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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #50 on: 15 Feb 2010, 11:51 »
Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 15 Feb 2010, 07:16
This movie was awesome but it coulda used a couple more decapitations, probably.

I'm praying that you were trying to be ironic and/or sarcastic.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #51 on: 15 Feb 2010, 12:04 »
I'm looking forward to Shutter Island.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #52 on: 15 Feb 2010, 12:32 »
I'm also looking forward to Shutter Island. The book was a fun read.

But then, I also didn't hate everything about The Wolfman.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #53 on: 15 Feb 2010, 12:48 »
Quote from: Johnny C on 15 Feb 2010, 11:30
Hopkins owes you a tax receipt, I think.

Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 15 Feb 2010, 07:16
This movie was awesome but it coulda used a couple more decapitations, probably.

The violence was smeared on like cheap margarine to kind of make the burnt-toast plot easier to swallow. Just like the rest of the film it mostly seemed like an excuse to throw money at an effects budget.

Well, yeah, but what were you expecting? If you went looking for an in depth meditation on the differences between man and beast, or a wonderful character piece from Del Toro and Hopkins, I can see why you were disappointed.

I went hoping to see a CGI werewolf tear people into little pieces, some people talk with british accents, and while I wish the wolf had looked less like the buffy style gorilla wolf man, I was almost 100% satisfied. People got fucking eaten.

It was awesome.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #54 on: 15 Feb 2010, 14:00 »
I'd have to agree. All things considered, it really wasn't that gory. It's a movie about werewolves! I wanted more blood and body parts and crazy "I'm going to hunt you down and rip you to shreds" scenes. Actually I thought Hopkins scolding Del Toro after his first night was kind of funny. I wish they'd added more things like that in there to keep it from being bland.

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I heard someone goes missing in it.

Someone does go missing! From a mental hospital that looks really creepy! On an island! That's all I know. It seems spooky. I have not met my spooky quota this month. I wanted to meet it yesterday, seeing as how it has become tradition to watch spooky movies on v-day, but that didn't happen.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #55 on: 16 Feb 2010, 08:14 »
The director didn't get why things are scary, everything was profoundly ugly, none of the violence was remotely sensical (as revenge, the doctor gets... impaledon a fence? why did that even happen). Come on, dude. I had reasonable expectations - namely that the filmmaking would display basic competence.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #56 on: 16 Feb 2010, 09:44 »
Wolfman makes me think that England was painted in grayscale and that monster violence looks like live-action cartoons.

As for the fence thing: That just seemed like a gratuitous side effect ('cause anyone who mocks the monster has to die) of being thrown out the window in an ironic echo of the pre-transformation line from the doctor about flying out the window.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #57 on: 16 Feb 2010, 10:55 »
Also people getting impaled on fences is raaaad
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #58 on: 16 Feb 2010, 11:26 »
Too bad he didn't get cut in half by said fence... sigh.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #59 on: 16 Feb 2010, 11:29 »
I don't think physics would allow that.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #60 on: 16 Feb 2010, 11:38 »
Not at that height, no. But it's a movie, who needs physics.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #61 on: 16 Feb 2010, 11:49 »
Yeah, granted, the transformation into the wolfman pretty much ignores conservation of mass.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #62 on: 16 Feb 2010, 16:32 »
Quote from: Theriandros on 16 Feb 2010, 09:44
Wolfman makes me think that England was painted in grayscale and that monster violence looks like live-action cartoons.

As for the fence thing: That just seemed like a gratuitous side effect ('cause anyone who mocks the monster has to die) of being thrown out the window in an ironic echo of the pre-transformation line from the doctor about flying out the window.

the doctor was the one person who should have been totally eviscerated by the wolfman. also why did that one guy get run over by a steam car. also look there was just a lot of pointless stuff.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #63 on: 16 Feb 2010, 17:44 »
Johnny do you not like bad horror movies?

It's so funny when B movies try to be A movies. It's really cute!
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #64 on: 16 Feb 2010, 17:56 »
yeah but this is just a dumb A movie.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #65 on: 16 Feb 2010, 21:11 »
Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 16 Feb 2010, 17:44
Johnny do you not like bad horror movies?

Kieffer I literally watched a bad horror movie last night, my bros and I crushed some beers and watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, which is in the "so bad it's good/so bad it's Lynchian" camp. This movie was just bad - like I said, the special effects (mostly in terms of the giddy, cartoonish violence) were good, but that's because the money was spent on them instead of a decent script, decent cinematography, decent editing, rehearsals...

I mean, there were some parts I enjoyed (FUCKIN WEREWOLF FIGHT MAN I MEAN SHIT GODDAMN) but every time there was a shot of a gypsy and the score suddenly burst into goddamn gypsy fiddles I fucking winced, you know?
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #66 on: 17 Feb 2010, 08:07 »
Yeah I mean I totally understand I just really like gypsy fiddles I guess and also gypsies in general
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #67 on: 17 Feb 2010, 09:00 »
If we're talking about bad horror movies, everyone who has not seen The Toxic Avenger needs to stop what they are doing and watch it right now.  That movie is seminal.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #68 on: 17 Feb 2010, 09:47 »
Toxie is more action than horror, but I guess seminal applies cuz he kinda looks like a big cummy penis.

Y'all should watch Blood Diner though real talk.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #69 on: 17 Feb 2010, 10:06 »
Yeah the ending was fun to watch, but the rest was pretty damn horrible.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #70 on: 17 Feb 2010, 10:16 »
Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 17 Feb 2010, 08:07
Yeah I mean I totally understand I just really like gypsy fiddles I guess and also gypsies in general

The movie othered the absolute fuck out of them though.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #71 on: 18 Feb 2010, 00:25 »
Oh my god did you just use "other" as a verb

Dang, dude. College.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #72 on: 18 Feb 2010, 14:17 »
what does that even mean?
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #73 on: 18 Feb 2010, 16:17 »
To exoticize, dehumanize, etc. It's a way of describing how stereotypes encourage prejudice. In this case, I assume JC means that the portrayal of gypsies in The Wolfman treated them like a quaint and roguish people rather than a legit culture on equal-footing with any other given group of people.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #74 on: 18 Feb 2010, 17:18 »
I heard Edward Said loved this shit.
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Re: The Wolfman
« Reply #75 on: 18 Feb 2010, 22:54 »
Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 17 Feb 2010, 09:47
Y'all should watch Blood Diner though real talk.

Blood Diner is seriously one of the worst pieces of trash to ever call itself a movie. And its so fucking funny, really go watch it.
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