Hellboy

cron · February 09, 2004, 05:41:47 PM

speaking about posters: does anyone have a shareable pic of the dissmised Rushmore poster? I can't remember the name of the guy, but he did almost all of Yes' album covers.

Ravi · February 23, 2004, 07:55:06 PM

Interview with Guillermo del Toro

Henry Hill · February 25, 2004, 09:00:11 AM

i dont know which i am excited for more....the movie or the dvd?

by the way since when are dvds discussed in a public forum BEFORE the film comes out? its like, let me get excited for one at a time. especially if the movie blows (which it most likely will not).

MacGuffin · March 02, 2004, 11:26:02 PM

New Trailer here.

MacGuffin · March 06, 2004, 10:22:31 PM

modage · March 07, 2004, 10:10:14 AM

its cool that someone is aware of the "cutout" function in photoshop, but i dont really see that as a replacement for the ultra cool drew struzan art.

Just Withnail · March 07, 2004, 04:00:50 PM

Usually I'm a sucker for these things, but I don't know what's wrong with me this time. I just can't enjoy the trailers, even from a fun and campy point of view. More like disgust. I dunno. I loved Blade II and del Toro is cool in my book, it's just...You know how there's always somethings that should never be adapted into a movie, because even though the look is right and it might please the fans, the look is still shit? To me, Hellboy is one of those.

Stefen · March 09, 2004, 06:16:36 PM

At best buy they are giving out a free preview dvd of hell boy with some sneak peeks and making of stuff, it was free if you buy any dvd, i picked up schindlers list and futurama volume 3 and got it. Just a heads up.

Ghostboy · April 03, 2004, 01:58:24 AM

This movie...man, Ron Pearlman is so great. SO GREAT. You have no idea how cool he is in this. Guillermo Del Toro is amazing (I'm listening to his Blade 2 commentary again now, just to get another dose of his genius). The makeup better get an Oscar. The last scene made me think that this is the Lost In Translation of superhero monster movies....it was beautiful.

phil marlowe · April 03, 2004, 02:08:20 AM

man, my love for ron pearlman and superhero flicks makes me so excited about this you couldn't imagine

82 · April 03, 2004, 11:10:49 AM

Ugh..

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

Okay.. Hellboy.. The character.. was nailed... Ron Pearlman was a lot of fun to watch.

The rest of the movie was total shit. The screenplay was shit, the love story was shit, there was some shitty acting all over the place... The lame ass lines that were dropped all over the place... FUCK

So dissapointed.

Pas · April 03, 2004, 11:20:16 AM

Quote from: GhostboyThis movie...man, Ron Pearlman is so great. SO GREAT. You have no idea how cool he is in this. Guillermo Del Toro is amazing (I'm listening to his Blade 2 commentary again now, just to get another dose of his genius). The makeup better get an Oscar. The last scene made me think that this is the Lost In Translation of superhero monster movies....it was beautiful.

HAHAHAHA

Henry Hill · April 03, 2004, 12:00:58 PM

i am going to let the "critics" write their reviews on this one. i am curious to hear what you guys think of Hellboy. i enjoyed the film. ron pearlman was amazing. i have never seen an actor in a comic book film have as much fun with his/her character as ron pearlman did as hellboy. having never read the comic, nor had i heard of it, i had no expectations. the theater was packed for the first showing. i wondered if it was all people who were familiar with the comic. anyways, i had fun with it. i give Hellboy

modage · April 03, 2004, 01:49:33 PM

i dont know what went wrong here. i thought the costumes/makeup/setdesign/look of the movie was fantastic. i thought it had a cool setup and interesting characters to work with. and yet, the movie just never really took off for me. in a handful of the ejaculatory AICN reviews, people really seemed to be geeking out during this and maybe it was just me, but i never really had one of those moments. like, when you want to elbow your buddy and go 'holy shit, did you see that?'. even bad movies have them sometimes. the whole movie just kept me at an arms length, and i never really got invested in any of the characters or the plot, both of which seemed underdeveloped. thats the real shame here, is that where i cant really point out anything that stuck out as being 'bad', it just never really got good, REALLY good. i had a good time watching it, but the real litmus test is whether or not i want to buy it immediately after watching, and i dont. maybe it was just my mood, i'd be willing to give it another shot on dvd.

Ghostboy · April 03, 2004, 02:09:20 PM

For me, there weren't any 'holy shit' moments as far as the action scenes went -- Del Toro will probably never top 'Blade 2' in that regard, as that's almost all that film really was -- but I personally really loved the characters in this, and felt that there was sufficient emphasis on them. Like when Hellboy has just finished fighting that one dude and immediately puts his ear to the floor to get back to listening to what Liz is saying - or even the whole spying on the rooftop scene, which was cute but did its job perfectly. Also, Hellboy's relationship with John Hurt, as sketchy as it was, still built to a (for me) very moving climax.

As far as great superhero movies go, X2 had a better script and more precise character development, but 'Hellboy' has Ron Pearlman as Hellboy and all that that entails, so I'd say they're equals -- as far as great superhero movies go.

From the trailers, I was expecting not to like Abe Sapien, but he was pretty amazing and I was disappointed when he was left out of the last act.