Hellboy II. - The Golden Army
Today, Jinx surprised me with a very kind and generous gesture: he offered me and Ági two complementary tickets to a pre-premiere screening of Hellboy II. - The Golden Army.
As much as I appreciated this gesture, and as much as I awaited the movie (I'm deeply in love with the comics, and I quite liked the first movie in a way), it was the biggest turndown I've seen recently. Well, not exactly a turndown - it was simply not Hellboy as I know it, and I'm deeply dissatisfied with it all.
I think the beauty of the comics lie in the fact that Hellboy is initially a quiet and observant [szemlélődő] character. He walks a delicate, fine line between the real world and the fantastic, and the only point of him being a demon - well, apart from its role in the plot, of course - is simply that he can see - and therefore, show us - little wonders and tragedies in the realm that we humans can not see.
Making him a superhero was not a good idea even in the first episode, but it was acceptable - here, they decided to put him through all the necessary and stereotypical inner "superhero" struggles: the "job"'s impact on relationships, wanting to be loved by the people, being unable to get this love because of being different, blah blah blah. And when you consider all these things in the case of a hulking red demon with filed-down horns and a stone hand, you will start to understand how it all must feel like watching. To somebody who's never heard of Hellboy - or fantasy, or comics, for that matter - the whole movie would look like a fairytale with the traditional cast replaced by uncanny circus freaks. In a huge mixer.
I believe in changing certain things for movie scrpits, but I don't understand why Johann Krauss was written into the plot as a boss- or supervisor agent in his overdesigned suit. And I certainly hope that the pathetic rip-off of the Star Wars Cantina scene put underground as the Troll Market never gets canonized, either... Not to mention the other stupid things the comics would never allow.
The only acceptable point - besides some minor ones - that even the comics have was the initial message of the movie about man destroying the fantastic, leaving the World an emptier and more poor place; yet it was delivered in a pretty blunt way, without the subtlety of the originals.
It's not that the movie was bad (even though it contained parts that were really cheap). But if it wouldn't have been for the complimentary tickets, I think this would have been the first movie in my life that I would have walked out on, it was so un-gripping.
I'm still very grateful for the great chance to be able to see this, but I have to say that it officially never gets canonized in my Hellboy universe.
As much as I appreciated this gesture, and as much as I awaited the movie (I'm deeply in love with the comics, and I quite liked the first movie in a way), it was the biggest turndown I've seen recently. Well, not exactly a turndown - it was simply not Hellboy as I know it, and I'm deeply dissatisfied with it all.
I think the beauty of the comics lie in the fact that Hellboy is initially a quiet and observant [szemlélődő] character. He walks a delicate, fine line between the real world and the fantastic, and the only point of him being a demon - well, apart from its role in the plot, of course - is simply that he can see - and therefore, show us - little wonders and tragedies in the realm that we humans can not see.
Making him a superhero was not a good idea even in the first episode, but it was acceptable - here, they decided to put him through all the necessary and stereotypical inner "superhero" struggles: the "job"'s impact on relationships, wanting to be loved by the people, being unable to get this love because of being different, blah blah blah. And when you consider all these things in the case of a hulking red demon with filed-down horns and a stone hand, you will start to understand how it all must feel like watching. To somebody who's never heard of Hellboy - or fantasy, or comics, for that matter - the whole movie would look like a fairytale with the traditional cast replaced by uncanny circus freaks. In a huge mixer.
I believe in changing certain things for movie scrpits, but I don't understand why Johann Krauss was written into the plot as a boss- or supervisor agent in his overdesigned suit. And I certainly hope that the pathetic rip-off of the Star Wars Cantina scene put underground as the Troll Market never gets canonized, either... Not to mention the other stupid things the comics would never allow.
The only acceptable point - besides some minor ones - that even the comics have was the initial message of the movie about man destroying the fantastic, leaving the World an emptier and more poor place; yet it was delivered in a pretty blunt way, without the subtlety of the originals.
It's not that the movie was bad (even though it contained parts that were really cheap). But if it wouldn't have been for the complimentary tickets, I think this would have been the first movie in my life that I would have walked out on, it was so un-gripping.
I'm still very grateful for the great chance to be able to see this, but I have to say that it officially never gets canonized in my Hellboy universe.