im hopefully going to see this movie tomorrow and im pretty positive im going to hate it, mainly cause everyone has been going fuckin nuts about the new joker and based off of what ive seen from trailers, i hate his fuckin guts.
seriously its gotten out of hand. currently on IMDB the dark knight is rated at 9.7, thats number 1. its the highest ranked movie currently. higher than number 2, the godfather. higher than any movie youve ever seen in your life!
Every once in a while i will see a movie that i thought, from the very beginning, wasnt going to suck and it turned out great. It is a rare occurrence that happens, at best, once a year, this years movie sure as hell isnt hellboy.
This movie isnt bad, but it isnt good either…infact its like the movie barely exists at all, you never feel excited but at the same time you never really feel bored. The movie had some amazing visuals, possibly the greatest costume/make-up crew of all time, some pretty cool fights…but at the same time it had a very weak plot, just awful cinematography/editing, just painful dialogue, and a very boring romance. In the end the aspects of the movie really balanced out to make the movie just…there… not really memorable in anyway.
The movie’s best features and it’s worst comes from it’s origins, the comic Hellboy. The comic’s character designs are almost followed down to the very last detail, and the designs from the comic are brilliant on page and brilliant on the screen…and while im on about the movie’s costumes you can clearly see Guillermo del Toro’s signature look and feel on the minor characters…if anything go see this movie for the brilliant costumes. However the comic was never really strong in the dialogue department, “the part of my brain thats still working” must have been used at the very least 20 times in the first hellboy story arch while this conversation appeared in the movie: “your going to pay for what you did back there!” *hellboy taking out his gun*”do you take checks?”. I mean what the fuck? that doesnt even fucking mean sense, it doesnt seem macho or cool, it doesnt belong in the film.
The movie left alot of questions unanswered and did some things that just pissed me off. For one thing they got rid of Abe Sapien(a fish-like alien)’s breathing apparatus half way through the movie., they just completely forget about it and they never answer how the hell he survived for that long without being able to breath properly. There is a scene where hellboy is hit from both sided by locker doors…on both sides…if youve ever witnessed a locker room all the lockers in one row go the same direction, why the hell is BPRD doing things differently? is it really vital to paranormal research?. The elf prince kills the king potentially throwing the elf community into great turmoil but once the king is dead the other elves are never even mentioned again. Hellboy is made out to be a complete moron in the film(even though he could apparently run diagnostic tests on his brain in the first book). The murderous tooth fairys are described a going for the teeth first even though they completely tear off the skin of one guy before going for his teeth. Liz is pregnant which kept the thought of liz and hellboy doing it throughout the movie(i have seen things no one should have to face). When people first see hellboy out in public they comeup with hellboy right on the spot instead of the rational thing of saying “HOLY FUCKING SHIT A GODDAMN DEMON!”but nooope, they say “hey hellboy”…what are the odds theyd guess his fucking name on try 1. The elf prince hates humans but when confronting his father, who was speaking elfish, he spoke english, way to honor your own language you ass! The elf prince steals a piece of the special crown at an auction but they never said how the auction house got a hold of it in the first place.
In the end the only real reason to watch hellboy is for the costumes and effects…but most people only read hellboy for the art anyways
On another note WTF is up with death race? that has to be the worst movie idea in all of history. Seriously the makers of that film should feel ashamed
