Hellboy: Director's Cut - IGNShare. Thirteen minutes of footage and a whole new disc means..? By Andy Patrizio We need more directors like Guillermo Del Toro. Not just for his work, but because of his love and support of DVD. Too many treat DVD almost as an annoyance, like they don't want to let anyone see what's going on behind the curtain of their movie. Not Del Toro. He lets the viewer in on the whole production, giving us a thorough, comprehensive DVD set as a result. Even more to his credit, he let the fans of the film know that a double- dip was coming, similar to the Lord of the Rings discs, something that studios still don't do (Gothika, anyone?). Hellboy: Director's Cut is a three- disc version of the film that adds 1. Del Toro calls his "preferred cut, by far." He says in the commentary that the theatrical cut was "perfectly good," but this cut adds some character moments and subplots that fill out the story. These include furthering the bond between Hellboy and Dr. Broom, something that the original cut was lacking, as well as fleshing out Rasputin very nicely. We see a more thorough diagnosis of Broom's condition early on (it's obviously cancer, since he's at an Oncology clinic) and there's more depth to the Hellboy/Liz relationship as well. The theatrical cut lost little by these omissions, but restoring them does flesh out the story some more. If you aren't familiar with the film, then I'm a little surprised. It was certainly hyped enough. The film is based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola, which first began in 1. The novels rapidly developed a cult following and high praise from Robert Bloch, Alan Moore, and Clive Barker for its storytelling and art. Del Toro, probably best known for directing Blade 2, is a big fan of the series and was rather slavishly devoted to it, in that the film is pretty long and drags in places. Guess he just couldn't bring himself to cut the scenes, even if they didn't work. The Hellboy Director's Cut DVD Menu. Hellboy starts in 1. Scotland, where a small troop of American soldiers and a paranormal researcher named Dr. Broom find a group of Nazis and a very healthy- looking Rasputin conducting some bizarre ritual that opens a rift into another dimension. The good guys win, but not before taking severe losses to a faceless, robotic Nazi seemingly impervious to bullets. Dr. Broom discovers a tiny red creature with horns and a tail, which he adopts. Hellboy: Director's Cut. In DVD Review. For those who are they may well have heard about 'Hellboy' and for those who aren't, well that would be understandable. This is the Director’s Cut of Hellboy. Hellboy is based on the Dark Horse Comic by Mike Mignola. During World War II, young Professor Bruttenholm and a group of U.S. Amazon.com: Hellboy (Director's Cut): John Hurt, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Selma Blair, Ron Perlman, Guillermo Del Toro, Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Mike. Hellboy: Director's Cut is a three-disc version of the film that adds 13 minutes of footage that Del Toro calls. Hellboy starts in 1944 in war-torn. Comparison between the Unrated Director's Cut and the theatrical cut (PG-13). For the DC the Unrated RC1 DVD by Columbia was on hand. The theatrical cut was. Amazon.com: Hellboy (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, John Hurt, Guillermo Del Toro: Movies & TV. Fast forward 6. 0 years. Dr. Broom (John Hurt), now quite old, is at a cancer treatment center. In the original cut, he simply got dressed and walked out the door, but with this cut, he talks to the doctors and finds out how little time he has left. He needs to find a successor to take care of his "son" Hellboy (Ron Perlman), who is now a hulking six feet tall, massively muscled and possessing a very sarcastic attitude. He also has a bad habit of breaking out of his home/cell to wander freely and see his former girlfriend. We'll always have Paris. Watch us review the director cut of the beloved sci-fi horror film, Hellboy (2004.). Und Prague. Und Warsaw.. Broom has chosen babyfaced FBI agent John Myers (Rupert Evans) to be his replacement/successor. Myers gets a tour of the place, where he meets Hellboy and Abe Sapien, a telepathic fish- man (voiced by David Hyde Pierce) who likes to eat rotten eggs and reads four books at a time. While Broom is an old man, his old enemies haven't aged a day. Ilsa (Bridget Hodson), one of the Nazis present in 1. Nazi named Kroenen (Ladislav Beran) perform a ceremony to bring back Rasputin from the other side, and the fight is back on. The movie focuses on Hellboy's battle against Samael, a demonic dog summoned by Rasputin that splits into two copies and is reborn every time he's killed. For character development, we see his attempts to reconcile with former flame Liz (Selma Blair). Despite being red, sporting a tail and horns (which he has filed down), Hellboy wants to be a regular guy. Uh oh, Sauron's spotted us. Liz, however, can't control the fact that she creates fires when she loses control of her emotions, nor can she accept this ability. She is the weakest link in the film, as Blair really has no presence to offer the film, except for two very effective words: "hit me." While they didn't cut some of the stuff that I felt slowed the movie down, the new scenes add more Hellboy himself, which does wonders for beefing up his presence. Like really good seasoning, it makes the story better. Score: 9 out of 1. Ack! Sunblock! Sunblock! The Video Presented in 1. Hellboy sports the same transfer as the original release, which is very good but falls just shy of being great. There are some fantastic sets, and Del Toro always likes to take his movies underground into some strange catacombs. All of these are reproduced beautifully with some very nice detail. Due to some of the lighting filters, fine facial detail suffers a little. Even more annoying is the loss of detail in background images. For instance, while in Broom's library, the foreground actors look fine, but the books that line the shelves have almost a smeared look. Mostly that's a minor infraction. Detail overall is good, and color levels are excellent. Black levels are solid, whites are free of noise and the many reds (like Hellboy) are free of dot crawl or blooming. There's no real strobing of note during action sequences, so despite the mayhem in places, you don't see a lot of blurring. Overall, a very good effort. Score: 8 out of 1.
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