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DVD Shopping Bag: Seventy Minutes
By: Robert T. TrateDate: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The new version of the Incredible Hulk is, in my opinion, well done. It is not awesome nor is it awful. It is a tribute to the TV show if nothing else. Finally the heart, soul and loneliness of Bruce Banner are back and that part of the movie is better than Ang Lee’s version. Now I hear there is more Incredible Hulk out there, somewhere.
The rumor about the new Incredible Hulk movie is that seventy minutes has apparently been cut from the film. Edward Norton has stepped aside from doing any publicity about the film. He is apparently upset because Marvel wanted to trim down the film and make it sleeker and more action oriented. Marvel Studios shortened the film, as rumors have it, to separate it from Ang Lee’s vision of the Hulk from back in 2003. Will this keep you from seeing it in the theater with the hope of a longer cut on DVD? Will this keep you from seeing it again in the theater knowing full well that another version sits out there in some editing bay?
I cannot help but wonder about those additional seventy minutes. Would a longer version of movie been better? Peter Jackson’s last two films come to mind has great arguments for the pro and con: The Lord of the Rings Return of the King and King Kong.
The theatrical cut of Return of the King was long. Many thought even too long. However, many fans love the extended cut and all knew that when the DVD arrived there would be “…room for a little more”. We all knew there would be more because it had happened two times before. We knew it, loved it and couldn’t wait to buy it. The problem was when Peter Jackson delivered his next film we saw this huge bloated tribute to King Kong. A long version with nothing left on the editing room floor. Taking a lead from his extended cuts of LOTR, Jackson gave us what he thought we all wanted, everything. The film was an awesome spectacle but after a while it became a snore fest just waiting for them to get to the island and then for Kong to get to the Empire State Building. A shorter version of the film could have made that longer cut a treat instead it just turned a lot of people off.
Will Norton’s cut of the Incredible Hulk surface? Will those seventy minutes really matter or will they release both versions like they did for Mark Steven Johnson’s Daredevil? Will you wait for the longer cut? All this is in Marvel’s hands but will your dollars go into Marvel’s pocket?
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