Hellboy

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Watched With: Paul

A little Hellboy marathon to end the day. I'm greatly anticipating the new cut of Mimic. This one I think you can see in the script the hesitance to fully embrace the fantastic. Human characters are the antagonists (albeit with the powers of gods of chaos. And Nazis.) and although the character of John Myers give an unsuspecting audience a gateway to the world he's a very underdeveloped character that has no other purpose. It's no wonder in the next instalment he's practically erased and the fantasy world takes over, which ends up making for a much more enjoyable film.

That's not to say this film isn't enjoyable. I think it's very successful in setting up the world, it's not as funny or charming as the sequel but the action is still fun, the creatures and effects are pretty great. And you can definitely see how much H.P. Lovecraft's writing influenced Guillermo del Toro.

The whole romance stuff seems to forced to me though. I like that Kroenen dude though. He's neat.