And another thing…

[adderslj]

…why did no-one warn me that the Hellboy movie was so bad?

That's one Amazon DVD rental wasted.

Comments

[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

Errm...because it wasn't?

(Or, rather, just to avoid presenting any more opinion as empirical, Hellboy actually was pretty well-received as a comic adaptation. I'd not read any of the comics when I saw it, but I have since, and I thought it was a pretty good interpretation. Could've done without the POV character being quite so bland, but eh.)

[adders.livejournal.com]

Yes, but from a cinematic perspective, the pacing was terrible, the cast all seemed to be acting in different movies and it was visually predictable.

Movies don't get a "get out of jail free" card just because they're comic adaptations.

[point5b.livejournal.com]

Agreed on all points. And you didn't even mention the "talking to the kid on the rooftop" scene, which was just painful, or the dramatic crutch of the new, normal agent.

[eynowd.livejournal.com]

Hellboy was an interesting movie. I wouldn't necessarily say it was good or bad, as it had it's moments. But I think it definitely suffered from being unable to define itself as being serious or comedy. It straddled the line and tried to be both, and suffered for it, IMHO.

[point5b.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was outright bad, but I found it very over-rated.

[michael-b-lee.livejournal.com]

Thank God. I thought it was just me.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Very far from it. Lorna only lasted 30 mins before giving up on it.

[rdansky.livejournal.com]

I /did/ warn you about the ending...

[adders.livejournal.com]

That's a bit like warning people of the dangers of falling off buildings when they're only 10 yards from hitting the ground...

[craigoxbrow.livejournal.com]

I thought it was quite good fun. Not pitch-perfect, but it amused me.

Sorry about that.