thanks, i hate it
Dec. 19th, 2018 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseSaw the trailer for the new Hellboy movie today.
Nope. Not my Hellboy.
I had a few mild hopes, y'know? I liked David Harbour in Stranger Things, and I thought, personality-wise, he made sense for Hellboy. I liked Ian McShane in American Gods, and I thought he was... an interesting choice for Professor Bruttenholm. Probably a truer one to the comics than John Hurt. I... sort of wanted to like that they were bringing in Daimio (and do like that they brought in Daniel Dae Kim to play him, I just never really got attached to Daimio in the comics because as far as I'm concerned he's BPRD, not Hellboy, and he came in at exactly the same time as the artist I didn't like), and I was sort of charmed to see on IMDB that they were bringing in Lobster Johnson. Particularly since the guy they cast for him looked exactly right.
But the way they've done David Harbour's prosthetic for Hellboy makes his face totally the wrong shape, and, let's be real, in my heart Hellboy will always be Ron Perlman. And there's no Abe here, and I love Abe. And I just... don't like the style of this new movie. It's too much "THIS IS A COMIC BOOK MOVIE."
I know, I know, Hellboy is a comic. But as far as I'm concerned, it's not that kind of comic. It's moody and weird and heavily mythological and folkloric, and the humor is usually more "well, fuck" than it is "HA HA, QUIPPING ONE LINERS, BAM!" This complaint may be faintly ironic, coming from me, given that I came to the comics off Guillermo Del Toro's movies, which I freely admit were also heavily out of character from the comics. But in a different way, and a way that, at least in the case of the second movie, fit perfectly into my personal subconsciousness.
Which this movie very much does not. So. I'm sure it will make some other people happy and hopefully bring them to the comics, but otherwise... Meh. I'm out. Call me in another decade when we do another adaptation, and I'll see if that one hits my buttons.
Nope. Not my Hellboy.
I had a few mild hopes, y'know? I liked David Harbour in Stranger Things, and I thought, personality-wise, he made sense for Hellboy. I liked Ian McShane in American Gods, and I thought he was... an interesting choice for Professor Bruttenholm. Probably a truer one to the comics than John Hurt. I... sort of wanted to like that they were bringing in Daimio (and do like that they brought in Daniel Dae Kim to play him, I just never really got attached to Daimio in the comics because as far as I'm concerned he's BPRD, not Hellboy, and he came in at exactly the same time as the artist I didn't like), and I was sort of charmed to see on IMDB that they were bringing in Lobster Johnson. Particularly since the guy they cast for him looked exactly right.
But the way they've done David Harbour's prosthetic for Hellboy makes his face totally the wrong shape, and, let's be real, in my heart Hellboy will always be Ron Perlman. And there's no Abe here, and I love Abe. And I just... don't like the style of this new movie. It's too much "THIS IS A COMIC BOOK MOVIE."
I know, I know, Hellboy is a comic. But as far as I'm concerned, it's not that kind of comic. It's moody and weird and heavily mythological and folkloric, and the humor is usually more "well, fuck" than it is "HA HA, QUIPPING ONE LINERS, BAM!" This complaint may be faintly ironic, coming from me, given that I came to the comics off Guillermo Del Toro's movies, which I freely admit were also heavily out of character from the comics. But in a different way, and a way that, at least in the case of the second movie, fit perfectly into my personal subconsciousness.
Which this movie very much does not. So. I'm sure it will make some other people happy and hopefully bring them to the comics, but otherwise... Meh. I'm out. Call me in another decade when we do another adaptation, and I'll see if that one hits my buttons.
