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I saw Hellboy
I went to a special preview of Hellboy 2 on Tuesday. And because it was a) cheap night, b) I've got a student card and c) ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jimboharris had a buy one get on free voucher I got to see it for the princely sum of £1.90!!! Most excellent! (Although the sweets and drink came to a fiver. Woes.)
Trailers
The Clone Wars: Saw it when I went to see Wall-E so nothing new there. Annie seems less annoying though which can only be a good thing.
Babylon AD: Vin Diesel transports the mother of the modern-day messiah to safety (or something). It looks a bit rubbish. Vin Diesel however, he could read the phonebook and I'd happily listen to him. I don't half love his voice.
Max Payne: Marky Mark (he'll always be Marky Mark to me) sports the furrowed brow he used to great effect in The Happening. It looks rather rubbish though. Sorry.
No Watchmen trailer. That made me sad in my face.
The Orange Film Pitch thing is STILL Rob Lowe. GET A NEW ONE ALREADY! Or at least bring back the Sean Astin one 'cos that's hella funny.
[x] Luke Goss! Luke bloody Goss! Stop being in films and reform Bros goddamnit. To be fair he was rather good. Even if he only seems to appear in films where he's under about half a ton of make-up. However if he can persuade Matt and the other one to grow their hair long they'd make an awesome Elvish pop-group.
[x] And Jeffery Tambor! (The Arrested Development fangirl in me did lots of little squees). I'd completely forgotten that he's in thisHe was brill, all the way through.
[x] It was nice to see Doug Jones getting more to do too this time out. I thought the little love story between him and his classical princess was really well done.
[x] I love Ron Perlman. That is all.
The set design geek in my was loving all the sets in the film.
[x] Although, I noticed that in order to make the cats in Hellboy's room behave they sat them at little piles of food. They had cat food on the bed and on top of the telly. I was squicked by the un-hygenicness of it all.
[x] The Troll Market was a complete treat for the eyes. There was so much going on in the background that I probably missed stuff.
[x] Oh, the special effects were amazing
[x] The 'story' at the start, the stop-motion style CGI, the massed hordes of human and elf. Ooh, it makes me feel very positive towards The Hobbit. del Toro and THE BLOKE FROM WETA WHO CAN ONLY TALK IN CAPSLOCK could prove the be an unstoppable force. Of epic proportions.
[x] Thought the elemental creature was really well realised too.
[x] In fact all the non-comic book characters looked brilliant. The Tooth Fairies especially. That's what the fairies in Torchwood should have looked like.
[x] The Golden Army were all steampunk and I liked them greatly.
In Conclusion
I'm definitely going to see this again when it's released properly. It was a really enjoyable two hours, and I do have quite a soft spot for the big red one. And what I love about these films is the masses of character development, we learn so much about the character in such a short amount of time without massive exposition dumps. (certain TV writers take note)
And I'm intrigued to see where del Toro is going to take the third film. (Hopefully without Breaking Dawn style birthing hysterics.) <- Breaking Dawn snark/spoilers right there.
8/10
I also saw over the weekend:
Evan Almighty: Morgan Freeman was awesome as ever. But the film was, frankly, a bit rubbish. 3/10
Atonement: His Lordship perked up when Kiera Knightly jumped in the fountain in her undies. But was otherwise underwhelmed. As was I. I didn't really care about any of the characters, although the cinematography was very good. Especially the one-shot beach scene. (I didn't like the horses being shot though, that upset me) 4/10
Die Hard 4.0: Yippie-kai-aee (or however you spell it). Disappointed by the lack of dirty vest on show. McClane should have a graze covering 80% of his body plus have been killed at least twice during the film, but the man is indestructible. Liked the kid who was also in Jeepers Creepers whose name completely escapes me at the moment (I'm writing this while the internet is down). 7/10
jimboharris had a buy one get on free voucher I got to see it for the princely sum of £1.90!!! Most excellent! (Although the sweets and drink came to a fiver. Woes.)Trailers
The Clone Wars: Saw it when I went to see Wall-E so nothing new there. Annie seems less annoying though which can only be a good thing.
Babylon AD: Vin Diesel transports the mother of the modern-day messiah to safety (or something). It looks a bit rubbish. Vin Diesel however, he could read the phonebook and I'd happily listen to him. I don't half love his voice.
Max Payne: Marky Mark (he'll always be Marky Mark to me) sports the furrowed brow he used to great effect in The Happening. It looks rather rubbish though. Sorry.
No Watchmen trailer. That made me sad in my face.
The Orange Film Pitch thing is STILL Rob Lowe. GET A NEW ONE ALREADY! Or at least bring back the Sean Astin one 'cos that's hella funny.
[x] Luke Goss! Luke bloody Goss! Stop being in films and reform Bros goddamnit. To be fair he was rather good. Even if he only seems to appear in films where he's under about half a ton of make-up. However if he can persuade Matt and the other one to grow their hair long they'd make an awesome Elvish pop-group.
[x] And Jeffery Tambor! (The Arrested Development fangirl in me did lots of little squees). I'd completely forgotten that he's in thisHe was brill, all the way through.
[x] It was nice to see Doug Jones getting more to do too this time out. I thought the little love story between him and his classical princess was really well done.
[x] I love Ron Perlman. That is all.
The set design geek in my was loving all the sets in the film.
[x] Although, I noticed that in order to make the cats in Hellboy's room behave they sat them at little piles of food. They had cat food on the bed and on top of the telly. I was squicked by the un-hygenicness of it all.
[x] The Troll Market was a complete treat for the eyes. There was so much going on in the background that I probably missed stuff.
[x] Oh, the special effects were amazing
[x] The 'story' at the start, the stop-motion style CGI, the massed hordes of human and elf. Ooh, it makes me feel very positive towards The Hobbit. del Toro and THE BLOKE FROM WETA WHO CAN ONLY TALK IN CAPSLOCK could prove the be an unstoppable force. Of epic proportions.
[x] Thought the elemental creature was really well realised too.
[x] In fact all the non-comic book characters looked brilliant. The Tooth Fairies especially. That's what the fairies in Torchwood should have looked like.
[x] The Golden Army were all steampunk and I liked them greatly.
In Conclusion
I'm definitely going to see this again when it's released properly. It was a really enjoyable two hours, and I do have quite a soft spot for the big red one. And what I love about these films is the masses of character development, we learn so much about the character in such a short amount of time without massive exposition dumps. (certain TV writers take note)
And I'm intrigued to see where del Toro is going to take the third film. (Hopefully without Breaking Dawn style birthing hysterics.) <- Breaking Dawn snark/spoilers right there.
8/10
I also saw over the weekend:
Evan Almighty: Morgan Freeman was awesome as ever. But the film was, frankly, a bit rubbish. 3/10
Atonement: His Lordship perked up when Kiera Knightly jumped in the fountain in her undies. But was otherwise underwhelmed. As was I. I didn't really care about any of the characters, although the cinematography was very good. Especially the one-shot beach scene. (I didn't like the horses being shot though, that upset me) 4/10
Die Hard 4.0: Yippie-kai-aee (or however you spell it). Disappointed by the lack of dirty vest on show. McClane should have a graze covering 80% of his body plus have been killed at least twice during the film, but the man is indestructible. Liked the kid who was also in Jeepers Creepers whose name completely escapes me at the moment (I'm writing this while the internet is down). 7/10