I really dug this quite a bit. I found it about on par with the first Hellboy, which I also really enjoyed (although this one ups the visual ante quite a bit).
The film is absolutely stunning to look at and genuinely funny in parts (and genuinely horrific in one part as well). I had a lot of fun with it. If I have one
complaint about it, it's that it's somewhat frontloaded -- the three best segments for me were all in the first half. But still -- a great silly
action-packed time at the movies. Del Toro rocks.
Hellboy 2 -- really great crazy fun
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Cool. We're going to see it in a few hours.
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Awesome. We'll be checking it out this evening too. Can't WAIT.
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Can't wait. I bought the SE of part one this week and watched it last night. Really like it, but it look as if #2 will be better.
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I'd give in the B/B+ zone.
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I loved it! It was great fun and the enthusiastic audience made it even better.
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Huh. I'm really conflicted on this one - Until I came here, just about every post I read said it was crap. But the critics liked it. What to do!!!
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franfriel wrote:
Yeah -- the audience I saw it with actually clapped when it was over! That's very rare around here . . . probably only the second or third movie I've ever seen where that happened. I really, really liked it. Although I disagree with a lot of the reviews I've read that claim it blows the first movie away. I dug them equally (although I don't know if it's fair to compare them, really, considering their two very different entities tonally -- the first was a much more occult/horror piece, where THE GOLDEN ARMY showed the director's adoration for all things fantasy). I did think this one felt a little long, and it almost seemed to be a case of "over-stimulation," if that makes any sense whatsoever . . . then again, it doesn't feel at all right to bitch about such a thing, considering that's what we pay for when we go to see a big comic-book movie! I agree 100% with Matt's B/B+ grade. If nothing else, HELLBOY 2 just got me more excited to see Guillermo Del Toro's next project, and the one after that, and the one after that . . . . I'll see *anything* Del Toro's involved with. The guy's a genius. J.N. |
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I loved this one! Awesome story and special effects!
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I may go see this one tonight. I love Del Toro, and always try to help out his box office total.
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Posts: 336 (07/13/08 13:16:23) Veteran Shockliner |
Liked it a lot. Just finished the Cinema Knife Fight review for FearZone - should be posted tonight at midnight (I hope). Love del Toro. Did my research and
found out the beer Hellboy drinks in the movie - Tecate - is a real Mexican beer. Now I wanna try it.
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amygrech wrote: Yeah, I wasn't sure myself. Then I did a search online. It makes sense - del Toro is from Mexico, so maybe it's his favorite beer.
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Posts: 1066 (07/13/08 16:44:10) Master Shockliner |
I was watching it, today, at the theater. I saw the trailer for the Quarantine, btw. We got to a certain
part of the movie when... the power went out. We had to leave the movie theater, but I did get a free movie ticket out of it. Ironically it was a free movie
pass that I was using to see this one.
It was interesting to watch from what I saw...
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Aquaryan wrote:Well that sucks! I've had stuff like that happen to me before (like when I saw Jackie Brown and the projector broke down an hour into it). Is it just me, or does Quarantine look like a ripoff of DIARY OF THE DEAD?
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Oddly enough, I'm not that much of the ol' Hellboy fanatic, but this movie DOES look good. Hopefully, I can get me a decent bootleg.
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QUARANTINE is an American remake of the very, very good (almost great) French film *REC. The trailer makes it pretty clear that its a nearly shot-for-shot remake, too. *REC predates DIARY OF THE DEAD, so if anyone was "ripped off", it was the other way around. REC Trailer: click here. QUARANTINE Trailer: click here
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I am going to see it tonight!
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Posts: 1070 (07/16/08 19:32:20) Master Shockliner |
Finally, I was able to see the movie, today...
I went with some friends who wanted to see it. Who sings the song about Freaks or something...it is not listed...
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