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Hello out there intertubes!  It is time yet again for a film review.  I saw Pan's Labrynth and Black Snake Moan but that's not what this is about. I'm not ready to attack those two movies.  Actually, I don't think that I'm equipped or really allowed to say anything about Black Snake Moan.  So you'll hear more about new movies as I see them.  Don't you worry.  Not that I'm a movie authority.  Most critics would fill this space with their credentials.  I like movies and I took Script Analysis in college.  That's about it.  This is an excuse for me to cram my favorite films down your throat. 
Enjoy.
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Hellboy
Written by Mike Mignola   Directed by Guillermo Del Toro



This is one of my favorite movies of all time.  Granted, I will watch any comic book movie that ever comes out unto the end of days.  Hellboy is a brilliant tale that I connect to on a lot of levels.  Especially the "Stuck on the outside" aspect of Hellboy's character.

The basic background on the tale is that the government was lying to you, Hitler and the Nazi movement actually died in the mid fifties not 1945.  We follow a bunch of Nazi scientists who follow a famous occultist (in real life, read a history book) named Rasputin. They try to open a portal to "Hell" to bring a bunch of demon-gods to take over the world.  They are thwarted by the Allies but not before a little demon pops through.  A british occult researcher adopts the baby and names him Hellboy.  Hellboy grows up to be humanity's last defense against the monsters in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.

The film is a great blend of the supernatural and the real stuff we hear about every day.  Point in case: Hellboy is a demon (supernatural) who carries a gun (real). I like that aspect because it makes the supernatural seem more real.  Hellboy is primarily a tale that tells us that what makes a man is not his origins but the choices he makes.  Every person has the potential to be a good person or a monster. Most of us try our best.  It's a heartening message.  The other thing I like which I heard in the Director/Writer commentary is that we like people for their good points but we love people despite and perhaps because of their flaws.  The love story in this film is surprisingly touching for a superhero movie.  Ron Perlman is a relative unknown and is great along with a great supporting cast.

See it.

Steven