Hellboy II

ppar3566

ppar3566

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The previews looked awesome.........

Sadly this was the very worst movie I have ever seen. My wife liked the visuals (which were amazing) but the script seemed to be pulled from a creative writing homework task.

I figured most ppl would agree but then I went online to both metacritic and rotten tomatoes and reviewers loved it. Am I going made? Did anybody see it and like it? I almost feel like I need to watch it again to check that I wasn't in the wrong cinema.

So I say don't bother but I seem to be the only one.
 
If I do end up going to see Hellboy II, I'm going to buy and bring noise-canceling earbuds and play classical music on a portable CD player while I watch the movie, because the only interest I have in the movie is the visuals.

After watching Pan's Labyrinth and learning that the same director would direct Hellboy II, I decided I wanted to see the movie, but only on DVD or at a bargain theater.

On a related note, Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing, though a very violent and sad, film.
 
I liked it, as i did with the first one. If you know Hellboy from before he became Ron Perlman then you can appreciate what Guillermo De Toro did with this film (although i am fast becoming a huge G.D.T fan). Admittedly it was a bit overdone for hollywood (in attempts to get good ratings as the first one got shaded at the box office by a bigger film) and the script was a bit too drawn out for my liking. However i thought it was a great film and am looking forward to the third installment (confirmed after GDT does the Hobbit - about which i may just pee myself).
 
Tek7 said:
On a related note, Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing, though a very violent and sad, film.
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Pan's Labyrinth was very, very good. That is why I went to see Hellboy 2. Don't worry, ppar, I'm on your side. The movie was downright awful.
 
tjguitarz said:
Pan's Labyrinth was very, very good. That is why I went to see Hellboy 2. Don't worry, ppar, I'm on your side. The movie was downright awful.
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Thank you. I swear I thought I was going crazy. Everyone on metacritic and rotten tomatoes was positively gushing about it. Each to his own though I suppose. I loved lady in the water and the village and everyone hated those.
 
My brother said it was really good. Hmm. Oh well, I don't have much time for movies anyway.

/off topic, but still related slightly

Is it Guillermo del Toro is his name? Anyway, my brother was saying Pan's Labyrinth was part of a trilogy, and it's in the middle. I really can't remember the name of the other movies, but one of them stars two of the guards from Pan's Labirynth.


Side note: "labyrinth" is really hard to spell after almost 12 hours at work :P
 
Is it Guillermo del Toro is his name? Anyway, my brother was saying Pan's Labyrinth was part of a trilogy, and it's in the middle. I really can't remember the name of the other movies, but one of them stars two of the guards from Pan's Labirynth.
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Yah thats his name, his only other works are Chronos, Blade 2, Hellboy and some others.. i dont think Pan's Labyrinth is part of a trilogy. I reccomend watching Chronos and P.L.
 
Tek7 said:
If I do end up going to see Hellboy II, I'm going to buy and bring noise-canceling earbuds and play classical music on a portable CD player while I watch the movie, because the only interest I have in the movie is the visuals.

After watching Pan's Labyrinth and learning that the same director would direct Hellboy II, I decided I wanted to see the movie, but only on DVD or at a bargain theater.

On a related note, Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing, though a very violent and sad, film.
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If you do that, then I will listen to Family Force 5 while watching Wall-E because I am only interesting in the visuals anyway.

DUDES

GIVE MOVIES A CHANCE

PEOPLES DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY LIKE IT YET AND THEY ALREADY HATE IT?
 
Bonk!Ow! said:
GIVE MOVIES A CHANCE

PEOPLES DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY LIKE IT YET AND THEY ALREADY HATE IT?
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Yes, it's terrible to go into movies with biases because that alters your ENTIRE experience. But at the same time, isn't it required? Hollywood started to push out tons of crapola, so we HAVE to read reviews to make sure we aren't walking into a Hancock-like catastrophe.
 
We don't have to read reviews at all, for anything, really. All reviews are biased in one way or another. Especially film reviews. Even when people claim to be objective, they're not going to give a movie as good a review if they don't like the genre, director, actors, etc. Reviews are worth about as much as the paper movie tickets are printed on to me, anyway. Game reviews too. And pretty much a review on anything else. I mean, it's nice to have someone else's opinion, as long as I know what their taste is, but that's about where I draw the line. I don't care what any awards show, critic, or random person on the street says, Cast Away was terrible, and Gladiator wasn't that fantastic. I won't go on just because I don't know if I can stay awake long enough for my LONG list of movies that reviews are just....wrong. In my...opinion....anyway.
 
tjguitarz said:
Yes, it's terrible to go into movies with biases because that alters your ENTIRE experience. But at the same time, isn't it required? Hollywood started to push out tons of crapola, so we HAVE to read reviews to make sure we aren't walking into a Hancock-like catastrophe.
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Well it's like, "Oh, this looks like a bad movie to me so I'm going to make such a big deal about it."
 
I only read reviews if i am unsure about seeing the film. That decision is usually made on my own opinion about the film.. Its not a foolproof method, but then again.. my choice of films has gotten so artsy over the last year that it works for me..lol.

Pre-bias to a film is the worst possible thing. I was disappointed by Batman TDK because of all the over-hype, similarly i was pleased with other films that may have been slated in the tabloid press, although i cant think of any offhand.
 
I loved Hellboy II and I also enjoyed Hellboy I.

But I also tend to enjoy most movies that are along the same vein, and really have little preference of one over another (ie, I like Star Wars Ep. III as much as I did any of the original trilogy... :eek:) supposedly better one if its in a series.

So I'm probably the target audience in most of these kinds of movies. :D
 
rizz said:
I only read reviews if i am unsure about seeing the film. That decision is usually made on my own opinion about the film.. Its not a foolproof method, but then again.. my choice of films has gotten so artsy over the last year that it works for me..lol.

Pre-bias to a film is the worst possible thing. I was disappointed by Batman TDK because of all the over-hype, similarly i was pleased with other films that may have been slated in the tabloid press, although i cant think of any offhand.
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Blasphemy! TDK rocked!
 
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