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― 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
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― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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― 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
Good points:
1) Neil Marshall is my favorite kind of insane (see Doomsday if you haven't)2) MILLA3) It's gotta at least be better than Golden Army, which SUUUUUCKED
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
this is a neil marshall flick? ok I'm interested
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, December 19, 2018
love u milo but this is crazy talk
1. CGI - longstanding tradition of CGI improving between advance trailers and release2. wisecracking - have you read Hellboy?3. Perlman - no, leaning toward hell no. love Perlman but his Hellboy was terrible.4. Bruttenholm - agree John Hurt was well cast. McShane a little more 1946-1952-style but he's A+ in everything other than American Gods so let's see how it plays
Speaking as an unabashed lover of the books, this trailer alone is already more enjoyable than any of GDT's work with the character or his world. No telling if it will translate into a satisfying feature, but the tone feels right and Harbour is killing it.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
Eehhhhhhhhhhh. I like Marshall, but his genre riffing I think is more miss than hit. This one looks cheap - CGI doesn't get polished *that* much * and less than charming, especially after the GdT ones, which at least had character.
Has McShane played the Devil yet?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
Hellboy would have been better off without GDT period full stop.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Has he ever not?
lmao can't believe y'all gonna make me watch GDT's Hellboy again just to better catalog what it gets wrong
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
xpost I guess he is very devil-like in Sexy Beast!
Anyway, as someone who never read the comic, I liked the first one (esp. director's cut) a lot, and thought the second one looked great.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
I have not seen this longstanding tradition of CGI improvements - when a movie seems like it's going to have the overall look of a video game cutscene in the trailer, it still does in the theater IME. I've read Hellboy and there are jokes but it's more off-hand sardonic style than this. I'm not really into the Deadpool/MCU winking at the camera style.if you don't like the Perlman/GdT films I can see this being better, I guess, but yr crazy
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
Barbour sounds like he's got Marlon Brando's cotton balls stuffed in his mouth
not being familiar with Hellboy before the films i thought the GdT ones were cool, but far from the types of films you can't improve on.
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
I think you could improve on the GdT films by stripping them down more (fewer fantasy elements)
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
Okay so (nerd hat on) what makes Hellboy interesting imho is the way Mignola uses cosmic horror as a framework for his interest in folklore, and what gives it oomph is Hellboy's struggle to find out if he can be who he wants to be instead of who he's fated to be.
GDT seemed to think what made it interesting was look there are SO MANY CREATURES! (which if you're GDT I mean, yeah, I get it) and what gave it oomph was Liz's struggle to not be Rogue from the X-Men.
tldr Hellboy is The Iron Giant and GDT made it Beat the End Boss and Kiss the Girl. He was always more interested in Abe.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
if you don't like the Perlman/GdT films I can see this being better, I guess, but yr crazy
peace. xoxo.
btw I’m not blind - that is some sardo numspa-lookin CGI demon.still better than GDT tho.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 20 December 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
what makes Hellboy interesting imho is the way Mignola uses cosmic horror as a framework for his interest in folklore, and what gives it oomph is Hellboy's struggle to find out if he can be who he wants to be instead of who he's fated to be.
I thought this was literally what the first movie was about?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link