, so you could still get called.

nice of you to offer, il have it instead!

sergiotheonly

Hi there,
so are you supposed to get an email whether you won a ticket or not?
Don't seem to have gotten a reply myself, assume its a little late now...

I actually got my tickets today. I didnt get the first batch but i got the second batch .

johnny_ultimate

Tickets arrived this morning in a green envelope (naturally). Hopefully the film will be decent!

sergiotheonly

so theres still a little hope of getting a ticket in the post on monday morning.
here's hoping - kinda looking forward to this film.

Jello

Didn't win this time, so if anyone has two spare tickets/can't make it, I'd gladly take them

II+II=V

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, my tickets arrived this morning. I'm well pleased.

Also, did anyone see this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiTRMMJYMrg&eurl=http://www.movies.ie/html/article.aspx?articleid=2533

faceman

No tickets for me this time.

if anyone has a spare i will gladly ease the burden for them!

johnny_ultimate

Well... that wasn't bad. Big improvement over part one.It has action, light comedy and Hulk Smashing up this and that. Does the job well, loads of references to the Marvel universe. Ain't going to change the way we watch films, but for a stupid comic book movie theres been far, far worse. Entertaining nonsense... plus one hell of a hint at the end for a kick ass sequel.

Creature

I thought it was great. Edward Norton and William Hurt were excellent. The plot flowed perfectly, there wasn't too much action and it was broken up nicely. Also the CG was quite impressive and looked good. For me this was the film that the 2003 Hulk should have been.

humanji

Yeah, I thought it was great, too. It was great fun and I was so happy that they just ignored the first film all together. During the opening credits I already new it was going to be better than the first one. The CGI looked great, and blended in really well with the real world.

There were loads of references to the TV series too, which were pretty funny at times (I laughed my ass off when Lou Ferrigno appearred). All in all, an enjoyable romp, and makes up for watching the crapfest that was Indiana Jones, the other week.

Shiminay

hmmmmm.....

I went last night and thought the film to be quite enjoyable. I'm not sure if it's "better or worse" than the Ang Lee one (which incidently, I loved, dunno why everyone hates it). The cast were excellent, I tip my hat in particular to William Hurt and Tim Roth.

The CGI was as good as I've come to expect from a modern SFX tour de force. Comedy value was excellent in places - the use of the TV series end credit music and the appearance of Lou Ferrenga as mentioned above.

I knew they'd make an Avengers reference somewhere, and the mention of Stark Enterprises in the opening credits confirmed this for me. I wonder will they be fighting Hulk (like the first Ultimates story) or joining up with him?

Overall, I'm happy I saw it, but happier that it was free

Point of note: WTF do the Savoy cinema think they're doing by making 400 people wait for their mobiles for nearly a half hour? That's a fupping disgrace and will never give them any of my money again. I'll gladly go to free screenings of stuff and will be bringing my own munchies.

humanji

Kharn wrote: »

Point of note: WTF do the Savoy cinema think they're doing by making 400 people wait for their mobiles for nearly a half hour? That's a fupping disgrace and will never give them any of my money again. I'll gladly go to free screenings of stuff and will be bringing my own munchies.

Forgot to mentione that. It was a f*cking joke. Next time just say you didn't bring your phone.

Nevyn

Kharn wrote: »

hmmmmm.....

I went last night and thought the film to be quite enjoyable. I'm not sure if it's "better or worse" than the Ang Lee one (which incidently, I loved, dunno why everyone hates it).

Not cannon, enough said tbh.

Kharn wrote: »

The cast were excellent, I tip my hat in particular to William Hurt and Tim Roth.

The CGI was as good as I've come to expect from a modern SFX tour de force. Comedy value was excellent in places - the use of the TV series end credit music and the appearance of Lou Ferrenga as mentioned above.

Cool

Kharn wrote: »

I knew they'd make an Avengers reference somewhere, and the mention of Stark Enterprises in the opening credits confirmed this for me. I wonder will they be fighting Hulk (like the first Ultimates story) or joining up with him?

OMG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Avengers_members
The Hulk is a founding member of the Avengers see Avengers vol. 1 #1 (1963) so like Duh ! I know 1000 comic geek points for me but still.....

Overall, I'm happy I saw it, but happier that it was free

Kharn wrote: »

Point of note: WTF do the Savoy cinema think they're doing by making 400 people wait for their mobiles for nearly a half hour? That's a fupping disgrace and will never give them any of my money again. I'll gladly go to free screenings of stuff and will be bringing my own munchies.

They made you check in your phone ?
I know at one stage they had a jammer and had to get rid of it.

faceman

I didnt get to see it but am looking forward to it.

I believe

Lou Ferrigno also does the hulk's voice?

Or so the director said in an interview!

humanji

Well he just shouts "HULK SMASH" and screams a lot, so it'd be hard to tell.

Kharn wrote:

I knew they'd make an Avengers reference somewhere, and the mention of Stark Enterprises in the opening credits confirmed this for me. I wonder will they be fighting Hulk (like the first Ultimates story) or joining up with him?

Well,

at the end battle we see that Bruce is starting to learn to control the Hulk and from the last bit with the meditiation, it gives the impression that he's also starting to learn how to control when he changes, so I'd say he'll be part of the team pretty much from the start.

bruce wayne

yea the green eyes and the smile...feckin brilliant

JCDenton

I've always enjoyed the Incredible Hulk, or, at least the "idea" behind the character. The interesting "Jekyll and Hyde" persona always seemed different to other comic book heroes in that Bruce Banner didn't really enjoy turning into an enormous green monster and hurting people.

Ang Lee's film had this, and, so does this new version / sequel.

I was squirming in my seat with excitement during the opening credits, and the wonderful intruduction to Bruce's new life hiding out in Brazil gave rise to some "Bourne" style chases through the town, and culminates in a re-introduction to the Hulk.

And he was actually kinda scary too! Brilliant!


Unlike the above posters though, the part that lost it for me was the "puns". Sure, seeing Bruce buy some stretchy purple pants was fun, along with a few of the other "in-jokes"; but I was just outright confused when the entire audience burst into laughter at the sight of Lou Ferrigno? I don't remember that happening in 2003's Hulk?


Some minor questions that maybe someone can clear up for me:

What was the story with Bruce being worried about his blood in the factory bottles?

- Was it so that he could "stay off the grid"?

- His blood was poisonous and would kill someone?

- Drinking his blood would make you into a hulk as well?

Also - I did NOT like the inclusion of the

heart-rate monitor

. It's like it was only put in to establish another joke

later on with Betty, "in the bedroom"

.

What happened to him "getting angry" to turn into the Hulk; not "if his heart rate rises / is unfit / has high blood pressure / etc...???"

.


Not as good as Iron Man, but...


8/10

bruce wayne

Lou Ferrigno had a cameo in the 2003 movie..as a security guard. He was seen walking out of the lab building with Stan Lee as Banner was walking in.

JCDenton

bruce wayne wrote: »

Lou Ferrigno had a cameo in the 2003 movie..as a security guard. He was seen walking out of the lab building with Stan Lee as Banner was walking in.

Exactly!

That's what I mean - I don't remember the audience in 2003 bursting into laughter and cheering when they appeared on screen?

Were there just a lot of "Hulk Fans" there last night?

humanji

The audience were just in a better mood? Not many enjoyed the first one, so seeing as how people were really getting into this one maybe they just got more enjoyment out of seeing Ferrigno.

As for your other question,

he new that there was something in his blood and wanted to make sure that nobody else was accidentally infected by it.

tylerdurden94

Ive never seen a movie get such a rapturous applause as this.

JCDenton

humanji wrote: »

As for your other question,

he new that there was something in his blood and wanted to make sure that nobody else was accidentally infected by it.

So is Stan Lee another super-hero now for having ingested some of Bruce's blood?

Something I liked a lot about the first film was the 1 in a million nature of the experiment that turns Bruce into the Hulk, ranging from his father's genetic experiments years earlier, which were passed on to Bruce, then the combination of the release of the Gamma rays and nanomeds, all resulted in something that was completely random and impossible to replicate.

In this film though, you can just "Stand in front of a gamma projector, or,

inject yourself with Bruce's blood;

and hey presto - you're a superhero/villain"

humanji

JCDenton wrote: »

So is Stan Lee another super-hero now for having ingested some of Bruce's blood?

Well, he's super and my hero, but I think they were trying to get across that the blood was diluted and so just had some minor effect on him (though they never say).

JCDenton wrote: »

In this film though, you can just "Stand in front of a gamma projector, or,

inject yourself with Bruce's blood;

and hey presto - you're a superhero/villain"

You have to bear in mind that the first film had little to do with the Hulk comics and that this one tried to stay truer to the comic style and storyline.

Also,

Roth could only turn into Abomination after being injected with Banners blood AND being hit with gamma rays. He didn't turn into another Hulk, because the blood was synthesised from Banners blood, and not the real stuff, and also because he had been injected with a high dosage of the Captain America serum. That's why General Ross was so keen to capture Banner, he needed the blood to be able to recreate the results.