...and as fans, we got two good Hulk movies.
As a studio, Universal got treated like the husband in a cuckhold porn.
There's really no prettier way to put it.
Covered most of this before in the following links.
Now, the update on all that, is that just as "Thor Ragnarok" is backdoor MCU-Hulk 2, "Captain America: Brave New World" is backdoor MCU-Hulk 3.
And it makes sense.
Hulk is a fully realized super-soldier.
They made him while trying to re-create Captain America.
The only drawback to Hulk, is he's a rage monster the Army can't control.
But since "Avengers: Endgame" he's Smart-Hulk.
And then in "She-Hulk" both She-Hulk and Abomination are intelligent, and can control their change.
And Banner can change back with a gamma wristband doohickey.
So Hulks are perfected.
They're the next evolution of Captain Americas/Winter Soldiers.
And The Leader is the villain for Cap 4.
Who better to pick up where Zola from Cap 1 &2 left off?
But, here's where the cuckhold-y part comes in.
As much as MCU is using the continuity, and characters, and actors of "The Incredible Hulk" so long as they put Hulk in a movie with any other title but "something, something, Hulk" Universal has to watch.
And poor little just plain "Hulk" gets no canon references.
"Hulk" gets treated like, well, like "Ghost Rider" frankly.
And that just isn't right.
I dunno, maybe there's secret backstory that makes this make sense.
Maybe a Universal studio head fucked Kevin Feige's girlfriend or something.
From the outside in, it just makes Marvel look a little petty.
ANYWAY! All that said, as a Hulk fan, and a cinema fan, I get to ignore all of that, and enjoy this movie for the weird experimental piece of cinema art that it is.
On the Ang Lee front, his very next movie was "Brokeback Mountain" and I find it interesting that those gay cowboys ended up becoming Joker and Mysterio.
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