Cadrian |
02-19-2010 03:48 PM |
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I seen wolfman on Tuesday but never got around to posting about it.
Let me start by saying I liked it, even though it got a lot of bad reviews from critics. I think its hard to work with werewolf's, I find them easily cheesy but I thought they did a good job with it.
I have never seen the original wolfman... So I dont know how close it follows its story, but the story was something I thought of as being pretty basic, I couldn't nail it down but I felt like I had seen it all before. But their was a few throwback shots I liked... I never seen the original Wolfman but I have seen these iconic shots before.
There was alot the shots were CGI (Go Figure) and the shots of the wolfman in costume were well pretty cheesy looking in parts. Some of the parts were people got gutted I thought were not really great either but there were some scenes where I think they used real guts or did a damn good job.
Also it wasn't as Gothic as the preview let out... Truth is I went in the theater expecting something like Francis Coppola's Dracula style.
It was a mix of gothic style but still had alot of studio elements in it.
Now with me pretty much not saying anything I liked about it yet.... Let me say, it was alot more violent then I expected from the same guy who directed Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Jumanji. I really enjoyed some of the scenes between del toro and hopkins, and I kept seeing Hugo weavings as Mr. Smith but it fit considering it was still the guy hunting the main character.
With all that said... I still walked away liking it so did my date, so I think it was a win that barely pulled it off for me.
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