I do have to admit I was very skeptical of Joe Johnston, but I agree. Looks like he's doing great! I didnt know he was attached to direct Captain America, I'm really happy to hear that news.
I think we have a great shot of this being the best werewolf film to date aswell.
As soon as the trailer ended, I kinda wondered the samething. If this film does well, I wonder where will they take the sequels? It'll be interesting too see.
With the way Johnston has made this film look and feel, a new Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man would give me a coronary. I'd die with a smile on my face right there in the movie theater.
I have never obsessed over a movie trailer like I have with this one. I'm embarrassed. I have been studying it frame by frame all day long and it just looks so great and perfect...I can't get over it.
They seem to have taken it so seriously and also taken a risk with a Wolf Man look that could have been laughed at. But he looks incredible and vicious.
I hate to say this, because I have watched every werewolf movie ever made, but this trailer alone blows away every entire werewolf movie I have ever seen.
American Werewolf in London is great. But the werewolf didn't impress me. His face looked great but the body was awful and they barely showed him. The howl was the scariest howl I'd ever heard. It's a great movie but it wasn't the definitive werewolf movie for me.
I liked a couple of the Howling movies, but again, just not there yet.
Wolf wasn't entirely bad, the fight at the end was kind of cool, but the wolf men themselves were just ok. Not there yet.
Curse of the Werewolf, is one of my all time faves. It almost feels like this new Wolf Man movie is secretly honoring that movie as well. "Curse of the Werewolf" is a wonderful and epic werewolf journey. But still weak in many spots.
Dog Soldiers is just entirely over-rated. Did nothing for me. Just a few good scenes overall. Not the best werewolf movie at all.
The Underworld movies were good, not great, and the although the werewolves looked pretty cool, the movies didn't make them interesting enough.
Wolf Man 1941, which started my craze, is a beautiful movie, but even it has many weak spots and cheesy acting scenes. Yes, it was the time, but the constant reciting of the werewolf poem by everyone always bothered me.
Love the Paul Naschy werewolf movies, but they really are horrible dumb movies. I think I just loved Naschy's funny obsession more than anything.
These are all just my opinions, so please, no one get mad at me!
I am pretty partial to the classics. I personally prefer the Wolf Man as opposed to the Werewolf, if that makes any sense. I just like the "non-snout" wolf man, with the torn clothes, running and leaping and growling etc.
This new WOLF MAN movie is a total dream come true. An absolute GEM.
It is exactly what I was hoping for. My God, that shot of him jumping from roof to roof over London. Hiding and London Bridge in the back ground. Leaping onto the gargoyle and howling. The transformations look painful and real. When he's strapped to the chair and he lashes his tongue out and you see that subtle movement of his throat. When he leaps out of the dirt pit.
(BTW, Anyone notice the deer/buck in the background?)
There is something so unabashedly honest about it all.
So blatant and classic.
Everything about this movie screams perfection. That's why I am feeling like just the trailer alone blows all the others away.
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