Hellboy & Saved Trailer
Saw Hellboy this weekend with Mesh, Matty, and Rye-Dawg. April was off at a dressage competition in Murray County where she won 3rd place. So props to her.
While she was off earning equestrian laurels I was enjoying the on-screen comic translation stylings of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy, based on the comic by Mike Mignola of the same name. I thought the movie was great. It was well-paced, well directed, and Ron Perlman as Hellboy was a stroke of genius. I could watch him kick the crap out of demons, nazis, aliens, demon-nazis, demon-aliens, and nazi-aliens all day. So, this is the Josiah two thumbs up and I encourage all y'all to get out there and see it 'cause I desperately want there to be a sequel.
Also, go read Mignola's comics. I've read most of them now. Barnes and Noble's has a fairly decent collection of most of them in book form.
Also, here is the Saved movie trailer for download. I have to admit I doubt their humorous take on fundamentalist Christianity wont go too far into some pansy conception of God at the end, but hey, I went to a Christian high school and if there's an earthly approximation of hell it wasn't far from it.
Thankfully the film lays most of the blame on the teachers and parents, which in my mind are the biggest perpetrators of BS crap at both the fundy & evangelically vacuous highschools I attended.
Do I sound bitter? Compound the hell that high school is anywhere with self-righteous Christianity & the upper-middle class of middle America and you can start to get a picture of what my highschool experience was like. Nothing like being told you're a heretic and going to hell when you're 14 for being a Calvinist. I didn't even know what Calvanism meant at the time, other than these folks are telling me most of the folks I love are on their way to a crispy eternity.
I was getting tracts and asking to "get saved" up until the day I left. In chapel once they did an altar call and a request to "re-dedicate your life to Jesus." Every head bowed, every eye closed, waiting for every hand to be raised. It went on for an hour longer than usual until they realized I wasn't going to raise mine. I had no idea anything was wrong, or even that I was supposed to raise my hand. I just thought it was bizarred I was at a school where everyone had just gotten saved.
Thank the Lord for Covenant College.
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 12:09 PM
Comments
Josiah,
Wow....I went to FLC website and got this website from the alumni newsletter. Not sure if this how to contact you, but would love to catch up on old times from back in the day!
Posted by: Christine at April 5, 2004 01:05 PM
Josiah. I have been wanting to see that movie so bad. I knew it was going to be good. Its good to hear you say so. I think Del Toro did a great job with Blade II as well. With the exception of a few cheasy CGI shots, I think Blade II is one of the most exceptional comic book movies to date. Wish I could have been there.
Posted by: Todd Willison at April 5, 2004 03:15 PM
sorry about that
Posted by: Todd Willison at April 5, 2004 03:16 PM
Great movie. I saw it with Zach, Spoon, Jared, Mark Murray and a guy from 1st Belz Friday night. Definitely edged out Spiderman for second place on my favorite comic book movies list. Number one is still Xmen 2.
Posted by: steele at April 5, 2004 04:57 PM
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