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Hellboy (2004)
much a-latex-do about nothing
I know some Hellboy-Comic books, I like Ron Perlman, so what better than to watch this movie, I thought. Well, I was wrong - after I got some hope after the opening scene somehow the story developed boring beyond belief, the Characters were more than linear, I would like to call them punctual (only highlight of the movie was the scene where hellboy observes his girlfriend and the new agent with a kid on the roof of a house, which was the only scene in the whole film that caught the spirit of the comic-books). The cast was awful (have no better word for it)- all actors seemed to have taken sleeping pills, Ron Perlman's acting was buried under ten pounds of Latex on the face (only highlight was Jeffrey Tambor, who played I think for his tenth film the same spleenish but likable character), the bad guys were even more boring than the good guys. I think the whole film suffered tremendously from a too short character introduction and development (good examples for character developing scenes are spiderman 2 and the coffee break with Ocatavius and his wife, or the scene with Magneto as a kid in the concentration camps).
To summarise: this film could have been better if someone would have taken the time to write a solid script, it isn't enough for comic-book-based films to hasten through the character introduction and background story, just to be able to show some special effects and come to a somehow wrong timed and wrong placed happy end.
so: 3 out of 10 tubs of red latex for this film
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004)
Bully's sketches don't work well as a movie
Two days ago I've seen this film, and I was disappointed. His first Film was not bad, so I expected this one also to be good, which wasn't the case- Well the Special Effects were not bad (but necessary for this kind of comedy? I doubt it- a 60's SF Setup would have been better). One of the problems of this film was the time-travel plot, where the settings changed too often (it made me feel that Bully tried desperately to tie some of his sketches together instead of making a movie with a good plot). The sketches itself were OK, but, well a movie is more than a sum of sketches, it needs a plot with a climax, it needs tension building up till the end (I'm thinking about - I't a mad mad world or Peter Sellers Film's or the better National Lampoon films), gags building up over more then the lenght of one sketch etc. etc.
Some of the Sketches (especially the one with the thermometer were VERY deplaced and not funny any more), the 100st Darth Vader persilflage (well, I've seen a dozen better ones.) The medevial setup was very OK, but because of the plot it was too short, the same case was with the western setup.
So: Summary: No money lost (had it on my blockbuster card), i would give the film 4 out of 10.