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erin_broadley

erin_broadley

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

JUL 11, 2008 06:00 AM

Guillermo del Toro has gone from a renegade visionary working within the studio system to an A-list director in the last year. His Oscar winning Pan's Labyrinth elevated him above "the director of Blade II" and now his job of helming two Hobbit movies puts him in charge of the most coveted franchise in all of Hollywood.



His big budget sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, reflects more of del Toro's own style than conventional comic book imagery. This time, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and...

AmnSpecial

AmnSpecial

Italy
May 2007

JUL 11, 2008 07:18 AM

decent interview but I guess nobody noticed that the first Hellboy movie was f'n terrible!

NathanialBlood

NathanialBlood

United Kingdom
August 2006

JUL 11, 2008 07:54 AM

Guillermo del Toro noticed he was saying sorry for the first half of the interview when he talked about changing the style surreal

erin_broadley

erin_broadley

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

JUL 11, 2008 09:57 AM

Ron Perlman is a badass. Curious to see how he'll factor into The Hobbit?

Morfina

Morfina

HOPEFUL

Ecuador

JUL 11, 2008 10:47 AM

i love hellboy's animated movies with ron perlman's voice love
hellboy 2 looks amazing

formerviking

formerviking

Denver, PA
May 2006

JUL 11, 2008 12:41 PM

Going to see this tonight . But man are they shilling this to death everywhere . All week all I've seen is Pearlman in the Hellboy makeup hosting things all over my TV . But I am really looking forward to the movie .

RubberSoul

RubberSoul

Los Angeles, CA
February 2003

JUL 11, 2008 01:03 PM

Hellboy II was awful. It tried (and failed miserably) to be funny and the effects and costumes looked like they were straight outta 1975.

BlastProcessing

BlastProcessing

Knoxville, TN
OLD SKOOL

JUL 11, 2008 03:23 PM

AmnSpecial said:
decent interview but I guess nobody noticed that the first Hellboy movie was f'n terrible!



You're so wrong. The first Hellboy was great.

RubberSoul said:
Hellboy II was awful. It tried (and failed miserably) to be funny and the effects and costumes looked like they were straight outta 1975.



You're half-right, but for the wrong reasons.

xfinitex

xfinitex

East Lansing, MI
August 2005

JUL 11, 2008 04:01 PM



I really enjoyed the movie.

And this isn't really a spoiler, just a question. It names a location in the movie which is why I spoilered it.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
And am I crazy to think I saw an Elder Thing (ala At the Mountains of Madness, a project I wish GDT would confirm or deny so that I can stop praying for it) shoot out its tongue in the Troll Market and snag a little flying thingy?

Tekky

Tekky

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

JUL 12, 2008 01:29 AM

guillermo del toro is a genius.

i can't wait for the hobbit.
i can't wait for harry potter and the deathly hallows.
i can't even wait for hellboy 2!

UGH! HE'S AMAZING!

Towelly

Towelly

I'm lost
January 2007

JUL 12, 2008 01:52 AM

I thought Hellboy II was pretty good. A few quibbles here and there, but it had some dramatic tension, and I thought the brief tone shifts to comedy were great.

All in all I'm not going to rank it in the highest tier of superhero movies, but it was entertaining and a hell of a lot better than a lot of superhero movies. About as good as Blade II (which isn't an insult; it's significantly underrated as a comicbook movie), not as good as Pan's Labyrinth, and better than Hellboy.

formerviking

formerviking

Denver, PA
May 2006

JUL 12, 2008 04:40 AM

I don't know , we both enjoyed it quite a bit . I don't know that I had any problems with it . Best of all we saw it at a fairly new theater & it was in sharp focus through out . Pretty good sized crowd there too for a 10pm showing .

TheFly

TheFly

Eagle Springs, NC
November 2003

JUL 12, 2008 04:47 AM

Del Torro was right, with the first one there was a feeling of being dedicated to the comic book. Hellboy 2 definitely has his touch. I remember seeing a preview and in the first glimpse I knew it was a Del Torro movie, surprised (happily so) to find out it was Hellboy. I thoroughly enjoyed both movies liking the shift in the sequel (except... is there a reason the elves look like Blood Elves?!). Yeah, there are quibbles I could make but those are constant in all of Del Torro's work so you accept them or you don't watch his movies.

I agree with Tekky though, the man is a genius, visually and in direction. I didn't know he had The Hobbit... it should be a feast of vision and fantasy. My only concern is Del Torro getting caught within his own style, like Tim Burton has done

squee_

squee_

Grand Marais, MN
September 2004

JUL 17, 2008 09:35 PM

Great interview. I love the first Hellboy and am looking forward to seeing the second.

TigerAngel

TigerAngel

Aurora, CO
February 2005

JUL 18, 2008 07:36 AM

Tekky said:
guillermo del toro is a genius.

i can't wait for the hobbit.
i can't wait for harry potter and the deathly hallows.
i can't even wait for hellboy 2!

UGH! HE'S AMAZING!



Agreed. Completely and utterly.

Hellboy was very much like the comic and I loved it. Golden Army definitely felt more like a GDT movie. All I could think was Hellboy meets Pan's Labyrinth.

Which is totally fine, for me. I loved it. Though I didn't think the humour was as good in the second as it was in the first. Not as dry.

I will watch anything with Ron Perlman. I love that man. I just bought a life-size poster of him from Beauty and the Beast. I nearly creamed my pants when I saw it.