Lets hear it for HELLBOY 2!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 10:03am

Stephanie Zacharek gives a balls-out rave in Salon.com and drops this pearl:

"Special effects have so radically taken over the content of mainstream movies -- particularly summer blockbusters -- that they've reached the point of being nothing special at all. We're still seeing more action movies that use special effects to beat the audience into a state of something resembling awe (as "The Incredible Hulk" did) than ones that put the focus on live performers, using special effects judiciously and with some sense of how they need to serve a story and its characters (à la "Iron Man").

But Guillermo del Toro's "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" is something else again: It's too wildly fanciful, too witty, too operatic in its vision, to fit comfortably into any of the convenient folders we might use to keep our mainstream entertainments sorted in our minds. I left the theater so enraptured, so energized, that it didn't immediately register that I'd just seen a "special-effects" movie, although, of course, I had."
Full review here

[DG]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 10:04am

My brother and I are attending an opening day showing tonight!

[tazber]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 10:05am

I am such a huge fan of Hellboy, this is easily my most anticipated movie of the summer.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 10:07am

I cant wait to see this! Its the same director as Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberintho del Fauno) and I LOVE LOVE that movie!


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Updated On: 7/11/08 at 10:07 AM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 10:22am

i've been hard ever since i saw that they were making hellboy 2. i never read the comics and only vaguely knew anything about hellboy until i saw the first movie. but i fell head over heels in love with the movie and own the special edition. god what fun it is and what a good heart it has. i'm so happy they have done another one and can't wait to see it. i was really happy to see iron man. the hulk i could care less about and dark knight leaves me meh. but red and liz and abe...them i love. them i want to see on a big screen the way they were intended to be seen. thanks, guillermo.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 10:30am

The only Del Toro film I've seen is PAN'S LABYRINTH, which I really hated, except for Sergi Lopez and Maribel Verdu. Are his other films worth seeing?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 11:38am

His films are good--you'll prob hate them, Roscoe.

I can't wait until tonite! My bf hadn't seen the first one, so we watched it last night.

And how fitting for borstal to start this thread! If Red were gay, he would be the ultimate brick pig!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 11:41am

Ah. Well, if jrb likes them, they must be crap. I'll pass.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 11:42am

Mutton chops in general get me in a bit of a tingly bind.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 11:52am

Roscoe, seeing your tastes in film, I do take that as a compliment.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 11:57am

Track 7, jrby.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:09pm

Whatever the hell that means. And don't call me jerby. I'm just jrb_actor to you.

That's all.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:12pm

Uh, okay.

So, to everybody but jerby, are Del Toro's films worth exploring further, to someone who really disliked PAN'S LABYRINTH?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:16pm

It is a little hard to tell what you are going to like and not like, Roscoe...I'd say explore, but that's just me.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:17pm

The LA Times also gave it a rave review. I may see it this weekend!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:19pm

Thanks, Borstal. I'll add HELLBOY and DEVIL'S BACKBONE to my netflix queue.

And I'll be watching THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY this weekend.