This might just cover Storm/Fury arcs from the comics and I hope we get the awesome metal handing over of the sword.
Their actor choice is so spot on.
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I'm currently working my way through the Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3, which (according to the back cover), is where the story for this movie is adapted from.
In fact, first hearing about this movie is what made me realized I had never (for some unknowable reason) read any Hellboy comics. That has now been, and continues to be, rectified.
I'm still waiting to see if the dragon blows up Big Ben...
It is getting savaged in reviews
So was the dragon as I understand it...
I dunno, Velvet Buzzsaw was pretty lame...
Awful. Simply awful.
Violence was overtooled for the R-rating, plot was a complete mess, dialogue was choppy, way too many info-dump monologues and flashbacks. There were some fun moments in it (the giant fight) but across the board it was just incredibly choppy.
Wish they'd made the third Ron Perlman film.
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I think everyone wishes they had made a third Ron Perlman/Del Toro Hellboy.
Won't lie... the line delivery in the trailers steered me well away from it.
Sounded too juvenile, too histrionic... Hellboy at his best has always had a sort of combination of exasperation (which this one certainly seems to have) and world-weariness (which was absent from what the marketing geeks showed us).
Moreover... not sure Hellboy was crying out for an R-rating when the comics actually elide a lot of the most horrible stuff, and where the fact that Hellboy's verbiage usually maxes out as a resigned, "ah crud" or an angry "screw you!" is part of his charm...
I have read the final issues and well.....