Malpractice Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 Saw it last night, and it was awesome! Best movie of the summer so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Saw the movie on opening night. Have been thinking about it and come to the conclusion that it was a pretty good movie. However, the first movie is superior in my opinion. The Golden Army was great in the expanding of the universe, but I feel like it just lacked something. I just cannot say what that might be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Saw the movie on opening night. Have been thinking about it and come to the conclusion that it was a pretty good movie. However, the first movie is superior in my opinion. The Golden Army was great in the expanding of the universe, but I feel like it just lacked something. I just cannot say what that might be. I agree. I think, first off, if I was judging movies on their first ten minutes I would have walked out of HB2. I liked it but upon more thought, I liked it less and less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashfan1 Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 was there a review for the first Hellboy movie in any of the Earth-2 podcasts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 I reviewed both Hellboy films in ep 290 of The Show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Man Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 Saw the movie on opening night. Have been thinking about it and come to the conclusion that it was a pretty good movie. However, the first movie is superior in my opinion. The Golden Army was great in the expanding of the universe, but I feel like it just lacked something. I just cannot say what that might be. I agree. I think, first off, if I was judging movies on their first ten minutes I would have walked out of HB2. I liked it but upon more thought, I liked it less and less. It's funny. I was just thinking of HB2 in the same mental breath as Suck Punch, which is opening this weekend. The two films share a very similar design aesthetic. If Sucker Punch were a comic it might be a Mike Mignola / Jim Lee co-production. HB2 had some great individual moments, some great creature designs and a pretty good villain but the overly jokey, MIB vibe really rubbed me the wrong way. At no point did I feel that anyone was in serious jeopardy nor did I feel the characters were at all invested in the story set before them. They were just going through the motions. It disappointed me because by all accounts Del Toro fought hard to get that sequel made and then he serves up some re-heated leftovers for a script. I revisit the film occasionally just for the great visuals but I usually fast forward through the dumb parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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