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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Premiered Dec 6, 2019 ^^
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Hell boy's design is awesome in the originals, it conveys the fact that he clearly isn't human biologically, but he still acts and does human things, it also matches perfectly with his personality of being tough, but also somewhat casual. All without going full-on uncanny valley.
The reboot, on the other hand, makes him look like a raging alcoholic who crawled into a red wine factory and came out covered in said alcohol and with two giant corks stuck in his head.
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Del Toro, despite being known as a horror director, tends to add a lot of levity to his films to not make them traumatizing or edgy. His films at their very best acknowledge the beauty of the grotesque without getting edgy or violent. Hellboy did this very well. The character in the original two films had the mentality of a teenager and only acted tough as a means of masking his real feelings. He could also be snarky but with redeemable traits too, like his love for kittens.
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As a beginner reader of the comics, and having watched the first movie recently while the second one a long time ago, what I love about Hellboy is that he's "lame cool".
Like, his backstory is geniunely cool, and so are his powers and design, but whenever he chooses to quip or try to sound badass, it comes out as lame or goofy, and I fucking adore that. It makes him sound more human and loveable. He also doesn't curse much for being... you know..., which is refreshing.
2019 Hellboy, on the other hand, is basically the opposite. No hate to Harbor or anything, it was the script's fault tbh
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So many problems with this movie are due to the fact that they picked pieces from the comics without completely adapting them to be cohesive or comprehensive.
A small example is the flashback scene with Gruagach impersonating baby Alice, he escapes by the chimney because in the comics, the family lives in a very rustic home in the countryside. So they changed the setting but kept the chimney escape, regardless that it didn't make sense anymore.
Also, the BPRD isn't trying to hide Hellboy in the comics because he's well known by the general public, enough so that he's been granted honorary human status by the UN but you'd have no way of knowing this if you hadn't read the comics, which is another fail considering the larger audience who might watch this movie are more likely to be familiar with Hellboy only through the Del Toro movies...
Hellboy is also much more mild mannered in the comics and there's very little expletives and gore in them... Anyway, I don't want to make an exhaustive list. This is already long enough and I'm not saying anything new...
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@bloodyneptune
3 years ago
It somehow kills me more knowing that amazing Make A Wish Thing is what inspired Del Toro's almost-third-movie. Because I mean, a 62 year old man spending hours in a makeup chair becoming a demon to meet a Make A Wish kid is something that should cause a movie to be made.
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