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Sonic Charmer wants to know why they change size. Or, not so much wants to know, but is having trouble getting past the dimension shift.
I’ve always had a bit of a problem with the increased mass. Although there is an explanation:
Charles Q. Choi from LiveScience.com further explains that unlike the Hulk, gamma rays are not green; existing as they do beyond the visible spectrum, gamma rays have no color at all that we can describe. He also explains that gamma rays are so powerful (the most powerful form of electromagnetic radiation and 10,000 times more powerful than visible light) that they can even create matter from energy – a possible explanation for the increased mass that Bruce Banner takes on during transformations. “Just as the Incredible Hulk ‘is the strongest one there is,’ as he says himself, so too are gamma ray bursts the most powerful explosions known.”
Sonic takes particular umbrage with the increased size of the teeth. His real beef is with the CGI…he’s watching the most recent version of Hulk. And he’s right, Hulk’s teeth are like the size of cereal boxes. It just doesn’t work…
But I disagree about this being in a completely different league from Superman zipping through the atmosphere at several times the speed of sound, and then landing just as clean as when he took off. I rode my bike twenty miles just today, and I’m covered with scum and dust and dead insects…even pebbles. Of course, Superman doesn’t have to wear sunscreen, but still.
Yeah, that bothers me just as much as Hulk’s teeth. Superman’s speed is measured in miles per second…speeds like this can melt the wings off aircraft…but when he lands, every hair is in place.
That’s just as bad, I say.
And while we’re at it, how come seagulls always seem to be immaculately groomed? I mean, in real life. They’re wild animals, aren’t they?
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I’m still wondering: when the Hulk undergoes his transformation, he gets too big for Bruce Banner’s shirt, shoes, etc. They either are thrown off his body or are ripped apart as the body grows.
So…uh….why do the *pants* grow in size to match him? Oh, they rip a bit around the lower cuffs, but suddenly they stretch or something and are still on him when he’s all big and green?
I know, I know…the movies and cartoons and comics are family fare and we can’t have a naked Hulk running around, his big green schlong flopping hither and yon while he’s growling and tearing things up. I just like bringing it up now and then.
- cylarz | 06/05/2011 @ 23:11Keep in mind, Sonic’s point is he’s getting something of a migraine watching the CGI stuff that he didn’t get when watching the old Bill Bixby show. And I don’t have the memory for this, I never did look at it too closely, but to the best I can recall he’s right — Lou Ferrigno’s body dimensions are not way off in a separate universe from the late Mr. Bixby’s. He’s not eighteen feet tall or anything.
Now this does bring up something that was going on with mens’ trousers back in the seventies. They flared outward down by the ankles, cuffs the size of large dinner plates. And they were skin tight around the derriere. Painted-on. That’s what the fashionable gentleman wore on prime time teevee, which partially explains how Bo & Luke Duke slithered in & out of the General Lee’s windows…but unfortunately, this does not lend well to the tearing pattern of Hulk’s pants as he transformed.
My son had another question about the Bixby show: How come the Incredible Hulk keeps throwing the bad guys into & onto squishy soft things? Piles of empty boxes, stacks of styrofoam, peat bogs, wet cement — never hard cement, a running boulder-crushing machine or a vat of molten metal. That’s another thing about the seventies, it was sort of a “Greedo Shot First” decade. Good guys never hurt anybody no matter what the situation was, lest they cease to be good guys. Amazing we ever survived it. I didn’t notice it until we watched several episodes back-to-back…but it is rather repetitious. Two guys in muttonchop sideburns and leisure suits try to kill Bill Bixby, often for no reason at all. Bixby transforms. Hulk goes “Rar!,” throws the bad guys into soft squishy things and then runs away.
- mkfreeberg | 06/06/2011 @ 07:36I never did look at it too closely, but to the best I can recall he’s right — Lou Ferrigno’s body dimensions are not way off in a separate universe from the late Mr. Bixby’s. He’s not eighteen feet tall or anything.
I did notice this while watching the movies vs the 1970s TV show. When the Hulk appears, he was only – at best – 7 feet tall in the TV show. Maybe eight, even in context of the show. A big guy, sure, but still believable.
The movies? Yeah, he was easily three times that – both in the (awful) 2003 movie and in the newer film (2007?) which I admittedly have not seen all the way through.
Why was that? Why couldn’t the movie(s) just stick with the original formula?
- cylarz | 06/06/2011 @ 11:51