JimK:  Let’s do this thing.

JimK:  Those games aren’t my thing, really, but I can see where it means Fox at least cares about the show.  It’s pretty early going to already be doing marketing.  Maybe, once again, we can has new show now?  No cancel-cancel?

JimK:  I’m still iffy on this movie.  1. Liv Tyler.  She’s the anti-actress.  2. Hulk looks like he’s made of foam.  His skin looks like foam rubber and he seems to be made entirely of air.  In all the trailers, he floats, like bad CGI does.  He has no mass.  I’m hoping that’s just poorly-rendered trailer effects.  3. Liv God-damned Tyler.  But...it’s the Hulk, and Ed Norton can act, and Roth is great and RDJ is in it so, guess who has two thumbs and is going to see it?  That’s right, This Guy.

Anyway, the battle damage thing.  Yeah, Hulk doesn’t really take damage and all that.  Rarely, anyway.  In this movie he just fought the Abomination (Roth after he transforms), As mentioned in that post, this could easily just be a visual shortcut to the non-geek audience that Hulk just went through some shit.  That’s all.  I’m OK with that kind of “alteration” of comic lore.  Some of this stuff requires too much backstory and time to explain.  And for all we know it’ll heal right then as Betty (Curse you Liv Tyler!) is talking to him.

JimK:  McG knows how to use words?  I’m flabbergasted.  Not to sound like a deluded fanboy today, but I am caitiously optimistic about this as well.  McG seems to get that he needs to make this mean something.  It can’t just be the airhead fluff he normally churns out.  Terminator stories need some amount of gravitas.  I’m also happy he;s going with practical creature creation for some things.  Getting Stan Winston involved means big shiny metal robots.

JimK:  You mean all sexy and breathy?

JimK:  You creepy little AI, stop fantasizing about your cousins choking me!  What’s next?

JimK:  So frickin’ cool.  I saw last night that NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught the Phoenix dropping into the atmosphere.  A speeding bullet orbiting a planet caught a photo of another speeding bullet dropping onto the surface.  This is really cool stuff.

JimK:  I think I would have remembered that.  When were we ever in space?

JimK:  Great.  I’m probably going to be responsible for the first intergalactic diplomatic incident.