by canofhumdingers » Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:28 pm
Hellboy - eh... It was ok. I really have no idea as I've never read a single Hellboy comic, but it felt like it was probably pretty true to the source material. It had some interesting ideas and I think it could've been an absolutely stellar movie, but something about it just felt...lacking. I think the problem was I never felt like I got to know the characters enough to care for them. That & I never got a real sense of excitement from the action sequences. I also didn't care for the monster designs (why does it seem all Hollywood monsters these days are sleek/smooth/wet-looking things with dreadlock tentacles? Oh yeah, cause cgi still sucks at things like realistic hair and fur). But it was nice to see that some of the monsters were portrayed by men in suits. That was cool.
Yongarry - The original. I enjoyed this one. Despite the fact the it blatantly ripped off pretty much every giant monster series before it. (seriously, they practically cloned the shots of Godzilla crushing the Diet Building, Gyaos slicing a jet in two, Gamera sucking up fire, etc...). But, hey, they did get one original thing in there! Nobody in Japan had yet thought of tormenting a monster to death through rectal bleeding!