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A Review of THE WOLFMAN, by me, El Foggy
Is this a wolf in need of a doggy treat or does it need to be put to sleep?
The Wolfman is a remake, but not like the recent Friday the 13th or upcoming Nightmare on Elm Street unnecessary remake. The Wolfman needed a remake, the original came out back in 1941, that's nearly 70 years ago. This iconic horror icon was in dire need of updating, sadly I don't feel as if this film does it justice.
The story is the foundation of the problems, it's about a man who's brother is brutally slaughtered by a something, so he comes out to find out what happens, but it finds him before he can find it. It's simple, and easy to follow yes, but within the first 5 mins I worked out who the baddy is and within the first 20 mins I knew how it was going to end. It doesn't help the fact that the villain is almost winking and nudging you throughout the film. When you watch it, tell me if you work out who the villain is and how fast you work it out.
The characters in the story aren't as interesting either, they very monotonic and one dimensional you don't really feel for them at any point though out the film. I can't decide whether it's how they are acted out, of how they are written. What ever it is, the only stand out performance was Hugo Weaving, and he did the same as he does most movies.
I don't know why, maybe because the film was a remake of a really old horror film, but it feels the need to have every single horror cliche fly out you at every direction, the creepy house, the creepy woods, the spooky mirror, etc, etc. And also it goes on to repeat the same scary directly one after another, no reason just to make sure that you didn't miss it the first time.
Now then, your probably thinking that the film will be a serious attempt at the horror genre, but when the Wolfman appearance, shit gets stoopid, and crazy. The gore is goofy, almost comical. As you see helpless villagers get mowed apart by the Wolfman, this is very contradicting the feeling the movie tries to convey with it story. But these bits are also the only reason why it's worth watching.
When the Wolfman emerges, you forget the story, you get some fun scares and and some great gore effects. It's a lot of fun.
The Wolfman is a weak film, it a big surprise they got such great names into the movie, I've made it almost clear that I'm going to give it a rental, but, I'm not. Because if this was release last year, it would almost be certainly getting an Oscar nomination for sound editing and mixing, as the audio in this film is fantastic, so it only just worthwhile watching at the theatre, because if you watched it at home it would not have the same effect it has at a theatre. So I give it a LOW...
MATTINE
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Comment by kevin Mccoy on March 12, 2010 at 12:01am -
I agree w/Legato Blue...I left out the movie theatre thinkin' I totally waisted my money and my time! The movie was really really bad to me. And yes, everyone has their opinion but i don't see wat everyone is talkin' about. Everyone seems to be in love with Hugo Weaving's Character when dude did absolutely nothin' throughout the entire movie....You're waitin' for him to be vicious and nothin'......anthony hopkins on the other hand i feel did a WAAAAY better job!!!!! The CG was sooo bad and the kills were beyond stupid arms being ripped clean off and heads being slapped clean, this movie was boring and i don't even remember anyones name......this movie was horrible
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Comment by Superbadmike on February 13, 2010 at 12:37am
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I thougght the movie was pretty slow and the acting was prety weak. But when it finally starting picking up some pace it was prety awesome.
High Matinee
P.S Props to the makeup artists.
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Comment by Travis Pickle on February 12, 2010 at 1:00pm -
I enjoyed it! the gore was great the make-up too and the solid cast especially Hugo Weaving as Carlyle I mean the bitter drinking copper. You could feel the shadow of reshoots and it had a bit of a daft ending but the gypsy bit and the changes all worked fine for me. why was the wolf boy bald though?
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Comment by El Foggy on February 12, 2010 at 9:47am -
I do feel I was kind on the movie, But I am kind to a lot of movies. it is a weak mattine movie, as it's just about worth watching.
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Comment by Legato Blue on February 12, 2010 at 4:38am -
This is honestly Some ol' bullshit.
Yes, some of the action was surprisingly fun in a brutal sort of way, but a lot of the cg was painful to watch and the weak story killed all the characters for me. Most of the time i had only a vague idea of why a character was doing what he or she was doing and didn't care about them.
Also, SOOOOOO many bullshit jump scares. It didn't help that the grown woman next to me was screaming at every one, but when there's about 3 in the first 10 minutes, somethings wrong.
Overall, i disagree with u. U were far to kind to the movie.
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Comment by GyasKrennel on February 12, 2010 at 2:23am -
As I said with Legion: bring some friends along, it's the only way to actually enjoy this movie. The acting is flat, the scares are boring, and the plot leaves you feeling almost prescient (there were several moments where I guessed the next line before or as a character said it; not verbatim, mind you, but in the ballpark). As for sound editing, I'm sorry Foggy, I'm just not hearing it. There was either an utter lack of sound or an overwhelming cacophony. Hell, even the gore was disappointing; it just felt kind of silly at times. It is in every way average. Solidly a rental.
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Comment by SkellingJACK154 on February 11, 2010 at 8:27pm -
Atleast the werewolf in this movie wasn't a pussy like the ones in that series that we ALL hate.
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Comment by El Foggy on February 11, 2010 at 1:46pm
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I think if you're not in to werewolves I don't think you would bother watching it
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Comment by Gabriel on February 11, 2010 at 1:39pm -
Sort of along the lines of my review I gave a few months ago. I think it's a low Matinee, but if you don't like werewolves this is just a Rental.
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Comment by Palmer on February 11, 2010 at 10:28am -
Really? There's a villain? I mean I never saw the original, but I always figured it was just a film about a man who's turnng into a werewolf and is trying to fight it.
And let me guess, the villain is....Nah, too easy. I'll let Leon take this one.
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