Blank Check — Patreon: The Incredible Hulk

Published 2019-01-21; 1:57:47 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “The Incredible Hulk”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Ben Hosley (producer, in the room).

Subject films: The Incredible Hulk (2008).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy crosstalk; Griffin, David and Ben are all present, but who said what is mostly uncertain, so speaker names are low confidence. Some timestamps appear compressed relative to film runtime.

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industry (industry): The Incredible Hulk → Sony. Universal's Hulk rights and Marvel's creative control are likened to the Sony Spider-Man deal.
“The the Sony Spider-Man deal.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:16 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Incredible Hulk → Hulk. A speaker says the opening credits re-establish the origin so the film can claim to be a new beginning rather than a direct sequel to Ang Lee's film.
“So this is why people say, oh, it this isn't a direct sequel to Angly because they make the...”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:49 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): James Schamus → The Incredible Hulk. Schamus's actual Hulk 2 pitch was about Native American reservations rather than Hulk fights; Zak Penn's conventional version is what got made.
“He mostly just talked about Native American reservations and how that land is continually being exploited and how it's more trenchant than ever now.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:05:47 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Incredible Hulk → Hulk. Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening.
“And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Incredible Hulk → Fast Five. The film belongs to a 2007-2011 window where everything was set in Rio favelas with rooftop chases, like the Fast and Furious entries.
“in, like, there's a four-year gap window in Hollywood where they're like, everything should be set in the favelas of Rio.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:07:17 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Louis Leterrier → Unleashed. A speaker praises Unleashed as their favorite of the Europa Corp films that Leterrier made before this.
“Unleashed is my favorite of the Europa.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:11:09 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Louis Leterrier → The Incredible Hulk. Leterrier is said to have based the film closely on Jeph Loeb's comic Hulk: Gray.
“So apparently Louis Letierrier based this very intently on Jeff Loeb's Hulk Gray, which no one remembers or likes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:14:45 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Italian Job → The Incredible Hulk. Norton gives either a gun-to-the-head performance (Italian Job) or 110 percent; this is the one film that feels uneven.
“There are movies like the Italian job where like Paramount forced him to be in it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:15:40 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Fight Club → The Incredible Hulk. Norton's live-wire narrator in Fight Club was a blueprint for a Banner performance, yet he is boring in this.
“the narrator in Fight Club kind of feels like a perfect show reel for a Bruce Banner performance, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:16:06 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
people (people): Edward Norton → The Incredible Hulk. Norton rewrote Zak Penn's script, cut Rick Jones and more S.H.I.E.L.D., added the flower scene, and lobbied the WGA.
“Norton takes Rick Jones out.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:18:18 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Incredible Hulk → Interstellar. Marvel's later formula is compared to fast food where quality control is the achievement; this film is the Subway-or-worse option.
“Like Marvel, when they figure out their formula for better or worse, they become like fast food.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:19:32 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Iron Man → The Incredible Hulk. Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe.
“I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): William Hurt → Sam Elliott. Hurt took over Thunderbolt Ross but Elliott in Ang Lee's movie made the role impossible to imagine otherwise.
“To me, once they had cast Sam Elliott, it was impossible to imagine anyone else in the role, which sounds ridiculous, but it's true.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
programming (programming): William Hurt → The Avengers. Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk.
“The only kind of thread they keep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Incredible Hulk → The Avengers. Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out.
“The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Hulk → The Incredible Hulk. Ruffalo, Bixby and Bana all share a haunted Banner; this film prioritizes action over that.
“Right, but let's say, like Ruffalo, Bixby, and Bana all get the same thing that's most important, which is this guy's kind of haunted.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:34 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Avengers → The Incredible Hulk. Avengers' Hulk transformation is frightening and feels large; here it is cartoony.
“The Hulk's transformation is frightening.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:27:25 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Louis Leterrier → Luc Besson. The action style is the Europa Corp habit of lots of coverage and fast cutting, which kills tension in the 'hiding the Hulk' sequence.
“This is the, like, the shitty, like, not Luca Pisson himself, but the Europa Corp thing of just, like, get a lot of coverage and cut fast.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:28:54 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Amazing Spider-Man 2 → The Incredible Hulk. Told as a tangent on bad superhero origins: Tim Roth's Abomination origin ('I want to be big like Hulk') triggers a retelling of Electro's origin.
“Ben, do you know electro's origin and Amazing Spider-Man 2?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:31:00 · Griffin or David (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Pharrell Williams → The Amazing Spider-Man 2. A Pharrell song plays over Electro's walk through Times Square and its lyrics echo his inner monologue.
“But the dialogue, the lyrics to the song are like his in our monologue where it's like, no one notices you.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:32:40 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Incredible Hulk → Batman Forever / Batman & Robin (the Schumacher movies). Speakers agree the Schumacher films are more engaging than the worst superhero movies.
“I think we both agree that both of the Schumacher movies are at least more engaging in how like...”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:33:46 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Batman Forever / Batman & Robin (the Schumacher movies) → The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The Schumacher Batmans are called more coherent in vision than ASM2, said to be the worst superhero movie.
“There's such a, like, specific coherent vision, even if it's the vision.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:33:56 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Incredible Hulk → Captain America (First Avenger / MCU). The WWII super-soldier line makes theater audiences excited for a Captain America reference, a habit Iron Man 2 repeats.
“Iron Man 2 is the guiltiest of that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:36:32 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Tim Roth → Planet of the Apes. Roth had to turn down Snape in the Harry Potter films to play the ape in Burton's Planet of the Apes, and the makeup is still phenomenal.
“He was going to be Professor Snape in there.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:38:18 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Planet of the Apes → Interstellar. Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation.
“It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Planet of the Apes → Planet of the Apes. Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original.
“Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Mego → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Mego made the Planet of the Apes, Marvel and DC toys, gave heroes vehicles, passed on Star Wars and went under.
“They passed on Star Wars because they thought it wasn't worth it and they went under”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:41:34 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift → Hulk. Hulk-van talk reminds a speaker of Bow Wow's Hulk-fist BMW in Tokyo Drift.
“And then, of course, in Fast and Furious, Tokyo Drift, Lil Bow Wow drives a whole car.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:42:44 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
people (people): Martin Starr → Judd Apatow. Starr, from the Apatow TV circle, is cast as Amadeus Cho, a major Asian character in the comics.
“Martin Starr is in this movie and he plays a character.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:43:22 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Liv Tyler → Jennifer Connelly. Tyler as Betty is a step down from Connelly in Ang Lee's film, who is called terrific.
“She's definitely stepped down from Jennifer Connolly, one of the best of her generation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:45:38 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Liv Tyler → The Strangers. The Strangers, released within two weeks of Hulk, may be Tyler's best performance.
“Strangers may be her best performance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:49:24 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Hulk → The Incredible Hulk. Ang Lee's film is about four-person relationships so lack of scale works there; this one is a perfunctory action film.
“No, and that's an asset to the Angli Hulk because it's just about those relationships.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:51:43 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Incredible Hulk → X2 / X3 / Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Toronto doubled for Harlem like Vancouver forests recurred in Fox superhero movies.
“They always meet in this one forest and you're like, is it, do all forests look the same?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:53:28 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Mark Ruffalo → Eric Bana. Bana's and Ruffalo's CGI Hulks stay tied to the actor psychologically or by face; Norton's does not.
“The Ruffalo Hook thing nailed because he looks like Ruffalo and you really get that performance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:55:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Incredible Hulk → Elektra. The Sonic-cannon fight with no stylization feels like the Elektra movie.
“You know, but this like looks like the Electra movie or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:59:18 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Watchmen → The Incredible Hulk. A Hulk nudity joke leads to complaining that Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan penis was rendered when the comic gave it one line.
“You got to realize that for like 20 years they were like, they're never going to be able to make a Watchman movie that they do their censor it and they won't even show his dick.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:59:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Incredible Hulk → Iron Man 2. A speaker ranks this the worst of the early MCU, below Iron Man 2, which is at least esoteric and fails valiantly.
“Iron 2 is like failing valiantly.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:00:49 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Ty Burrell → Bill Pullman. Burrell's Doc Samson is a bland therapist instead of the green-haired comic character, like Pullman in Sleepless in Seattle.
“He's just like Bill Pullman and like sleepless in Seattle.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:02:37 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Edward Norton → Frida. Norton did uncredited rewrites and edits on Frida to try to save it, a pattern with his rewriting reputation.
“He did like uncredited rewrites and edits on free to try to save the movie because Weinstein wanted to be in business with him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:10:52 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
people (people): Shauna Robertson → Judd Apatow. Robertson, now married to Norton, produced the early Apatow comedies and is compared to Polly Platt as a quiet shaper of a comedy movement.
“She's like a quiet, like she's like the Polly Platt of the Appital comedy movement,”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:12:34 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Wes Anderson → Edward Norton. Anderson is the only director using Norton well post-Hulk, against type as a weak Poindexter.
“Right, at this point, it's like Wes Anderson's the only guy who's using him well, and he's using him against the type of everything he had done in the 1st 10 years of his career.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:15:09 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Birdman → Edward Norton. Norton's Birdman role satirizes his own reputation as a controlling actor.
“Feels like he satirizes himself.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:15:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Iron Man 2 → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Iron Man 2 feels like the improvised second movie cut from Anchorman's leftover footage, but with a new story.
“That's what Iron Man 2 feels like, except it's a new story.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:20:22 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Iron Man 2 → Iron Man 3. Iron Man 2's failure forced something new, giving Shane Black room to make a better third film.
“But also, that is why the 3rd one is good because the 2nd one was such a mistake that they were like, we don't know.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:20:47 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Shane Black → The Predator. Iron Man 3's success gave Black the chance to bring Predator back.
“And then that probably gave Shane, the opportunity to bring a predator back.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:20:56 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Incredible Hulk → The Scorpion King. Norton's table hulk-out is compared to the Scorpion King bug-man CGI at the end of The Mummy Returns.
“Awful. That looks like scorpion king shit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:21:49 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): The Happening → M. Night Shyamalan. A speaker went to The Happening as a palate cleanser after Hulk, hoping it would be a rebound for Shyamalan like The Visit.
“I remember the happening felt. It just so felt like a movie that was going to be his reboot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:25:41 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
people (people): Sam Elliott → Katharine Ross. Elliott met Ross on Butch Cassidy as card player number two; they are still married.
“They met on Butch Cassidy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:30:28 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Sam Elliott → A Star Is Born. After watching his interviews a speaker would be happy to see Elliott win the Oscar for A Star Is Born.
“I'm totally happy if you win the Oscar just because I want Sam Elliot to have an awesome one.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:30:46 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Incredible Hulk → Captain America (First Avenger / MCU). The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America.
“And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice → The Incredible Hulk. The Abomination, like BvS's Doomsday, looks like a mud monster with no texture.
“It's the same problem as Doomsday in Batman versus Superman, where it's just like, he just looks like a mud monster.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:33:33 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Avengers → The Incredible Hulk. Avengers' line about Hulk 'breaking Harlem' is false: the Abomination did it.
“That's the one thing they reference in Avengers, where he says, I kind of broke Harlem.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:34:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Avengers → The Incredible Hulk. Avengers uses a six-block radius around Grand Central for storytelling; this film picked Harlem but could be anywhere.
“They like pick that like 6 block radius around Grand Central.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:39:10 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): The Incredible Hulk → Hulk with Adam Sandler / Jim Carrey (unmade). They recall a development-era idea of a 90s comedy Hulk with Adam Sandler getting angry, covered in their earlier Hulk episode, plus Jack Black's Green Lantern.
“They tried to develop as, like, what if Adam Sandler was the Hulk and when he gets angry?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:42:56 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Hulk → The Incredible Hulk. Ang Lee's Hulk makes jumping and falling spiritual in the desert, while this film's rooftop jumping looks like the Flatiron District.
“It's way cooler in the Angling Hulk when jumping and falling is like spiritual.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:46:28 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Incredible Hulk → The Incredible Hulk. A speaker says the film reuses the old TV show's score, the sad-guitar cue from Bixby walking away, even though Craig Armstrong scored it.
“They used the score from the Incredible Hulk at some point in this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:47:14 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Incredible Hulk → The Avengers. Tony's end cameo promises a team that Iron Man's Avengers arc and Nick Fury's pitch in Iron Man 2 contradict; a Blu-ray one-shot was needed to patch it.
“So this is one of those things where they just like rewrite the film's 3 movies later because chest beaten's like, that makes no sense.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:49:27 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Consultant → The Incredible Hulk. The short on the Thor Blu-ray explains Tony's cameo as a ploy to sabotage the recruitment of Blonsky.
“They see him as a war hero and blame the devastation of Harlem and Bruce Banner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:51:33 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

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fun, about Hulk: The hosts screened Ang Lee's Hulk on 35mm with James Schamus days before; a projectionist change-over was visible and the Q&A is on the Patreon feed.
“That talk that Q&A will be released on this very Patreon feed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:01:10 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Sam Elliott: Seen on a 35mm print, the Sam Elliott lunch-scene reel is a standout and his mustache line is called the sharpest facial hair line ever seen.
“It is the sharpest line on facial hair.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:03:11 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: See the opening credits sequence, the only MCU film with one, which retells the origin so it can claim to be a new start.
“Is this the only one with an opening credits sequence?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:38 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: See the scene where the soda-factory blood contaminates a bottle and Stan Lee's cameo drinks it, and then nothing comes of it.
“Okay, so, 0 my god, who got the soda bottle?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:16:50 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Edward Norton: Norton reportedly said his good cut ran 2 hours 15 minutes, but the hosts say nothing in the film would be improved by more character material.
“Norton said the good cut of the movie is like 2 hours and 15 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:19:08 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Iron Man: Tie-in memory: a guy in the theater at the Iron Man post-credits scene said 'it's Dr. Strange'; at Hulk someone else yelled 'it's Tony' at the bar cameo and the audience cheered.
“And the whole audience cheered.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:22:54 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Tim Roth's origin: the Hulk breaks every bone in his body and his reaction is to want to be big so he can punch the Hulk back.
“He's like, I want to be big like Hulk so I can punch him back.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:30:47 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Amazing Spider-Man 2: A long retelling of Electro's origin: he is not remembered by Spider-Man and the villain plays itsy bitsy spider on electrical coils.
“And that's what makes him bad is that Spider-Man doesn't remember his name.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:33:17 · Griffin or David (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: The Italian salami-shop scene: Banner's best friend Pasquale is invented, with the set dressed only with salami.
“Put some salami there.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:41:19 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Martin Starr: Martin Starr plays Amadeus Cho, who is a major Asian character in the comics.
“That is an Asian man who's a very important character.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:43:32 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Toronto's mayor reportedly lobbied for the Hulk to shoot there; the college-quad fight is a punch-up target.
“Apparently the mayor of Toronto was a big Hulk fan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:52:51 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Eating the heart-rate monitor chip in the stacks, a sequence a speaker likes.
“I'm liking this scene, though, in which he has to put on his heart rate monitor and hide in the stacks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:53:37 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Proposed punch-up: a college tour walks through the quad fight and the Hulk interrupts a hacky sack game by throwing fuselage.
“He interrupts some guys playing hacky sack.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:57:06 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk's cave scene in the rain is called a bad video game cutscene; the hosts say they would usually love it.
“And I would even usually like this kind of shit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:03:24 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: The high-heart-rate sex scene: Banner cannot do it, a concept called a boardroom idea.
“They're having sex?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:10:15 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Tim Blake Nelson: Mr. Blue is Samuel Sterns, the Leader; his head begins to inflate in a tease that goes nowhere.
“You see his head inflating.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:13:38 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Tim Blake Nelson is the only one bringing energy while Norton is called sleepy.
“He's definitely trying to bring some energy as Ed Norton is essentially falling asleep in this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:24:00 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: The Leader's ice-pack head is likened to Martians from Mars Attacks.
“He looks like the Mars attacked Martians.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:27:07 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Michael K. Williams of The Wire has one shot as a man running from a car in Harlem.
“12nd cameo as guy who runs away from a car.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:32:30 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Plot beat: Hurt and Ross banter on the plane while Blonsky wants to fight; the 'make him angry' method is mocked with Don Rickles on speaker.
“They put Don Rickles on speaker.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:35:11 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: The Abomination has no pants; his private part turned into a spine.
“Turned into a spine.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:38:58 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk's thunderclap is shown on screen and the host jokes it should happen to a song that says clap your hands.
“There he does his famous Thunderclap.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:42:22 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: The ending was likely a reshoot, with Liv Tyler on a CGI pier; Lou Ferrigno voices the Hulk and the TV theme and sad guitar are echoed in the score.
“This was definitely a reshoots ending, look, because it's like hardcore CGI.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:46:38 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Incredible Hulk: Tie-in trivia: 7-Eleven Incredible Gulp Slurpees, Kmart Incredible Dad gifts, and a Blu-ray disc that turns green.
“releasing it on green ray.”
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fun, about Robert Downey Jr.: The ending: Tony Stark appears in backlight to Thunderbolt Ross at the bar, with a sharper goatee and more hair height, saying they are putting a team together.
“But it's so weird that he says, we're putting a team together too.”
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Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves Ang Lee's Hulk and is quick to defend Iron Man 2's ambitions; hates bad CGI faces and generic action presets; a sucker for chain restaurants, pizza and Marvel lore.
David Sims (host): A Marvel and Hulk comics reader (Rick Jones, Peter David, Greg Pak) who loves Ang Lee's Hulk and trusts Tim Roth as the only good performance; hates bad CGI and generic Europa Corp action.
Ben Hosley (guest): Producer in the room who is into the parkour scene, a fan of the Strangers, and sleepy-tolerant of the film; asks questions like what Rick Jones and Electro were.

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Names the transcriber got wrong

'Angley' / 'Ing Lee' / 'English film' = Ang Lee's Hulk
'James Seamus' = James Schamus
'Zach Penn' = Zak Penn
'Letierrier' = Louis Leterrier
'Doc Sampson' = Doc Samson
'Lou for Rick' = Lou Ferrigno
'Jeff Loeb' = Jeph Loeb
'Planet Hollywood' in the Alaska aside = Planet Hulk
'Migo' = Mego
'Sparro' / 'quiz notes' = Sbarro / Quiznos
'Electra' = Elektra
'Hulk Dong' = likely Dr. Manhattan joke
'Ty Burrell' sometimes 'Tybrell'
'Kredup' unknown at 1:00:18

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Who's talking

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong