"The Wolfman" Review
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The Cinema Snob: "The Wolfman" Review
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It's hard to watch some of the parts of this movie because of the light flashes. Usually used for the flashback; I just had to look away AND close my eyes. -_-
And the *dramatic music-then-BAM* effect was used one too many times. :\
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I wasn't familiar with Joe Johnston by name either, but I looked him up and after The Rocketeer he did October Sky
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I had to pause the video at the 4:43 mark to let it load, and I ended up getting a still of Brad that's gonna stay with me for days. XD
As for the movie, I might give it a rental. I too love Hugo Weaving and hearing that he steals the movie is music to my ears.
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i hate to go off topic like that but does anybody know a good online shop in europe that seels evil dead shirts like that? i love it!
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Have you tried K-Mart?
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Congratulations, you are an idiot!
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I only know S-Mart
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I wasn't familiar with Joe Johnston by name either, but I looked him up and after The Rocketeer he did October Sky, which I thought was great. Jurassic Park III though, eh. But anyway, you've convinced me to check out The Wolfman once it's a rental, it sounds pretty...alright.
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I love at 5:50ish when the cat shadow just sort of appears in on the blinds, I was really hoping he would jump out and attack you.
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Here is a new movie idea for ya...
"Shadow of the Werecat"
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Respectfully, I disagree with Brad here, I think this new "Wolfman" broke a lot of new ground. Whereas the 40s movie was restrained by the social sensibilities of its age, this movie is allowed to go full-tilt with the violence and the themes of dangerously repressed sexuality (Oedipus complex ALL over this movie).
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Exactly what I thought. The movie, as it seems, doesn't bring nothing new to the Werewolf lore. It's interesting to see another werewolf movie and the gore, as I understand, is plentiful but the movie isn't genre defying. I'd prefer to see Monster Squad or Wolf ( Jack Nicholson would of made an awesome Wolverine) or even Bad Moon that had an awesome looking werewolf. As I understand the movie was in development hell because they had to make allot of last minute changes like the Director.
On the bright side maybe Joe Johnston's Captain America will be awesome since he did a pretty good job with The Rocketeer.
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I think thet there's not enouch werewolf movies... EVEN the shitty ones! I can name good Werewolf movies on my crippled four fingered hand. (Mind you good werewolf movie has to have at least one TF scene) and J. Nickolson Werewolf movie is my criped thumb. (it's there cus it's a good movie but it's not a werewolf movie.)
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The Wolfman looked rather pointless from the start. There is simply no greater point to it. No arch.
Again... Great British action/horror/comedy with werewolfs: Dog Soldiers (2002). Very good threading through a very simple story and it works great. It's very close to Evil Dead 2 or Shawn of the Dead but with werewolfs instead of demon zombies.
It proves that you don't need crap load of money, nor famous actors for a good horror film. Just a decent story (care about your characters!), good pacing and some creative imagination. Unfortunately, Wolfman goes heavy on names and visualls but lacks in the other departments.
And why can't they make a 90 minutes film anymore even when they don't have enough story for 2 and change hours!
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hahah, trying to out hugo weaving himself' that was pretty funny and i did think that when watching it myself. if you want a really good site to use for streaming tv shows you should try ninjavideo.net, its pretty damn good for all sorts of tv show, but not for films, if you want a really good site for streaming new and old movies try quicksilverscreen.com's forums or alluc.org for both tv and films.
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Pretty much summed up what I was expecting from the movie so looks like it'll have to wait for rental.
Also, nice cameo by your cat.
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This movie sucked. Its another one of those "seen one you seen them all" types of movie. This should have been an epic groundbreaking movie. Werewolf movies need something epic. Groundbreaking is AWIL, but its not epic.
I just really pissed off, that Werewolves are my favorite, and it gets shit on so many times.
Who rents movies anymore? All you have to do is wait 2-3 weeks after dvd release and the single disc version is 5 bucks or less at walmart. Granted some might not want a crummy movie in their collection, but I sure in the hell dont want a movie that was touched with by a jizzed covered hand by me.
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I'm still waiting for some Werewolf movie to bring something new to the table. I mean Zombie-Movies had those fast-zombies and handcamera, vampire movies had Daybreakers and the whole romantic-schtick, where's the new and improved Werewolf movie?
Hands down "Dog Soldiers" is my favourite so far. Except for that one I saw once late at night on tv, where they exchanged a werewolfs skin with metal in a science-lab and had to kill it in the end with a rocket-launcher. Damn I wish I'd remembered the name of that movie...and I googled fpr it a lot! Anyone know what movie I mean?
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Haha, I can't believe this. Encouraged by my post I started googling and goddamnit, I found it! It was called "Project: Metalbeast" - Now all I hope for is a decent release! Thanks very much for reminding me of this
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Well, yeah, I guess "fast zombies" and handcamera are certainly new, but they're also complete garbage. And the "romantic" vampire has been around for hundreds of years, and is HARDLY the best thing about the subgenre these days. Honestly, these myths endure because of the constancy of the tropes, not because of originality.
The move you saw was "Project Metalwolf", btw.
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Well, yeah, I guess "fast zombies" and handcamera are certainly new, but they're also complete garbage. And the "romantic" vampire has been around for going on two hundred years, and is HARDLY the best thing about the subgenre these days. Honestly, these myths endure because of the constancy of the tropes, not because of originality.
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I never said that these variations were any good
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Well yeah, nearly every werewolf movie is the same werewolf movie, with the exception of "Dog Soldiers", "The Howling", and I guess the "Underworld" movies, although those don't really count since they're not horror movies but just action movies that happen to have werewolves.
Genearlly, the only variation is execution, and what you want to use werewolfism as a metaphor for. This being technically a remake, it's even less original than others, although as mentioned before, I liked how it had the freedom to do and say things that latter-day werewolf movies clearly wanted to, but couldn't.
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Saw this movie yesterday. I thought it was not perticularly good, it was so overdrawn with jumpscares and cheesy stuff.
The funniest part was the torture scene at the asylum, with the big mechanical wheels and winch operated by the clished evil/stupid assistant.
I was the only one laughing at that scene though.
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The Wolfman is easily one of the best Hammer Horror films never made.
I'm trying to recall, but didn't we go to a later showing of the movie due to the fact that we couldn't make ourselves stop watching the t.v. show you were alluding to?
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Great review, Brad. I probably won't see The Wolfman in theaters, but I might really want to see this movie if you can answer one question: do any of the wolfmen in the movie get kicked in the nards, especially by a dumpy boy named Horace? Actually, fuck it, I'll just go watch Monster Squad instead.
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I have a coworker that actually worships Joe Johnston... but he also thinks a big screen remake of the C.O.P.S. cartoon would be the greatest movie ever made.
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I love Joe Johnston!(kidding, kidding). I did love this movie though. Not sure why I seem to be the only one.
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What? You didn't like "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? Come on.
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While I agree the film isn't brilliant, I have to admit that I believe the film is far better than it is being given credit your, as I argue in my review at my blog. Blunt's character is at the center of the film's whole Oedipus themes, and her lack of presences is kind of the point: these are men driven by the absence of the original mother figure/wife. The introduction of the substitute figure triggers the events of the film, and the whole sending her away makes a psychological sense in the avoiding the feeling of loss again.
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Right, the conflict is basically three men (although of course Benicio's brother's role is clearly minimal in the movie itself) vying for the prize of one woman, but none of the three are actually interested in or addressing the woman herself, only her role as an analogue for another character.
Her absence is thematically appropriate, since as far as the male characters are concerned she's not really there even when she is, she's just filling in for someone else.
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That is a much, MUCH better way of putting it than I did. Well done!
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Del Toro was seriously miscasted for this movie
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There's also a TV movie called Full Eclipse (1993) with Mario Van Peebles, Patsy Kensit and Bruce Payne, directed by Anthony Hickox (Waxwork). It wasn't very good (strong start, lame middle, stupid finish) but it has a few interesting ideas (like blood of the werewolf as a drug).
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I thought October Sky was a great film.
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The real wolfman;
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I saw that movie yesterday and it has parts that's good (makeup/transformations) and parts that's ridiculous (characters/story), but I agree about Hugo Weaving because he's usually great in any role he's in whether he's Smith, Elrond, or V!
Hey Brad, I would like to point out that the correct title of the Hammer werewolf film with Oliver Reed you were thinking of is CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF! It's ok at first, but it might be a tad better than this movie.
Lastly, I feel this movie ode a lot more to AWIL rather than the original Wolf Man down to the London chase. It has its own odd balance that makes AWIL hold up better.
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You do a great Hugo Weaving. He did steal this film. He plays the same character that Johnny Depp played in From Hell.
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Finally saw this.
Er, it is not very good. Bad CGI, ye- olde-worlde attempts to appear classy and Anthony Hopkins looks Santa from The Santa Clause movies!
Also it was another one of those under-lit everything blacker than everything else films. So it was more a case of Werewolf, where wolf, there wolf.
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http://blip.tv/file/3808834
Personally, I really liked the film... sure it is flawed but it is way too much fun if you let your brain slip a bit and go with the mad, goofiness that is being thrown on the screen. Click on teh link to hear my review, you will see what I mean.
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I tried watching it as a spiritual companion to Bram Stoker's Dracula...it felt like a shameless carbon copy. It actually felt like a cobbled together wolfman made from other movies...
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Hey Brad, that was a pretty good Michael J. Fox impression
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This fantastic wtf was up with this movie.I never heard of George Lazenby but it looked like he would've been a great James Bond to carry on the mantle of Sean Connery but because of the smoke in those times he didn't make a good decisions. I mean damn I think the whole crew was high in that movie.
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