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Those darn Nazis.
Sep. 8th, 2004 09:48 amOff to see hellboy last night with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cryx andbarty. Sadly the only low-light canoodling I got was with myself, but I suppose I can't have everything.
As for Hellboy, I've seen better films this year but I don't think I've seen any I've enjoyed more overall. The J Jonah Jameson scenes in Spiderman 2 are probably individually better than anything in HB, but as a complete piece Hellboy is this years popcorn FX-fest of choice - at least as far as I'm concerned. I mean: Rasputin, The Antichrist, and Clockwork Zombie Nazi Fetish Ninjas. What is there not to like about that?
Ron Perlman is wonderfully cast as an Insouciant, Surly Antichrist-with-a-heart-of Gold, and he provides a solid cornerstone to a sharp and wittily scripted film which admittedly doesn't have many shocks but does have more heart than anything George Lucas or Steven Spielberg have churned out in the last decade or more. That the film is a labour of love between Guilliermo del Toro (Dorector) and Mike Mignola (Creator) shows clearly throughout and the fanboy enthusiasm which they've infused the film warmed my notoriously chill and flinty heart.
Okay, so the ending is a bit quick and something of a cop out (1) Lovecraft increasingly has a lot to answer for, and 2) I'm sure Cthulhu is tougher than that), and there are some inconsistencies in the narrative if you really want to go looking for them, but, for me, the cheery, gung-ho enthusiasm of the whole thing carried me happily through my box of popcorn very comfortably indeed.
cryx andbarty. Sadly the only low-light canoodling I got was with myself, but I suppose I can't have everything.As for Hellboy, I've seen better films this year but I don't think I've seen any I've enjoyed more overall. The J Jonah Jameson scenes in Spiderman 2 are probably individually better than anything in HB, but as a complete piece Hellboy is this years popcorn FX-fest of choice - at least as far as I'm concerned. I mean: Rasputin, The Antichrist, and Clockwork Zombie Nazi Fetish Ninjas. What is there not to like about that?
Ron Perlman is wonderfully cast as an Insouciant, Surly Antichrist-with-a-heart-of Gold, and he provides a solid cornerstone to a sharp and wittily scripted film which admittedly doesn't have many shocks but does have more heart than anything George Lucas or Steven Spielberg have churned out in the last decade or more. That the film is a labour of love between Guilliermo del Toro (Dorector) and Mike Mignola (Creator) shows clearly throughout and the fanboy enthusiasm which they've infused the film warmed my notoriously chill and flinty heart.
Okay, so the ending is a bit quick and something of a cop out (1) Lovecraft increasingly has a lot to answer for, and 2) I'm sure Cthulhu is tougher than that), and there are some inconsistencies in the narrative if you really want to go looking for them, but, for me, the cheery, gung-ho enthusiasm of the whole thing carried me happily through my box of popcorn very comfortably indeed.
