Day 111: What in the Hell is a Requel?

[itasianinvasion]

The Incredible Hulk is coming out soon, and there’s been a lot of talk of it as “not a sequel,” a “new beginning,” or a “requel,” because it’s starting over, but not starting over, or whatever.  What’s really interesting is that everyone, literally everyone, the director, actors, producers, movie writers, reviewers, you know, everyone is talking

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[princessofemo]

YEAH! I heard they were just pretending that the first one never existed! That's ridiculous...

[anonymous]

It's as if somewhere, someone has rewritten history, because I can assure you none of that sentiment was even remotely present when the original actually came out... so much so that Robot Chicken referenced it in their take on the Hulk. Still, Ang Lee's Hulk was not a bad film per se; it was simply a film that sacrificed too much of the visceral in favor of the cerebral. Independent films do this all the goddamn time, much to my chagrin, by removing the seemingly natural and desired cathartic ending in favor of an ending in which the audience is left questioning. Like the total fuckup guy will meet a girl and fall in love and then fuck it up and then get his shot at redemption and misses it via random happenstance and then realized that he should pursue the girl he loves but fears that he might fuck it up all over again and then he gets in the car during a rainstorm and lights a cigarette and the credits end

[not_a_girl]

The first Hulk movie was atrocious. No amount of Hollywood backpedaling is going to change my mind on this. That said, Ed Nortons in this new one, so of course I'm seeing it. Man can act.

[spanishbullshit]

loved the first movie - saw it opening weekend. it was the first time i really thought a comic book movie "worked." since then there's been a few more to do it, but i think that was the first one that hit the button for me. and i'm not just talking the "cerebral" aspect, or whatever the buzzword for describing it is. i loved the use of the panel transitions, the exposition tightened into the opening credits, and the earnestness of the actors (i.e. not the tongue in cheek of the earlier batman/superman flicks). i'll follow nolte into hell