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Buckeye falls in love with Guillermo & HELLBOY 2!!! Plus Guillermo's KIMMEL appearance!

Awesome! by hyperboycomics	Jun 29th, 2008 12:04:47 PM

I have to see this movie by hyperboycomics	Jun 29th, 2008 12:05:22 PM
And the clip with Seth MacFarlane rocked my world.
First! by hypnotron	Jun 29th, 2008 12:05:28 PM
First!
Ah well... by hypnotron	Jun 29th, 2008 12:06:03 PM
Third, but I'm still on the podium...this film looks great!
I actually read the whole thing before I commented! by hyperboycomics	Jun 29th, 2008 12:06:23 PM

This looks spetaculaaaar by mr dark	Jun 29th, 2008 12:10:46 PM
Saw the previews and looks better that the first.. I have high hopes for this one. Good review Buckeye it sounds like you dug the after party as much as the film..
I doubt it's that good by Greenleaf1	Jun 29th, 2008 12:11:20 PM
The trailers are pretty god awful, I just don't see how this movie could ever be mentioned in the same sentence as "A New Hope."
The Blade II of Hellboy Movies! by Prague23	Jun 29th, 2008 12:17:12 PM
Me and Ron have the same birthday. I can't frakin wait to see this. I've a friend who 'doesn't think it looks good.' Can you believe that shnaz? And she (yup, she) loves fantasy and LOTR, etc. She and I both have our beef with Pan. I thought the fantasy was great but the 'real world' story was full of cliche scenes and, to be honest, was a bit too heavy handed with violence. Anyway, too bad H.B.III looks like at least 6 years away, if it ever happens.
Woohooo by TomHooligan	Jun 29th, 2008 12:18:28 PM
Can't wait to see this film. I definately understand the Mos Eisley vibe just from looking at the trailer. With this and Dark Knight coming up i think we are gonna have a summer to remember.
Hey Buckeye... by expert_40	Jun 29th, 2008 12:25:54 PM
... how'd the last two National Championship losses to the SEC taste? Big-10 SUCKS!!!
can't wait for this movie! by seabiscuits	Jun 29th, 2008 12:41:28 PM
nice story there. i love movies that go into fantasy worlds and i love the little to no use og cgi, and i love that he compared it to seeing a new hope for the first time.
Yeah... by DocPazuzu	Jun 29th, 2008 12:49:53 PM
....I wonder why this guy got his review in before Mori. That "review" reads like a parody list of leafy tells. I love Del Toro and I'm dying to see the film, but that "reviewer" is a fucking geranium.
The leaves are practically falling off this..... by Kizeesh	Jun 29th, 2008 12:50:09 PM
PLANT! kidding. but seriously why doesn't he just blow Guillermo while he's at it.
Not a plant by Bass Ackwards	Jun 29th, 2008 01:09:16 PM
But definitely a guy who liked the movie and really liked Del Toro, and knew (or strongly suspects) Del Toro would be reading the review here.
I hugged Naomi Watts at Seattle's Mulholland Dr. premiere by Prague23	Jun 29th, 2008 01:20:38 PM
That was awesome. I asked her out too but she was apparently too busy. That was a long time ago, sniff.
It's probably just me but... by somethingcool	Jun 29th, 2008 01:23:48 PM
A New Hope kind of sucked. I respect the fact that they got that movie done in the 70s when CGI didn't really exist, but the acting is painful. The only good actors are James Earl Jones and Harrison Ford.
if a new hope sucked and had bad acting by seabiscuits	Jun 29th, 2008 01:26:27 PM
what movies would you say are good and have good acting? just curious about that.
Frozone by kwisatzhaderach	Jun 29th, 2008 01:41:06 PM
Stop being such a tool. Star Wars is the most influential special effects picture of all time.
Dragon Wars by Damage_Inc	Jun 29th, 2008 01:43:23 PM
I'll say one thing about that movie, at least the CGI was done so that you could actually see what was going on during it.
I'd rather sit through The Happening again. by Lucasblows	Jun 29th, 2008 01:43:57 PM

PLANT!!! by Raymar	Jun 29th, 2008 01:47:39 PM
You can tell by the fact that he praised a recent Danny Elfman score.
I'm the Buckeye... by dubgasm	Jun 29th, 2008 01:54:11 PM
Hey all, its my first review and i was crazy tired. I'm sorry for those of you who I've pissed off already but I was just speakin what i thought about it. I'm not actually a plant, I got the tickets through AICN!
cant wait to see this by palewook	Jun 29th, 2008 02:06:01 PM
stupid calender..
DerLanghaarige by DocPazuzu	Jun 29th, 2008 02:08:24 PM
I got a hug from Sarah Young once.
I also sat in Udo Kier's lap in a bar in Vancouver by Prague23	Jun 29th, 2008 02:20:36 PM
I went to get another beer, at 3am (I frakin love Canada) and a nice girl took my seat. Which was ok with me. So Udo gave me his lap for about 10 minutes until we found another chair. It was not gay, it was gentlemanly. I guess you had to be there. He also sang that techno song from My Own Private Idaho and admitted that he was Fassbinder's (direct quote) "Bitch Boy." I just about squirted beer out of my nose when he said that.
Nope, Prague23... by the dolphins are in the jacuzzi	Jun 29th, 2008 02:25:00 PM

Nope, Prague 23 by the dolphins are in the jacuzzi	Jun 29th, 2008 02:25:42 PM
Doesn't sound gay at all.
Pondscum by Alex Wilder	Jun 29th, 2008 02:32:50 PM
I guess you didn't read the part in the last paragraph that said "This movie rocks"
Amendment one: GO SEE IT by dubgasm	Jun 29th, 2008 02:33:38 PM
Sorry i left that out, i know its kinda important
Poor timing by Thy_Kingdom_Come	Jun 29th, 2008 02:51:25 PM
The first Hellboy was a great film. Guillermo Del Toro really hit it home with that film. However something doesn't seem right in any of the trailers released for H.B. II. Either the dialogue seems overly campy, or it seems as though they are trying really too hard to include as many monsters as humanely possible to appeal to the monster loving crowd. That's a generalization, I know, but I wasn't going to H.B. II to see a sequel to Pan's Labyrinth. I was going to H.B. II to see a sequel to H.B. I. 'Nuff said. I own the first film on DVD and intend on seeing H.B. II at a midnight showing the day before it arrives in theaters. Yet I still have my reservations. And by the way, with all due respect to the genius that is Guillermo Del Toro, did he have any say in the release date for said film? Because he had to have had some inkling of a clue that The Dark Knight was going to blow H.B. II out of the water the very next week. Releasing H.B. II in the same month, let alone the week prior to T.D.K., was a gutsy, albeit, moronic move. My hat is off to whoever thought of doing that. But at least it will be number one at the box office for one week... right?
Star Wars? Aren't we laying it on a bit thick? by I Dunno	Jun 29th, 2008 02:51:33 PM
You can't accuse this guy of being a plant. Even a studio suit or intern wouldn't write something like that. Anyway, he lost all credibility when he said Elfman wrote a good score "as usual".
Oh sure, Star Wars sucked. So did Citizen Cane by DoctorWho?	Jun 29th, 2008 02:54:48 PM
What's up with all that 'black and white' shit? I don't get it. What's the big deal?
Regarding the review (or lack thereof) by Thy_Kingdom_Come	Jun 29th, 2008 02:57:31 PM
I was looking forward to reading a review of the film. Not a review of the critic's experiences meeting with the H.B. cast and crew. I agree with the person above who asked about pacing, dialogue, plotline(s), etc. Reviews are supposed to the give the general public an idea as to how the film itself fared. That's why they are reviews of the film and not reviews of the cast and crew's amiable nature. I'll just wait for Rotten Tomatoes to post a rating and see what it gets on that site. Because this review was seriously lacking in every regard.
Has anyone else seen the by Mezzanine	Jun 29th, 2008 03:15:41 PM
"Animated Comic Book" that is up on apple.com?? Click on the Hellboy poster in the trailers section, and watch the animated comic. It's a prologue to the movie, and it's actually pretty damned awesome!!
I saw it last night as well, and... by Gil Brooks	Jun 29th, 2008 03:18:54 PM
...it was really disappointing. I thought the 1st film was good, not great, but love GDT, so was looking forward to this. The film's structure was weak, it was pretty self indulgent, lacked focus, lacked a sense of urgency, etc. The visuals were great, of course, and Luke Goss was awesome as the Prince. But in a movie called "Hellboy", I should not be so bored with the title character, that I was actually looking forward for them to cut back to the prince. I'm in a hurry right now, but I need to sit down and write a formal review..
CANT WAIT! by eoneon	Jun 29th, 2008 03:26:45 PM
SAW HELLBOY OPENING DAY,THIS ONE LOOKS MUCH BETTER! OH AND I HUGGED JILL KELLY! YUM! NICE T&A! OH AND WHY THE HATE FOR DANNY ELFMAN??? CUZ FAMILY GUY RIPPED ON HIM IN BLUE HARVEST??? LAME.... LET'S SEE HOW MANY BLOCKBUSTERS YOU'VE SCORED! DUDE IS THE MAN!!!!!! OH AND FUCK THE ANL DOUVHE WANNABE FIRST POSTERS! GET A LIFE RTARD
eoneon, by I Dunno	Jun 29th, 2008 03:32:26 PM
How's the 6th grade treating you?
So del Toro buys the guy a drink, Selma gives him a hand job by I Dunno	Jun 29th, 2008 03:57:53 PM
...because they're so down to earth and friendly, not because they knew he was writing a review or anything....
"Ni*r, Fk me Hard" by Pumpkinjoe	Jun 29th, 2008 04:33:54 PM
Selma blair...gotta love that wierd skinny bitch... "Ni*r, Fk me Hard"
Well, I'll be hobbit fucked! by IAmMrMonkey!	Jun 29th, 2008 05:03:06 PM
Sounds awesome!
Is Star Wars really the apex? by deathbird	Jun 29th, 2008 06:07:29 PM
I could list at least fifty SF/Fantasy films that are more provocative and have better performances. Hell, one of them was released in the same year--it was called Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Star Wars was the apex by I Dunno	Jun 29th, 2008 06:17:44 PM
as far as audience reaction and just the general revolution it caused. It will be a long time before a movie has the kind of impact that Star Wars had.
come on guys by dubgasm	Jun 29th, 2008 06:19:30 PM
I'm sorry my review isn't something that you would read in a news paper or isn't telling you exactly what you want to hear. And for those of you on the star wars side, I was just trying to relay my experience. They way I felt walking out of New Hope for the first time (be it I saw the special edition in theaters, i wasn't even a gamete when it originally came out) was similar to the way i felt walking out of this. I really shouldn't have to justify my post, I was trying to share my thoughts and experiences with everyone here in a polite manner. I'm sorry my jornalism skills arent as polished as many of you trolls would enjoy, but i feel i put out a decent effort for it being 4 am when i sent it in. And if harry really thought it was shit he wouldnt have posted it. Give me a bit of a break, its my first one.
Right on! by Godovhellfire	Jun 29th, 2008 06:22:43 PM
I had chilli for lunch.
To all the tools present here... by JabbaTheMutt	Jun 29th, 2008 06:32:06 PM
Buckeye is a plant and Selma and Guillermo were nice...because they knew he was writing a review... Seriously? Well I wasn't writing a review and I couldn't have been treated better by ANY of the cast. I was absolutely shocked at how friendly and unassuming they all were. Guillermo sat at his table for hours on end as every fanboy within 10 miles gushed over him and his work. He took time with EVERY person he spoke to. He was gracious to a fault...and his adorable wife the same. He is the real deal. There is no veneer to him. He seems genuinely shocked by the attention he is getting... Think about it. Blade, Hellboy, Labyrinth, Hobbit...what does he have to do to believe the attention is warranted? Honestly, I believe the man can still remember what it was like at the bottom...which makes him a rare commodity in the self-aggrandizing cult of Hollywood. (We only need to look to true tools like Michael Bay to see how that turns out.) Like I said...I'm not going to review the movie...because, love it or not...it's worth every dime you would spend on it. And even if you hate Hellboy...see it as a preview for the kind of singular, on-screen, twisted beauty we can expect tenfold in the Hobbit films. Buckeye was in the presence of true greatness...greatness tempered by untouched humility...so feel free to cut him some slack %$#@* tools... --Kes And if you have a problem finding a red sharpie...e-mail kesinator@yahoo.com...
Certainly, but what of quality? by deathbird	Jun 29th, 2008 06:33:21 PM
Snow White was revolutionary, but its two follow-ups, Pinocchio and Fantasia, were immeasurably better; Toy Story made quite a ripple, yet most of the subsequent Pixar movies were improvements (Cars notwithstanding). So why should we balk when someone compares a recent film favorably to ANH? It's been some 30 years; there should be (and have been) fantasies that eclipsed Star Wars. And Guillermo would certainly be one of the men to accomplish this.
Re:Shitty star wars fx..... by Rameses	Jun 29th, 2008 06:37:31 PM
Hi Frozone..I'm interested in hearing .what New Hope FX ,you consider shitty ,even pre 1977?Off hand I'm guessing it's mostly the matte paintings of the rebel base exterior and the rebel hall for the medal ceromony.They were bloody bad.Other than that a lot of the stuff looks better than most of the fx today.The imp cruiser opening still looks awesome
mad max 3 bartertown gave me that mois isley feeling by seabiscuits	Jun 29th, 2008 06:37:42 PM
so does some flea markets i go to. it's weird that now some of u people are so cool theyre above the orininal star wars.
Good to hear! by FILMFUNK	Jun 29th, 2008 06:55:15 PM
I wasn't 100% sold on HB1 and I'm a big fan of Guillermo. Cronos remains one of the most expensive movies I ever purchased on cover coolness alone(think because it was released here by Tartan and they charged lots for arthouse!) anyway have been an avid consumer of his brand of weirdness ever since and thought he knocked the first Blade on it's ass with the sequel and made his masterpiece with Pans but I though Hellboy 1 lacked (probably due to budget restaining vision) anyway hope this does indeed kick all kinds of alien ass!
This is on my top list besides The Dark Knight. by AllPowerfulWizardOfOz	Jun 29th, 2008 07:40:19 PM
Loved the 1st one and I cannot wait to see the 2nd one.
Deathbird by DoctorWho?	Jun 29th, 2008 08:05:48 PM
Whatever your opinion of Star Wars might be...no film and I mean NO FILM kicked everybody's ass sideways the way that did. The movie going public (internationally), the industry, the special effects industry...everything was turned on it's head not to mention being burned eternally into the pop-culture psyche and becoming a modern day mythology. It's easy to forget this especially if you weren't around at the time. This wasn't like the Matrix or something fresh like that...this redifined what was possible. Close Encounters may have been provacative to some people of a certain age group but Star Wars grabbed EVERYBODY right across the board whether you were 10 yrs old or 80. It fully embraced everything that had come before and flung it light years into the future.
So my challenge is... by DoctorWho?	Jun 29th, 2008 08:07:42 PM
Name one film that has done THAT since.
Selma Blair? Shook my hand and got a hug by CAPTAIN RIGHTWING	Jun 29th, 2008 08:14:15 PM
I FUCKING hate you! and envy you to no end. You lucky fuck ;)
by hulkbuster	Jun 29th, 2008 08:30:58 PM
my aren't we a bunch of pissy people
Hellboy III: Son of Hellboy by KongMonkey	Jun 29th, 2008 08:31:35 PM
So the spoiler is Fire chick gets knocked up by demonic cat-lover. What do they call him. Hellkid. Hellbrat. Spending most of the new movie changing some Helldiapers and Hellbreastfeeding...
Planters Peanuts anyone? by ganymede3010	Jun 29th, 2008 08:37:50 PM
Sheez, Deltoro invited the guy over for a drink for crying out loud. What do you expect him to say about the movie?
I'm hoping they can make the third one by eggart	Jun 29th, 2008 08:47:07 PM
they're planning before Perlman decides he doesn't want to stay in makeup for months on end.
SO are Guillermo's books going by Series7	Jun 29th, 2008 08:56:45 PM
to be in Spanish or english?
Ohh boo boo by Series7	Jun 29th, 2008 09:06:29 PM
July 8th. Sucks for you Harry and the town thats so weird. I was in Austin one year during SWSX and it was like a cult and unless you had planed 2 years in advance you couldn't really participate in anything.
What did you expect? by Darksider	Jun 29th, 2008 09:09:18 PM
Something BAD written about del Toro on AICN? It's like a mathematical impossibility. You don't even need to read the story. Anything about him or JJ Abrams is the best thing ever and changing the face of whatever as we know it. It's not exactly news here anymore what this site thinks of them. There must be a real lack of movies to talk about this year.
phone it in a little more, Jimmy by tompiltoff	Jun 29th, 2008 09:14:47 PM

Series7 by eggart	Jun 29th, 2008 09:17:28 PM
Several pages that were posted online once were written in Spanish. Spanish is his first language isn't it?
'and here we...go!' wherethehell are the TDK clips??? by performingmonkey	Jun 29th, 2008 09:17:57 PM
WB took them the fuck down!! Surely someone's got em somewhere?????!!!!
He's not as funny when he doesn't curse by topaz4206	Jun 29th, 2008 09:53:55 PM
But still, what a charming, talented man. I've gone from "somewhat excited" to "bug-fucking-nuts" for the release of this film!
episode 3 > return of the jedi + hellboy by deathbird	Jun 29th, 2008 10:00:18 PM
Saves a post, deliciouscowbell.
Eggart by Captain Mal	Jun 29th, 2008 10:20:15 PM
Perlman's spent practically his entire career buried under makeup. I don't think he's likely to back out of a third film for that reason.
I love that dubgasm can't spell journalism by jah_kingdom	Jun 29th, 2008 10:25:04 PM
And I think it's sweet that AICN is letting grade schoolers review movies and pretend that they're reporters. I gave Gus Van Sant a blow job and he was real down to earth as he wiped his cum off my face.
Did Harry call him cute? by UMAGA	Jun 29th, 2008 10:47:08 PM
Urgh. No one needs to picture two fat guys sucking each others jaggons.
ok seriously by dubgasm	Jun 29th, 2008 10:49:21 PM
Fuck off. I'm human. We make mistakes. I'm sorry you don't have anything better to do than criticize what i have to say and troll these boards for people to piss off. I was just trying to let everyone know i liked the movie. Get a life.
I hear ya dubgasm... by Jawa 007	Jun 29th, 2008 11:12:02 PM
Don't sweat the douchebags like Jah_kingdom. I dig that you liked the movie. Cant' wait to see it.
The TDK clips are all over youtube already by blindambition238	Jun 29th, 2008 11:19:16 PM
Only watched 2 out of 12(!) before I summoned to will myself to stop watching. I don't want to get a repeat of my Iron Man experience...
Ok...Lets talk about Celebs, and being "nice" by conspiracy	Jun 29th, 2008 11:41:28 PM
You have a new movie coming out..the preview is 80% full of people who are either going to write a review, or are connected in some half-assed way to the business; Would you be anything but "nice"? SERIOUSLY...I am sure these are fine, nice folks..but then again why shouldn't they be? They get paid more in a year that you will make in a lifetime...people line up to kiss their asses, get hugs, or shake their hands; these same fans will then sit for hours while you pontificate about matters small and smaller..hanging on each syllable that spews from your mouth as if Jebus his own bad self was your speech writer..life is good...the world is your friend...you can get laid with the hottest women/men within 5 minutes of the urge hitting you..you have six figure cars in the garage, you work 8 months out of the year..you vacation on private beaches, fly in 1st class and assistants are happy to drive down to the worst areas of Venice to pick up your Pot.. Now really...would YOU be an Asshole at your own premiere?
That said... by conspiracy	Jun 29th, 2008 11:44:55 PM
I'm sure HB2 is gonna be a damned good time. And I hope you at least tried to drift the hands a little low when Selma gave ya the hug.
Eckk. by bender7	Jun 30th, 2008 12:07:22 AM
I'm looking forward to this, but this review is too god damn gushy. I don't trust fan-boyish reviews any more than vindictive and aggressive ones
Hellboy 2 = Mummy Returns and AICN blowjobs by Big Dumb Ape	Jun 30th, 2008 02:48:25 AM
For the record, I'll be there opening weekend and I'm looking forward to seeing it. From the trailers and commercials it looks like it will be (yes, here comes the infamous phrase) a good summer popcorn flick. That said, I would agree with others that this review gets a bit gushy, and speaking as someone who was there in '77 to experience SW: ANH on the big screen and saw firsthand its mighty effect, someone comparing HELLBOY 2 to THAT experience will always get me to shake my head. Then again, maybe this reviewer is young and impressionable and hasn't seen too much, hence he sees a lot of monsters running around and decides "Holy crap! Look at all this stuff filling the screen! This is revolutionary!" You want to know a reality? Here you go -- the sad truth is...as we all get older...the very REAL and ACTUAL cultural and revolutionary impact that ANH had on literally the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD gets diluted by younger film fans who mistakenly think each next big movie is somehow equivalent to what ANH accomplished in terms of truly redefining filmmaking, special effects, box office, merchandising, pop culture assimilation...you name it. Frankly, not to sound too old and crotchety, given the "increased scale" of things that I've seen in the promos for this thing, right now I'm just hoping that HELLBOY 2 is nerely a satisfying summer movie, and it's not something that was made with the usual bullshit Hollywood attitude that more shit tossed on the screen makes it better. Because if the credits roll and that's all this was, it will simply be another bloated sequel and we can just call it THE MUMMY RETURNS REVISITED. Oh yeah, and in terms of favoritism, I'd agree that J.J Abrams, G. Del Toro and Joss Whedon must really love coming to AICN on a regular basis. Because where else could they instantly get such nice, wet, sloppy and totally unquestioned blowjobs the second they walked in the door?
Good fucking lord by Lost Jarv	Jun 30th, 2008 03:06:48 AM
This reminds me of another film recently that I started out wanting to see and the relentelss plant activity put me off. Stop it, whores.
I was there too. Here's a non-midwest-visitor review: by Executor	Jun 30th, 2008 05:09:32 AM
Looks good. No heart. That sums it up. And that kinda summed up the first one. Great visuals, great creatures (very Pans Labyrinth), but unlink Pans where Guillermo made us feel for the girl, and even the romance between the two revolutionaries...the plot and characters here are disposable. Did ANYONE care about the Liz and Hellboy fights and whole pregnancy thing??? And Abe and the Princess? (though Abe was one of the shining spots of the movie. Just Abe+princess...not so much.) Maybe this reviewer is a big Guillermo fan, or he was in awe of the premiere or seeing him or the whole closing night of the film festival thing (he was probably one of the people up against the gate of the Universal party waiting for them to open their doors for everyone while I was sucking down mojitos.) But yeah...entertaining enough to pass the time, but not a great or even very good movie by any means.
RE:Frozone.... by Rameses	Jun 30th, 2008 11:10:36 AM
I agree with all your comments.Though I don't think that some of the cantina stuff is that bad.Though the bit with Ben chopping at them with his sabre , does seem confusing.What I found interesting with the special edition make-over is that they chose to replace a lot of okay to good model shots with cgi BUT left in stuff like Red leaders demise .Its all very inconsistent and random
jedi had a more solid and structured story line by seabiscuits	Jun 30th, 2008 01:26:36 PM
ep 3 could have been way condensed for it had some unnesecary parts. there were also a lot of bad lines and grievious's voice and caughing were horrible, plus that lame close up of obi wans eyes when he says 'oh i don't think so, and ofcourse nooooo! jedi could of used a few more scenes, the sand storm, luke building his lightsabre, the imperial city, maybe could have changed taottoine to somewhere else and cut the dance number, thats about ti. the final space battle intercut witht the light sabre duel and ewok battle was amazing.
Phoenixmagi2 by Jaws Wayne	Jun 30th, 2008 05:35:42 PM
Yes, certainly agree with you on that. But it's hard to say anything about HB2 which I haven't seen yet but definitely will, because even the Hollywood Guillermo is a more interesting fantasy/action moviemaker/director as most of his American peers. The love and admiration for Guillermo is most certainly 110% warranted, but would love him to go make another Spanish film very soon, because those are definitely his greatest ones.

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