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Quint reviews first theatrical exhibition of HELLBOY!
Hey folks, Harry here watching Kevin Smith's JERSEY GIRL and LOVE ME IF YOU DARE... well... I've had a great 24 hours of film. I'll get into it when I get the time, for now, I must sleep to get up at dawn to see Linklater's BEFORE SUNSET! Here's Quint....
Ahoy, squirts! The crustiest of all the seaman, Quint, here with my opinion on Guillermo Del Toro's film of Mike Mignola's original comic book, HELLBOY.
AICN held a big free screening of this flick last night at midnight. SXSW is going on at the moment, so between the badged SXSWers, the 400 plus free tickets handed out (good for two people each) plus the VIPs (like the AICN locals and local film people like Robert Rodriguez, who showed up with a good deal of his SIN CITY crew) the place was packed out... And we had bats. Oh yes, live bats that were circling the balcony of the beautiful old time movie house called the PARAMOUNT THEATRE. How more perfect can you get than that?
Guillermo brought Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola with him. It was their first time seeing the picture and even Guillermo's first time seeing everything completed on film. Matter of fact, the print (ran reel to reel) was so new that the studio hasn't even seen the picture yet! The energy at the Paramount was a tangible thing... Over a thousand excited geeks running on adrenaline and caffeine at midnight... I'm sure you get the picture...
Anyway, not too be too cheeky, but it was a helluva show. Guillermo introduced the picture in the only way Guillermo can... by talking about his new weight loss. "Soon I will be able to see my dick again!" That was only the tip of the iceberg! Gotta love how he gives an NC-17 opening speech to a PG-13 movie. That's Guillermo for ya'! I just thought it particularly funny because immediately to my left was a family with at least 4 kids around the age of 10.
Before I get into the review, I have to give a tad bit of my back history with HELLBOY... or my lack thereof. I've read only two Hellboy graphic novels and both of those were thanks to my good friend, Neil, who also introduced me to the wonders of PREACHER. Neil's as big a Hellboy fanatic as I've ever seen. I found it a little difficult to get into the first book, which if I remember correctly was SEED OF DESTRUCTION, but I went loopy for CONQUEROR WORM with the giant robot apes and floating nazi zombie heads in glass jars...
I also dug the hell out of the online comics I've seen. THE WOLVES OF ST. AUGUST was recommended to me by my buddy, Kraken, and that's by far my favorite Hellboy story so far. Hellboy Vs. Werewolf ghosts (or is it ghost werewolves? hehe)
In other words, I wasn't too firmly attached to the HELLBOY universe. I liked the majority of what I'd seen, but I've only really read a very small selection from the many HELLBOY stories out there.
The film kicks so much ass, guys. Del Toro plays to all the great base geek cornerstones. Tentacled Lovecraftian Gods, hot super-powered chicks, badass butt-kicking anti-hero, evil nazi zombie assassins, supernatural monsters and Baby Ruth addiction! It's all there!
I knew Guillermo could deliver great action. His stuff in BLADE 2 was fantastic comic-book/pound your fist in the air stuff. What came as a pleasant surprise was the character he sneaked into the film. Anyone who has seen his DEVIL'S BACKBONE or CRONOS, knows he can pull some masterful performances and great depth from his characters, even if they're in unbelievable situations.
I was very happy to see him kinda merge the comic-book action with the characterization of his smaller films. You can really feel Hellboy's love for Liz Sherman (played by the amazingly beautiful Selma Blair). You really can feel the love and respect he has for his father figure, played by the great John Hurt. Del Toro doesn't spend too much time centered on these storylines, but he was still able to bring them across and make them something more than just character ideas. He also gave Hellboy a few great human moments, which I won't spoil here, but you'll know 'em when you see 'em.
The trailers and TV spots for this film are great and I believe they will help drive the box office up to huge levels, but they do give away a lot of stuff that I would have preferred to have seen first in the context of the film. Not really that they really give away a lot of the plot, but the visuals. I never really felt that first grand awe of seeing Rick Baker's brilliant work with HELLBOY or Spectral Motion's equally brilliant work on Abe Sapien. Abe Sapien is fucking amazing. Hellboy is amazing looking. The saturation of them kinda lessened the impact of seeing them up on the screen together, but if that means this flick becomes a huge deal and makes bundles of money, then it was worth it.
The CG is good. It looks like CG in some scenes (especially with the baby Hellboy), but it never really bugged me. At the worst it felt comic booky and I was, afterall, watching a comic book movie.
The only thing I didn't love in the film was the score. I liked it. It fit. But I'm just thirsting for a great superhero theme. I would have loved to hear what someone like Basil Poledouris would have done... Think of a ROBOCOP type theme for HELLBOY and CONAN THE BARBARIAN type music during the fights with big tentacle dog thingies. Marco Beltrami (TERMINATOR 3, SCREAM) did the score, which like I said above is good. It's just not really a standout. No one left the theatre humming any music from the film.
Ron Perlman absolutely shines in the flick. He's forever been one of the best character actors around and a vastly underused talent. His raw badassness is unmatched at the moment. He was born to play HELLBOY. He IS HELLBOY!
The whole supporting cast was great... I'm in love with pyro chick, Liz Sherman. I adore Abe Sapien. I even got to like the human agent dude, who I was sure was going to disappear as a character, unable to keep my interest when surrounded by psychic fishmen, good guy hell spawn and giant tentacle monsters. He didn't... But my two favorite characters in the the film... well, they weren't who I expected them to be.
The first is Kroenen, the sweet as hell Nazi assassin who always wears those creepy-ass gasmasks! I want a toy of him from the beginning of the film, when he's decked out in his SS uniform and slick black gasmask! This dude was super fast, super cool and super deadly. Kroenen's the Darth Maul of the film. Sweet looking and cooler than the Fonze in a fridge. But unlike Darth Maul, Kroenen is actually in a good movie!
The second is that cool as shit "Speaker," the corpse that Hellboy raises to help guide him toward the end of the film. Pissed off dead Russian dude with a smart mouth and noose around his neck. My only complaint is that he leaves the film so quickly. I want more!
That's certainly the feeling after seeing the film... "I want more!" Matter of fact, when Guillermo took the stage at the end of the film he was greeted by a fan from the balcony shouting, "Sequel! Sequel!" I can't agree more. The characters are set up. They are super-badass and cool. Bring on the next one! Just make sure you give me my Werewolf Ghosts... or Ghost Werewolves. I'm not picky.
That's it from me, squirts! I better run or I'll miss tonight's screening of John Landis' new flick, the documentary SLASHER... I'll be back with my ongoing coverage of SXSW! 'Til that day, this is Quint bidding you all a fond farewell and adieu.
-Quint
email: Aw, CRAP! You can email Quint here!!!
Harry here again -- if you want your opinion on HELLBOY posted - email me here asap, before I get too many!
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Saw the ten minute uncut, unedited preview on USA tonight, during Final Destination.....
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
And that dude was right.. SARAH POLLEY IS THE SMARTEST GIRL IN A HORROR/ZOMBIE FLICK EVER!!!!!
I am sure it will be duked out... but I am satisfied how they explained the fast zombie bit... and I am happy to see the work done to show the impact of "social chaos" on community notions like altruism and charitable responsibility, coupled with the idea of feeling regret in the face of making fight or flight decisions, whether they are right or wrong. I.E.: Her decision to knock over and tear off from one woman DEFINITELY asking for help, and two other that were definitely not zombies. I don't fault her for the latter two, but she did show obvious dismay and confusion at her own decision not to help that woman..................................All that being said, I really like the scene that her husband took off from chasing her to go after easy prey. That was hilarious. And the music is the same. I am much more excited than I would have thought. I am sure it will be a let down. BUT, I rather be let down by a terrible film with zombies, than see ANY OF THE CRAP THAT HAS SURFACED THIS YEAR!!!!! Or at least most of it... -
But why was there no mention of oral sex in this review? Every del Toro film deserves it!
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This film is great fun. I love the del Toro mandatory sewer scenes! All his movies have a frick'in sewer scene! Awesome job with Abe. Hellboy would be a hard comic to capture to film and I think del Toro did a great job. I thought the score was good. I remember the main theme. Beltrami's music sometimes takes a while to sink in. I didn't really notice Mimic's music until I heard the CD. I'll definately get the HB CD.
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good screening. thanks for lining it up.
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So who was with RobRod that is in the cast that night?
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That Best Buy DVD shit REALLY got me uneasy when they showed baby Hellboy. I thought maybe it was early CG or something. Apparently not. That's some of the worst CG I've seen in years. Fucking TERRIBLE. For fucks sake. That's not Hellboy. That's something from fucking SHREK. Blech. I'm still amped for it though. Just had to vent.
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I got mine yesterday. The film looks really sweet! I will definitely be there on opening day...
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Perlman's voice kills me. He's got the mean motherfucking menace thing down. Not worried about the CGI. I made it through Blade II. That movie was a excercise in bad GGI, but still a blast.
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it really sounds like a fantastic festival. every year i read about it here and it really seems like a fun event. other very stuffy film festivals just take themselves way too seriously. anyway i really hope hellboy is good. i just have little faith because i am 1. a hellboy fan from the very beginning of the comics and a huge mignola fan from ways before hellboy, 2. the trailers really looked average, and 3. i'm not a blade 2 fan. i can understand why some like it, but it's not for me.
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Like I said, I'm still amped for the movie. But bad CG is the bane of my existence. Not to mention it doesn't even look like Hellboy. Bahh, whatever. I just think baby Hellboy didn't even need to be CG in the first place. Movie's gonna be sick though.
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Hellboy sequal that is..
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I can't wait for this movie!
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Comparisons with Spider-man can only be a good thing, unless you're a blinded fanboy who couldn't see that Spider-man was actually a good, fun movie. And "beltrami did Alter Boys" is way more than I wanted to know
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Never would have imagined it... AICN liking a comic book movie. Now that IS a shocker. I mean, AICN have been such harsh critics of comic movies in the past that one would have thought that Hellboy would stand no chance but WOW! I mean, if AICN of all people say that a movie based on a comic book is good, then man, it MUST be good. Daredevil and Hulk anyone?
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Mar 16, 2004 7:56:19 AM CST
Quint (and anybody else interested): All 5 of the HELLBOY graph
by frankdrebin
...so you can catch any you missed. (I don't count the WEIRD TALES or HOLLOW EARTH collections--most of the art & writing wasn't by Mike Mignola, Hellboy's creator). SEED OF DESTRUCTION is the origin book the movie is based on, but I think the other 4 are better: THE RIGHT HAND OF DOOM (pancakes; canibalistic flying heads; a monkey with a gun), THE CHAINED COFFIN ("Babies like iron!"; Hellboy gets mistaken for Santa Claus), CONQUERER WORM (Nazi cyborg King Kong; zombie superhero Lobster Johnson) and WAKE THE DEVIL (Herman--the living head in a jar; products by ZinCo which always malfunction at the worst possible moment).
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Mar 16, 2004 8:14:54 AM CST
Nice enthusiasm, Quint, but this movie still looks like ass.
by gere's assgerbil
Quint lost me when he indicated that even the studio hadn't seen the finished film yet. That is such bullshit. No studio in their right mind is going to screen a film to an audience sight-unseen. Maybe he meant that they hadn't seen the finished credits or something, but that's not what it sounded like. I'm gonna wait for some reviews a little less biased than AICN before I shell out any money on this lame-looking movie.
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Mar 16, 2004 8:31:58 AM CST
" wouldn't be laughing if I was that parent" Well if you're bri
by minderbinder
Anyone else find it hard to take reviews like this seriously after all the raves for that shitfest Blade 2?
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Mar 16, 2004 8:47:03 AM CST
"I just thought it particularly funny because immediately to my
by koomoreborn
HEY QUINT!! Try masturbating in front of the next group of kids you see. That should be hilarious!!!!!
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Mar 16, 2004 9:23:10 AM CST
Is it just me, or does Hellboy look like nothing more than Men I
by qualopec
Looks pretty derivative. Yes, I know it's based on the comic book. But it still looks like a copy of MIB.
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Mar 16, 2004 9:25:28 AM CST
I agree... I'm so sick and tired of trailers giving everything a
by kampbell-kid
I can understand it's a marketing ploy to hook you in and go see it. But once your but is in the seat your not going to be suprised... but instead sitting there waiting for the cool thing ya saw in the trailer happen in the film and to me thats just SLOPPY SECONDS!!! I love the brilliant cryptic trailers like for example the first Matrix trailer... it was a cryptic, mysterious, cock tease and didn't give away every big "money shot" in the film. However, the Matrix sequel trailers gave away everything since it was already an established Hollywood hype machine to be marketed and exploited because they knew you were going to go see it no matter what. Someone needs to voice harder about how these trailers are edited and constructed...
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I knew that Spaniard would make this rock. Time is slowly creeping towards April 2nd. Arrgh.
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...I'm sure I'll go see this flick, since I'm a big fan of the comics, but you've got to take any AICN review of a Del Toro movie with a grain of salt. Hell, take it with a whole damn salt lick. sk
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...by biased reviewers who don't want to offend their filmmaker contacts. I saw the special screening of Hellboy too and what I saw was a huge steaming pile of ass on the screen! Now I've never picked up a Hellboy comic in my life so I had no clue what to expect other than thinking it had a pretty cool trailer. Maybe if I had I would've empathized a bit with some of the characters, but if that's true, it's just a lame excuse for a poor movie. I couldn't have given two shits about ANYONE in the film. Every time you think you're about to get to know a charater better, the movie cuts away to a different character. The fight scenes had absolutely no tension - I was rooting for the bad guys most of the time even though they were pretty lame too. (I'm still not really sure what their evil plan was - open up hell and destroy the earth or somesuch nonsense - they never really said why they wanted to - of course, they never really said anything at all!) There was some nice eye candy but mostly just bad CG. Aquadude looked really cool but he never really did anything. Selma Blair was hot as always but the love triangle thing was utterly boring. There were only a couple of funny moments in the movie (like literally two) and a lot of poor cliched attempts at humor. Anyway, I'm through venting and if you haven't seen it, think twice before shelling out good money for this crappy movie. BTW, don't know if it means anything, but Robert Rodriguez jetted for the door the second the credits rolled.
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GDT is Mexican like Montezuma. Not Spanish like Cortez.
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First time posting and I have somethings to say about the free screening at the Paramount. IMHO,this has to be one of the best translated comic to film adaptations I've have seen yet. To those who think this is just some Men in Black/Ghostbuster rip off,You need to see the movie first before you pass judgement. I understand the skepticism because we've all been burned by bad special effect movies over and over again but this movie has more than all those movies combined.And really, those MEN IN BLACK movies were really mediocre. Don't hold Blade II against Mr. Del Toro, that was a job for hire whereas, this is a labour of love that Mike Mignola,the creator, is very happy with. As a cartoonist myself, if I had created HELLBOY and this was the movie made from my creation, I would be very proud indeed. I loved every actor in this movie, no one was miscast.Ron Perlman is perfect as the title character, kudos to Guillermo for sticking to his guns and casting the best actor for the job. Despite the supernatural elements and gruesome images, this is a very funny and engaging movie.As for the CGI complaints, it's really not an issue in this movie.To everyone who has complained about fakey looking CGI please shut up already. Do you complain about Ray Harryhausen's work looking fakey? For it's time it was the coolest thing but now looks very fakey, but who cares, those movies are still fun. Hellboy is a fun movie. Seems to me, people can't let themselves have a fun time with a movie without cutting it down so they can feel undeservingly superior. Hey if you can make better CGI please do. The work on Gollum in the LOTR movies is awesome and still,it will get better. I also thought SpiderMan was a good adaptation (not perfect) and I thought the CGI was fine and actually worked in that movie. What is important is having a great story and simply having the best special effects or CGI will not fix that. The first two Star Wars had decent(awesome for their time)special effects but compared to the new films they're not as good but which do you prefer. I would pick the first 2, and without the new additions from the special editions. Anyway,I fully recommend this movie as a regular member of the movie buying public. And I will pay to see it again. Bring on the naysayers.
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Mar 16, 2004 11:18:06 AM CST
"Do you complain about Ray Harryhausen's work looking fakey?"
by rev_skarekroe
No, because in his prime Harryhausen was the very best at what he was doing. The effects Del Toro used in "Blade II" and (evidently) "Hellboy" are NOT the very best - that award would have to go, imo, to WETA Digital. Del Toro's look like something on a particularly expensive episode of "Angel" or "Enterprise". sk
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Mar 16, 2004 11:32:18 AM CST
someone just gave themselves away as an LOTR cockslob by mention
by tall_boy
sheesh, at least TRY to hide it.
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I disagree that the CGI on Blade II or HELLBOY is no better than "an expensive episode of Enterprise or Angel. But what WETA delivered was on a bigger bugdet than what HELLBOY and BLade II had to work with ie, more time and money to achieve what is the best. I would agree that WETA is producing some of the best work in this field but even some of the images in the LOTR movies didn't come off as well as others, example, the ghosts coming into the battle in Return of the King. But I don't care because that movie had so much more going for it. As for Ray Harryhausen, for the most part he was only guy who was doing that stuff, so he was the guy to go to for that kind of work. I would agree he deserves much praise for his work and would say he was the best at what he did but people(born after star wars)looking at that stuff now would probably complain that it looks fake. That's all I'm saying. I love his work and don't mean to cast doubt on his talent.It probably comes down to time and opinion.
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You don't know anything about me, buddy. sk
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Mar 16, 2004 12:14:27 PM CST
Everyone go see Hellboy so they can make sequel after sequel
by mortsleam
And keep Ron Perlman in makeup forever so we never have to see his hideous face again. Nah, I'm just kidding! -(8#>
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Them fucking Reapers were the shit Yo! and the fight between Blade and that bad ass Reaper at the end was sick. Maybe I was way too fucked up when I saw it...CHEERS Amigos!
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Yes, Del Toro is Harry's doppelganger, but the movie had entertainment value regardless, and they were acknowledging it. Hellboy is like the first "big" movie coming out in a while(unless you count James Gunn's Dawn of the Dead and Scooby Two), and a lot of people who haven't even heard of Hellboy before now are talking about how they're ready for the 2nd of April.
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Mar 16, 2004 12:42:56 PM CST
Guillermo Del Toro gets my vote for director of the live action
by stonemonkey
He does for comics what Peter Jackson did for Tolkien.
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great post, but you forgot about all the cranky, bitter 14 year olds living with their parents! LOL
fucking fanboys, always so full of hate and bitterness, you just can't please them, oh well!
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?j=1&id=pcmcat9400050001&type=category
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Mar 16, 2004 1:23:44 PM CST
"He does for comics what Peter Jackson did for Tolkien"
by atticus finch
By that, do you mean Del Toro butchers the source material? Because that is what Peter Jackson did to Tolkien's work.
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oh my Lord, that was so sweet! lol! thanks!
see, that's the thing
most of these hateful little bastards that bitch so much about the movies, are actually the first in line to see them!
how come?
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dangit. I know all them comic guys, jes' can't get my head gasket sealed back up fer the drive down. I love aicn for setting this up? anybody know where/what happen to the hellboy fan site "plague of frogs?" they been at hellboy.com fer as long as I kin remember.
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Do they have the same gay CGI ragdoll fake wirefu BS? Blade-2 sucked like a black hole.
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It seems Hollywood isn't even trying anymore, as if they ever have, you're seeing what has already been seen. Oh, and BLADE + UNDERWORLD = VAN HELSING. You know this to be true.
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Have any of you ever seen an infant demon hell spawn? huh? then how the fuck do you know what it looks like? Maybe that bit of cgi represents exactly what a baby devil would look like. unfortunately, we'll never know.
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Here's what I just read:
a whole bunch of background, then here's the entire review:
"it kicked so much ass guys"
Wow - that's deep.
Since Quint liked Blade 2 - I think I'll pass on this shitfest.
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Stoopid (you're living up to your handle), So if you didn't like the Blade 2 shitfest, then you're either a 14 year old geek or a 30 year old loser living in his parents' basement? Come on moron, use an argument that makes sense (and that hasn't been done to death). Popcorn movies can be great, however some of us don't turn our brains off and just stare slack-jawed and drooling at the screen when the movie starts rolling. We still need compelling character arcs and storylines. Blade 2 offers none of this. If all that you need in a film is a couple of "cool" moments, then fine, I guess Blade 2 and any other half-assed, poorly written film with some eye candy will amuse you. The rest of us are looking for a bit more.
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I couldn't sit through neither Daredevil, nor Hulk. Boring crap they were.
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Hey Quint. Harry here. My knees still can't support my body mass, but I just wanted to say...This is my boy Guillermo Del Toro's latest movie. He is a good friend of mine. Although I wouldn't want you to risk your journalistic credibilty (LOL), please make your review favorable. I know that the CGI are a crapfest. But I'd like to keep being invited to those set locations! And get all the free stuff from the studios! Thanks.
P.S.: Can I just write the review and sign your name at the bottom? I'd review the movies myself, but people might get the idea that I'm overhyping my friend's movie. Thanks. -
Fuck all you negative wankerholes. Del Toro rocks and you just can't stand the fact that he is so successful because it makes you descend deeper into your worm infested shithole life of despair. Keep being negative you losers and you'll find yourselves standing at a freeway onramp with a cardboard sign very, very soon, that is, if you aren't already there. Congrats in advance to Guillermo for the imminent success of this truly unique masterpiece!
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Just sayin'
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it's about telling a good story in an interesting way. People knock genre films, but the fact is, genre films are some of the most popular. Some people would like social realism, movies about real people and real problems to take center stage. But you see, that kind of oppositional thinking is exactly what gets us into trouble. It fails to give those into such categories of film a sense of what really draws people to a great deal of the geek cinema. Fact is, it's not content alone that decides popularity, but also form. Too many realistic films resemble each other too strongly, whereas successful genre films, have distinctive styles to them. Lucas, Jackson, and the Wachowski Brothers all have their own styles, their own visions of the world. They organizes their content differently, they plot differently. You can even hear it in their dialogue. Some fanboys have gotten attached to critiquing one at the expense of the other, without realizing how boring things would get if you only had Wachowskis, Lucases, or Peter Jacksons around. And you know what? People doing realistic stuff make the same mistake. They worship one director or another, they bind their ideas to one auteur or another, forgetting that these people distinguished themselves from their rivals and colleagues by creating their own style, taking hold of their own artistic sensibilities. And so Kurosawa is different from Bergman, Bergman is different from Scorsese, and Coppolla is different from them all. They don't organize the sense of their movies the same way, and what's more important, they don't originate movies the same way every time. It's time people realized that realism or non realism aren't really the center of things, but instead are just elements of the filmmakers interaction with the audience. The filmmakers interaction is the point of contention- it is only those filmmakers who keep an active, dynamic relationship that keep their head above the crowd, and who attract and keep a following. Genre is simply an accident of their choice.
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...the song descriptions and the endless fashion criticism and the name-dropping and the discussions of the relative merits of different Manhattan fitness clubs and nightspots and restaurants, then you didn't get the full American Psycho experience. Give it another shot. Cognitive dissonance is your friend. It's cheaper than acid. I think you need to be bludgeoned with that material for a while to adjust your internal eye to the dark, as it were. Kind of the inverted mirror image of Henry Miller's technique. But hey, the gory parts are cool on their own, too, so whatever floats your boat.
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I'm so glad this film is good. I just hope it finds a big enough audience so it doesn't get called a flop.
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I really enjoyed Blade 2, despite some ropey effects. Surely the main idea of a sequel is to improve on and expand the original. This it did in spades.
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Keep on flogging you witless peon. Mental masturbation appears to be just about your speed.
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The second I see the use of the word 'Gay' to describe something bad I want to cry blood. But I suppose you people have to exsist. Anyone with an ounce of vision or cinematic awareness knows the chasm of difference between Hellboy and the LXG movie. This is a faithful adaptation of the comic without an American character crowbarred in. It's also missing the ego of connery. Thank the lord for Del Toro.
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He said the trailers look great and they don't. I'm not familiar with Helloby, so when I saw the trailer, I wa sjust staring at the screen going "What the heck is this?" It looks like a cross between X-Men and LXG. There's nothing really in the trailer to make me believe it'll be better than LXG. Dave Poland at HotButton liked it too, but if I hadn't read that, I'd still be quite wary of Hellboy being that good.
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Check it out! Shaun of the dead gettin all comicified! Written by Pegg and Wright, no less! www.geocities.com/mondoirlando
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PLANT AHOY! unbelievable. PLANT! SHRUB! CONIFER! WEED! PLAAAAAAAANT!!!!!!
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Mar 16, 2004 8:51:49 PM CST
I BELIEVE! BUT I'LL PROBABLY GET TO SEE IT AFTER HOLY WEEK OVER
by el zar
Blade 2 was great. I think this one will be too.
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Come on April 2!
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AT LAST AN HONEST REVIEW!
At least this is not a plant.
If any suit tries to plant something you'll end up like this wanker.
http://www.slushfactory.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2921&perpage=20&pagenumber=1
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Hellboy all the way!
Some upn suit tried spamming the slushfactory boards. They smaked him down.
Show is good though. I saw it last Wed night.
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It is like a dream come true. GDT is a god! Perlman is the man!
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Nothing gets me going like a kick-ass "SS uniform and slick black gasmask"! Ridiculous.
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Mar 17, 2004 12:50:32 AM CST
FromBeyond: "It's a PG-13 movie, "kids under 13 should see it wi
by the killer-goat
well in that case as a parent I'm sure you can see that the "dick" joke was all in good fun and context, eh? (smack) What the hell are you expecting from a 1am showing of a PG13 film called 'Hellboy'... Scooby Doo??? Wait, scratch that, the Scooby movie has references to pot and dog poop, which just leaves "family-safe" Disney films. Which are most decidedly NOT playing in theaters at 1am.
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A SwSW Festival Factoid: it is always held simultaneously with Spring Break, so the kiddos are free to stay up all hours with Mommy and Daddy.
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..Go watch Jerry Maguire again, pussy.
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..Go watch Jerry Maguire again, pussy.
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Popcorn movies are great. Blade 2 was an awesome popcorn movie. But who says I want to settle for a popcorn movie with something like HELLBOY???? Hellboy is a work of art. I would have loved to have seen a visual style similiar to Apocalypse Now, more specifically the scenes with Colonel Kurtz. Shadows EVERYWHERE. Whatever. I'm just saying, is all.
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Harry? Is this you???? I'm sorry if I have upset you so. Just know that I love you. I really really love you, bro. Doesn't change the fact that I read this website as comic relief, since AICN's credibility went out the window a long time. Exhibit A; Guillermo Del Toro: HELLBOY, WIND AND THE WILLOWS, MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON!
Hey folks, Harry here... Guillermo called me up a few minutes ago, we didn't really talk about movies, he was checking up on friends in Austin, geek stuff about MATRIX and X2... just general movie talks, and to find out how Kublakhan is doing. He did mention that things are going very well on HELLBOY, though he's working himself to death, keeping very long hours with little sleep, but happy as a pig in shit. Guillermo told me that work is progressing very strongly on both WIND AND THE WILLOWS and AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. However, given that Guillermo wrote the following up on IMDB regarding his proposed remake of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, I'll be asking him about it when next we talk.
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and I've already got my freeway sign. It says: "I Can See My Dick!"
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Mar 17, 2004 3:07:00 PM CST
Some people think Talkbackers are annoying idiots...
by trinity's gusset
People! Come together! The reason why people still like Harryhausen movies is because the fakey special effects had character. You all remember the skeletons from 'jason and the argonauts' (were they from 'Jason'? i can never distinguish the movies as they were all shite) because the special effects were full of character. Them fuckers had personality. Almost any modern low budget movie has better fx, but who cares? The mosters are forgettable cardboard cut outs, no matter how fancy they look. So if baby Hellboy is cute, then all is good and the CGI is a non-issue (it might remain an issue to those who genuinely believe discussing pixel shaders is the same as movie criticism). Jar Jar binks may be a special case in all of this because a lot of his, admittedly fantastic, FX did have a character, it's just that it was the most annoying character in all of movie history.
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So I suppose any retarded story with some eye candy does it for ya huh? Sorry, I guess I just need something that's halfway interesting. Blade was great, but the sequel was shit. It was a ridiculous story with phony characters. I like Popcorn movies as much as anyone, but without a good story it's impossible to care about the characters involved. Raiders of the Lost Ark = how it's done. Blade 2 = well, a big steaming pile. I guess they could show barney the dinosaur running around for two hours and as long as they threw in some cgi you'd be crapping your pants in delight. If all I'm after is monsters and tits, I'll go watch a Troma release. I do expect at least some of a $60 million budget to go into the screenplay.
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Word around the campfire is that Rick baker didn't actually do any work on Hellboy. I read this on Counting Down. Is this true? The Best Buy DVD makes it look like he did all the makeup and creature effects. Isn't this false advertising? I saw a screening and I really liked the movie but was very disappointed to learn that Baker is taking credit for somebody else's work.
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I haven't read the comic book, so I can't compare that. The overall look of the movie was good - but face it, the story was very run-of-the-mill. The final two reels had a very video game vibe - go to this room, stop those bad guys, cross this bridge before it collapses, face more bad guys in the next room...*YAWN.* Again it LOOKED good - but the story was really lacking, and so I give a NOT RECOMMENDED overall.
-my first talkback. Whee.
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