Hellboy 2

[unforth]

After seeing the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and listening to what you guys wrote about it, I expected more from Hellboy 2, but the movie didn't really hold together for me. I neither liked it nor disliked it, but I kept thinking how it could have been better. The dialog was weak, though of course the special effects were awesome. The real sign that there's a problem, though, was that it left me wanting to see a different movie.

Seriously, after watching the elf jump around and be awesome? Now I really, really, really want to go see Drizzt Do'Urden in a Forgotten Realms movie.

In short? Movies shouldn't leave you wanting to see different movies. Movies shouldn't be so predictable that I see the ending coming from so early. Movies shouldn't have problems with the dialog that make me wonder what the heck the writer was thinking. And Movies shouldn't leave me sad that they weren't what I was hoping for.

I'm curious what others thought, though - if anyone wants to chat, we can fill the comments with spoilers. ;)

Comments

[bakanekotoo.livejournal.com]

I liked the movie, granted, not as much as the first, but I still managed to like it. I liked the jokes better in the first movie than the second, some of the jokes in the movie were really lame, and the scene where they were singing that Barry Manilow song, which was funny for like the first few seconds, felt like it was dragging on. And the elf prince was kinda annoying. All his jumping around and stuff felt a little over the top :-P The movie was REALLY pretty though :-)

[unforth.livejournal.com]

The thing that annoyed me about the Barry Manilow scene was that it was so stinkin' obvious from very early on that the Princess was gonna die, and how she was gonna die, and I never enjoy seeing the agony of characters I like stretched out as that scene did. The jokes were lame, too, I totally agree - another dimension of the overall problems I had with the script. The sequence of events was fine and interesting, but the actual dialog was stilted and unnatural.

I liked the elf, though. :)