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The Wolfman
Johnny C:
I'm gonna see this on Sunday after my band breaks up or whatever. Should be cathartic.
E. Spaceman:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 07 Feb 2010, 17:11 ---That's pretty much the trend with modern trailers. I've seen more than one trailer in recent years which has revealed the mid- or late-film death of a significant character, for instance.
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Yeah but this was essentially an abbreviated version of the movie.
Theriandros:
Just got back from seeing it.
Dear god was that a bad choice. Del Toro seemed as flat as his monotone voice, Anthony Hopkins felt hamstrung by a bad screenplay, and the only character I actually sort of enjoyed watching was Hugo Weaving's Scotland Yard inspector.
Also, the movie needed to take a page from Batman Begins: if everyone knows your basic mythos, then by god you do it with class, style, and sheer badassery. What you do is you ramp the goddamn Batman up to the goddamn ninja Batman. You do not fast forward through 3/4ths of the movie on the basic assumption that people already know it. It keeps the tension/seriousness from building and results in the funniest moment in the movie being (at least in my theater) a man trying to commit suicide.
Granted, the ending was fun in a cheesy monster movie sort of way, but it didn't redeem the rest of the movie. Out of 10, I'd give it a 3 on a good day.
Lines:
I saw it today. It's rather bland, which is sad, because I really like Del Toro, Hopkins, Weaving, and Blunt. If they couldn't have made the plot better, then they should have made it a B movie. It's not completely terrible, it was just boring.
Meh. Shutter Island comes out next weekend and maybe that will satisfy my hunger for a decent creepy movie.
Johnny C:
Uhhhhh Hopkins was hamstrung? Maybe you've never watched a movie in your life because otherwise you could see that he was phoning it in to the point where I suspect that references to his character being distant were the result of a rewrite midway through or possibly even after his involvement in the filming was completed. Del Toro and Hugo Weaving were clearly having a blast, but this was a movie with a vengeful hate-on for its audience. It might even hate us as much as it hates its stars.
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