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Hellboy II

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Rumour is that Hellboy II is being produced as we speak... little do they know that I happen to have a copy of it sitting on my coffee table at home, courtesy of a trip Kirsten's mom took to Hong Kong...

I still haven't seen it, because I wanted to watch Hellboy I first, so as not to lose any of the story. :)

Update: OH. MY. GOD. It turned out to be a movie called Skinned Deep, which is quite possibly the worst movie ever to stain celluloid. It's bereft of plot or action, and is quite possibly the least scary horror movie I've ever seen (and I sat through Coven).

If you see this movie, throw holy water on it, stab the video clerk, and burn down the store, then burn your clothing and bathe yourself in lye. It's just that bad.

Posted by Darren James Harkness on Thursday, January 13, 2005 03:14 PM
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>> Iambe » Friday, January 14, 2005 08:27 AM

But...is it worse than:

Fist of Fear - Touch Of Death?

Hellboy, you'll enjoy it. Also considering having that torrent crazy lass of yours bring down the actual comics. They are quite good.

>> Darren » Friday, January 14, 2005 09:05 AM

Fist of Fear Touch of Death is a cinematic masterpiece in comparison.

I have seen HellBoy one and a half times now, and enjoyed it both times (the first time we went to see it was at the dollar theatre, where the projector broke halfway through).

I actually need a good source for comic torrents; a friend of mine knows one, but it's closed to new members. :P

It also features Warwick Davis, who you may know better as professor Flitwick or Willow. Kirsten and I theorize that Warwick picked up a heroin habit during the filming of Willow (he was working with Lucas after all), and has been feeding it with these kinds of movies ever since.

>> Oorgo » Friday, January 14, 2005 10:24 AM

What about the movie "Kickboxer", is it worse than that?

>> Darren » Friday, January 14, 2005 10:43 AM

Let me put it this way:

Warwick Davis plays "Plates", a dwarf with an unhealthy obsession with - you guessed it - plates. He kills people by throwing plates at (or most often, nowhere near) them, and has a 2 minute soliloquy about porcelain.

Another character, played by some unknown actor, is named "Brain". Go figure, he has a huge, completely unbelievable, external brain for a head (and when I say huge, I mean 2-3 feet wide). When the "heroine" kills him, a bunch of wooden blocks come out, crawl across the floor, and spell out L-O-V-E. She steps on them and grinds them into the ground until they spell H-A-T-E.

But it doesn't get really bad until the geriatric biker gang shows up for a rumble (I honest-to-god wish I was making this up) and "Plates" takes on "Shakes" (my god, the sheer writing brilliance of this movie astounds me)


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