7 Movies That Were Way Weirder Than Advertised

2003's Hulk looked like a sure thing. Coming hot on the heels of X-Men and Spider-Man, Marvel comics adaptations were rapidly emerging as the wave of the future, so a big screen outing for the green goliath was the next logical step.

However, few if any were prepared for just how strange a film Hulk turned out to be. Director Ang Lee hadn't ventured into blockbuster territory before, and his attempts to balance out character-based drama with spectacular action were a bit off the mark. Many viewers were dismayed to see the title character doesn't even make an appearance until about halfway through.

Yet despite Lee's emphasis on the drama, he did go to pains to capture a comic book feel, but in a very strange and probably misguided way: by literally inserting comic book style frames and odd image freezes into the shots.

If all this hadn't already put viewers off enough, let's not even get started on the incredibly strange and surreal climax in which, if I'm being honest, I still have no idea what was going on.

Small wonder, then, that Marvel chose to play things much safer with 2008's semi-reboot The Incredible Hulk, which fed into the MCU model we know and love today.