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
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― 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
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
so anyway: hellboy rules (maybe lost the thread a bit at the end, tho).
― N_RQ, Monday, 4 April 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Going back to the very first post:
the stories are great and well put-together and make good use of myth/history/etc without resorting to twee Neil Gaimanisms
Well it's funny you should say that because...Neil and his younger daughter Maddy are on set of Hellboy 2 for a bit cause he and Del Toro are buds. And Maddy is filing the various reports, with some photos.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 June 2007 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link
good blog, i should read it more often than once a year.
coincidently, yesterday i was moving stuff back into newly decorated bedroom and dug out all the hellboys from the various boxs of comics. there are 26 of them. turns out i am missing #5, the wolves of saint august (although i think i might have the DHP issues that they were originally in).
one day i will read them all again.
am also missing optic nerve #8. calamity.
― koogs, Monday, 2 July 2007 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't worry unless you're a completist -- "Wolves of St. August" isn't very good. It's the first story that Mignola scripted on his own (<i>Seeds of Destruction</i> was scipted by Jh0n Byyyyrne), and the art is a little heavy-handed (thick inks and ugly, busy coloring).
― Leee, Monday, 2 July 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
BPRD (with art by Guy Davis!) is where it's REALLY at these days.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 2 July 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it? I was kind of bored with the early volumes.
― Leee, Monday, 2 July 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I'd read almost anything with Guy Davis art, but I do think the writing is also very strong right now.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 2 July 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
OILY IS RIGHT
― David R., Monday, 2 July 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
(wolves of st august £4 from ebay, including p+p and two other issues which i already have. also picked up optic nerve #8 and #11 without leaving my desk. woot)
― koogs, Monday, 6 August 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/hellboy-reboot-works-stranger-things-star-david-harbour-1001462
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
I liked him a lot, both in ST and at the SAG awards, but I'm sure anybody should be forced to play Hellboy after Perlman.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 03:09 (seven years ago) link
trailer is up - do we have a thread for this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5g5_1cKVk
def has a lot more of that mike mignola feel
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
looks pretty cool
though i think it's hilarious and sad how trailers have trailers for themselves immediately before them now.
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
Not liking that at all, the CGI stands out as CGI more than in GDT's movies, the wise-cracking feels like they took too much of a cue from Deadpool, Hellboy just doesn't sound right without Perlman's voice, Ian McShane is no John Hurt.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link