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

[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 ;-)