{"id":874,"date":"2003-06-28T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T18:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2020-08-20T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T19:21:11","slug":"hulk-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/hulk-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"HULK (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So we saw the movie Hulk yesterday after work. (Perhaps that should be HULK? It seems to want allcaps.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was surprisingly good. Much has been said about the split-screen, framed shots being reminiscent of comic book layouts, which is true I guess, and helps give the impression that you are watching a comic. In a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s just icing. Hulk is good because it has a good story, good characters, and the visual spectacle of the Hulk himself, although extremely cool, is not the only thing to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of an Altman film, &#8220;The Player&#8221;, where studio executives are touting movie scripts. &#8220;It&#8217;s an action movie. But with heart. And romance!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, Hulk has all that. And really nice CGI effects. But he doesn&#8217;t get the girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we saw the movie Hulk yesterday after work. (Perhaps that should be HULK? It seems to want allcaps.) It was surprisingly good. Much has been said about the split-screen, framed shots being reminiscent of comic book layouts, which is true I guess, and helps give the impression that you are watching a comic. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}