Better than their second album... a lot better.
Oh, Omar... you so crazy!
Masterpeice.
So... nothing really happened today. I was really sick at the beginning but now I feel great. I think it was the Pomegranate Limeade I drank. Odwalla. Good Shit. Especially when free.
Jessica Alba's pregnant, apparently. Wish it was mine.
New Hellboy II pic:
Not sure how most of you felt about the first one. The Hellboy comics are very important to me. Well, were. These days I'm as far away from comics as their film counterparts are from their original concepts. That is not to say, i've completely lost touch. I still know what's up. Still sufficiently nerdy. But, the film version of Hellboy was a hard nut to crack for me. I groan at thinking about it. They got everything right. The look, the characters, the concepts the weapons, the fun. All except the story.
I know everyone nowadays swears by Guerillmo Del Toro. I also know it's not because of anything else but Pan's Labyrinth. Don't get me wrong he's fucking fantastic and Pan's is great. But, I personally think he went too far with my beloved Hellboy. Now, I don't want to get too critical, but, Guerillmo was way off with his script for the Hellboy movie. A love story? The "date" scene? WTF?
The first movie could have been something beautiful, but Del Toro had no thought to self-edit or contemplate what he was doing. And what we got was a lush, beautiful, painstakingly beautiful, bore. It was a sad day for me indeed. Especially after I spent months convincing people they have to see it. I was flashing my trades and showing off my Hellboy resin statue. Saying "This motherfucking movie will destroy the very concept that is movies!" Alas, I had to ride home that premiere night in my girlfriend's car trying to defend a film that had completely failed me.
So, here I am. Back at square one. A new Hellboy film is coming faster than I can muster the sense to hate it. I've read the synopsis and peeped the concept art. The site is fucking great and the concept is wonderful. I'm down, no questions asked. That is until I read an article about giving Abe sapien, the best character in the series, more screen time. Holy shit! That's the best news i've heard all day! He was the best part about that fucking movie, but only in it for two minutes, maybe three. Yes! Then Guerillmo fuck face chimes in, "Yeah, and were giving him a love interest. Just like HB! Here's to fucking the fanboys for having interests and passionate connections to the soucre material." I'm paraphrasing of course. But, i'll be damned if that ain't a thorn in my side. The worst goddamn part of the movie, the one thing Guerillmo had to include. The wrench in the spokes of the lovingly crafted, mytholigical orgy that is Hellboy. My favorite comic for ages. "Hey wouldn't it be funny if Hellboy proposed, or Abe had a wacky date scenario where he's dating not one, but two ancient babylonian Deamons!" Hey, fuck you. Why even make a movie. It's not reality TV who gives a fuck if Hellboy can love? That's not his purpose as a character at all. Just grab the comic and read it with an unbiased vision, figure out what's best for the project and do it selflessly. It's not hard.
Of course I'll still see it and I have the highest hopes for my experience with it. But, I swear if that damn Tex Avery monster gun shoots out six little flags with the words "BANG" written on them I'm gonna have to walk out. And that goes for any other cute little Idea Guerillmo has in mind for these caricatures he's haphazardly created.
But, as much as i want to be pissed, everything I see from HBII looks damn cool. And I just can't fucking wait. Be ready to see my trades and Bowen statue soon kids.
This looks interesting:
http://www.joblo.com/hell-ride-pics
I foresee cinema evolving out of the Big Hollywood Melodrama and Will Ferrel Comdies to much,much more of these genre busting "B-movie" extravaganzas. At least them being the majority. It's gonna be like those scenes from Last Action Hero or the posters on the walls in the Grand Theft Auto games. These silly over the top concepts with no regard to reality or realism whatsoever. And, I couldn't be happier. I'm all about the art form of escapism. And pushing the boundaries of our concepts of reality. My dream is to see a movie that's more or less devoid of story or setups to action scenes or gore scenes or sex scenes at all. But, a film that flows seamlessly through action, sex, and violence. It's one thing to tell a story, but I know I'm not the first to acknowledge that Hollywood hardly has a good story to tell, If not just ripped from the pages of some insignificant writer's novel of the week. It's not as if they care much either. I say fuck the story! I think perhaps there's an better way, at least for these big budget genre pics. Imagine a film that's built more like a piece of music and less like a three act narrative. Think of where that could lead.
As opposed to some cookie cutter revenge tale, or jet setting spy archetype, you have an analogous, ever-shifting cast of characters, flowing, seamlessly through scenes, progressing rhythmically, with action meant to connect on a kinetic level. Gore, violence and sex scenes that are meant to tap in to our visceral curiosities. The idea of love expressed vaguely as if being swooned by the cryptic lyrics of some poet or songwriter all while not specifically holding one's hand through the experience. A subjective ,shifting, abstract action movie.
Or if that doesn't intrigue you or satisfy in any way. Just pop in your Da Vinci Code DVD and forget I said anything at all.
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