Wolfman-The Offical Thread

[Wolfman]

I didn't feel any draging. It was fairly well balanced. They do have to talk you know...

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I didn't feel any draging. It was fairly well balanced. They do have to talk you know...

I felt some scenes could've been left out or spread out. It felt like scenes were just piling on top of each other without anything happening.

 

[Wolfman]

I dunno, to me it was fine. Lawrence and Gwen got they're relationship going and all... About the dialogue, which was mostly fine, I thought there was one really corny line. When Lawrence talks to Singh and sees the silver buckshots, he asks "are you hunting monsters?" and Singh answers "sometimes monsters hunt you." Lol, what does that mean? Just trying to sound like a really spiritual and wise sikh, aren't you? Hahaha

 

[Matt Mortem]

I'm watching the original Wolfman right now to get hyped for the movie tomorrow night and I gotta say, I hope the new Wolfman is half as good as this original film. I have high hopes indeed.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I dunno, to me it was fine. Lawrence and Gwen got they're relationship going and all... About the dialogue, which was mostly fine, I thought there was one really corny line. When Lawrence talks to Singh and sees the silver buckshots, he asks "are you hunting monsters?" and Singh answers "sometimes monsters hunt you." Lol, what does that mean? Just trying to sound like a really spiritual and wise sikh, aren't you? Hahaha

I did enjoy the relationship between them two. Sometimes love scenes can pollute a film, I'm glad they didn't shove that down our necks. They had their scenes and it moved on.

 

[Wolfman]

Haha, yeah they're relationship was very suddle, I liked too. Ahh, and it was quite fun to see Anthony Hokins go Oliver Reed on Benicio's ass. Wait, that doesn't read right... but you know. DD

 

[Darkness Falls]

Visually the movie was fantastic, great look and a great atmosphere, the wolfman himself looked amazing
but idk, something just didn't sit right with me, i felt it was a bit too long in some parts

"sometimes monsters hunt you." lol

i didn't really buy benicio as anthony hopkins' son ethier

6.5/10

 

[deathshead2]

Terrible in about everyway possible.
-Bad acting
-Terrible framing of scenes
-Score didn't fit what was going on screen half the time
-Weird imagiry that didn't go anywhere
-poorly edited action
-bad cgi in many places
-scenes felt like they were missing something
-Bad script

In closing, yep the problems over the production of the movie, really shown through.

Also, I don't blame this one on the movie, but for some reason, my showing had tons of cigerate burns. I thought most prints were digital now, how is that possible?

I really wanted to like this, even more so that Universal is my favorite studio. All the movies they have coming out this year, just look terrible. Like, the Green Zone. Which has had about as many problems as Wolfman. Universal is about to have yet another terrible box office year.

 

[Wolfman]

Bad acting? Seriously? Bad? The music wasn't anything special, but it was in place... Oh yeah the bad cgi. The bear and the stag were obvious. And the transformation's... but other then that... The action was good, you could see what's happening. The Wolfman struck really fast. Are you really serious?

 

[redfirebird2008]

Like, the Green Zone. Which has had about as many problems as Wolfman.

Green Zone is a Greengrass/Damon project. They had similar problems with reshoots, rewrites, etc. for Bourne Ultimatum and that one turned out very well. I'm not saying Green Zone is going to turn out like Bourne did, but I am saying that we can't write it off yet.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

I really enjoyed it, i knew it wasn't going to be a masterpiece just a good update of the universal classic and i wasn't disappointed

though i'm surprised at how much of a bad mouthing it's getting

 

[TheBatman072]

Now I know why it's getting some bad reviews.

Movies like SAW have basically ruined horror films.

People don't want a good story with good, established ACTORS. They don't want emotion or a fleshing out of anything.

They want their gore and death right out in front and within the first five minutes now.

They want a simplistic to non-existent plot that gets out of the way of the screaming and murder and blood, that is gaudy and completely unnecessary.

This movie is nothing like that. Amazing actors, great story, realistic violence and blood and gore integral to the story(because it's about a ****ing werewolf).

Classic horror is dying, and The Wolfman is doing all it can to save it. But I'm thinking that people, in all their idiocy, just don't care about the classic monsters anymore.

And as a classic horror fan, a fan of TRUE monsters like vampires(that don't play baseball in the ****ing sun), werewolves(that aren't giant huskies and that can turn whenever they want), and the like, it deeply pains me to see it happening.

Horror is dying, and SAW is the casket they'll bury it in.

 

[블라스]

Now I know why it's getting some bad reviews.

Movies like SAW have basically ruined horror films.

People don't want a good story with good, established ACTORS. They don't want emotion or a fleshing out of anything.

They want their gore and death right out in front and within the first five minutes now.

They want a simplistic to non-existent plot that gets out of the way of the screaming and murder and blood, that is gaudy and completely unnecessary.

This movie is nothing like that. Amazing actors, great story, realistic violence and blood and gore integral to the story(because it's about a ****ing werewolf).

Classic horror is dying, and The Wolfman is doing all it can to save it. But I'm thinking that people, in all their idiocy, just don't care about the classic monsters anymore.

And as a classic horror fan, a fan of TRUE monsters like vampires(that don't play baseball in the ****ing sun), werewolves(that aren't giant huskies and that can turn whenever they want), and the like, it deeply pains me to see it happening.

Horror is dying, and SAW is the casket they'll bury it in.

Completely agreed, man.
I've had it with these new ADD-ridden modern audiences, particularly the SAW ones, who get incredibly offended when you tell them that their little gore-fest movies do NOT offer some kind of deep philosophical life message, which is something they somehow believe.

 

[TheBatman072]

Completely agreed, man.
I've had it with these new ADD-ridden modern audiences, particularly the SAW ones, who get incredibly offended when you tell them that their little gore-fest movies do NOT offer some kind of deep philosophical life message, which is something they somehow believe.

I know I'm putting on my black beret and heading into the coffee house with these posts, but goddammit, as a true classic horror fan and as someone who wants to go into the film industry someday hopefully...it ****ing pains me to see this.

A movie that harkens back to Universal's Monster glory days and all the stark, dark Hammer films, and honors them deeply while still updating itself and keeping everything classy really doesn't deserve a single bad word.

It's just a damn shame that classic horror movies and monsters are being looked down upon in favor of...crap like SAW and Grudge and Hostel and...dreck like that.

 

[블라스]

Yeah, believe me....I get it. But it's gonna get a lot uglier before it gets better, man....audiences get dumber every year.

A Hammer fan! You can't beat Horror of Dracula, eh? Or The Mummy? Though I still need Curse of Frankenstein. Man....my favorite Hammer movie is still Captain Kronos.

 

[TheBatman072]

Yeah, believe me....I get it. But it's gonna get a lot uglier before it gets better, man....audiences get dumber every year.

A Hammer fan! You can't beat Horror of Dracula, eh? Or The Mummy? Though I still need Curse of Frankenstein. Man....my favorite Hammer movie is still Captain Kronos.

It's been so long since I've seen them. I need to fix that.

Just recently bought ALL of Universal's classic horror movies from the 30s and 40s, now I need to buy the Hammer films.

I wonder if their are special edition DVDs out there.

 

[블라스]

The ones I have are pretty standard DVDs.
Did Hammer ever make a werewolf movie?

 

[TheBatman072]

The ones I have are pretty standard DVDs.
Did Hammer ever make a werewolf movie?

I'm looking at a list of all of them and apparently not. Which is a shame, because it probably would have been awesome.

 

[Lighthouse]

My movies on the movie are really mixed, but one thing that I was kind of floored by(besides Rick Baker's amazing make-up) was how much Del Toro looked like the spitting image of Lon Chaney. And I don't mean Lon Chaney Jr., the original actor who played the Wolfman, I'm talking about Lon Chaney Sr. The resemblance was incredible at times.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Now I know why it's getting some bad reviews.

Movies like SAW have basically ruined horror films.

People don't want a good story with good, established ACTORS. They don't want emotion or a fleshing out of anything.

They want their gore and death right out in front and within the first five minutes now.

They want a simplistic to non-existent plot that gets out of the way of the screaming and murder and blood, that is gaudy and completely unnecessary.

This movie is nothing like that. Amazing actors, great story, realistic violence and blood and gore integral to the story(because it's about a ****ing werewolf).

Classic horror is dying, and The Wolfman is doing all it can to save it. But I'm thinking that people, in all their idiocy, just don't care about the classic monsters anymore.

And as a classic horror fan, a fan of TRUE monsters like vampires(that don't play baseball in the ****ing sun), werewolves(that aren't giant huskies and that can turn whenever they want), and the like, it deeply pains me to see it happening.

Horror is dying, and SAW is the casket they'll bury it in.

Do I believe that films like Saw have ruined horror? No. Most horror films are not that great. Horror has always had it's ups and downs.
It's a rare thing for a horror film to really blow the general population away. People want good stories, it's not like someone walks into a film saying to themselves ''I want to see a film with a bad story, no emotion with terrible actors''.

Do I believe films like Saw are bad horror films? Most of them, yeah, including terrible remakes such as The Hitcher, House Of Wax, The Omen etc.

Horror will NEVER die, because a lot of the time they are cheap to make and will mostly likely make back the money.

These are just a short list of whats to hit on the horror scene this year.

Predators
Buried
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Frozen
Hatchet 2
The Thing

 

[Project862006]

I go see movies that I must see and then I decide for myself. I let critics decide what movies to see for ones that I would like to see or are iffy about but can wait. This isn't a movie that I would go to a midnight showing or stand in line for so I will let critics tell me if I should spend my money or not.

Without critics, there would be some great movies that I wasn't sure about seeing that ended up being fantastic movies. I never had any motivation to see No Country For Old Men or The Hurt Locker and critic reviews told me to go see it and damn am I glad I did...because they got stellar reviews.

So this double standard with critics is stupid. We use them all the time. If a movie is doing great, people will note the RT score or certain reviewer's opinions. If a movie isn't doing so well, suddenly critics don't count and only this or that critic's opinion matter. If you must see this movie, see it! Don't let anybody stop you. If you are iffy about a movie...then there is certainly nothing wrong with gauging other people's opinions to see if this movie is worth seeing. I personally have 2-3 critics that share my taste in movies. If they like it, then I will probably like it and vice versa.

whats wrong with go seeing movie because you think it looks good unless you think the critics view film the same way as yourself?

 

[TheBatman072]

Do I believe that films like Saw have ruined horror? No. Most horror films are not that great. Horror has always had it's ups and downs.
It's a rare thing for a horror film to really blow the general population away. People want good stories, it's not like someone walks into a film saying to themselves ''I want to see a film with a bad story, no emotion with terrible actors''.

Do I believe films like Saw are bad horror films? Most of them, yeah, including terrible remakes such as The Hitcher, House Of Wax, The Omen etc.

Horror will NEVER die, because a lot of the time they are cheap to make and will mostly likely make back the money.

These are just a short list of whats to hit on the horror scene this year.

Predators
Buried
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Frozen
Hatchet 2
The Thing

Predators isn't horror. It's sci-fi. Not even the first movie was horror.

The Thing prequel will suck. It will probably barely be horror.

I can't wait for Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Never heard of buried, frozen or Hatchet 2. Are they remakes?

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Predators isn't horror. It's sci-fi. Not even the first movie was horror.

The Thing prequel will suck. It will probably barely be horror.

I can't wait for Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Never heard of buried, frozen or Hatchet 2. Are they remakes?

They're not remakes. Hatchet was very well received in the horror circles and fans kept asking for the sequel. The people who made Hatchet also made Frozen which is doing very well.

 

[TheBatman072]

They're not remakes. Hatchet was very well received in the horror circles and fans kept asking for the sequel. The people who made Hatchet also made Frozen which is doing very well.

Hmm. Interesting.

Never heard of them though.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Hmm. Interesting.

Never heard of them though.

Check out Hatchet. It's a nice throwback to the 80's slashers.


I must ask everyone a question here. What are your favorite Werewolf films and where do you rank The Wolfman in them?


An American Werewolf In London is still my number 1 werewolf flick, with this one close behind. I also liked the original Wolfman. I pretty much hated the Underworld flicks.