Dear Everyone Who Was Angry When Mark Ruffalo Was Cast As the Hulk: Thanks! Love, Mark Ruffalo

My reaction to Marc Ruffalo being Cast as the Hulk was kind of a sigh, but not because of Marc Ruffalo. I tend to associate characters with the first actor to play them, if I like the character, and I get upset when actors are changed for characters I like. I had the same reaction to Marc Ruffalo announced to play Hulk as I did to Don Cheadle taking over Rhodie in Iron Man 2. “It’s someone DIFFERENT.” I’m very 5-year-old that way.

But just like with Iron Man 2, once the “new” actor showed up on screen, I quickly got used to him, and then came to like him a lot. I like Marc Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner so much more than Ed Norton’s now (and, well, I’ve always been a fan of Don Cheadle, so that wasn’t that hard for me ^_^). Ed Norton’s Bruce Banner seemed more like an everyguy who had to learn science after the fact; Marc Ruffalo’s Bruce came across as more of a scientist. That might be a writing issue, but only partially.

Ed Norton seems to like the Everyguy-Whose-Life-Goes-Sideways, and I think that’s how he played Banner, which was…fine. But I think Ruffalo didn’t drop Bruce into a category and played the category: he played BRUCE BANNER.

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I liked it for you because, super agree!

I didn’t think Marc Ruffalo did that good of a job at being Bruce Banner, I honestly think he did a half hearted performance and I didn’t see anything of whats being described here in his performance.  

Hulk was good but other than motion capture (and a lot of time with motion capture they need to bring in a team of animators to fix the movements and make it more realistic) Marc had very little to do with Hulk.

Just saw The Avengers yesterday, and LOVED Marc Ruffalo as Banner/Hulk.  I cannot, however, claim any street cred as a previous doubter… just thought he was awesome.  

It’s Mark! Surely before you start writing an article, you make a quick stop at imdb?

From what I understand, all of the motion-capture for the Hulk was done by Marc.

STFU, you jackass. The movie made $1 Billion and it was because of Marc Ruffalo’s contribution. He was an attribute and not a liability. EPIC FAIL

I know but I dont really look at Hulk and see Marc’s acting skills.  I see the animators and riggers who over exaggerated the CG-model of the Hulk’s face.  And I kinda already said this but motion capture usually have a team of animators behind it to re-edit the movements and the timing of it.  Motion capture isn’t a system where its done when the actor is done and they just put it into a CG model of Hulk and call it good.  

And because of this I don’t really look at Hulk running after Black Widow or Jumping up and down buildings and think ‘Hmm yes Marc Ruffalo did a good job with that run and jump! What a great actor and a great portrayal of Hulk!’
No, I look at that and think what a great job the animators did with smoothing out the actions of the Hulk.

I mean if you think that Marc Ruffalo was the major reason to why the Hulk was so great in the movie, thats fine.  I just can’t see that.  I can only really judge Marc’s performance with how he portrayed Bruce Banner, and I thought it was rather lack luster

I think the movie made so much money had something more to do with the five previous movies, people waiting for this for years, the all-star returning cast, the amazing director and you know….these being pretty popular comic book heros.

I went to this movie on the midnight premiere and then the saturday and sunday after that.  So I was pretty much there for the opening weekend.  I remember people being excited for Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and a lot of Tom Hiddleston fans.  I can’t say I remember anyone being excited for Mark Ruffalo.  So I don’t really think he contributed to people going to the movie.

I mean if you enjoyed his performance then you enjoyed his performance.  No reason to get so upset just cause someone didn’t think it wasn’t all that good.

Yay!

 You misspelled “Eric Bana” several times in your post.

It was all those bad vibes that gave Ruffalo the motivation to really get inside Bruce Banner’s troubled head.

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he did well

Marc Ruffalo was a very good Bruce Banner.

As far as I’m concerned, Lou Ferrigno played the Hulk, and rightly so..

Never had a problem with Ruffalo. I always thought Norton (and Tyler) were miscast in Incredible Hulk. Not that they were bad, I just never felt like I was watching Banner and Ross on the screen.

 I believe this article was about Marc Ruffalo’s excellent portrayal of Bruce Banner, not his alter-ego Hulk.  So ripping on Marc for the CGI stuff isn’t really fair, and isn’t what this article is about.

Am I the only one who thinks it’s sort of sad how everybody has forgotten Eric Bana? Even though the first film-version of Hulk was a box-office disaster, Bana has done a nice job as Bruce Banner. Actually, I think there was something special about all three actors.

actually Mark did play the hulk. Like you say “Motion Capture” means taking all the movements that the actor did and placing it into the computer and applying the Computer graphic. Key words are applying the computer graphic. The computer did not make the actors do the motion, the actors had to act it out first, with movements, sound, and expression.
Ed Norton did a great job as bruce banner in terms of dealing with his issues. He portrayed banner as a person who has not accepted what have happended to him and find every way possible to cure himself of this curse.
 However Mark played a great Bruce banner in terms of accepting his “misfortune” and trying to control the hulk. Theres a line where he said “…I tried doing that (when the avengers thought he might hulk out and was prepare to kill him), I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out!’ It seems after that he accepted who he is now and his main concern is to control his other half.

I like eric bana as an actor but I think he was too much of a pretty boy to play Bruce banner. he didnt make a very believeable scientist.

I really loved both of them but I am not knowledgeable enough about the characters to base anything on. I realy loved Tyler’s strength and sensuality, but again, I’m not familiar with her character.

I think Marc did a great job and I look forward to seeing him again.

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While I can’t argue that it was a good movie, it does make me kind of sad that Ang Lee/Eric Bana’s Hulk is so universally hated.  I felt like they were at least attempting something more psychologically interesting than the average summer blockbuster, particularly with the exploration of Banner’s mother.  To me, it was a bad movie with a good movie trapped inside and trying to get out, as opposed to a movie that’s bad because the filmmakers just didn’t care.

I pretty much gave Mark Ruffalo a lifetime pass to my pants after seeing  Zodiac – he channeled such intensity, intelligence and masculinity without the usual showboating a lot of actors would do.  I had high hopes for his Banner, and even so he pretty much blew my expectations out of the water.

I have to say, I’ve also been quite impressed that Ruffalo comes across as gracious about his predecessors.  He’s stated in interviews
that he considered his work as building on what the previous actors had
established, and that he personally called Edward Norton before taking
the role, to be sure he wasn’t stepping on any toes.  Class act.

I know its almost like I was responding to someone else who replied to me and I was just trying to get my point across in more a clear way.

This article does say Hulk was amazing in the movie.  Which I completely agree with but I just don’t think Hulk being so amazing should be creditted to Mark.I mean if you think otherwise then you think otherwise and its not a big deal.But me having a different opinion isn’t really ‘ripping’ on a guy.  

Someone kinda already replied to me with basically what your saying except they did it with one sentence so I’m kinda confuse why your reiterating something I’ve already responded to….?

And your kinda wrong with…..A lot of this.  Like I wasn’t trying to make this big epic argument when I said I didn’t like Marc’s acting, I just didn’t see anything in this article to be true about how he portrayed Bruce Banner.

Now since your bringing up the motion capture thing, I’ll try to explain to you my knowledge of motion capture.  (And I’ve studied this sort thing for the past three years and have worked with creating this sort of stuff…..BUT i’m not claiming to be an expert)
3D modellers spend a huge amount of time creating a 3D realistic model of the Hulk.
Riggers then come in and create a complicated system (which is similar to how our bones and muscles move) into that model  
Theres usually a lot of testing for the riggers on the model to make sure the muscle movement is correct and that the 3D model looks even more correctThen a more complicated method comes into a play where certain rig points have to match up to the motion that they will be tracking.
These motions are not 100% tracked in to the 3D model.  THIS is the biggest misconception of motion capture.  Only points are being used from the motion captured in to the 3D model of Hulk.  So no, the computer didn’t make Marc have a facial expression but it did exaggerate that facial expression to a more a appealing facial expression.  Actually…I haven’t heard ANYTHING about Marc using facial tracking for Hulk.  (I did hear her wore a big hulk like suit to help with the motion capture which I think its kinda badass) But that doesn’t really matter cause in the end your not looking at Marc’s acting, your looking at the animators fine tuned work.I’ve been trying to think of better example to explain this but this is all I got.  Lets say someone made a very rough sketch and then someone else refined the sketch, did linework, base colors, painted it and framed it.  Yes someone else made a sketch of it but more than likely you like the final result MORE than the sketch.I mean if you want to attribute how great the Hulk was to Marc then go ahead.  I just honestly don’t think he should be.  And also I didn’t like his acting.   But if you did then you know, whatever its not a big deal.*Edit* Oh right I forgot to say this but I keep saying ’3D model’ in the sense of when people create things in Maya and other programs.  Not an actual physical 3D model or anything.  So yeah I basically should have said CG-Model

 I watched the The Avengers and it was FREAKING AWESOME! I like them all but the Hulk/Bruce Banner STANDOUT among the rest. Mark Ruffalo did an AMAZING job and he gave JUSTICE to Hulk/Bruce Banner compared to the other 2 Hulk movies. Marvel and Disney made an EXCELLENT decision for giving the role to Mark Ruffalo. We NEED a new Hulk movie of Mark Ruffalo! WE NEED MORE!

Sincerely,
TheUniverse

I watched the The Avengers and it was FREAKING AWESOME! I like them all but the Hulk/Bruce Banner STANDOUT among the rest. Mark Ruffalo did an AMAZING job and he gave JUSTICE to Hulk/Bruce Banner compared to the other 2 Hulk movies. Marvel and Disney made an EXCELLENT decision for giving the role to Mark Ruffalo. We NEED a new Hulk movie of Mark Ruffalo! WE NEED MORE!

This article was delusional. Ruffalo sucked as Hulk. Norton nailed it.