Hellboy 2: The Suckening

[solarbird]

Hellboy 2 (which I ended up going to against my better judgement) would have been a lot better if 1) the wrong people hadn't won (as so far as I know only nihilistic_kid has pointed out in review form) and 2) it wasn't a sanctimonious, depressing, hypocritical, desperately derivative pile.

Looked pretty good, though. I liked the bits with the gears. But even with that I spent about 2/3rds of the movie thinking, "I hate this movie and I want to go home now," over and over and over again.

Comments

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it was a good movie, I'm just baffled by the moral claim here.

[solarbird]

The link I described previously was clear to me, as a viewer; for you, it's not established in the slightest. If you think about the movie again accepting that link for the sake of argument, I think the moral claim will make more sense to you - at least maybe you'll understand how Nick and I are both get there.

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

Accepting it for the sake of argument, I can see it providing a reasonable motivation for Prince Nuada's behavior (although massacring his own people undermines that, somewhat), but I think that only shifts the nature of the struggle itself, from good v. evil to something more amoral. Nuada doesn't become the right side, just a side.