Hellboy

[alexxkay]

Went to see Hellboy with a bunch o' folks last night. I liked it a lot. Probably more than any of them did, as I was the only person to loudly applaud at the end. Though the plot was rather loosely adapted, the characterization and art direction were spot-on. Going to hav to re-read the comics now.

Best preview was definitely Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. As soon as I saw the giant robots rampaging through the city, I immediately thought, "Hey! We can do that in the Freedom Force engine!" Must see about convincing boss to investigate the licensing possbilities.

Comments

[londo.livejournal.com]

Special effects for that movie are in fact special. I don't remember the details, but I'd do some research before jumping on that train.

[jducoeur]

Hellboy seems to be that great rarity: a comic book movie that fans of the comic consistently like. Not an easy trick to pull off. (Having the comic's creator as exec probably helps a lot, but it's impressive that it's both true to the original and a good movie to boot.)

As for Sky Captain: it's the movie we've been looking forward to for months. I'm not sure whether it's going to be *good* per se, but it looks likely to be fun...

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Actually, as I've been re-reading the comics, the movie looks less and less faithful. Though they still got most of the *heart* right, which is most important. But the comic (as learnedax guessed) features no "ordinary-joe-new-to-the-team-viewpoint-character", nor do the comics bother with making the BPRD a covert operation. and while the "Sama-el" monsters in the movie were effective, they just didn't have that delightfully creepy *wrongness* that the frogs in the comic book did.

[jducoeur]

All true points, although all forgiveable. I suspect that the viewpoint character was a concession to the studios (who insist on a "normal" character in *all* weird movies, as far as I can tell)...