The first Hulk was made with no appreciation for the TV show, which is far and away what the "little people" think of when they think Hulk. It left them with a lot of questions: Why did the Hulk tear tanks apart when he just as easily could have knocked over a bookcase? Weren't there perforated desks and tables to break instead of having to fight soldiers?
The 2nd movie is somewhat of a reboot. The "origin" scenes are completely different, but not terribly focused on. The origin is more in line with the TV show. But it also plays as a loose sequel to the 1st movie.
I liked the 2nd movie better, but I didn't hate the first movie. I am a moderate Hulk Comic book fan. Some comics are like the first movie: The Gov't wants to capture/control the Hulk and they send gamma powered dogs, robots or tanks to capture him and he spends a lot of time in the desert smashing stuff. These comics aren't too good, but they are plentiful. But the recent Planet Hulk & World War Hulk comics were quite good. Hulk: The End is good. House of M: Hulk was good. Hulk is usually good when it's a little more high concept. (Hulk IN SPAAAACE, etc.) When the Hulk movie was more like the "regular" version of the comics, I wasn't surprised or disappointed. But I wasn't overly joyed either.
It's funny that the 2nd movie was compared very favourably to the 1st, but both had IMDB scores of about 6.6 a couple of weeks after the 2nd came out. Now they've settled at 5.7 and 7.1 for 1 and 2 respectively.
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