So I’ve been a little obsessed with the Hellboy movie recently. But that is a fangirl’s prerogative. I really wonder how someone who hasn’t read the comics would react to this film. I thought it was a great adaptation of the comics, and I didn’t mind the aspects of the story that had been rewritten to give it more of a hollywood-movie plot, because everything seemed to stay true to the spirit of the characters.
Ron Perlman is great as Hellboy, and he fights evil nazis! How much fun is that?! I thought that the set and lighting design did a good job transferring the mood of the comics to the screen. As a comic book movie, I thought it was better than Spiderman, although partly that might be due to the way the Spiderman’s origin has been told over and over again. Also, a cigar chomping demon is just cooler than whiny Peter Parker.
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April 2nd, 2004 at 7:25 pm
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1:18 pm on April 4th, 2004 1
You were wondering about the reactions of people who hadn’t read the comics. One of my friends, at least, who had only paged through “Seed of Destruction” in a bookstore, utterly adored it, and only complained that the plot was a little scattered. He even liked Selma Blair.
11:56 pm on April 4th, 2004 2
Selma Blair was great!
I went with three people who hadn’t read the comics, and I get the sense that they enjoyed it just as much as people who have read the comics. They didn’t get the pancakes reference though.