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Posted to: FilmFirst Community Board
User: mateo_@777
Title: watched the hulk movie #Not a review #Just thoughts.
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Okay, so first things first…. this is not a review.
I don't do reviews, and I can't, because I usually don't watch movies. If you're looking for someone who's going to talk about cinematography or anything like that, you've got the wrong guy.
Quick background so you understand where this is coming from: I am an MMA and WWE guy.
That's my thing. I watch fights, real and competitive ones, the whole spectrum. I know nothing about films, and I don't have opinions on them.
Until about three days ago, I had never even heard the term 'MDCU'.
Apparently, that's a whole thing that exists. Who knew? Not me.
Anyway, my best friend dragged me to this.
I want to be honest about that because she deserves credit, and also because I want it on record that I was not planning to go.
She asked, and I said yes because I didn't want to make it weird.
I spent the drive there genuinely unsure why I was going to watch a film about a green man when I could be doing literally anything else.
I owe her an apology… and a thank you. I will figure out the watch order later.
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I don't have the technical vocabulary for what I am about to say, so bear with me.
It looked natural on the screen when I knew for sure that everything is fake, a giant green man isn't real; but the way the hits landed in the fight sequence, there was a logic to it that I recognized from watching actual fights…
Each action led to the next in a way that made physical sense, and I did not expect that from a film about a giant green man.
The factory sequence at the beginning had me leaning forward before I even noticed I was completely invested in the film.
I don't even want to talk about the car scene, and I have been thinking about it for three days.
All I could say is–
It was correct.
Whatever that was, it was the correct decision, and I stand by that.
One thing I need help with: at one point during the film, maybe somewhere around the middle, the camera moves through a crowd scene… just normal and background people…. and suddenly about a third of the cinema started clapping and making noise.
I looked at the screen and saw… two men walking and that's it, not even a single dialogue, just in the background of a shot, and the cinema lost their minds for about fifteen seconds, then went back to normal.
I looked at my friend and she looked back at me with the same confused expression.
Neither of us had any idea what just happened.
Can someone explain this? I am not being sarcastic. I genuinely want to know what I missed.
I would have missed the ending completely.
We were already standing up when the kid sitting next to us told us to stay.
He didn't explain why exactly, just said 'trust me' and something about watching it recorded on someone's phone in bad quality, which was apparently a personal trauma for him.
We stayed.
I don't want to spoil it, but I have serious questions.
I am going to put them in a separate post because this one is already long.
I said my friend dragged me here and I want to be clear that she had no real reason to think I would like this film, she just thought I might and she was right.
I am not great at saying things directly, so I will say it here, where she probably won't read it:
That was genuinely one of the better evenings I have had in a while, and it was because of the film and also because of the company. I should probably watch more films.
Okay, that's all. Be nice in the comments.
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Comments: 847
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comicverse_dee: To answer your question about the two men. They are Regal Seraphsail who built the entire MDCU from scratch, wrote most of it, directed several of the biggest entries, produced all of it. And the other is Stan Lee. He's the co-creator of most of the original Marvel characters in the comics before they became films. Jerry Siegel was the third of them and he passed away a few years ago which is why you will see people get emotional when Stan appears on screen sometimes. It's not just recognition, it's also a little bit of grief and a little bit of gratitude. The tradition of him appearing in the films started as a small thing and became something people look forward to specifically.
…and this is the first time Regal had ever made a cameo, it can be considered as his debut film in 'acting'.
Also welcome, genuinely, the best way to come into these films is without knowing too much. You experienced it correctly.
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nova_fightclub: Okay first of all the car thing was objectively the single greatest moment in any film this year I don't care what anyone says and second of all you described the action choreography as having a "logic you recognised from actual fights" which is the most accurate thing anyone has said about this film and you're not even a film person.
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lurking_fire: Bro read your own post back to yourself, slowly and pay attention to every time you mention your friend. I will wait.
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siennawatches: The way you described going because you didn't want to make it weird. SIR. You went on a date. That's what that was. That's a date.
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mateo_@777: @Siennawatches it wasn't a date we're just friends
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siennawatches: @mateo_777 Okay honey.
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regularrohit: WHERE DO YOU FIND A GIRL WHO TAKES YOU TO WATCH HULK ON A FIRST DATE. ASKING FOR A FRIEND. ASKING FOR MYSELF. THIS IS FOR ME.
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mateo_777: @regularrohit Again it wasn't a date
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regularrohit: @mateo_777 Brother with respect, it was a date.
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comicverse_dee: I love that the MDCU fandom is in this comment section being genuinely helpful and kind to someone experiencing it for the first time. This is the behaviour and exactly what we should always be doing. Well done everyone. Especially the kid at the cinema who made them stay for the end credits. Unsung hero of this entire story.
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Regularrohin: MY FRIEND. The girl learned your interests, found a film matching them, personally dragged you there, and you went home and wrote "I went because I didn't want to hurt her feelings." SIR. SIR SHE LIKES YOU. AND I BET THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FROM YEARS.
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Lurking_fire: the "she probably won't read it" at the end. She has read it. She has definitely read it and every person reading this comment knows she has read it. You are the only person who does not know she has read it.
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mateo_@777: @Lurking_fire She doesn't use this platform
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siennawatches: @mateo_777 She does have an account, made it three years ago, it's just that she doesn't post.
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mateo_@777: how do you know that
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siennawatches: We're not going to talk about how I know that
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Mateo was not, by nature, a person who spent time in comment sections.
He had posted the thing, gone to bed, woken up to forty notifications, read approximately eight of them before his breakfast got cold, and had been conducting a rearguard action against the comment section ever since - replying to the straightforward questions about the film, ignoring the other category entirely, maintaining the position that the other category was not worth engaging with.
The position was becoming difficult to maintain.
Not because of the volume, which was manageable, but because of the specificity.
The people pointing out that she had suggested a film she knew nothing about based entirely on his interests were harder to dismiss than the people who had simply said that's a date, you went on a date.
The date people he could attribute to misreading and other ones had done actual reasoning.
He scrolled past three more comments, each one arriving at the same destination from a different direction, and then stopped at one that was long enough that he had to expand it.
He read it again and again.
Set his phone face-down on the table and picked it up.
He sat with it for a moment - the particular stillness of a person whose brain has just handed them a piece of information they had been storing in the wrong folder for two years and is now presenting it correctly labelled and he was not entirely sure what to do with it.
He opened his messages before he finished the thought, typing fast in the way you type when you're trying to move faster than your own hesitation–
"The movie was a date."
…and sent.
The read receipt appeared instantly.
"Wait wait!!!"
"Where is the question mark????"
He looked at the five words sitting there and it didn't have a question mark.
Not was the movie a date with the question mark that would have given him the exit, the plausible deniability, the just checking, asking, totally casual.
Five words in a straight declarative line that meant something entirely different from what he had been going for and she had already read them and the delete button appeared on his screen a full second after the seen notification.
One second, he sat completely still.
The three dots appeared on her side, then disappeared and appeared again.
He was not breathing at a normal rate.
The dots appeared a third time and this time they stayed and he watched them with the focus of a person for whom nothing else in the room existed and then the message arrived -
"Took you long enough."
He read it twice and put the phone face down on the table.
The ceiling of his room was exactly as unhelpful as ceilings always are but he looked at it anyway because he needed to look at something that wasn't the screen for approximately four seconds.
He typed: I was going to ask properly.
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[To be continued…]
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