They do make them like they used to.

Sometimes I think we never do anything as well as we used to. Not that I was alive to see what we used to do! I’m talking here about music and other forms of entertainment. It’s like Raul Duke’s comment from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in reference to the sixties…

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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

I’ve lost count of the number of comic book adaptions that have popped up in the last few years, but barring The Dark Knight, Hellboy 2 is the one I’ve been waiting for.

I loved Ron Perlman as Hellboy and del Toro’s directing, not to mention his take on Mignola’s world of nutcase Nazis and and Lovecraftian monsters. From the trailer it was quite plain to see that Hellboy 2 would be bigger – at least visually and character-wise, but I was a little worried that the CGI-factor would swallow up everything else.

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