CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:53 pm**

What do you think of the new comic-turn-movie feature, and its title and religious factors? The official site is http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/hellboy/site/index_flash.html

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:26 pm**

i think it look spretty good but I havn't done much researching on what it is exactly. Was a preview before LOTR: ROTK.

What's it bout?

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:24 pm**

I plan on catching this in theaters. Basic idea....(this is from memory of the comics) The Nazis open the gates of hell at the end of WW2...the Americans rush in...kill the Nazis and close the gate...but not before the devils son sneaks through...time passes, and the kid grows up into a demon devil thing...but helps mankind...I think...Someone can correct me if I am in left field.

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:32 pm**

So a non-funny version of Little Nicky (or, rather, Little Nicky is a funny parody of this?)

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:55 pm**

Kinda I guess...I will post a review after I catch it in theaters.

PostPosted: **Thu Mar 04, 2004 5:48 pm**

Saw the trailer for it tonight (didn't have my headphones on, only saw the visuals)... looked interesting (literal reaction, "cool") thought it definately isn't a "Biblical" movie

PostPosted: **Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:45 pm**

*sarcasm* the Devil as a superHero? blasphemy!!!!!! *end sarcasm*

here's my two cents on this idea...

what if the devil's son joined the "light side"?

PostPosted: **Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:47 pm**

Thats the point of the movie I think....Hellboy helps the "good guys" I think..

PostPosted: **Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:57 am**

If anyone hasn't seen the preview for it I got a link. Oh I think it looks pretty cool.http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hellboy/index_trailer1.html

PostPosted: **Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:03 pm**

I know Suncoast (correct me if I'm wrong here Shatterheart) was giving away preview dvds for it when you bought anything in the store. It looked rather interesting (reminded me a bit of the Xmen movie really) and I'll probably try to catch it sometime, either in theaters or on dvd.

PostPosted: **Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:52 am**

i want to see it!! i like on the preview how it shows that girl with blue fire!!
Great speacial Effects!!!

PostPosted: **Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:02 am**

Personally I thought it looked kinda stupid... I dunno I just dont think the monsters looked cool enough lol

PostPosted: **Sat Mar 27, 2004 1:50 pm**

Does it really matter weather the monsters are cool enough? :lol:

PostPosted: **Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:29 pm**

Yea I liked the Blu

PostPosted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:47 am**

IMO Leage of Extr. was the worst film of this year too.. VERY dumb..

PostPosted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:19 pm**

geeze.... can't anyone just enjoy these types of movies for what they are? Gosh.... League wasn't a bad movie.... not an award winner, and certainly isn't the greatest film, but it's still a good movies, and was fun (not boring like most of The Hulk was).

My plan is to see it Wed, or Thurs (before 5-6pm) after it's release, looks like it'll be a decent fun film.

PostPosted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:14 pm**

okayyyyy..

PostPosted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:28 pm**

madphilb wrote:geeze.... can't anyone just enjoy these types of movies for what they are? Gosh.... League wasn't a bad movie.... not an award winner, and certainly isn't the greatest film, but it's still a good movies, and was fun (not boring like most of The Hulk was).

My plan is to see it Wed, or Thurs (before 5-6pm) after it's release, looks like it'll be a decent fun film.

I enjoyed The League, it was fairly entertaining and kept my attention. When I first saw the trailer for Hellboy I thought it looked pretty stupid, but after finding out more about it, it dosn't look so bad. I'll probably see it!

PostPosted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 11:00 pm**

Movie doesn't look good imo. Special effects good, yes. But FX don't make a movie. Look at Final Fantasy Spirits Within...that was HORRIBLE, but had great graphics. It takes good story and characters to make a good film.

And yeah, Hellboy himself does look goofy.

What I'm interested to know is what the people who complain about good demons/devils in anime think about this film. There was a thread a while back with people saying it's horrible that there are demons who fight for good and whatnot. So what do they think about THIS movie and it's plot?

PostPosted: **Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:55 pm**

Orange Kitten wrote:What I'm interested to know is what the people who complain about good demons/devils in anime think about this film. There was a thread a while back with people saying it's horrible that there are demons who fight for good and whatnot. So what do they think about THIS movie and it's plot?

Do we really need to get into one of THOSE discussions? Such things will probably turn into debates that serve no real purpose.

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:49 am**

Kenchii wrote:IMO Leage of Extr. was the worst film of this year too.. VERY dumb..

How dare you say LXG was very dumb! It wasn't the best movie ever but it wasn't the worst either!

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:11 am**

Wut?!?! IMO that movie was horrible!! no plot, no sense of direction.

PostPosted: **Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:55 pm**

Ok guys, easy EASY! Comic books movies are take them or leave them...don't go shoving your opinions down other people's throats over it. Back to hellboy, 'kay?

PostPosted: **Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:07 pm**

Is it just me or does

PostPosted: **Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:00 pm**

I just came back and seen Hellboy. I thought it was a very good super-hero film, very up-to-par with 'Spiderman', and 'The Hulk'. But IMO I like Hellboy even better then LoEG. Its a great film, christanity moments towards the end of film too. Check it out!!

PostPosted: **Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:42 pm**

The reviews are in and it's getting better ones than Underworld did. Yahoo's Movie page reflects thusly:

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808404362&intl=us

Average critic review is B- (Ebert even gave it an A-, way to go Ebert!)
Average user review is B

Underworld (as I checked the other day) was something like C+ for critic and A- for user.

I'll most likely go on Wednesday or Thursday for an afternoon showing (maybe before the kiddies get out of school, hmm... wonder what the first showing is?)

Looks good, though my local paper didn't care for it that much (though it had some good points, but they thought a few things that where done they could have done more of, and that the movie overall should have been a bit shorter, but what do they know

)

PostPosted: **Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:45 pm**

I thought it was a pretty interesting movie. It was better than I thought it'd be, that's for sure.

PostPosted: **Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:21 pm**

I thought it was pretty decent, certainly better than Underworld or LXG.

PostPosted: **Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:50 pm**

I liked it a lot. And it even inspired my care group leader to writing a little devotional about "the choices we make". There are some "that is SO anime..." moments, but I like that about it. It was cool but I really couldn't see the "gods" as gods--they were at best gastropod aliens.

Heh, it even inspired more stuff for me to put in Paladin...

PostPosted: **Wed Apr 07, 2004 6:49 pm**

Saw it Tuesday night, loved it. It was about as good as I figured it would be...I felt it was head and shoulders above Hulk, and to me was even with Daredevil, Underworld, X-men, and spiderman. The only comic movie I figure will do better (I know Underworld is not a comic) is Punisher...I have waited a long time for a good Punisher movie....and have very high hopes for it. However back to the topic at hand...I thought Hellboy was very well done...not bad for content either...though I think it was pg-13. It is worth seeing in theaters thats for sure.