― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 April 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
First comic-book adaptation I've liked since Blade, but it dropped off in quality at the second subway adventure. Comments about it trying to fit too much into the movie OTM - but that's been the case with every comic book movie other than Blade, right? SpiderMan really suffered from the "here's the backstory, oh and a little action!"-syndrome
Baby Hellboy was awesome, the cat fetish was a nice touch.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
Baby Hellboy was really great, although the Baby Ruth thing had me thinking Goonies (this isn't necessarily bad, I guess).
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
I like the fact that Jeffrey Tambor was not nearly as goofy as I expected him to be (especially since he played a similar role in Muppets From Space).
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
My favorite moment might have been in the subway fight -- the whole taking the piss out of superheroes always having to save cute little animals and babies and whatnot, so fuck it let's HAND HIM A BOX OF KITTENS while fighting the big bad hellhound.
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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
Woah hold up let's back this up a second...Jeunet directed Alien 4!?!!?! Why have I not seen this yet!?!!
Plus, there's some really hot lesboedipal tension between Winona and Ripley.
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
I really, really wanted to like it. Bear in mind that I am a fairly avid comics reader, but I have never read Hellboy.
I just found it fairly cliched, corny and...well, boring. Ron Perlman was good enough (not great, though), but he had some terrible "one-liners" and I thought that the Hellboy character was kind of flat. I also pretty much hated that fake-looking fish thing. I didn't get the sense of "wow! comics come alive!" epic-ness that I got watching the X-men films, and felt that some of the pacing and framing would even been better suited to the comics medium (some nice use of colors, though). Maybe I missed something?
I would like to add that, on the advice above, I finally saw Blade last night and that really was something special.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
Kroenen in the movie isn't really based on Kroenen in the books.
― Pedantic Nerd O'Gaddy (Leee), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
The thing that bothered me the most was Abe Sapien as a fucking C3P0 clone! That's just so wrong!
― Dan I., Monday, 12 April 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― adam (adam), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 15 April 2004 04:58 (twenty years ago) link
love those tentacley space demons though.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 24 April 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 25 April 2004 01:22 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 25 April 2004 06:48 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link
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― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link