Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

alexanderdavies-99382 "The Incredible Hulk" television series needs no introduction. Its legacy and fan base were confirmed years ago. I have yet to see anyone equalling Bill Bixby's interpretation of the slightly tragic David Banner or Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk. The writing and acting standards of "The Incredible Hulk" were unprecedented. The emphasis was always on drama and on character. Even the supporting characters were given that bit more shading and depth than usual. With a small regular cast, the series still lasted for five seasons from 1977 to 1982. Personally, I feel that for sheer consistency of good quality, "The Incredible Hulk" was at its very best from season one to season three. The fourth season episodes are good and there is a brilliant two part story called "The First." The last seven episodes are OK. It always fascinates me how David Banner can still befriend almost anyone in each episode, in spite of his own problems. It doesn't matter though how settled he becomes in his current surroundings because he knows in his subconscious that he will soon need to move on once again. To add to Banner's problems is the character who is a constant thorn in his side - journalist Jack McGee. From the opening feature length pilot episode, McGee is convinced by the existence of the Hulk after seeing him in person. He constantly hunts down the Hulk creature until it becomes an obsession. The newspaper that McGee works for - The National Register - look upon him as a journalist past his best. This has proved to be the case as McGee has been relegated to covering UFO sightings, supermarket competitions etc. To him, capturing the Hulk might be a chance for the journalist to return to mainstream journalism and he isn't about to give in easily....... David Banner is the kind of person who usually receives unwanted attention where ever he goes. It isn't that he is a criminal type or that he has done anything wrong. It is more a case that he keeps himself to himself and avoids interacting with people sometimes. Whenever he goes to some small town that is in the sticks somewhere, the local residents tend to react to Banner's presence with a degree of suspicion and even hostility. Regardless, Banner is a survivor and determined. The budget was fairly low and the studio backlot was used quite frequently. To me, this isn't a problem. There are far too many great episodes to list but American television didn't get more entertaining than this in some ways. Fans of the "Incredible Hulk" comics may not care for this show, seeing as it bears little relation to the comics. Even so, the creator of the show, Kenneth Johnson, purposely wanted to avoid any comparison between his television series and the comics. Watch this one and enjoy!

adonis98-743-186503 A fugitive scientist has the curse of becoming a powerful green monster under extreme emotional stress. I honestly believe that this is easily one of the best things that Marvel ever created long before the huge Marvel Cinematic Universe and as "cheesy" as it may sound to some people that a bodybuilder named Lou Ferrigno plays the big green monster it really isn't and it makes total sense since there wasn't any cgi back in 1978. The acting is very serious and the whole show is pretty much dead serious on what it's trying to be and as for Bill Bixby as Dr. Bruce David Banner well he does an amazing job and he is definitely better than the Eric Bane and Ang Lee's take on Hulk but also better than the 1966 Batman.

Ibuk When I was growing up The Incredible Hulk was without a doubt my favourite Superhero due to the 70's TV show. I didn't manage to catch it when it first aired seeing as I was born a couple of years later but I managed to catch the reruns. My favourite parts of the show was obviously when Dr Banner would turn into the Hulk and start smashing things. The story followed Dr David Banner who whilst experimenting on himself accidentally exposes himself to too much gamma radiation and as a result of that the green beast is born. From then onwards whenever someone made him angry he would turn into the Hulk, hence the phrase "Don't make me angry you won't like me when I am angry". Hot on the heels of the Hulk is Jack Mcgee who believes the Hulk killed David Banner. At the end of each episode we would see David boarding a bus and next week he would have another adventure.The show gave birth to three made for TV movies and two movies. In fact Ang Lee's version of the Hulk annoyed me so much that I refused to see Ed Norton's version. For one thing in Ang Lee's version for some reason David Banner is called Bruce Banner. It is a real shame that the series doesn't get aired on TV these days because I for one would definitely watch it.

bkoganbing Having just seen the new Incredible Hulk movie prompted me to reassess the famous Green guy from television days. Computer graphics certainly weren't available to the producers of the television version of The Incredible Hulk. That may not necessarily been a bad thing.The Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno character in my opinion had a lot more heart and soul than what I just came from seeing. Now that could be because we saw the episodes in first run for four years and Bixby got to know David Banner inside out and his insights were shared with the audience. Even Ferrigno as the Hulk alter ego was far better than a computer graphic hulk with Edward Norton in their for closeups.That show had to have the most expensive wardrobe budget in history. And I'm still wondering how David Banner on the run kept such an extensive amount of clothes. Certainly that other well known fugitive, Richard Kimble traveled a lot lighter.The formula was like one of those loner westerns set in modern times. Bill Bixby arrives in a strange new town, gets involved in some local situation on the side of the good guys and when the bad guys push him, he Hulks out. No modern gadgetry involved, this could have been set at any time, it could be explained as a Frankenstein type experiment gone wrong.When he was pushed the dark side of the hulk emerged and the late Bill Bixby certainly had a lot of tragedy and darkness to draw from for his Banner persona to fear the results of anger. I liked the show, it wasn't great, but in many ways the superior of the film that just came out.