Hellboy

[FS]

It just premiered here, and I went to see it. Not bad, not great either. A lot of action movie clichés. I don't want to say Stephen Sommers, but... room for improvement. Not on Ron Perlman of course. Best casting decision ever.

I'm thinking I would've judged this more highly if I'd actually read a Hellboy comic, similar to how I would've been more critical of Spider-Man 1 if I'd never read those comics.

Still, a good time was had.

[FartinMowler]

It just premiered there? Where are you? I liked it. I hope they continue.

[Crying Baby Jesus]

ther making three more last I heard, the next one has Abe as alot to do with abe tho. Perlman was fucking amazing

[Daphne]

I liked it, but only for Ron Perlman. Every single thing he did in that was fantastic.
Otherwise it just felt like a really bad wannabe Men In Black kinda movie.

(the scene where he's on the roof talking to the kid, is the best)

[Zomboid]

I liked it because it felt like something new for me and nazis always interest me. Men in black still blows ass though.

[FS]

It felt kinda tame overall, more then it could've been. I don't blame them/Del Toro for shooting for a PG-13 rating, but for instance both X-Men movies were PG-13 and they seemed more violent than this. Aside from that, the plot became too cheesy near the end, most of the dialogue wasn't clever enough, and the CGI monsters were - in my opinion - neither interesting nor good looking.

But I have high hopes for Hellboy 2. I'm thinking that with the characters down on paper and their introductions out of way, they can focus entirely on fixing the problems of 1.

[jin]

I wish Dr. Kroenen didn't die. ;<

[Spectre X]

The only book he's really significant in is Wake the Devil, and even there there's not much that he does.

[Crying Baby Jesus]

I Liked that crazy Volodo type guy at the begining he looked so bad ass in his trenchcoat and hat

[jin]

That's true, but, with regards to the movie he became the only redeeming feature- in my opinion. ;o

My Hellboy knowledge is quite lacking, it has been a while since ive read the comics, but i still believe that the robot gorilla and the head in the jar would make great villains- and i was wishing they'd include scenes where hellboy would meet the old woman who lives in the chick leg house. ;<

[executioneer]

baba yaga

[pjalne]

Baba Yaga is in Hellboy? I've only read the first collection, how long until she appears?

[Spectre X]

Originally Posted by pjalne

Baba Yaga is in Hellboy? I've only read the first collection, how long until she appears?

Wake the Devil.

Or Chained Coffin and Other Stories, doesn't matter which order you get them. The short in the Chained Coffin book is actually a kind of prequel to Rasputin talking to the elf guy in Wake the Devil.

[ninja wolf]

crying baby jesus said: I Liked that crazy Volodo type guy at the begining he looked so bad ass in his trenchcoat and hat

First he was in most of the movie remember. second yeh the should'n't have killed him that they shall die for. And third never mention him and Voldo in the same sentence again. They may have been made from the same template but Sabastion was higher in the cool and lower in the suck where Voldo was the oppisite!

[sports]

arroa x needs to get his facts straight. (has no idea what anyone is talking about) Spectre...you suck, not me.

[executioneer]

wtf

[Spectre X]

They changed Kroenen's character a lot for the movie. In the comics he could actually talk, and he was a scientist, not a fighter.

Also, Sports, shut the fuck up.