It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Incredible Hulk With Gary Bainbridge

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - Gary Bainbridge joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Bruce Banner's struggle to control the raging beast that lives inside us all by going for some pizza in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time it’s The Incredible Hulk from 2008, and joining Tim for a chat about Bruce Banner’s struggle to control the raging beast that lives inside us all by failing to order some pizza properly is writer Gary Bainbridge. What will they find to say about Hollywood favouring Jim Wilson over Rick Jones, the canonical status of ‘Computer Nerd’ and the ridiculously complicated balancing act of making a film in which the title character does not want to appear as the title character, and what does any of this have to do with Omar from The Wire‘s status in the league table of ‘Big Bads’? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

Gary has also appeared on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about the The Incredible Hulk television series here as well as Daredevil here, The Amazing Spider-Man here and the 1978 Dr. Strange television pilot here. You can also find Miriam Kent’s thoughts on She-Hulk: Attorney At Law here and Martin Ruddock on the revisiting of the events of The Incredible Hulk in What If…? here.

Gary has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about Coast To Coast, Deadly Boring, Supersonic Man, Audisee’s The War Of The Worlds, Limp-Along Leslie, That Look In Your Eye by Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks, Ace Reports Annual 1981 and Unbranded Soluble Cola Tablets here and Googi The Liverpool Duck, Big Bubbles, No Troubles by Ellis Beggs And Howard, Derry Daring, Bugs Bunny In Space, The London Connection, Cliff Richard’s dance record as ‘Black Knight’, DJ Spuddles Original Gourmet Fries, The Shinsei Miracle and Shut Yer Gob by Lee Brennan here.