So many cliche's!
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rams_lakers — 16 years ago(May 25, 2009 07:17 PM)
How about the most tired and overused cliche: the young sidekick. Does every movie that comes out these days require a young sidekick so the 12 year olds have something to relate to? Even when I was 12 I thought young sidekicks were lame.
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rams_lakers — 16 years ago(June 21, 2009 05:32 PM)
He kept tagging along and shouting "Wait", reminding me of an overzealous and annoying teenager. Other than having to endure that wannabe sidekick, I liked the film.
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Hyper-Music — 16 years ago(July 11, 2009 10:04 AM)
not seen the film for a while but from the top of my head the plot was roughly,
Rasputin is commisiond to work for hitler in his ocult projects department
Based on ancient scrolls(or something) rasputin's aim is to open a portal(in scotland) and awaken the seven mythical gods of chaos, but is stoped before compleating his task
A young british agent warns that even though the portal was only briefly open something may have come through, something did a strange red little creature with horns and oversized arm that looks as though its made from stone,
the british agent adopts the little creature as his son, who has with affection been named HellBoy.(stop me before i trip all over these cliches)
about fifty years later little hell boy still with all the tenasity and sprint of a man in his twentys is an agent of The BPRD along with his adoptive farther and friend Abe sapien they cover up (along with other agents) any thing of magicle or supernatural origin, and arive at the scene in a garbige truck..
..meanwile
Rasputin (like his real live counterpart) is not that easily killed an has other ideas
and some people want to moan about a few moments of cliche wich havent actually been mentiond or justified beyond just saying there where some? -
puirt-a-beul — 16 years ago(August 09, 2009 04:37 AM)
I get the impression that most of the people on this thread complaining about "clichs" have no bloody idea what the word actually means.
"Clich" is where the same idea has been used over and over again, to the point where it's lost any emotional or dramatic resonance. An unsurprising turn of the plot isn't a clich; it's just uninventive.
If you're going to use a concept to criticise a movie, you really should find out what that concept actually means, don't you think?
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deadglen — 15 years ago(May 10, 2010 07:30 PM)
you say clich i say classic
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God-of-Gamblers — 15 years ago(July 29, 2010 06:15 PM)
"you say clich i say classic"
exactly! Like the cigar thing. So 80ies and that's a good thing, considering today's action films usually can't compare in the slightest to 80ies action films! This film was original, anyone who's talking about clich be better able to name some so far nobody in this thread has been able to -
rr-alcaraz — 15 years ago(October 28, 2010 02:04 AM)
all movies are all cliche.each of film produce especially this contemporary times has "done that,seen that"part cause this world is a cliche itself.common!!
we better appreciate the hard work of filmmakers,esp.movies like this.hellboy is far from trashy movies that is widely produce so lets keep the faith so that there will be a lot of fun movies come our way -
Dream_Demon — 15 years ago(November 12, 2010 08:39 AM)
You do know that this movie is based on a comic that uses cliches as well, i.e. Nazis using occultism, Hellboy fighting fellow monsters despite being a monster himself, several of the cliches already mentioned for this movie, and so on. In fact, the only thing truly cliche about this movie was the love story between Hellboy and Liz Sherman, with Hellboy perceiving Myers as a rival. In the comics, Liz and Hellboy weren't love interests. I did like Myers though despite being a young sidekick.
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MrRazorz — 15 years ago(March 14, 2011 11:05 PM)
You're talking about a movie based on a comic that took many of its cues from old pulp serials, "weird" horror stories in the mould of Algernon Blackwood or HP Lovecraft, and of course many, many folktales and legends.
If it didn't contain a few howling cliches, it wouldn't be Hellboy.