“This is such a great series that is worth reading straight through. Why hasn’t this made a great movie yet?
The three (live action) Hellboy movies are okay. Well, two are. I haven’t seen the newest one. Not for any particular reason, it just didn’t happen for me. I don’t even mind the recasting. Ron Perlman was awesome, although it felt like cheating. All they had to do was sunburn the guy and bam, he’s Hellboy.
I don’t really care about the Hellboy movies because we have the comics. And the comics are great. Maybe Hellboy is meant to be a comic, and the ability to translate something to film doesn’t mean a whole lot. Plenty of good books have been turned into terrible movies, and sometimes I think it’s because the book was the fully realized version of the story. It didn’t need the movie to jump in because the definitive version already existed in the form of a book.
But what the hell do I know? I’m the idiot who dropped his water bottle, caught it against his body, and in doing so hit himself HARD in the nuts. “