Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Most faithful comic adaptation yet.
I really enjoyed the first Hellboy film, but it did stray from the comics in several ways that I won't go into here. The sequel followed suit.
The first reboot claimed to be more faithful, but really got the character of Hellboy wrong. He was like an angry teenager, listening to death metal albums to piss off his parents. He also came across pretty dumb, and bad at his job.
Now, I know some people…
This movie was made by, and for, people who are like the friendly neighbors, and not the grumpy old man.
I am the grumpy old man. I didn't like it.
What an awful waste of time.
The first act was trying to be mysterious and offered some questions. Felt kinda like it wanted to "fix" "Signs" by focusing on a young work-at-home woman with isolation problems, who is maybe on the spectrum somewhere.
I was okay with it here. Give it some time. I honestly didn't even think about the fact that it had almost no dialogue.
Then, the middle act had some thrilling stuff and was kinda high energy,…