Off To The Great Gig In The Sky

Richard ‘Rick’ Wright,keyboard player and occasional vocalist for Pink Floyd died yesterday.
Think i’ll go and watch Live At Pompeii.

Hellboy Again

Well,we went to see it last week,just been too busy to write anything.

It’s pretty damn good,and well worth the effort of seeing on a big screen.Perlman is superb,and i was surprised at how good that guy from the dismally crap Eighties band ,Bros was.Obviously i use the term ‘band’ in the loosest possible sense and by ‘dismally’ i mean downright awful with a deep and abiding hatred at the very thought of his being.The chance of a successful transition from popstar to credible actor is not a good one,given past efforts.Having said that,under 18 inches of makeup,he is almost unrecognisable.He must have trained bloody hard for the role,so you gotta give him that.Same for Perlman,can’t be that easy dodging around film sets under a good few pounds of prosthetics and makeup at his age.

The creatures are little short of awesome,i think i read somewhere there were less than half a dozen creatures in the first Hellboy film,in this one there are loads,each quite distinctive and some really spectacular and original.Everything is just so much more scaled up compared to the first film.Although i still think the first one is the better movie.