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Lenard (726 KP) rated Hellboy (2019) in Movies

Aug 26, 2019

Hellboy (2019)

2019 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

5.8

(88 Ratings)

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Here we go again. Yet another reboot of a popular movie series surgically removing the charm of the original actors and director. Guillermo Del Toro is a truly visionary director who turns monsters into romantically tragic figures, like a underworld Heathcliff or a mutated Rochester. To review, Hellboy was raised from the bowels of Hell toward the end of World War II by Nazi supporter Grigor Rasputin to turn the tide for the Axis. A squandron of Allied forces closed the portal before more "monsters" could come through, but Professor Broom, a paranormal investigator, adopted the baby Hellboy and raised him to protect the world from other forces of evil. Humans do not trust Hellboy since he was created by Evil and the supernatural beasts cannot trust him because fights for Good. Cast aside, Hellboy must prove himself as a immortal sorceress rebuilds her empire on Earth with Hellboy as the key.

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A History of the East Coast Main Line

Robin K. Jones

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Since the mid-nineteenth century the East Coast Main Line has been one of the major routes from...

A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing

Anna Thomasson

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The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Girls in Books

Jul 25, 2017

The Girls

Emma Cline | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

6.1

(17 Ratings)

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The fragility of youth under guise of a cult

A very descriptive and interesting concept tackling the effects of being a vulnerable child being manipulated by a cult. While it describes how all young people are fragile and are desperate to find a place in the world, the author seems to lack somewhere, and the narrative seems slightly disjointed.

There isn't much of an explanation for the adult Evelyn and it leaves a massive hole between the young and older versions of the main character.

There is also a lack of character build up of the members of the cult, and it does not explain what happened to the Manson-like cult leader in the end. Overall, a little long for a plot with too many questions but a great idea.