Bozzy’s World

I think I just had an orgasm.

George Lucas rejects his own script (a script Steven Spielberg approved of) and consequently Indiana Jones 4 has been delayed indefinitely.

Bravo, George.

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I saw Hellboy last night. I finally broke down and saw it. As I am sure you all are well aware, I am not a big comic book guy, not even a little itty bitty one either. I don’t care for them at all. But I do sometimes see the movie versions. I saw The Hulk, and of course the “man” ones, bat, super, and spider. But not the “men” ones. Yeah, I can handle a man, but not men. Okay, take that out of context, I dare you.

So, Hellboy stars Ron Perlman (who I never heard of before, but glad I do now) as the man-demon and David Hyde Peirce plays the voice but not the body of his fishman friend, Abe Sapien. Other than that, you probably won’t recognize anybody in this. Which is good, because then the focus is on what’s most important: the story.

The story is this: Nazis are bad people. They opened a portal to hell to increase their power in hopes of destroying the world and rebuilding it in a Nazi image. BUT THEN A PROFESSOR AND THE US ARMY SHOW UP AND BREAK THE PORTAL, THUS NIXING THOSE SAID PLANS!!! Then, we meet a devil boy and then we flashforward in time about 60 years and the devilboy is a devilman who fights crime! Ok, that’s enough of the story. There’s actually more to it than that, and it’s right up there with the first Michael Keaton Batman movie.

But this movie stole some scenes. For example, when Cronin was in the museum killing the guards, that was reminsicent of KILL BILL. When Liz was in the mental hospital after torching her home again, she was sitting in a chair ala THE RING. And Liz was known in the movie as a “firestarter”, guess what movie that is from. Also, the whole Nazi thing in the beginning was eerily similar to INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, even with a character Ilsa (prounced like Elsa) who had the hots for a Nazi. I have also been told that the movie has some BLADE II in it. All this can either be good or bad, depending how you look at it. Me? Good. It may be seen as unoriginal, sure, but when the story is great, you can have some similar shots for, you know, eye candy.

So whether you are a comic book fan or not, and again I am the latter, you should see this film. You will be entertained. Ron Perlman kicks ass.

I want to take the lists off the sidebar, as they’ve been up forever and it’s just boring now, but I don’t want to lose the content, so I am making an entry about it…I will explain my lists too.
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Lame. Lame. Lame. This movie has promise but it seems to care more about being funny then being an action movie…which isn’t a bad thing, it’s a good cross of Indiana Jones & Ace Ventura, but the action is too easily achieved…I mean, the whole plot of the movie is based on some artafact, yet they have no trouble finding it. It’s got wit and there’s a great cameo in the beginning, fitting how The Rock has taken his* place in the film industry.

Good popcorn movie, nothing great. Take your girl to see “Anything Else”, she won’t be bored, and you’ll have a better** chance of getting laid afterwards.

* hint: he’s running for governor now
** Not making any guarantees.