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I was flipping through the Post yesterday when I came across this little gem about The Hulk:

[Eric] Bana plays a scientist whose genetic experiment to create superhuman beings bound for Mars goes wrong, and he gains the ability to mutate into a superstrong being. The same experiment transforms three escaped convicts into supermutants, and only the scientist's alter ego, the Hulk, can stop them.

Gee, that doesn't sound like the movie I've been hearing about. My sister, who's actually seen the film (her review? "It's bad."), says there's certainly nothing about Mars or escaped convicts in the movie that she saw. So I go to the IMDB, pull up the page for The Hulk, and lo and behold, there's this plot summary posted:

A scientist's genetic experiment to create super-human colonialists bound for Mars goes wrong and he gains the ability to mutate into a super-strong being. The same experiment tranforms three escaped convicts into hideous super-mutants and only the scientist's alter ego, the Hulk, can stop them.

Yup. There's nothing that says in-depth research quite like copy-and-pasting material from the internet.

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Hey, Paul, your Hulk post made Gawker.

And to think I knew him when ...

the post has enjoyed the tumult at the Times a little too much.... is this plagiarism #2 or #3 in the past 2 months for the Post?

I don't know what bothers me more - the fact that they copy/pasted it, or the fact that it's just plain wrong!

I actually liked the movie, and I thought it was great fun to see what Ang Lee did with it, not only in regards to the story and characters, but also in a purely stylistic sense.

(While it annoyed me at first, his filming/editing/whatever style for the movie was as close to a comic book page as I've ever seen up on screen, and it didn't take long for it to stop bothering me. It was obviously a bit more experimental than some of his previous films, but it was a lot of fun, I think, even if it wasn't as successful an experiment as others.)

hey dude
congrats on gawking
rock on with your bad self

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