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I will clarify:

You said "The thing about those bits was they didn't go anywhere" and never mentioned the ending.

I replied "No they do, the whole point to that was to indicate how much emotion he kept to himself - Betty goes into detail about it - he discusses how the nanomeds fixed him physically but she asks about psychological repair. When he finally changes, he talks about how it kind of scares him when he totally loses control, because he likes it. He FINALLY gets to release all that pent up emotion which required a full back story to make any sense.

His first change is triggered mostly by current events and they only hint twice about his childhood. I think they only showed those because he was remembering his reintroduction to his father in the hospital. "

I never mentioned the ending anywhere, just like you.

Yeah, I am not sure you read the original post about the ending.

Yep, I have some similar thoughts. The first movie wasn't designed for fans of Michael Bay unlike the second.

This only makes sense if you never team. Fire all the way unless you solo.

Actually, that was a very interesting time period. I really liked Kyle's run for the most part.

I was replying to your post about the Hulk.

EDIT: Fixed. I've been to New York and I remember San Fran's famous bridge in that scene - dang it, it is 1:57 AM here and I am already losing it haha.

That's because he wasn't exposed to the nanomeds which were activated by the gamma radiation. There was plenty of hints of the trauma though - you are forgetting the scene where he was high school age, waking up shaking from nightmares. You are forgetting all of the scenes showing how much difficulty he had in opening up to Betty, which basically caused her to dump him.

It wouldn't hurt watching it again with an open mind.

His father was already a villain before he became The Absorbing Man, but I get what you are saying.

Depends on which version, since the hulk has had so many alterations. In this one he is more like the original, more base/raw emotion like an animal.

You kidding?

Yeah you are pretty spot on. I think people believe the same thing about The Incredibles - that they could do a sequel quite easily as there wasn't much action as the actual superheroes they were.

To be honest, I thought Hulk seemed way stronger than The Incredible Hulk when it came to feats. I mean he threw a tank like it was a toy. He ripped off a missle head with his mouth and spit the explosive like a spitball. The Hulk also did a stomp in the lab against an air tank, but then also did a ground pound that caused a mini-earthquake flipping cars down the street. I thought it was GREAT how he grew bigger mid-fight in The Hulk the angrier he got. The Incredible Hulk got dizzied from one hit by the Abomination, whereas The Hulk fell from the edge of our atmosphere into the ocean, and decided to dig through San Francisco's underground for a couple of miles before emerging.

I think the struggle is the key. Betty is told what happened (so that the audience can relate to her and understand) and it is such a powerful image in Bruce's life that even getting near that incident in his memory has caused a psychotic break - the split in personality gives hints to himself of his alter ego when he nears that incident in his memory several times.

I like the shots of the various animals that were experimented with to make him what he is as he gets nearer to rage - very nice touch.

I thought Nick Nolte was also good in this role, but again the ending was terrible.

They basically pushed a couple of buttons to create the incredible hulk and the abomination, it was kind of laughable. Even the TV show pilot had way more to it. (David) had an odd DNA abnormality like several other people did but in a moment of crisis, he couldn't save his wife, and later he finds out it was due to low gamma radiation from the sun during that incident. The lab boys were expanding the capabilities of all the equipment at the time, and they had not tested the new limits for the radiation machine when David decided to give himself a potency he thought was limited to 1000 on a dial. He finds out the next day that he actually took a dose of 1 million.

Nah, I think fans of the 2nd movie really dislike the idea of a deeper character with the psychological problems that he had involving his father, which is closer to the comic. The 2nd movie had more CG action if you are into that over storyline.

I'm also a huge fan of Danny Elfman, which was icing on the cake.

Ok, so Opera has failed it in distant instead of recent past. I hate Opera.

That sounds delicious, provided one can survive. I have one but he's in the 30s I think.

Well, I don't skip powers based on solo ability. I team up with people as often as I can, and you run into immobilize/hold powers from teammates quite often even on PUGs. I also have web envelope from Black Scorpion.

I like Chrome a lot. I haven't tested it recently, but the main reason I haven't switched from FF is because in the past it bogged way down after a long session simply switching focus on tabs.

Which version?

Kinda crippling settings, but I don't know your browsing habits.

Well.... then you better get used to not browsing the web, as all browsers have had and still have security issues. Ones that started off less evil is ok then?

Anyways, I am not here to argue for the browser outside of the idea that it is still super unsecure for those that don't keep up with things.