Movie: Hellboy
Jul. 21st, 2008 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaDecided to rent the first one before seeing the second, the previews for which had intrigued us.
How did we miss this before? It was great fun! Imagine Lovecraft-style demon-monsters fighting a contemporary-style sarcastic-snarky superhero, with a wild over-the-top backstory, creepy human villains, all kinds of bizarre religious references (how often does Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite - whom I quoted in my dissertation - figure in a comic-book movie?!!!!). Clearly it has destroyed my ability to construct coherent syntax.
And the DVD came with three episodes of Gerald McBoing-Boing (you can see it playing on a TV at some point during the movie) and an animated version of Telltale Heart, all of which we greatly enjoyed as well!
How did we miss this before? It was great fun! Imagine Lovecraft-style demon-monsters fighting a contemporary-style sarcastic-snarky superhero, with a wild over-the-top backstory, creepy human villains, all kinds of bizarre religious references (how often does Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite - whom I quoted in my dissertation - figure in a comic-book movie?!!!!). Clearly it has destroyed my ability to construct coherent syntax.
And the DVD came with three episodes of Gerald McBoing-Boing (you can see it playing on a TV at some point during the movie) and an animated version of Telltale Heart, all of which we greatly enjoyed as well!
