Guess his stance hasn't changed much then

Physically Norton is a much better match for Bruce Banner. Ruffalo doesn’t ‘look’ like Banner. But he’s a team player and its his role now.

Oddly enough, even though Ruffalo doesn’t look like Banner....he does make a great ‘Hulk’ (when his face is used as the model for the CGI effect).

I like The Incredible Hulk movie. I own the dvd, very underrated movie to me

We ended up with a better actor portraying a better Banner so it worked out for the MCU. Sad it looks like we’ll never get a Ruffalo Hulk solo movie because of dumb people being dumb. But I really hope Liv Tyler shows up in She-Hulk.

I don't know, I like Norton a lot but Banner is very much one of his weaker performances. I do think he's better casting for the part than Ruffalo, even though the latter is in better projects normally. Shame about Motherless Brooklyn getting such mixed reviews, was hoping for that to be his comeback.

Norton Hulk was an epic beast, Ruffalo Hulk turned into a comedic non beast that was emo SMDH

There does certainly seem to be merit to Norton's approach to the character (and if he'd been brought into the MCU in 2016 instead of 2006, he might find Marvel a more accommodating place, since a lot of what he's saying sounds like the direction the Doctor Strange franchise is going).

But when the Incredible Hulk was made, people were still strongly trapped inside the box of traditional superhero movies. Iron Man worked really well within that box, on the charisma of the actors and the dedication to the worldbuilding. But Norton's Hulk utterly failed in that regard. (And there's plenty of fault to go around. The final script wasn't all that strong, but Norton didn't deliver on the material either. And mostly to me, it failed at what it was trying to be: a monster beat-em-up.) So, yeah, the prospect of another bite at the apple (one that Marvel itself didn't actually benefit from since it would be through Universal) wasn't that appealing.

But the "cheap shot" wasn't all that cheap. Norton isn't a team player. And just seems to have been a bad fit for the studio on a personality level. And it sucks that they made a dead-end movie with him before discovering that. Just the wrong actor at the wrong time (and at the time, Norton was my dream cast for Banner, so it hit me pretty hard seeing it fizzle).

Whedon’s take is still the best take.

This scene was just perfect as was Ruffalo.
Such subtle acting in this movie by him. 3:23 chills


Too bad the direction took a hard left after this

Norton as Banner was perfect, Ruffalo is ok I just don't see him as Bruce Banner. Norton looked like a guy who was on the run hiding from Ross, but Ruffalo looked like he was hiding from Ross in a Mcdonalds. :)