06-15-2008, 03:39 PM
I confess, that all this past week, when taking a break for lunch, I've been watching the SciFi channel's "Hulk week" and reliving the 70's Bill Bixby/Lous Ferrigno show. Everytime I watch one of the old 70s shows that I remember enjoying, I'm freshly surprised at just how bad they were and wondering just how bored and starved for anything resembling entertainment I must have been back then.
But dang it, I *did* enjoy them back then. And that's probably why I really enjoyed this version of the Hulk... it was SO Bill Bixby-ish, from reliving the accident with Banner strapped to the chair in the beginning to microscope view of his cells being affected by gamma radiation, to the essential walking down the street being depressed with the sad piano theme playing underneath.
Great chase scene in the slums of whatever city in Brazil he was in. And both Tim Roth and William Hurt are fantastic two-dimensional villains.
But dang it, I *did* enjoy them back then. And that's probably why I really enjoyed this version of the Hulk... it was SO Bill Bixby-ish, from reliving the accident with Banner strapped to the chair in the beginning to microscope view of his cells being affected by gamma radiation, to the essential walking down the street being depressed with the sad piano theme playing underneath.
Great chase scene in the slums of whatever city in Brazil he was in. And both Tim Roth and William Hurt are fantastic two-dimensional villains.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.