[Abyss]

rule 34! rule 34!!!! RULE FUCKING 34 FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!


- Abyss, thinks of the children.....

[Obdigore]

Now Abyss... rule 34 and children should never be used in the same post.

Oh god, now I have just done it. See what you did Abyss? DO YOU SEE?

[Illuyankas]

I could post some Rule 63 of Hellboy, which would be worksafe, if highly confusing and disturbing. Especially if she spoke with Ron Perlman's voice.

[Aptorian]

Obdigore;360685 said:

Anyway, the angel-demon thing that healed him... will there be a hellboy 3 when he goes apeshit when Ape dies?

Of course not. I haven't even read the Dresden Files, biut Hellboy is like that, it's a complex story with lots of potential.

Do you really think they'd bring about the apocalypse just because it would bring more bucks? In that case they might aswll had made a Spawn trilogy.

[Flawed]

I thought Hell Boy 1 was disappointing and very corny.

Hell Boy 2, i saw last night. We went to see it because of the trailer.... Schoolboy error there.

Well. I thought it was at best ok. If i was being fully truthful i thought it was a shade under turdsville.

I cant even explain all of my indignation over this film.

Still there's always Hell Boy 3 to resurrect my faith...............Hmm

[Slum]

Yeah, Hellboy II didn't quite live up to the trailer for me either. It was OK, had some pretty awesome scenes, but wasn't as killer as I was expecting. Still better than a lot of the shite that passes for movies based on comics though...

[amphibian]

Flawed;373136 said:

I thought Hell Boy 1 was disappointing and very corny.

Hell Boy 2, i saw last night. We went to see it because of the trailer.... Schoolboy error there.

Well. I thought it was at best ok. If i was being fully truthful i thought it was a shade under turdsville.

[...]

Still there's always Hell Boy 3 to resurrect my faith...............Hmm

I don't know why you insist on writing posts in discrete, one-sentence paragraphs. Let me one-up you:

Why

Exactly

Did

You

Dislike

This

Movie?

[Giles]

just saw it today, i thought it was good much better than a load of the films this summer. though maybe i just liked the fight scenes with the shiny swords

[Slum]

My main problem with it was that it wasn't nearly as epic as the trailer made out. The Golden Army was alive for, what, 8 minutes? The romantic subplot b/t Abe and the princess was silly, too. But yeah, the fight scenes were bad ass. That giant plant creature was pretty wicked.

[amphibian]

Slumgullion Spitteler;373479 said:

My main problem with it was that it wasn't nearly as epic as the trailer made out. The Golden Army was alive for, what, 8 minutes? The romantic subplot b/t Abe and the princess was silly, too. But yeah, the fight scenes were bad ass. That giant plant creature was pretty wicked.

The trailers are usually made by the studios - not the director or producers of the film. There's a growing disconnect between the two groups and as a result, we get trailers that completely distort what the movie's actually about.

I've grown to devalue trailers over time and with the advent of things like Netflix and IMDB, I can afford to wait and see how the real reviews turn out if I'm on the fence about the movie. I trust Guillermo Del Toro, so I saw this in theaters.

I liked the mythological feel to this. The AV Club did a nice interview with Mike Mignola about the movie and I thought the NY Times review pegged it pretty well: not a great movie, but a good one with a spirit that many movies lack these days.

[Lisheo]

Seen it... I liked it, although the trailers made it seem epic, when really they just showed most of the good scenes in a minute lol. So damn those studios!
Aye, Del Toro is brilliant. I love Pan's Labyrinth, and I love the way he managed to capture some of the essence of that in this, the whole dark fairy-tale mythology.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Saw it with the gf earlier, was pretty good. Not as good as the first one I thought, but still definitely well-worth the entrance fee (plus £9 for chocolate, coke and popcorn, the swindlers!), and I'll be going to buy it on DVD for sure.

Plus Selma Blair looks HAWT in this film. Me rikey.

[Mezla PigDog]

AH HA! This was the thread I was looking for when I discovered the forum was dead!

I really liked this movie. It wasn't brilliant but it's in the top 10 new films I've seen this year. Before they got to the Troll Market, I thought it was rather rubbish. Really contrived with the relationship tension and really weakly characterised, it left me cringing. However, once they got to the Troll Market, it was brilliant. It made me really nostalgic of the movies I saw when I was a child like Legend, The Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. Visually spectacular with loads of soul but a bit sketchy in terms of actual depth.

[Traveller]

I only just saw this - as an in-flight movie.

I didn't expect too much, as the 1st one wasn't that good, and hadn't seen any trailers I didn't get let down. I thought it was great, way better than the 1st one. I'm going to have to get it on DVD now so I can see it on a MUCH larger screen.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 09 February 2009 - 01:41 PM

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I've got 1 and 2 on dvd now and Im addicted, Ive fallen in love with Del Toro lately. Got Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage too, both are as awesome as I remember. Cant wait til Hellboy 3, should kick buttocks.

[Traveller]

Do you mean The Devil's Backbone? I saw that a couple of months back; got it in a boxed set with Pans Labyrinth and Cronos. All are very good Del Toro films - Devils Backbone is probably the best though.... creepy.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 09 February 2009 - 08:06 PM