>Tries it's best to translate the source material to film while changing just enough to make it unique >Succeeds in most every way, making a unique world with interesting characters and an interesting plot >Then decides to make the center focus for a good chunk of the movie the most generic 'new guy' FBI agent that is literally only there to be be someone the audience can 'relate' to >Something the original source material never needed
Like, they literally got rid of him in the sequel because that was ALL he was meant to do. Like, what did they think people going into a movie called "Hellboy" with his picture as the fucking main focus on all promotional material, thought they were getting into?
I know it wasn't exactly an age where comic book movies were doing fantastic, but still.
It gives Hellboy's relationship with his Father and Liz a different point of view. He's honestly not that bad since he gave him someone to bounce off of at the very least.
Jack King
I know he ages differently but it's still creepy.
Blake Ross
>hellboy 3 never ever It hurts every time
Wyatt Myers
Ill give you the relationships getting a different point of view, but there are better ways to get it across. As for him having someone to bounce off of, I don't know. I feel like we got alot *less* of Hellboy doing that. Him and Abe was probably some of the most fun interactions.
Also, him with the kid on the roof , short as if was, was just great. The fucking best, and I suppose it was worth having him just for that.
But with ..it was John, right? Can't really remember much of them, and I just saw it recently. I just feel like he could have been given a much smaller role and he would have been just as effective. Or make him..well, more interesting at least.
Michael Wright
You haven't heard what it was going to be about have you? I'm glad it will never happen
Charles Wright
Wasn't there talk of a reboot of sorts? Thought with such little talk, either it was a myth or sounds awful
Tyler Wright
It's already filming with the guy from Stranger Things
Juan Jackson
W-what was it gonna be about?
Caleb Adams
Shit, really? I mean..alright?
I'm not sure what to think of that casting choice.
Camden Richardson
>Wasn't there talk of a reboot of sorts? Yes
Ayden Cruz
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Easton Brooks
He looks almost exactly like Ron but with a more "mechanical"-looking right hand.
Xavier Long
He was just an audience surrogate. Most mediums of entertainment have them when the people making it think the world and concepts of the work will be tough to sell to an audience. It's the reason why GITS has Togusa and why Doctor Who has a human travel with The Doctor. Some surrogate-type characters are better than others.
Carson Thomas
Well fuck me, that looks alright. Guess I was hoping for a bit more of an..inhuman look? But thats great.
Landon Fisher
How'd Del Taco get away with making an Abe Sapien movie not related to Hellboy?
Jeremiah Rodriguez
it took some liberties with how Hellboy had to be hidden from the public and his relation with Liz but the interaction between the characters was captured very well. And I guess they chose seth macfarlane because he was famous at the time but he's a pretty sheite Krauss. youtube.com/watch?v=-MbGTQbzou8
Cooper Lopez
I remember I saw the trailer and thought the same thing
Jaxson Barnes
>>Then decides to make the center focus for a good chunk of the movie the most generic 'new guy' FBI agent that is literally only there to be be someone the audience can 'relate' to
This is done more often in movies than other media I believe mainly due to needing to move faster, you on'y have two hours to work it all out and having someone there you can just explain shit to (and the audience) moves much quicker.
Comics and books can "slow boil" this kind of thing and introduce idea in the background or whatever over several chapters.
It's a difference in the medium.
Xavier Gray
I like this page.
Adam Carter
>we will never get a comfy movie about the gang just going on wacky adventures and having a good time
Ayden Sullivan
The Hellboy movies are pretty cool but just about every change they made was inferior to the comics by a ridiculous degree. Like why make Hellboy work in the shadows and give him a shoe-horned relationship with Liz? I get Mignola wanted the movies to be different from the comics but shit like this felt like corporate mandates in order to make the movies more "mainstream" for a general audience rather than a creative decision. It really ended up detracting from his character.
Eli Rogers
>changing just enough to make it unique You've obviously never read Hellboy if you think the manchild characterization of Hellboy and the quirky scientist character of Abe Sapien are "just enough to make it unique". Then we have the Liz/Hellboy romance and the entire change of setting in that the BPRD is secret and Hellboy not an honorary human but a hidden shame. Fuck you casual.
Colton Jones
trips for truth, the movie was watcheble but overall worse than the source material I dont exactly have high hopes for the remake but at least there wont be a song number in the paranormal movie
Noah Phillips
He claims that it isn't, he is notorious for using the same ideas twice. Look at the reapers from Blade 2, they act and look almost exactly like the strigoi from The Strain.
Ryan Phillips
To be fair the 'guy audience can relate to' character was added because the studio refused to do the movie without him. Del Taco felt the character was completely unnecessary, so he dropped him from the sequel as the studio gave him more freedom with that one.