# I'm sorry, I just can't take you seriously when you look like that. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-i-just-cant-take-you-seriously-when-you-look-like-that/433673 "2008-01-15T23:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-i-just-cant-take-you-seriously-when-you-look-like-that/433673/1 "2008-01-15T23:41:56Z")
The front page of imdb is currently graced by a poster for the upcoming Hellboy 2. I gather that Hellboy is supposed to be at least somewhat intimidating, and not for comic relief. I also gather that those round flat spots on the front of his head are supposed to be the remnants of horns. However. I look at that picture, and with the combination of the paint and texture they’ve put on the prosthetics, it really looks more like they’ve glued a couple of plastic toy hamburger patties to his head instead. Picture referenced [here](http://www.cinemablend.com/gallery/previews/Hellboy-II-The-Golden-Army-2313.html?tid=14157) . Any other costume/makeup choices in film or TV that ruined the credibility of a character for you? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-i-just-cant-take-you-seriously-when-you-look-like-that/433673/2 "2008-01-15T23:54:46Z")
I remember the first _Mission: Impossible_ had, at the beginning of the movie, a character that was supposed to be a Senator but looked like Tom Cruise in Old Man makeup. Later, we discover that it was Master of Disguise Tom Cruise impersonating the senator–but it never looked like anything but Tom Cruise in the first place! All the subsequent “transformations” were CGI-generated, so it struck me as curious that they would try to establish our hero’s skill by trying to pass off something so transparently unconvincing. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-i-just-cant-take-you-seriously-when-you-look-like-that/433673/3 "2008-01-15T23:59:06Z")
Quite a few years ago, I tuned in to the premiere of the TV show **Beauty and the Beast**. Linda Hamilton was talking with the Beast. It looked like they were trying to make it look like she had been cut on the face. She wore the stupid black line that looked like it has been drawn on her with magic marker; it looked less realistic a scar than Groucho Marx’s greasepaint eyebrows looked like eyebrows. I turned it off and never watched again (what actually clinched it was that I had seen the Cocteau **[Beauty and the Beast]]([Great but Forgotten: La Belle et la bete](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2007/12/la-belle-et-la-bte.html))** a few days earlier; anything else pales in comparison) ---
**Author:** ![Sockmunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Sockmunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sockmunkey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-i-just-cant-take-you-seriously-when-you-look-like-that/433673/4 "2008-01-16T03:40:33Z")
[QUOTE=Ro Carter] The front page of imdb is currently graced by a poster for the upcoming Hellboy 2. I gather that Hellboy is supposed to be at least somewhat intimidating, and not for comic relief. I also gather that those round flat spots on the front of his head are supposed to be the remnants of horns. However. I look at that picture, and with the combination of the paint and texture they’ve put on the prosthetics, it really looks more like they’ve glued a couple of plastic toy hamburger patties to his head instead. Picture referenced [here](http://www.cinemablend.com/gallery/previews/Hellboy-II-The-Golden-Army-2313.html?tid=14157) . Any other costume/makeup choices in film or TV that ruined the credibility of a character for you? [/QUOTE] Yeah, they shouldn’t have painted the horn stubs that glossy red that perfectly matched his skin. They should have been a flat, pale, yellowish-brown with a thin transparent red tint to them.