It has come to this. In the new issue of Empire Magazine, Louis Leterrier, the director of the forthcoming Incredible Hulk movie and such high-octane moron-bait as The Transporter and Transporter 2: High Octane Boogaloo, actually walks us through the freshly minted Incredible Hulk teaser trailer. Unbelievably—at least to me—somebody felt the need for a shot by shot explanation of what we are viewing.

Did I mention it’s the Hulk?

And what commentary. Leterrier seems intent on snatching Uwe Boll’s crusty crown as King of the Cinematic Euro-Douches here, as in his stilted, child-like English he tries to convey the lofty concept behind the saga of Bruce Banner and his giant green alter ego:

“He’s the Hulk already, with the Hulk within him, and you get to understand how he came to be in this situation, his struggle in life, the other characters surrounding him and the enemies that he deals with and fights with.”

Did you get that? Finally, we get to understand the situation. He goes on at length breaking the teaser tidbits into even more tiny, digestible crumbs, comparing his film to Alien, The Ghost and the Darkness, blathering on about Hulk glimpses and martial arts and monster’s elbows that might be Chinese weaponery, and how it’s all “pretty cool.” Keep in mind, he’s a fully grown man.

But he saves the best for last, and in the process, quietly steps over some sketchy line into a bold new meta realm of awful:

“None of the shots in this trailer are finished shots, but I think it’s decent enough and it shows the audience what we’re going for.”

“Decent enough.” The director has now assumed the laissez faire attitude of the modern LCD popcorn-muncher. The door is wide open now. Forget rip-offs that pass as “homages,” forget movies that let themselves off the hook by being deliberately bad—we now have “decent enough” as a selling point. For an unfinished film yet. For a trailer that shows you what the director was “going for” rather than what he’s achieved.

And did I mention it’s the Hulk?