hellboy ii, and weekend update

[rivendellrose]

New laptop doesn't like Wifi yet (do I ever have a computer that doesn't have problems? Of course not), so... quick weekend update before I start work!

First! Saw "Hellboy II" on Friday night, and I officially love love love love love Guilllermo Del Toro. Also, um... how eerily does Nuala (the elf princess) resemble young Lalla Ward? I would say it's just me, but maymargaret agrees with me, and... okay, this is kind of a bad picture, but you get the idea. It's disturbing, darn it! And of course I totally ship her and Abe, because, um. I didn't at all have a crush on Abe even in the first movie when he was more or less a glorified plot device. I love them forever for making him a bigger part of this movie. Even if I did feel deeply betrayed that they didn't get David Hyde Pierce for his voice again. The new guy was good! Just... anyway. I'll stop fangirling now. Humble pie, me, eating, yes, okay... I'll be over here feeling guilty for not quite having caught onto the fact that the 'new' guy was the original guy, and, additionally, was also the Angel of Death and the Chamberlain in this movie, the Faun and the Pale Man in "Pan's Labyrinth" and one of the Gentlemen in "Hush" (BtVS). Yeah. Um... I'm so sorry, Mr. Fabulous Actor. Really, I am. And I am not at all writing psychotic fairy-tale fic involving alien-fish-elf babies.

Every movie ever made involving fairies and the fairy courts should be remade by Guillermo Del Toro, because he's really really good at it, and he gets how those kinds of stories should work. And so, I am thrilled at him doing the Hobbit. Yay.

Also this weekend was zinjadu's birthday, which was awesome and hilarious. And a lot of walking around, and also the first part of "The War Games," which is sort of appalling in some ways but also delightful because Troughton is really really cute, and so is Fraser Hines (even if he can't do a Scottish accent worth hell).

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

(in re: Abe. The 'new guy' is technically the old guy. Doug Jones played Abe in the first movie, and they voiced him over with DHP later.)
I need to see this.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

So it is the physical actor doing the voice, now? One of the friends I saw it with suggested that, but I wasn't totally sure. He's a brilliant physical actor, definitely, and I did really love what he did with the voice. It was just a bit of a shift in my head, since I'd been expecting DHP (and, admittedly, am something of a dopey fangirl for him). In principle I very much approve of them using the same actor for both, it just surprised me to hear the change.

Yes, you do!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

He also played the Chamberlain and the Angel of Death, according to IMDB. (:

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yup, this is me being officially enamored of that actor. Damn fine work, on all of those.

....Ohhhhh, yup, and he also was the Faun and the Pale Man in "Pan's Labyrinth." Okay, I'm officially in actor-love, now. ...........and one of the Gentlemen in Buffy. Ohmy. Yes, very very very good.

[websandwhiskers.livejournal.com]

And I am not at all writing psychotic fairy-tale fic involving alien-fish-elf babies.

Why not?! Or does the strike-through mean actually you are? . . please?

(PS - mind if I friend you?)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am... the strike-through is usually my way of saying "please don't mock me for this... I can't believe I'm really doing it." ;)

(Sure! Or rather, I don't mind in the slightest!)