Hellboy II

[daddytodd]

If the Guillermo del Toro who directed "El laberinto del fauno" shows up to direct "The Hobbit," it promises to be a great movie. If the del Toro who wrote and directed "Hellboy II" shows up in new Zealand, then all bets are off.

Comments

[deafguy.livejournal.com]

He's directing The Hobbit? Whatever happened to Peter Jackson?

I, for once, enjoyed Hellboy 2. Was it spectacular? Not really. But it was a solid flick that I felt was better than the original. Had more plot than I expected. There was no subtitles, but I could still follow it, although I don't know where Hellboy and his friends were walking to in the end. The costume and the scenery design was amazing, and I was entertained and never had to check my watch. To me, that's enough to say the movie was worth it.

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

Different strokes, and all that. I was bored bored BORED by it. I kept waiting for something I could care about to happen. Turns out all 3 of us were bored; we would've left if anyone had broached the subject.

The Nature Elemental, or whatever it was, was beautiful and cool, but didn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of the movie.

PJ is producing and co-writing the 2 Hobbit movies (with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, who wrote LoTR), but del Toro is slated to direct.

[deafguy.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* I understand your opinions. No harm done :)

But why blame Guillermo del Toro for your boredom? Wouldn't it make more sense to blame the writers for the boring script? I probably don't know enough about how movies are made, but I thought the director was in charge of the filming style? (i.e., the costumes/scenery choices and the way it was filmed) Would he actually have any influence over the script? Sure, he could suggest/embellish changes here and there, but it doesn't make sense to me that the director could make a script boring unless he actually wrote it?

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

del Toro was credited with "screenplay" and co-credited with "story." That means he worked up the plot with another guy (Mike Mingola, creator/writer of the Hellboy comic) and then wrote the actual script himself. So yeah, he gets the blame ;-)

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

Of course, I might've been bored because I knew I was missing the Sunday afternoon repeat of the Kathy Griffin episode where you can see a fleeting image of my profile as I stand in the lobby of the Castro Theatre with about a thousand other Bears...

...a fleeting image of my profile...

[stoutpilsner.livejournal.com]

I thought that was you. I was like 'Ooooh sexy Daddy... OMG was that Todd?' heheh. Too quick to tell if you were loopy from the flu though.

Re: ...a fleeting image of my profile...

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

I was, I promise you!