"Hellboy", which was born 15 years ago, is one of Gilmour del Toro's representative works of his love for monsters: as a typical Gilmour del Toro movie, "Hellboy" Its sequel is meticulous in the design of monsters, while the style achieves a clever balance between weirdness and fairy tales.
Although (like most Gilmour del Toro movies) failed to achieve box office success, "Hellboy" quickly gained a place in the comic film world with its unique artistic style. Today, when Marvel-style entertainment dominates the world, this kind of blossoming phenomenon is quite rare.
But for the dark horse comics who are eager to change the big cake, the artistic achievements are not satisfactory to the capital. In 2013, "Underworld Police" invested 130 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was less than 80 million U.S. dollars, almost lost. And the smaller 19th edition of "Hellboy", after throwing away the image soul given to it by Gilmour del Toro, the final rate of return will not be much better.
In 2004, "Hellboy" and its sequel, gave the ideal pairing of director and star: the visual style of Gilmour del Toro, composed of Lang Pullman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones, A combination of different and complementary iron triangles. The 19th version of the soft restart, which was taken over by horror film and TV drama director Neil Marshall, turned into a mess, nothing more than a clumsy and empty imitation of comics. The purposeless and unrestrained blood and gore, more thoroughly exposed the key to the film's extreme lack of creativity.
Putting aside the extremely chaotic behind-the-scenes situation comparable to "Fantastic Four 2015", the 19th edition of "Hellboy" is another excellent example of stumbling on the road to restart. The former expects to provide differentiated comics through the shift of the tone, and the result is a superhero movie with the darkest and darkest in history, with the fewest special effects shots, and the worst content; the latter expects to provide differentiation through the shift of tone. The result is a chaotic and nonsensical narrative behind R-rated bloody violence and vulgarity, and it turns out to be the worst superhero movie since 2015. However, to a certain extent, the 19th edition of "Hellboy" can be regarded as another well-known dung work that was also born in 2015. The famous bald actor, starring Fan Diesel, is another part of "The Last Wizard Hunter". Avatar. In terms of screenwriting composition, the screenwriter team of "The Last Witch Hunter" presented "War of Gods: Eyes of Power" and "Power Rangers", and the screenwriter Andrew Cosby of the 19th edition of "Hellboy" was not far behind. On the professional resume that can be counted with just one hand, I wrote the first feature film of this severely malnourished and dysfunctional film. A large number of flashbacks and side plots that have nothing to do with the main story make the movie become extraordinarily bloated visually while keeping the plot thin.
And Neil Marshall, the director who filmed "Dark Invasion", is not far behind. The valuable experience brought by "Game of Thrones" has brought several spectacular action scenes to the 19th edition of "Hellboy", but apart from that, it cannot bring any change to the absurd script, nor can it. The film provides enough dramatic conflict and tension. When the blood plasma and internal organs flying all over the sky are more common than the suspenseful plot, how can the plasma and internal organs bring impact? In this case, the movie can't create miracles in character creation. Although David Hubble of "Stranger Things" has dedicated a just right tendon, he can't make any effective exploration in a bad story. The only actor who can improve the visibility of the performance is Ian McCorshaw, just like Michael Cain in "The Last Wizard Hunter", compared with the former's similar roles in "Speed Attack", in a bad movie Standing out among the crowd is not a remarkable achievement.
In many cases, the adult classification represented by "R-rated" does not mean that movies are more mature in topic selection and performance, nor does it mean that R-rated movies cannot be serious. As far as comic movies are concerned, the former has "Deadpool" and the latter has "Wolverine 3". The core problem facing the 19th edition of "Hellboy" is precisely because the R-level classification is not for content and characters, but for inferior and cheap sensory stimulation.
Whether it is a director or a producer, adding so much blood to such a movie does not make the movie more interesting, and the plain expressiveness and incoherent story will not help.
As in previous years, 2019 will also be a year of polarization between blockbuster and quasi blockbusters. The only value of the 19th edition of "Hellboy" is that Gilmour del Toro's first shot into Hollywood is even more outstanding.
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