Rate Hellboy

[drnuncheon]

I'm really surprised how many people keep comparing it to LXG or Daredevil. I think Hellboy was in the 'better' class of comic adaptations. There certainly weren't any 'WTF?' moments like there were in LXG (canal...Venice...gigantic sub??) or Daredevil (playground fight).

J

 

[Abraxas]

There is one scene in particular in the clockworks that is a WTF? moment.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I'm really surprised how many people keep comparing it to LXG or Daredevil. I think Hellboy was in the 'better' class of comic adaptations. There certainly weren't any 'WTF?' moments like there were in LXG (canal...Venice...gigantic sub??) or Daredevil (playground fight).

J

Both LXG and Daredevil were okay but when I compare them to other movies I saw in 2003 they were not that good, rating 5. If I put Hellboy in an up-to-up compare with those comic book movies it would be something like so...

05 = not a waste of time but could waited
06 = afternoon delight, burn time
07 = Enjoyable movie
08 = Great movie
09 = Lets see it again
10 = Damn, I worship at the screen

05: LXG
05: Hulk
06: Daredevil
06: Blade 2
07: Blade 1
07: Hellboy
08: Spiderman
09: X-Men 2

 

[Arnwyn]

A solid 8 for me. Actually, I agree with *all* the criticisms that barsoomcore aimed at Hellboy (back on page 1) - but none of them were enough to drag it down for me... as all his criticisms are something I can aim at virtually every Hollywood movie in the past 5 years (and it's especially scare when Blade II is used to illustrate something positive). I just come to expect close-up/heavily cut fight scenes,(even Jet Li gets hammered nowadays for no reason whatsoever), lack of long-distance shots, etc.

Shortly into the movie, I quit watching it for the action and started watching it for the characters and their interactions (HB and his father, HB and kid on rooftop, HB and Liz, even HB with the FBI director-guy near the end).

 

[Henry]

One question: Was clockwork Nazi or Rasputin in the comic books?

I gave it a "7" myself. I enjoyed it greatly, but there was nothing that "blew me away" as there was in Fellowship of the ring, or with the Phantom Menace. The characters were fun, and the plot was decent, if not the strongest.

I still have to ask, and no one answered in the other thread: Did your theater display the scene immediately following Liz torching the eggs? With Meyer coming to, seeing Ilsa and Rasputin, and then blacking out again? The way people are commenting, it seems that Liz torches the place, and then they go straight to the capture-in-chains scene.

 

[Rhialto]

Yes, Rasputin and Kronen are major characters in the books, though Kronen's personality is quite different...

 

[demiurge1138]

I gave Hellboy an 8. Did it have some plot holes? Yes. Was it occasionally predictable? Yes. Was I entertained? Yes.

Frankly, I think that a movie that features demons, Rasputin, clockwork Nazis and Elder Gods that makes any sense at all is quite a feat. It was a fun movie, by any rate. And I really liked the concepts, the references to real-world paranormal stuff (Hitler really did try to find the Lance of Longinus, and De Vermis Mysteris was one of the books created by Lovecraft for the Mythos) and a lot of the dialogue.

Mmm. Nachos.
Demiurge out.

 

[Bass Puppet]

I caught this film this past weekend. I thought it was very true to the comics that I have read. I went in expecting it to be ok, and was very pleased that it was much better than I expected. I agree with what a lot of people have said, so I won't repeat it.

 

[KainG]

I gave it an 8. I was greatly entertained, and had a lot of fun watching it. Ron Perlman is great, and I loved the Elder Gods stuff.

I still have to ask, and no one answered in the other thread: Did your theater display the scene immediately following Liz torching the eggs? With Meyer coming to, seeing Ilsa and Rasputin, and then blacking out again? The way people are commenting, it seems that Liz torches the place, and then they go straight to the capture-in-chains scene.

I remember seeing that scene when I went to the theater.

 

[Villano]

What I really felt hurt the movie:

• The story. This didn't make a lot of sense. One second, they're in a cave and Liz is burning things up, and then suddenly they're all tied up. What happened in there?

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  I haven't seen the movie (I plan on going next week), but I was meaning to ask about this. I read 2 reviews that mentioned this cut.
  
  Here's an explanation of the scene from one of the reviews:
  
  http://www.alex-in-wonderland.com/MovieReviews/Domestic-H/Hellboy.html
  
  "In an embarrassing snafu, all of the prints of the film that got released contained a huge editing flaw, where an entire sequence of events was missing. It's so severe that the theater even posted warnings and disclaimers about it. One minute, Hellboy, Liz, and John are fighting monsters and winning, and the next, they're all captured and chained by a couple of villains who came out of nowhere. Laughably inexcuseable, and hopefully they'll correct this for the DVD release."
  
  If the theaters saw fit to warn viewers, I assume it was in fact a glitch rather than planned.
  
  Since the other reviews didn't say anything about it, I hoped it might just be a problem with the initial prints and that they would be replaced with better copies after opening weekend. Did everyone here see the film with this cut?