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

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Exactly - Myers point of view sort of tempered everything, and made it all more believable. I also liked him, so it bothered me to see his absence so casually dismissed in two lines of dialog. I couldn't really figure out what we humans were supposed to think - no one, neither the freaks, the fey, nor the people in this movie acted in a way that I could sympathize with.

And yep, that was the problem. Oh, so disappointing! I wanted to care, I really did...but I just couldn't.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

There was only one non-freak human I can think of anyway, and he was annoying.

I wish I could just buy a copy of the Nuada fights. *_*

[unforth.livejournal.com]

I just wish there had been more of the Nuada fights. Man, those things were so awesome. More Nuada fights, less last-of-the-forest-gods.