Wolfman-The Offical Thread

[CHEZ]

I guarantee you this right now, one review, whether in a paper or online, that praises this movie will use the phrase, "this Wolfman has nards."

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Hilarious! We've gotta keep an eye out for that!

 

[TheBatman072]

God I so want to see this ****ing movie.

 

[CHEZ]

Here's a fun spoiler free review (You have to scroll down a little, it's in the center): http://www.vmusic.com.au/#/Explore/Reviews/628/The Wolfman

 

[CrimsonMist]

Here's a fun spoiler free review (You have to scroll down a little, it's in the center): http://www.vmusic.com.au/#/Explore/Reviews/628/The Wolfman

"All these throwbacks to the past are what make The Wolfman such a breath of fresh air, but also what will have a considerable percentage of the audience – hoping to see the latest in crappy teenage-horror with “cool” visual effects – pounding their fists in anger."


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[CHEZ]

^ Ha!

 

[cryptic name]

Here's a fun spoiler free review (You have to scroll down a little, it's in the center): http://www.vmusic.com.au/#/Explore/Reviews/628/The Wolfman

really liked the reviews on rotten tomatoes, i'm even more excited for this flick than i already was.

 

[CrimsonMist]

^ Ha!

That's exactly what i want to hear. I like my fair share of dopey, gore-infested horror films (Lucio Fulci never fails to make me smile), but I'm always more interested in the horror film that has a sense of class; the kind that uses atmosphere and tension, camera angles, great framing and great lighting in such a way that it scares the hell out of you before anything even happens.

I'm hoping The Wolfman lives up to that. I feel myself reverting to my 7 year old self again. This is a different kind of fan-boy excitement. I can get excited over Watchmen or The Dark Knight. I've been a Batman fan since I was little, but the Universal Horror films and the Hammer films feel so much more integral to who I am than Batman ever will. I can't really explain it accurately.

 

[CHEZ]

That's exactly what i want to hear. I like my fair share of dopey, gore-infested horror films (Lucio Fulci never fails to make me smile), but I'm always more interested in the horror film that has a sense of class; the kind that uses atmosphere and tension, camera angles, great framing and great lighting in such a way that it scares the hell out of you before anything even happens.

I'm hoping The Wolfman lives up to that. I feel myself reverting to my 7 year old self again. This is a different kind of fan-boy excitement. I can get excited over Watchmen or The Dark Knight. I've been a Batman fan since I was little, but the Universal Horror films and the Hammer films feel so much more integral to who I am than Batman ever will. I can't really explain it accurately.

I think you explained it perfectly, and we're on the same page. I grew up crazy about superheroes, but there was something about the Wolfman and even Curse of the Werewolf that stood out in my mind and heart as child.
I had a Wolfman mask at 6 years old and would run around the neighborhood chasing my friends. It was fun being the Wolfman.
There was something simple about the original Wolfman movie that made the character endearing and somehow that has stayed with me all my life. These trailers and clips we're seeing lately seem to capture that same endearing feeling once again. I had the action figures and the Wolfman always seemed like an action figure. And these new trailers make him seem once again like an action figure. He's simple. I see him leaping from roof to roof and I remember acting like that with the mask on jumping from sofa to sofa.
Or playing with my Wolfman action figure and making him leap around.
Now we are actually seeing a live action movie with a great looking Wolfman doing all those things we imagined as children.
Just like kids do with the towel as a cape.
We've always hoped all these years to see the perfect superhero movie, but there has always been something a little off about them. It was never exactly like we imagined. Now, even though we have yet to see the Wolfman movie, all the clips and trailers so far have been unbelievable, capturing the period, color pallette, action and monster look and movement perfectly.
It's like Joe Johnston took my Wolfman action figure and went playing on an awesome model kit of old London.
And I gotta say, it's pretty damn mind blowing...

 

[Darth Elektra]

A sense of class; the kind that uses atmosphere and tension, camera angles, great framing and great lighting in such a way that it scares the hell out of you before anything even happens.

Exactly.

 

[cryptic name]

i'm in the midst of pre-Wolfman countdown. sunday i watched Monster Squad, last night was Wolf with Jack Nicholson, tonight it was Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reed. Tomorrow it's either The Howling or American Werewolf in London, and thursday before the midnight showing, i'm thinking a double bill The Wolf Man and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
anyone else got anything similar going?

 

[TheBatman072]

i'm in the midst of pre-Wolfman countdown. sunday i watched Monster Squad, last night was Wolf with Jack Nicholson, tonight it was Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reed. Tomorrow it's either The Howling or American Werewolf in London, and thursday before the midnight showing, i'm thinking a double bill The Wolf Man and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
anyone else got anything similar going?

I'm watching a werewolf movie marathon on Valentines Day. It begins with Thr Wolfman and then I go chronologically from lon chaney jr's wolfman all the way to the most recent.

 

[cryptic name]

I'm watching a werewolf movie marathon on Valentines Day. It begins with Thr Wolfman and then I go chronologically from lon chaney jr's wolfman all the way to the most recent.

nice

 

[TheBatman072]

Don't read the New York observer review.

It's a piece of ****. Reads like a blogger that tries to be clever but fails miserably.

 

[cryptic name]

Don't read the New York observer review.

It's a piece of ****. Reads like a blogger that tries to be clever but fails miserably.

that guy's a real jackass.

 

[TheBatman072]

that guy's a real jackass.

Yep.

 

[Hush]

Spoiler

is there a scene in a zoo?

No. That may have been cool though.

With revealing as little amounts of spoilers, could you go into depth about the pacing problems?

Well as you know the Monster is only shown on a Full Moon so literally between Full Moons the movie just drags! I mean You have some interesting scenes and such but its just kinda boring. I had one fellow movie-goer fall asleep next to me, to be fair though I think he was expecting more action I think. The film itself does not have ALOT of dialogue it seem, which could be seen as a blessing. I saw this as a drawback, the lack of exposition on the whole was rather bothersome. I hope i answered the question. The film just seems to move slowly unlike Johnstons previous films Jurassic Park III and Hidalgo repesctivley. It is shot beuatifully and the Performances by everyone except Del Toro are great so maybe it was him that slowed it up for me.

It is interesting, because he's not coming from a hard core fan perspective.
On the one hand, his review is from the general public's view, and for that, his review is pretty positive. On the other hand, we have not yet heard the review from a hard core fan, who sort of knows what to expect and what to look for.

While im not a Hardcore fan I definatley love Werewolves! So this was a good Werewolf film, to an extent. The Beasts scenes are GREAT but its every scene in between that lacks something. Its not that you WANT to see the beast again its that you KNOW your going too and it takes to long to get there at times.

All in all I think Del Toro is severly miscast and that hurts rather helps the film.

 

[WarBlade]

I had higher expectations for this movie. Still, it's okay.

If you like jump scares...

Built on a foundation of jump scares.

And more jump scares. Well, you get the idea.

 

[Compi716]

Don't read the New York observer review.

It's a piece of ****. Reads like a blogger that tries to be clever but fails miserably.

Their reviews are always terrible.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

3/5 From Totalfilm, pretty positive in the review as well, it just seems the movies flaws stop it from being a great movie:

Here is the link to the review: http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/the-wolfman

 

[terry78]

3/5 From Totalfilm, pretty positive in the review as well, it just seems the movies flaws stop it from being a great movie:

Here is the link to the review: http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/the-wolfman

Exactly how deep did they want it? It's the ****ing wolfman. If they went the Ang Lee Hulk route, they'd say it was too cerebral and talky.

 

[Bad Superman]

I'm watching it tommorow after gym.

 

[Citizen_Steve]

I'm just looking forward to seeing a werewolf movie that doesn't involve Taylor Lautner!

Hoping this movie is good enough to be placed next to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...the unofficial third installment of a sort-of trilogy for me.

 

[Bad Superman]

I'm just looking forward to seeing a werewolf movie that doesn't involve Taylor Lautner!

Hoping this movie is good enough to be placed next to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...the unofficial third installment of a sort-of trilogy for me.

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Welcome to the Hype!

 

[Citizen_Steve]

Thanks!

 

[CHEZ]

Emily Blunt Wolfman featurette: http://www.hulu.com/watch/126727/mov...unt-featurette