Sep 28, 2019
I bought/watched the most recent Hellboy movie. While most have panned it, i liked it. It follows one of my fav Hellboy stories, and incorporates some other disparate good ones. It’s flaws are that it’s gratuitously gory. And they say fuck like it’s a comma. It’s unnecessary but I still think it’s fine overall. Don’t get me wrong, tho, the newest Hellboy movie is nowhere near as good as the two del Torro flicks. It’s just not as bad as many have said.
Budget-wise it looks fine. Maybe some of the CGI is poorer, but that could be because they used a different company to do it.
They wanted to push a hard R-rating for some reason, which I’m fine with, but they just say fuck all the time. It just sounds dumb/lowbrow, not cool and edgy, as the filmmakers might have thought.
Also, they do some strange gore for no real reason either. Case in point: only a holy man can say the words to open a certain box. When the priest refuses, the monster rips the whole bottom of his face off, eats it, and then speaks in the priest’s voice. Um... ok. Weird.
Personally, I think that the worst offense is having rock music drive the fight scenes. I just completely hate that. I’m a traditionalist in terms of movie scores. I don’t like rock music in movies, like in 300 or whatever. It just seems out of place or like the creators are trying too hard to make it “cool”. They could have had singers over the fight scenes, like in LOTR when they have an all-male choir sing chants during the Bridge of Kazed-Dum scene (where Gandalf dies). It’s badass. Or also when the Ringwraiths attack Bree at night.