HellBoy 2 ? Not hatin' here, but come ON!!!

POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Thursday, July 17, 2008 22:50
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AURAPTOR

Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:25 PM

I never even HEARD of 'Hell Boy' before the first movie came out, and now it's got a 2nd movie ??

wtf ?

Don't get me wrong, I'm cool w/ Ron Pearlman, and the story was decent enough. I kinda like it, even. But the 1st movie wasn't up the the level of PITCH BLACK, imo, and that got a 2nd shot at the box office w/ another movie..... why the heck not SERENITY ???

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NEEDY

Monday, July 7, 2008 4:18 PM

I can understand where you're coming from. There's been plenty of films of late that have got sequels which were either not needed, or not deserved
Of course personal opinion differs but I can't understand why movies like Tomb Raider and National Treasure get to make another (yes, they probably made money, but lets face it, they were awful)
Hellboy on the other hand is a little different and I'm glad it got a sequel. I enjoyed the first movie (not as much as some, but still) and Del Toro has made a good ame for himself lately - esp after pan's labyrinth
Plus, Hellboy is a comic book movie, which are seriously IN right now

Serenity is, right or not, considered a small cult movie, and apart from good word of mouth, didn't make a huge splash.
Still, I sincerely hope that at the very least we can get a straight to dvd sequel - there's all sorts of trash made for that medium, but still people eat it up. I predict that if there was a dvd sequel, it would be bigger than anyone imagined

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MIIKE

Monday, July 7, 2008 4:41 PM

hey hellboy 1 was real cool one of the best comic book films along with sincity i wont begrudge other people getting a second movie even if at the mo we havent

im just going out,i may be some time

HELL'S KITTEN

Monday, July 7, 2008 4:51 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I never even HEARD of 'Hell Boy' before the first movie came out, and now it's got a 2nd movie ??

...oddly enough, most people hadn't heard of 'Fire Fly' before its first movie came out.

Just sayin'.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Monday, July 7, 2008 5:22 PM

As Serenity exposed me to Firefly and all the wonderful Browncoats, I had seen Hellboy comics years ago but never really got the chance to read. Besides, pitching another Hellboy movie with all of it's creative minds and original backers agreeing what they want might actually work out a bit more than a flick that requires some fight to have made.

Besides, isn't the fight we put up for our movie so much more worth another flick that is being produced for the unknowing masses?

Squee (yeah it's a rarity from me) at the presence of Teh KittUn and Hoo-Rah's at the awesome Red Gun pic.

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SIMONWHO

Monday, July 7, 2008 6:08 PM

$59,035,104 USA gross for Hellboy. That's why.

SPACEANJL

Monday, July 7, 2008 6:43 PM

The visuals for the movie look so damn pretty though. Plus - elven fundamentalist freedom fighter. WTF? It makes a nice change from watching some A/M/W belting out some Beyonce bollox, a some deadass 'comedian' pratting about, or some plank of wood with a pretty face enunciating in front of tacky CGI.

(And Ron Perlman is a Cobb.)

CYBERSNARK

Monday, July 7, 2008 10:21 PM

Hells yeah.

I'd even consider Red as an honourary Browncoat (he's a sarcastic rebel and social outcast, who fights the bad guys while wearing an actual brown coat). He and Mal (and Jayne, and probably even Wash) would probably get along great (and Kaylee, for that matter, considering Hellboy's fondness for kittens and cute things).

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HKCAVALIER

Monday, July 7, 2008 11:13 PM

I was pretty amazed when Hellboy got made. It was based on one of my favorite comic books and my favorite things rarely get the blockbuster treatment. I can definitely see its connection with Firefly on some level. What that level is exactly, I'm having trouble pinning down. Not quite genre, not quite theme--atmosphere? Mood? Attitude? Hellboy himself is very much Mal and Jayne put together. The thing I always liked about the Hellboy comics was how seriously they took the supernatural and how personal the stories were. Just as I found Joss' approach to Sci-fi in Firefly refreshingly serious and personal (kinda sums up my disappointment in the BDM--less serious, less personal).

The movie of Hellboy itself was just sorta okay, compared to the original material, so I can totally understand the "wtf." From what I've read about this new one though, it sounds like it will be a far more authentically Hellboyesque experience, so I'll be very interested to hear your review of Hellboy 2 when you see it, AUR.

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AURAPTOR

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 12:44 PM

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I never even HEARD of 'Hell Boy' before the first movie came out, and now it's got a 2nd movie ??
...oddly enough, most people hadn't heard of 'Fire Fly' before its first movie came out.

Just sayin'.

I had a feeling someone would bring that up, and it's a valid enough point. 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.

Just frustratin' is all

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

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