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Yesterday we left the baby with a baby-sitter and went to see "Hellboy". It has two of my "must see" actors in it, Ron Perlman and John Hurt. I have gone and seen some awful dreck to see their performances. Both were very good in this movie.
I first started reading Hellboy because of a customer at a comic shop I worked at. He raved about Hellboy to me just about every week he came it to pick-up his books. So I sat down and read it. I liked the character and the art so I would at least read if not buy the book when it came into the store.
Perlman was perfect casting for Hellboy. He has a line delivery where the most absurd line sounds matter of fact and normal. Perlman first came onto my radar when he played Vincent in “Beauty and the Beast”. John Hurt was just fine as Bloom. His is a very distinctive voice that soothes and empowers at the same time. I loved him as the Storyteller. Peter suggested that Roy Dotrice would have been another good actor for the role not only for the in joke but also for the sort of character that Bloom is.
Overall it is a good popcorn flick. I don’t think it is going to change anyone’s life. There are also plot holes that you could drive a 747 through. I won’t go into them since I am not using spoiler space, but I am warning that replies may have spoilers contained within them. My biggest problem with the movie which niggled until Peter and I had talked about the movie for a bit is our POV character. John Myers didn’t really do anything for me. I couldn’t relate to him or his situation. There were too many things I didn’t understand about him and where he was coming from that made him a cypher. Both Liz and Abe were “freaks” and presented at outsiders from the word go. The other agents were just there until they weren’t. The villains were the villains and a bit one dimensional overall.
It is a movie I suggest that if you are going to see it, see it in a movie theater. This one is better in the large scope and you are going to loose things even if you have one of those spiffy plasma TVs. So see it for the performances, sets, costumes and SFX not the script.
I first started reading Hellboy because of a customer at a comic shop I worked at. He raved about Hellboy to me just about every week he came it to pick-up his books. So I sat down and read it. I liked the character and the art so I would at least read if not buy the book when it came into the store.
Perlman was perfect casting for Hellboy. He has a line delivery where the most absurd line sounds matter of fact and normal. Perlman first came onto my radar when he played Vincent in “Beauty and the Beast”. John Hurt was just fine as Bloom. His is a very distinctive voice that soothes and empowers at the same time. I loved him as the Storyteller. Peter suggested that Roy Dotrice would have been another good actor for the role not only for the in joke but also for the sort of character that Bloom is.
Overall it is a good popcorn flick. I don’t think it is going to change anyone’s life. There are also plot holes that you could drive a 747 through. I won’t go into them since I am not using spoiler space, but I am warning that replies may have spoilers contained within them. My biggest problem with the movie which niggled until Peter and I had talked about the movie for a bit is our POV character. John Myers didn’t really do anything for me. I couldn’t relate to him or his situation. There were too many things I didn’t understand about him and where he was coming from that made him a cypher. Both Liz and Abe were “freaks” and presented at outsiders from the word go. The other agents were just there until they weren’t. The villains were the villains and a bit one dimensional overall.
It is a movie I suggest that if you are going to see it, see it in a movie theater. This one is better in the large scope and you are going to loose things even if you have one of those spiffy plasma TVs. So see it for the performances, sets, costumes and SFX not the script.
