HellBoy 2 ? Not hatin' here, but come ON!!!
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Thursday, July 17, 2008 22:50
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Quote:"Obscurity"??
Originally posted by AURaptor:
But Hellboy stated from obscurity with its first movie, and our BDH's at least had a t.v. series that preceded its movie premier.
I think Mike Mignola and millions of comic book fans all over the world would take issue with that term. ^^
Firefly had a series that nearly no one watched, which is much closer to "obscurity" than Hellboy.
Simply put, Hellboy is getting a sequel because of its ability to make money, not necessarily because it's a higher quality franchise. Hollywood is all about numbers, and they speak for themselves:
HELLBOY - Budget $66M, opening weekend $23M, worldwide total $99.3M
SERENITY - Budget $39M, opening weekend $10M, worldwide total $38.9M
It's frustrating, sure, but it happens all the time. =(
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At least it's not another 'Police Academy' movie. Or something nasty from the Ikea-verse stable. Oh, wait, that horror is being inflicted on us later this year, isn't it?
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Kitten, I'd never heard of Hellboy myself, thus I used 'obscurity' as an apt term, from my point of view.
While I enjoy Sci-Fi, I'm not all that much a geek-boy. Comics weren't really my 'thing', but for a short time.
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Quote:Oh, no, I understand.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Kitten, I'd never heard of Hellboy myself, thus I used 'obscurity' as an apt term, from my point of view.
(While appreciating the art, I never read Hellboy, myself.)
I was just kinda pointing out that obscurity is relative... ^__^
...and that if Hollywood was paid in awesome vibes instead of cash, we'd have several Serenity sequels.
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*shrugs*
I think it looks cool.
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Hmm so really what we need is a radical shift in the economic system wherein coolness vibes and passionate devotion replace money... simple enough:)
BTW I'm really looking forward to Hellboy 2
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Quote:
Originally posted by MSB:
Hmm so really what we need is a radical shift in the economic system wherein coolness vibes and passionate devotion replace money... simple enough:)
BTW I'm really looking forward to Hellboy 2
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Tot, MSB, I have to say I'm lookin forward to HB2 my own self. As I read it, this movie will be even more true to the HB 'verse, as it were, than the first one.... though I'm not sure why. Del Toro directed the first movie as well. As I stated before, I'm sorta a fan of Ron Pearlman, and really like Selma Blair too.
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Seems Agent John Myers , was to take over for the gravely ill Professor Bruttenholm, does not make a repeat performance in HB2.
And yet the dead Professor does. Huh.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm sorta a fan of Ron Pearlman
Pssst... Only one 'a' in Perlman.
Just an FYI.
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I saw this last night, and I absolutely LOVED it. I wasn't too big a fan of the first film, and personally I felt PAN'S LABRYNTH was a bit overrated. But this film took the best qualities of the first, jettisoned some of the weaker bits, and just went into overdrive. It really did feel like you were seeing all these monsters coming alive, as well as just getting deeper into the quartet that makes up the B.P.R.D. I thought it was funny as Hell to see Abe and Hellboy getting drunk and bemoaning their love lives and Johann Krauss using the locker doors to kick Hellboy's ass. And Del Toro's child like reverence towards fantasy and the underworld made the ending that more poignant. That whole "when we die, the world will be poorer for it."
The only tiny quibble I have with the film is that David Hyde Pierce didn't voice Abe again. I was glad to see Doug Jones get full credit for Abe, and he tells a great story on how Hyde Pierce with the first film didn't take the credit since he felt that him voicing Abe was superfluous given the great job Doug Jones did. But part of me did miss the idea of Niles Crane, Action Hero. Of course, getting Seth McFarlane to do Krauss made up for it a bit.
Other than that, this is a sequel that is FAR better than the original.
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