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Art house director Ang Lee took on the ambitious task of making a summer popcorn flick with "Hulk". In my opinion, Lee has failed. He tries hard, damn hard to make Hulk into a "deep" film. Ang Lee is an art house director that makes movies for the intellectual minded moviegoer that prefer films with subtitles rather then watching action and quick editing. Lee's credits include "The Ice Storm" and "Sense and Sensibility. With the "Hulk", he brings the same art house feel to this movie, but it's totally wrong. Lee tries to make a deep film out of a very shallow premise. Come on now Ang, this is comic book material you are working with.

Hulk is not supposed to be an artsy, talky film. This should have been a comic book movie, not an attempt at deep Jungian psychodrama. Hulk SHOULD have been a movie that was a 12 year old boys wet dream. Hulk should have been loaded with "kewl explosions" and lots of fake looking CGI. The Hulk succeeds in having plenty of fake looking CGI. The CGI created Hulk is terrible and very cheesy looking. But the film has very few action sequences, and what it does have makes little sense. We don't even get to see the Hulk until 50 minutes into the movie. Then there's that WTF ending that leaves you scratching your head.

By summer blockbuster standards, Hulk is already a box office bomb. It only raked in about $60 million in U.S. domestic dollars for it's opening weekend. You just know that there will be plenty of bad word of mouth for a movie like this, and then add on the unavoidable drop in box office gross for the second and third weekend and you have another Godzilla or Waterworld type film.

By the way, I saw SEVERAL WALK OUTS. It was usually parents escorting their restless kids out of the theater. Don't take a child under 10 to this movie. There is no bad language, sex, or gory violence,....but the movie is WAY too SLOW and TALKY for children. Any kid under 10 will be bored out of their ass with this movie.

4/10

All you people saying that the Christopher Lambert is too old to play an immortal should realize that he is only 2 years older then Adrian Paul!!! My God, some of you act like Lambert is 20 years Paul's senior! These guys are basically the same age, so if you call Lambert old, then you are calling Paul old. Lambert is 45 years old, and Paul is 43. At the time of this movie's release in 2000, Lambert was 43 and Paul was 41. Some generational gap eh? If Lambert looked sickly, then it's because he is suffering from myopia, a condition he has always had that has been getting worse.

I stated this in a comment I posted on IMDB.com's "Highlander The Series" section and I will state it here. Christopher Lambert is the superior actor to Adrian Paul. Not only that, but I prefer Lambert's Connor MacLeod to Paul's Duncan MacCleod. I found Connor to be an everyman character, while Paul was an over the top, over manly character. Adrian Paul is so over hunky with that muscular body and pony-tail, that he is unintentionally hilarious. Paul looks like one of those male models spoofed in the movie ZOOLANDER. Come on, the guy looks like a male stripper that should be named "Rico" or something. Guys like Adrian Paul, Antonio Banderas and Lorenzo Lamas are so over hunky that they are all unintentionally hilarious. I know the ladies love Paul, but I found I could relate to Lambert/Connor far more then I could ever relate to Paul/Duncan. Connor was an everyman with a sense of humour, and yet at the same time he came across as well cultured and as well traveled as you would expect an immortal man to be. Duncan was an otherworldy and unreal character with little sense of humour. Duncan was too dark, too brooding. And yes I did find it insulting that the focus of the movie series moved to Duncan. To hell with Duncan, Connor is the real Highlander. I like the TV show, it's very well made and has far better writing and stories then Highlander II-IV ever had. But I wish the TV show revolved around Connor instead of Duncan, if it did it would have been more then a cult favorite. If the TV show was about Connor then it would have really been something on the scale of X-Files or Star Trek. Too bad it had to be about the over the top Duncan.

Long live Connor MacLeod!! The TRUE Highlander!!!!

First let me say that I do think that this "Highlander" TV series is a very good, quality show. I enjoy watching it, and it deserves many accolades. The one problem I always had with the show was Adrian Paul and his Duncan McCleod character. Sure I know the ladies love him. Why not? He's a good looking guy, and very sexy. As a strait heterosexual man I feel no shame in admiting that Paul is a very good looking guy. The dude is a hunk no doubt.

But ME PERSONALLY, I prefered Christopher Lambert's Connor McCleod from the "Highlander" films. Yes I know only the first one was a good film, the other 3 were garbage, but Connor was always there to at least make them watchable. Perhaps it's because I'm a guy that I prefer Connor, I don't know. Connor was the more everyman immortal, while Duncan was the over the top, over manly immortal. Duncan looked like one of those male models that was spoofed on the movie "Zoolander". His exotic accent and pony-tail were just too much! I mean any minute I expected Duncan to say, "Dance with me! My name is Rico!". Guys like Adrian Paul, Antonio Banderas and Lorenzo Lamas are just too over the top with their sexy male bravado for my tastes. They are so over hunky, that they're unintentionally hilarious. I found this aspect of Duncan/Paul far too distracting. This is why I prefer Lambert's Connor character. And ladies, Connor/Lambert is a fairly good looking guy too right? Sure he's not a male model hunk, but he's a good looking everyman. Not to mention, that I honestly do think that Lambert was the superior actor to Paul.

Anyway, I just want to say that Connor McCleod is the type of immortal I can relate to. Connor is an everyman that seems like a guy you can hang out with. Duncan comes across as a dude that would be more at home on some exotic locale in Italy with a hot cultured model from a royal family. I just prefer Connor, and I wish the series revolved around him instead of Duncan. Maybe it's because I'm a man that spent more time ogling Elizabeth Ward Gracen, I dunno. But as a man, I found Connor and his everyman immortal more relatable to me. I think most normal guys find Connor more of a kindred spirit then someone as otherworldly and unreal as Duncan. At the very least, I wish Connor showed up more on this show.

Long live Connor McCleod!! The TRUE Highlander!!!!

So what happened? I remember loving Knight Rider when I was a little kid. I just caught some episodes on the Sci-Fi Channel, and the show is just awful! Gawd, I can't believe how retarded this series is. It's loaded with camp villains and some really stupid plots. But this is what I watched on TV back in the time of 1982 to 1986. Bad acting and fake looking stunts appear to be part of the intended design of Knight Rider as well. How many times did they resort to using toy cars or bad miniatures on this show? One too many I'll tell you.

The physical fight scenes in Knight Rider are some of the worst I have ever seen in my life. Why couldn't they have gotten a real fight choreographer for Knight Rider? The character of Michael Knight was supposed to be some kind of kung fu expert, but when he fights the bad guys his moves are anything but real martial arts. The guy fights like a freakin' idiot with that made up karate he uses. Then there were the stunt doubles used for David Hasselhoff. They were all so damn obvious! If your stunt double has a mustache and well you don't, I think that's going to cause some problems.

Back in the 80's when I was a kid, I thought Knight Rider was totally radical and totally cool. Today I am an adult in my 20's and looking at this show makes me cringe with embarrassment. It's mind boggling that to this day such a stupid show manages an incredible loyal following of fans. I suspect 80s nostalgia has more to do with it then the actual quality of the series. Though great childhood memories don't make up for a terrible TV show, and Knight Rider is cheesy series that can't be taken seriously by anyone over the age of 14.

Ok I know this film is old, but who cares? Let's get that out of the way, it's old it's old it's old. I don't care if it's old. I was 13 1/2 when this movie came out, and I know a lot of people even my age (27) would consider this a dated "old school" movie, but like I said, I don't care, it's still fun.

I was a middle school skater in the very late '80s, and this film brings back great memories. Ok the fashions got old by like 1991, but again who cares? Forget the fashions and just concentrate on the skateboard stunts, they'll blow you away. Legendary skater Tony Hawk is in this film, and everyone who was or is a skater knows how valuable Hawk was to skateboarding. These days I see a lot of teenagers skateboarding in parking lots and malls, it seems the trend has come back since being dormant since 1990. Even though the skating fad died down then, I was still skating as a teenager into around 1995. It was uncool to be a 19 or 20 year old skating back in the heyday of grunge, but once a skater, always a skater. Many times when I see these kids skating today, I want to haul my old 27 year old butt out there and show them how us 13 and 14 year olds did it back in 1989.

Hill Street Blues was an unconventional cop show for the '80s, and even today. Why? Because it was real. Well as real as you can get with a TV show, without taking some liberties ofcourse. Unlike Miami Vice, T.J. Hooker or Hunter, HSB had a lot of detail and accuracy.

Sure Miami Vice was an entertaining show, but only for being stylish and hip for it's time. HSB didn't try to be cool, it tried to be accurate. Miami Vice and all the other cop shows and cop movies of the '80s, '90s and today are extremely fake in the way they present themselves, going more for a target demographic then bothering to portray how things operate in our world. In the real world, cops in America aren't wearing Armani suits and constantly trying to bust Columbian drug dealers and their shipment of cocaine while spitting out mile a minute obscure metaphors and similies that take us a few seconds to figure out. If you want to see the way REAL COPS in America speak, act and carry themselves through real crime cases, then watch HSB. You won't be dissapointed.

First let me say that I am the same age as the Bayside gang from "Saved By the Bell". That is right, I am now an old man of 26 years (going on 27 later this year). I was born in 1975 and I graduated high school in 1993, and I always thought this show was one of the dumbest things to ever hit the airwaves. Back in high school I found it completely fake and moronic. These Bayside kids did everything and anything in the world but go to class.

Though it's always been obvious to me, that the fanbase of this show is MUCH younger then anyone my age (or even close to my age). And that is understandable. "Saved By the Bell's" level of stupidity could only be appreciated by people who were little kids in the very late '80s and early-mid '90s. Since I was a teenager back then, I found this show to be completely retarded, and I know most people my age or close to my age (within about 2-3 years of my age) found this show to be pretty idiotic as well. But if you're a kid who likes this show, well more power to you.

Oh and I want to second whoever said that this isn't an '80s show. It wasn't, it was an EARLY '90s show. I graduated high school in 1993, and that wasn't the '80s d*mmit. Anyone who was at least 11 or 12 years of age in 1990 knew that that time wasn't the '80s. You just don't know the REAL 1980s if you think the EARLY '90s were the Eighties. Hardly anything from the '80s was popular in 1990, not even the late '80s. Keep in mind the '80s really ended in 1987, and the very late '80s was like this phase out time that was sorta the Eighties, but not really. I mean is the future graduating class of 2003 a '90s class just because they started high school in the fall of '99? Exactly. Neither were we an '80s class. Though it seems like nearly every kid born in the '80s calls the early '90s and even the mid '90s the "Eigh-ties". If you kids born in the '80s want to learn about the real '80s, focus on stuff that happened in the years 1980-'87. Stop looking at 1989-'95 for your fill of the "Eigh-ties".

Arsenio Hall was one of the most fascinating events in modern pop culture. In 1989 Arsenio started "The Arsenio Hall" show which was a slick, young, hip talk show aimed at the youth crowd. For a while it seemed like Arsenio was unstoppable, and he was the biggest media event around. Arsenio even had NBC execs quaking in their boots, so much so they that they went behind Johnny Carson's back and pressured him to step down from the "Tonight Show". Johnny was just too old according to NBC, and they wanted the young crowd that Arsenio was getting.

But NBC jumped the gun a little too fast, because just as soon as Arsenio came, he dissappeared from the scene without a trace. No one even noticed Arsenio's exit, and I doubt many people even cared. As Forrest Gump would say back in Arsenio's last year of '94, "for no particular reason, nobody wanted to watch that flat topped funny Black man anymore. And that's all I have to say about that."

The irony is that today Arsenio is the crusty old middle aged man. Today Arsenio is a total has been that is doing B-movies and other low level straight to video nonsense. Johnny's 30 year legacy will be remembered for years to come, while Arsenio was just a minor blimp on the radar.

Oh yeah, Arsenio was also Eddie Murphy's friend. Which obviously helped him out. Maybey Arsenio should try and become Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Tucker, or Chris Rock's new best friend. Lord knows Arsenio needs help with his non-existant career.

I guess the only reason I ever bothered to watch or care about this show was that me and the characters were supposed to be the same age. The show started in 1990 when I was 15 and in the 10th grade, and the characters graduated high school with me in 1993. Though even back then, I remember thinking that no 15 or 16 year old looked like the 20 something actors on 90210. I'm 26 now, and while a lot of people still think I'm 18 or 19, I could never pass for a 15 or 16 year old, and I would never approve of someone my age trying to play a 15 year old on TV or in the movies. I hated it back then, so I'm sure the teen kids of today are no different.

To people over 35 it may not be obvious, but I clearly remember back then in the early '90s wondering how in the hell those 20 something guys like Jason Priestly, Luke Perry and Ian Zering were supposed to be my age. If memory serves, Luke Perry and Ian Zering were actually in their 30s!! Teenagers, especially the younger ones under 18, notice these kind of things. The only ones that looked like real teens were Tori Spelling and Shannon Doherty, mainly because they still were real teens, albeit older ones. But at least a few of the actors were teenagers when the show started.

Looking back at this show, it's a pretty good reflection of how things were for us kids in the early and mid '90s. It's amazing how long this series lasted. This was the hottest teen show in the early '90s when I was in high school, and when my younger sister graduated high school in 2000, 90210 was still on the freaking air. 90210 wasn't as strong as it was in the early-mid '90s in the year 2000, but there it was. Amazing.