Hellboy....
 

Damn! Just damn!

Hellboy opened yesterday, and I was excited....But no one is around to go with. My girlfriend thinks it looks dumb, and my friends are all busy so I'm screwed. I don't wanna go alone...I don't wanna be that guy...

I'm sure your girlfriend's made you watch somethin' you didn't wanna see... :wink:

Yeah. And she's never hated any movie I've made her watch. She made me watch White Oleander......

It only made about $9 million Friday, which will make it around $25 million just for this weekend. I got a feeling this movie is going to bomb. Just goes to show you that not every superhero comic book needs to be made into a big time motion picture.

Yeah, I had this convo with my girlfriend, that if it doesn't make enough money, it'll get a ****** DVD, and it could be a good movie, but people don't really know about it, or that its based on a comic. And Ron Perlman is one creepy sonovabitch, but I wanna see him kick ass as Hellboy.

I started drawing to get it off my mind..Low and behold the commercials are playing left and right.

Considering the amount it made, its odd they're already planning Hellboy 2.

Dude, just go by yourself. A lot of folks go see movies by themselves, you don't need your girlfriend there for it. If you absolutly cannot fathom seeing it alone, offer to buy lunch and the ticket for one of your friends. A lil McDonald's and a ticket should tempt one of them. :)

But why would you want to go by yourself? It's actually more entertaining with someone else with you.

Don't worry, the director already promised a good DVD. And the movie will do good box office. Don't forget the foreign markets add a lot to the box ffice numbers. :)

From GDT:

“We are -tentatively- talking about a double disc release on DVD by Aug and a Triple disc, extended version in and around Christmas. A SIDESHOW boxed/bust/3dvd is likely to become available then.“

Exactly. But, the reason my friends are busy? The Prom.

I had planned on not wasting upwards of 200 bucks on some dance, and seeing Hellboy....And now I'm effed. Most of my friends want to go with me but can't because their dates would kill them.

Eh, why not go by yourself? Sure, you can discuss the movie afterwards with the people you see it with. But you can do the same thing on line. And unless your planning to talk or make out in the theater, having someone else there isn't that important. Hell, strike up a conversation about the movie with the people around you. Either before or after the movie. Especially after. You can discuss what you like. :)

This is just irritating.... You lucky sonovabitches get some well deserved art from me because I'm trying to get my mind off ****.

Yeah, but it's just not the same.

Perhaps it's just me who likes to have people around when I go to the movies.

A couple of my friends and I are going to see Hellboy on the long weekend.

I'll probably have to wait till my spring break.

Just go alone. It isnt as bad as it looks.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I think it looks great. And Ron Perlman as Hellboy is fanboy heaven. But I just cant get there.

Well, how much did it cost to make? It might make back all of it's spending this weekend.

And no matter what, it cannot do as bad as Gili.

10 mill I think.

Well, the budget was around $60 Million. Not sure if that is before or after marketing, which usually adds another $20 million to the budget. So it will definatly depend on the overseas market to do well. :)

What's Hellboy? Some new film?

Hellboy is a comic, an indie comic. And it was just released friday in film form.

Me and my friend saw it yesterday and it reminds me of Diablo II a lot. For some reason.

You think it MAY be the fact that the main character is a devilish looking creature?

i saw it with some friends. It was alright. I wasn't into the comic book...so it was a new experience for me. It was kinda predictable....and although I know a lot was taken from the comics...i felt like the story line didn't have as cool of appeal as say...turtles or spider man.

It didn't do it for me as much as some of the other comic book based movies have.

In fact...it reminded me of like the last batman with george clooney...

Saw it. I thought it was really well done. It's the closest a movie as come to adapting the comic it's based on perfectly. The CGI was really good, especially Liz's fire and Hellboy getting tossed around. The story was good, it had alot of homages in it (The Corpse and Pancakes anyone?) The ending fight was a little short, but there was alot of action in the movie overall to make up for it.

Pearlman nailed Hellboy to a t as well. He like, is Hellboy. David Hyde Peirce was a raelly good choice for Abe's voice as well, it really matched him, and Selma Blair was a good Liz. Hurt was the perfect Bruttonholm too, he looked and acted exactly like he did in the comics.

Overall I give it a 7.5/10.

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Re: Hellboy....
 

what's so bad about going alone to the pictures? i mean, after all you have to be quet all the time, so there ain't no time fer talking anyways....

and what do you mean by "that guy"?

You make me want to shoot myself in the face.

With a gun.

Taloniss: Your review makes me wanna see it more, thanks....

"Reminds me of Batman with Geaorge Clooney" .....Hand me the gun I'm gonna splatter myself on the wall.

No prob :)

Next Saturday.

Oh, and when The Punisher comes out I will be there, opening day, and will be here with a full in depth review.

And I'll be here with a one sentence review :)

I just hope my review for Dawn of The Dead made it some money, and the Punisher, depending on how good it is, will make some money and we'll get good sequels.

Saw it yesterday, and it was easily the best comic film I've seen(So pretty much the best comic film period)

I loved this movie. It's what Spider-Man should've been. (Don't get me wrong, I loved Spider-Man, but the love story REALLY dragged it down.) Fun, exciting, fantastic characters and an involving plot. This will be the closet thing to an Evil Dead/Ghostbusters movie for a long time. (Ron as Hellboy was perfect. IMO, his performance is Oscar-worthy, though knowing the academy, they will totally ignore this gem. :roll: )

Too bad Abe wasn't in there for long, he was fantastic.

On a whole, I'd give the movie an 8.5 to a 9.0. (It feel's like it's over too soon, some wire-work was iffy and a few things were not explained very well for non-Hellboy fans.)

(I absolutly loved seeing Roger's "Cameo" and the little girl talking about Santa Clause. :D PAMCAKES!)

Even with the little screen time he had, I think ABe was my favorite character in the movie. I hope he has a much bigger part in the sequel.

Depends. If Del Toro based the sequel on say, Conqueror Worm, Abe wouldn't be in there since he wasn't in that arc...though I hope they make an original story with Mike. :lol:

I keep seeing Hellboy stuff on Tv, and its taunting.

There was a thing on VH1, Best Week Ever or whatever, and this guy was like

"It sucks because Ron is a great actor but he sits down to read a script and it says 'Cue the creepy demented looking gorilla man'...and he's left to think "I guess that's me...""

Just saw the movie... It was ok, but I didn't know what to expect since I never read the comics. Unlike some of you, I thought it was a little too long. And seeing the guy from Arrested Development, kinda blah.

I like hellboy better with full horns.

IT WAS GREAT!! KORENEN WAS A F*CKING MANIAC!! IT WAS RIDICULOUS!!!

I was in you're position Brodie. No one around wanted to see it; yet I guilted my girlfriend into going.

I guess my only quarrel was that they had Hell Boy fight some other stuff.

Ya, evil Hellboy is pretty cool, but he doesn't really do or say anything.

Well me and Sean saw the movie on Friday and we've never read the comic. When I saw the commercials, I said "Lets go see Hellboy. It looks cool.". Well it was cool. Pretty funny too.


Brodie, you need a girl like me. I knew nothing about Marvel Comics and we saw those Marvel movies anyway, Sean just says "Lets go see it." and I figure "Why not?". It's something to do together. I hate Ashton Kutcher but we saw The Butterfly Effect anyway. I thought Hellboy was Marvel also but when we went to the comics store, I looked at one of Hllboys comics and it said "Dark Horse.". It was alot like the Marvel movies anyway.