The Incredible Hulk (2008) was the best Hulk film, in my opinion.

While, yeah, Lee's Hulk did have a better cast, the script was awful. It seriously took 45 minutes for Banner to Hulk out for the first time. 45 minutes? I was asleep by that time with the extremely monotonous back story on Bruce's childhood. Was Bruce's childhood important? Sure, it gives us some sort of confirmation on what the character's really about, but at the end of the day, the movie's called HULK for a reason. I don't want to see a story about a depressed man who's got daddy issues. I want to see a story about the Hulk and him using his awesome power against an unbeatable foe whilst battling the Army. We got that in TIH.

In Hulk (2003), Hulk looked like a roided-up Shrek. Sorry if you liked the movie, but you can't deny it. The Hulk in TIH looks way better, and the way he transformed, you can tell it hurt. I didn't get that same feeling of pain watching Lee's Hulk.

Abomination in TIH was a much better villain that Nolty's Absorbing Man/Mr. Banner. Blonski's motive was simple: He felt that Banner was wasted potential, so he went ahead and wanted to be whatever Banner was suppressing. What was Mr. Banner's motive? Kill his son or something? Yeah, I don't buy it. And gamma dogs < everything else.

Something I will give Lee's film is that fight scene in the desert against the Army. It truly showed that Hulk was a forced to be reckoned with, but that film only had that ONE scene under its belt. TIH had three distinctive action scenes, and each one was much better than the last. He leaped, destroyed the Army, and obliterated Abomination while displaying some feats that outclassed quite a bit of feats displayed in Lee's movie.

Lastly, Lee tried to make his film artsy. Is he good at it? Sure he is, but is Hulk an artsy superhero? Absolutely not. Hulk is a superhero we all want to see lash out and defeat countless enemies. That's something we got from TIH (and I think they did a pretty damn good job at it).

As for your last question, I think Hulk will just be a muscle to the team. They've confirmed that he'll fight the Avengers, but they've also included that he'll have a "buddy" relationship to Hawkeye (just like EMH). I think Ruffalo's the worst pick for the Hulk/Banner so far, but that's all I'll say about that until after I see the movie. At least we still have Lou Ferrigno voicing the Hulk. The "HULK SMASH!" line from TIH was the best part of the film, and arguably the best part from all the other Marvel Studios films.

Incredible Hulk (2008) is easily the best.

I really like both films but Incredible was probably more fun

Incredible Hulk. Gambit gave pretty good reasons, and I agree with them

@Gambit1024 said:

The Incredible Hulk (2008) was the best Hulk film, in my opinion.

While, yeah, Lee's Hulk did have a better cast, the script was awful. It seriously took 45 minutes for Banner to Hulk out for the first time. 45 minutes? I was asleep by that time with the extremely monotonous back story on Bruce's childhood. Was Bruce's childhood important? Sure, it gives us some sort of confirmation on what the character's really about, but at the end of the day, the movie's called HULK for a reason. I don't want to see a story about a depressed man who's got daddy issues. I want to see a story about the Hulk and him using his awesome power against an unbeatable foe whilst battling the Army. We got that in TIH.

In Hulk (2003), Hulk looked like a roided-up Shrek. Sorry if you liked the movie, but you can't deny it. The Hulk in TIH looks way better, and the way he transformed, you can tell it hurt. I didn't get that same feeling of pain watching Lee's Hulk.

Abomination in TIH was a much better villain that Nolty's Absorbing Man/Mr. Banner. Blonski's motive was simple: He felt that Banner was wasted potential, so he went ahead and wanted to be whatever Banner was suppressing. What was Mr. Banner's motive? Kill his son or something? Yeah, I don't buy it. And gamma dogs < everything else.

Something I will give Lee's film is that fight scene in the desert against the Army. It truly showed that Hulk was a forced to be reckoned with, but that film only had that ONE scene under its belt. TIH had three distinctive action scenes, and each one was much better than the last. He leaped, destroyed the Army, and obliterated Abomination while displaying some feats that outclassed quite a bit of feats displayed in Lee's movie.

Lastly, Lee tried to make his film artsy. Is he good at it? Sure he is, but is Hulk an artsy superhero? Absolutely not. Hulk is a superhero we all want to see lash out and defeat countless enemies. That's something we got from TIH (and I think they did a pretty damn good job at it).

As for your last question, I think Hulk will just be a muscle to the team. They've confirmed that he'll fight the Avengers, but they've also included that he'll have a "buddy" relationship to Hawkeye (just like EMH). I think Ruffalo's the worst pick for the Hulk/Banner so far, but that's all I'll say about that until after I see the movie. At least we still have Lou Ferrigno voicing the Hulk. The "HULK SMASH!" line from TIH was the best part of the film, and arguably the best part from all the other Marvel Studios films.

Incredible Hulk (2008) for me. I have a strong dislike for the 2003 Hulk movie.

2008 all the way. Better action, story, actors, EVERYTHING

i didn't like either..but if i had to choose...Incredible Hulk

Liked 'em both, but the '08 one was better due to better special effects and a better villain. A couple of minor things that I preferred about the '03 Hulk was the fact that he was physically bigger and didn't look like he'd been rolling around in a dumpster ('08 Hulk looked dirty).

@PowerHerc said:

Liked 'em both, but the '08 one was better due to better special effects and a better villain. A couple of minor things that I preferred about the '03 Hulk was the fact that he was physically bigger and didn't look like he'd been rolling around in a dumpster ('08 Hulk looked dirty).

I agree w/ this ...

incredible hulk 08 for me. i hate ang lee version of hulk

Incredible Hulk was far better than Hulk....though I still want Hulk to talk more....I want to hear "HULK IS THE STRONGEST THERE IS!" and "HULK SMASH!" and "PUNY HUMANS"

Incredible since it wasn't all over the place, but I liked a lot of the supporting cast choices better in the earlier film.

But personal preference: Planet Hulk > the rest.

The second one.

@CATPANEXE said:

Incredible since it wasn't all over the place, but I liked a lot of the supporting cast choices better in the earlier film.

But personal preference: Planet Hulk > the rest.

I'd say this or Hulk vs.