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The movie took a lot of care to be true to the source material. Guillermo Del Toro said that this is a movie made by geeks for geeks, and he shows it. You can really see the influence of Mignola's visual style everywhere. But, you don't have to know anything about Hellboy the comic book to enjoy and understand this movie. It looks like a superhero movie, but it's more a paranormal adventure film (the lead character just happens to be a tall demon with filed down horns and a taste for beer and stogies). I recommend it heartily. |
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senor took me to see this movie, to cheer me up after we dropped off at the airport my bestest/oldest friend paula who came to visit for the weekend. it was a fun movie, we both enjoyed it. it was about 20 minutes too long, but other than that i thought it was worth seeing in the theater. the first 15 minutes were produced in such a way that you actually felt like you were reading a comic book... i could picture each scene in a little box, with the dialogue written in little bubbles above the characters' heads. neato! the rest of the move was jam packed adventure fantasy. dig. i thought whatshisface did a great job of playing hellboy. he kinda reminds me of herman munster. |
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there was a lot of stupid unexplained mysticism, but that actually seemed to make it more 'comic book movie' for me.. unlike the other comic book movies where they really try to make things plausable and up to date and realistic, for better or worse, the director always seems to reject that and play fantasy |
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Hellboy 2 has already been greenlighted! Whoo-HOO!! |
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the best part about is that ron perlman IS hellboy Other characters, Abe Sapien was the best, I like that he was meticulous, but not anal retentive. Karel Roden was terrible as Rasputin, at some points he was okay, I felt that there was something very inconsistent in his performance, like he was trying to be both campy and evil, but not really succeeding at either. Kroenen was cool and reminded me of cobra commander in his masks |
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I used to think it was always more fun to read the book/comic and then watch the movie so I could nitpick it, which is my favouritest thing to do. but when I saw League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ron had my copy of the graphic novel, and I didn't get to read it until much later. once I'd finally read it, I realized that if I had read it before the movie, I never would have enjoyed the movie, because the book is sooooo vastly superior. |
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