the moralizing was too obv. in places, and abe sabien didnt have enough lines.
still fine film, lots of phun, gr8 adventure, et. al
― anthony, Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
And not just Seth Green but Seth Green in scenes with Linda Cardellini. C'mon, that's cool. Would it be cooler without a cartoon dog? Sure, but what wouldn't? The world's an imperfect place.
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― adam (adam), Saturday, 3 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 April 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 April 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 April 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 April 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 April 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee O'Gaddi (Leee), Sunday, 4 April 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Huck, Sunday, 4 April 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link
(The other similarity to Indiana Jones: it would be really easy to do a sequel to this movie without it feeling the least bit forced or tacked on.)
Through the whole movie, I thought Abe was voiced by David Hyde Pierce. And when John Hurt's name rolled in the credits, I couldn't figure out who he'd played. I'm usually better at recognizing people.
(No Scooby or Starsky double feature today, I got plenty done yesterday but the girlfriend didn't.)
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 4 April 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Huck, Sunday, 4 April 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 4 April 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
But he is, isn't he?
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
Ghostbusters isn't a comic book movie, but I think the "we're just regular guys going to work, except work involves killing monsters" angle qualifies it as a Hellboy uncle.
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
Consistently? I mean, the Margot Kidder "can you read my mind?" scene, and the Jor-El's Prime Directive scene towards the end?
Technically Men in Black is a comic book movie, but next to no one had read the comic when it came out. (Ditto Road to Perdition.)
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago) link
i love pretty much any and all of the brando stuff. especially when his face turns into a gigantic exploding psychedelic space crystal!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
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― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 April 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
(i read 3rd and 4th omnibus one after the other, about 1000 pages total, didn't really know how it split into series or the release schedules. it was quite a ride)
― koogs, Saturday, 18 January 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
cthulhu stuff in the del toro film was great iirc.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Saturday, 18 January 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
i carried on to the end, funny how hellboy's story arc is so similar to the del toro film. baba yaga and the giant demons at the end were kind of cool, if they made another one and the story was a bit leaner and cgi better i'd watch it - i mean i'd probably watch it anyway since i make bad decisions about how to spend my time.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Saturday, 18 January 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
true of all ilxors iirc
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 January 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
except me
― mark s, Saturday, 18 January 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
yeah this one kinda broke my heart in that they got a lot right but tried to cram so much in and then erect a single dumb Big Bad on top of that quicksand that it was almost unwatchable. idk maybe it's like a transformers movie in that it might actually work better if you were high af with no access to concepts of cause and effect and it was just, like, a bunch of stuff happening.
harbour did his level best with it all and i'm sorry he won't get another shot. ledge didn't even mention that technically the wild hunt was in there too lol, plus the twilight of the fay.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 19 January 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
just started a bit ago and the fact the first twenty minutes has elements from about six different Hellboy stories doesn’t bode well
opening voiceover and the constant swearing seems very un-Hellboy
― solo scampito (mh), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
if you didn’t like the opening 20 minutes i have some v upsetting news about the rest of it
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
it is not good but is interesting enough to leave on while folding laundry
have to give them a small amount of credit for making the characters obvious enough that I can pick up on who they are before the script does a proper introduction
― solo scampito (mh), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link