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Okay, color me confused. What's the plot here except a lot of special effects of Del Toro turning into a beast? All I'm seeing is special effects – but no plot. What's the point in all this? Did Del Toro envy his brother? Was Del Toro resented by his father? Is there a curse that makes an explanation of all this? Come on, guys! What's the plot here? Special effects doesn't do it – and that's all this trailer shows me. No wonder they kept recutting it. The fools obviously kept snipping in desperate hopes they'd find one. Better start snipping again – because if this trailer is any indication, there is NO plot. And no movie can survive without one.
This film was directed by Joe Johnston and it's a shame he isn't more well-known. Sure his films were never as successful as Spielberg/Lucas/Zemeckis' stuff but he's done good work: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky…
And my first thought was, "Man, this really looks like Tim Burton's Sleep Hollow." Sure enough, after looking it up on the IMDb, Rick Heinrichs is the production designer. He also worked on, yep, Sleepy Hollow.
You´re right about Johnston. He has a certain flair for adventure stories and is often able to bring a sense of fun and wonder to it. And Jurassic Park III was at least a huge improvement over Spielberg´s own terrible sequel.
I was wondering when Hollywood would start to make werewolf movies after the success vampires have had recently. It looks to me like a Sherlock Holmes sort of setting but the costumes are cute I'll give them that much.
I'm a huge Lon Chaney fan but i think i can get over Del Toro. the effects look good. i've read about the plot. it's not terrible. I'm glad they didn't try to set it in the present. I'm encouraged.
Slurpasaur - August 21st, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Maybe, but with better special effects, and all the pro-communist twaddle.
Cool, just saved about 10 bucks after seeing the whole movie in about two minutes. Modern Hollywood, you aren't the goods very often, but kudos on this one!
Screw this trend for Vampire chic – bring on the Wolfman.
Mad Monica - August 21st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Wow. I hope this isn't one of those movies that the trailer is better than the end film. This looks GREAT. And this is comin' from a dyed in the wool anti-remake gal. I thought I was gonna barf when I saw Rob Zombie was butchering Halloween II. His version of the first Halloween sucked eggs. God only knows what II will be like.
But this one.. wow! The trailer is FABBBB!!!
Cpt. Sqweky - August 21st, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I don't care if trailers always lie. I must see this movie!
Misato - August 21st, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I say this looks fantastic. Keep the horror, omit the gratuitous sex, and we have a classic on our hands.
Nothing ruins a movie for me like a Danny Elfman score.
Forlourned - August 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 am
'The Wolfman' aint going to pull in the tweeners as that emo blood sucker does and I'm vaguely sure that there has been several sequels in the book side to pull a '~Potter' lite roll out of More movies
I saw Halloween 2 the other day. It's very brutal. Especially the first 4 minutes. It pays homage to the earlier films. (2, 4 and 5) I can't say the story is riveting but there are some elements i liked.
The basic plot is that Michael Meyers is just listening to what his mother is telling him to do. (in his head anyway) And she wants to be reunited with her youngest daughter in the afterlife.
Hmmm… A man who worships an animal playing a man who becomes an animal. Intriguing.
MIgander - August 22nd, 2009 at 3:34 am
I cannot wait to see the make-up effects Rick Baker has cooked up for this one. No one, with the possible exception of Rob Bottin, can make a werewolf like Rick Baker. Somebody hurry up and order a pina colada at Trader Vic's — A-woooo!
Bruce W. - August 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 am
I'm more excited about this movie than Avatar. Rick Baker does the make up for the Wolfman. They did practical shots for the transformation but I guess they wanted it to be CGI. My favorite Joe Johnston movie is "The Rocketeer". His next movie is Captain America:The First Avenger which comes out in 2011. That movie has Cap in WW2 which will then set up "The Avengers" movie with Iron Man, The Hulk, and Thor which is also set to be released in 2011.
Interesting. That's all for now, just interesting.
This film was directed by Joe Johnston and it's a shame he isn't more well-known. Sure his films were never as successful as Spielberg/Lucas/Zemeckis' stuff but he's done good work: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky…
And my first thought was, "Man, this really looks like Tim Burton's Sleep Hollow." Sure enough, after looking it up on the IMDb, Rick Heinrichs is the production designer. He also worked on, yep, Sleepy Hollow. Between him and Danny Elfman's score, I bet at least one critic calls this "Burton-lite."
UPDATE (in case the other comment shows up): I know he also directed Jurassic Park III. Guilty as charged, though I also blame Spielberg for initiating the project in the first place. And he still wants a fourth one!
If you notice some of the posts (about 10 down from here) it's all about the SFX. No need for plot when you have the characters explode off the screen with incredible
CGI flair. Kinda sad.
CONTRIBUTOR: Bosch Fawstin - August 22nd, 2009 at 5:33 am
10 years old, dark movie theater, 1981, American Werewolf in London. I was bitten good, and I've been on the lookout for good werewolf films since then. Looks like this could be good, with Rick Baker attached, the werewolf parts are going to look great. For the record, my friends mom took us to watch the R rated, violent film, which even had a scene in a porno theater, and she [far as I was concerned] inexplicably apologized to my parents for it. I got right to the drawing board and drew out that epic transformation scene from memory. I intend to create my comic book take on the werewolf story one day.
Believe it or not, I'm pleased to hear about the Halloween 4 references. I saw it late on cable one night when I was bored and was extraordinarily surprised at what a good B-movie it was. I suspect very few noticed, because the other sequels were dreck.
(I also hope low expectations at the time and old memories now haven't combined to make this a comment that I will regret posting after revisiting the film at some future date.)
Carolyn - August 22nd, 2009 at 6:44 am
It isn't just you. His acting IS terrible.
(And btw, nitpicking minor point, but there is NO way that Anthony Hopkins could have fathered a son who looks like Del Toro. I mean, come on. Kid must have been adopted.)
Ugh… To me it looks a little CGI-Hellish. I'm just really hoping that the movie doesn't end up with the wolf man looking like the wolfman from Van Helsing. I will say though that part at the end with the women up against the tree looked like it could be really great.
I'm still holding out on the trailer for the Creature From the Black Lagoon remake.
Lost World… don´t get me started. The wrong people were killed in the movie.
Yeah, let´s risk human lives to save a T. Rex baby which is no more intelligent than a cow. Let´s cheer the beasts as they eat dumb evil caricatures of white hunters. Let´s have the only guy in the movie who actually does someting heroic and selfless (using the SUV to pull the trailer back from the cliff) get eaten by dinosaurs because, hey, he´s fat and a smoker, unlike the smug useless rest of the cast. Let´s have an extended T-Rex rampage in San Diego in which no one gets killed and the destruction is played for laughs. Let´s feed the evil capitalist to baby T.Rex even though he probably got fewer people killed than our "heroes". My hate for that movie burns brighter than a thousand suns.
By comparison, JP III was a straight adventure with likeable characters, some humor and good dinosaur action.
Exactly! The moody, historic setting is what has me excited about this. I always said they should make more movies like that and I´m not going quibble when they do. The trailer looks really promising.
carl - August 22nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
The original Halloween series went off the rails the moment they decided Laurie was Micheal's sister. In the original she was just some random chick that announces she has no fear of the bogeyman on the bogeyman's front porch. He finds this offensive so he kills all her friends and sets them up as a haunted house display to scare the beejeezus out of her and get her into the spirit of the evening's festivities before the main event, Laurie's own murder.
The whole second half of the movie, from Micheal's point of view, is just an elaborate Halloween prank.
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and says his prayers by night
Will become a wolf
when the wolfbane blooms
and the moon is full
and bright.
Lawrence Talbert walks again!
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Okay, color me confused. What's the plot here except a lot of special effects of Del Toro turning into a beast? All I'm seeing is special effects – but no plot. What's the point in all this? Did Del Toro envy his brother? Was Del Toro resented by his father? Is there a curse that makes an explanation of all this? Come on, guys! What's the plot here? Special effects doesn't do it – and that's all this trailer shows me. No wonder they kept recutting it. The fools obviously kept snipping in desperate hopes they'd find one. Better start snipping again – because if this trailer is any indication, there is NO plot. And no movie can survive without one.
You had me at Hugo Weaving.
Interesting. That's all, just interesting.
This film was directed by Joe Johnston and it's a shame he isn't more well-known. Sure his films were never as successful as Spielberg/Lucas/Zemeckis' stuff but he's done good work: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky…
And my first thought was, "Man, this really looks like Tim Burton's Sleep Hollow." Sure enough, after looking it up on the IMDb, Rick Heinrichs is the production designer. He also worked on, yep, Sleepy Hollow.
I want to see this but it's going to be painful to watch a Che Guevera worshipper as the wolf man!
Clearly Del Toro is now stereotyped in monster roles.
Well, a WEREWOLF movie…. I know, I will see it!!!!! who cares who is in the movie or who directed it…. does look good and the FX look even better!!!!
Curiously, you left out how Joe Johnston ruined the the Jurassic Park franchise with Jurassic Park 3.
Is it just me or does Del Toro's acting look….well…..terrible?
Hideous beast, murderous rampage, Benicio Del Toro, is this a Che sequel?
You´re right about Johnston. He has a certain flair for adventure stories and is often able to bring a sense of fun and wonder to it. And Jurassic Park III was at least a huge improvement over Spielberg´s own terrible sequel.
I was wondering when Hollywood would start to make werewolf movies after the success vampires have had recently. It looks to me like a Sherlock Holmes sort of setting but the costumes are cute I'll give them that much.
You may also want to add a Gene Simmons tag since he is the "howl" behind the voice of the Wolfman. http://www.pr-inside.com/simmons-to-howl-on-film-...
I'm a huge Lon Chaney fan but i think i can get over Del Toro. the effects look good. i've read about the plot. it's not terrible. I'm glad they didn't try to set it in the present. I'm encouraged.
Maybe, but with better special effects, and all the pro-communist twaddle.
Does this mean the Vampire / Twighlight phase is over? …. Please?
That's what I was going to say. Jurassic Park III wasn't great cinema, but it was entertaining. The Lost World was just completely pathetic.
They should have gone back into the audio archives and let Warren Zevon do the howl.
Cool, just saved about 10 bucks after seeing the whole movie in about two minutes. Modern Hollywood, you aren't the goods very often, but kudos on this one!
Screw this trend for Vampire chic – bring on the Wolfman.
Wow. I hope this isn't one of those movies that the trailer is better than the end film. This looks GREAT. And this is comin' from a dyed in the wool anti-remake gal. I thought I was gonna barf when I saw Rob Zombie was butchering Halloween II. His version of the first Halloween sucked eggs. God only knows what II will be like.
But this one.. wow! The trailer is FABBBB!!!
I don't care if trailers always lie. I must see this movie!
I say this looks fantastic. Keep the horror, omit the gratuitous sex, and we have a classic on our hands.
Nothing ruins a movie for me like a Danny Elfman's score.
Nothing ruins a movie for me like a Danny Elfman score.
'The Wolfman' aint going to pull in the tweeners as that emo blood sucker does and I'm vaguely sure that there has been several sequels in the book side to pull a '~Potter' lite roll out of More movies
More CGI, zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I saw Halloween 2 the other day. It's very brutal. Especially the first 4 minutes. It pays homage to the earlier films. (2, 4 and 5) I can't say the story is riveting but there are some elements i liked.
The basic plot is that Michael Meyers is just listening to what his mother is telling him to do. (in his head anyway) And she wants to be reunited with her youngest daughter in the afterlife.
Hmmm… A man who worships an animal playing a man who becomes an animal. Intriguing.
I cannot wait to see the make-up effects Rick Baker has cooked up for this one. No one, with the possible exception of Rob Bottin, can make a werewolf like Rick Baker. Somebody hurry up and order a pina colada at Trader Vic's — A-woooo!
I'm more excited about this movie than Avatar. Rick Baker does the make up for the Wolfman. They did practical shots for the transformation but I guess they wanted it to be CGI. My favorite Joe Johnston movie is "The Rocketeer". His next movie is Captain America:The First Avenger which comes out in 2011. That movie has Cap in WW2 which will then set up "The Avengers" movie with Iron Man, The Hulk, and Thor which is also set to be released in 2011.
I see a trend here, Che and now the Wolfman. Both were inhuman creatures who enjoyed ripping apart society and destroying the innocent.
Interesting. That's all for now, just interesting.
This film was directed by Joe Johnston and it's a shame he isn't more well-known. Sure his films were never as successful as Spielberg/Lucas/Zemeckis' stuff but he's done good work: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky…
And my first thought was, "Man, this really looks like Tim Burton's Sleep Hollow." Sure enough, after looking it up on the IMDb, Rick Heinrichs is the production designer. He also worked on, yep, Sleepy Hollow.
Between him and Danny Elfman's score, I bet at least one critic calls this "Burton-lite."
UPDATE (in case the other comment shows up): I know he also directed Jurassic Park III. Guilty as charged, though I also blame Spielberg for initiating the project in the first place. And he still wants a fourth one!
If you notice some of the posts (about 10 down from here) it's all about the SFX. No need for plot when you have the characters explode off the screen with incredible
CGI flair. Kinda sad.
10 years old, dark movie theater, 1981, American Werewolf in London. I was bitten good, and I've been on the lookout for good werewolf films since then. Looks like this could be good, with Rick Baker attached, the werewolf parts are going to look great. For the record, my friends mom took us to watch the R rated, violent film, which even had a scene in a porno theater, and she [far as I was concerned] inexplicably apologized to my parents for it. I got right to the drawing board and drew out that epic transformation scene from memory. I intend to create my comic book take on the werewolf story one day.
Believe it or not, I'm pleased to hear about the Halloween 4 references. I saw it late on cable one night when I was bored and was extraordinarily surprised at what a good B-movie it was. I suspect very few noticed, because the other sequels were dreck.
(I also hope low expectations at the time and old memories now haven't combined to make this a comment that I will regret posting after revisiting the film at some future date.)
It isn't just you. His acting IS terrible.
(And btw, nitpicking minor point, but there is NO way that Anthony Hopkins could have fathered a son who looks like Del Toro. I mean, come on. Kid must have been adopted.)
Ugh… To me it looks a little CGI-Hellish. I'm just really hoping that the movie doesn't end up with the wolf man looking like the wolfman from Van Helsing. I will say though that part at the end with the women up against the tree looked like it could be really great.
I'm still holding out on the trailer for the Creature From the Black Lagoon remake.
Lost World… don´t get me started. The wrong people were killed in the movie.
Yeah, let´s risk human lives to save a T. Rex baby which is no more intelligent than a cow. Let´s cheer the beasts as they eat dumb evil caricatures of white hunters. Let´s have the only guy in the movie who actually does someting heroic and selfless (using the SUV to pull the trailer back from the cliff) get eaten by dinosaurs because, hey, he´s fat and a smoker, unlike the smug useless rest of the cast. Let´s have an extended T-Rex rampage in San Diego in which no one gets killed and the destruction is played for laughs. Let´s feed the evil capitalist to baby T.Rex even though he probably got fewer people killed than our "heroes". My hate for that movie burns brighter than a thousand suns.
By comparison, JP III was a straight adventure with likeable characters, some humor and good dinosaur action.
Yeah, except Che was hairy 24/7.
I´m intrigued. The trailer looks promising. I always said they should make more movies like that and I´m not going quibble when they do.
Exactly! The moody, historic setting is what has me excited about this. I always said they should make more movies like that and I´m not going quibble when they do. The trailer looks really promising.
The original Halloween series went off the rails the moment they decided Laurie was Micheal's sister. In the original she was just some random chick that announces she has no fear of the bogeyman on the bogeyman's front porch. He finds this offensive so he kills all her friends and sets them up as a haunted house display to scare the beejeezus out of her and get her into the spirit of the evening's festivities before the main event, Laurie's own murder.
The whole second half of the movie, from Micheal's point of view, is just an elaborate Halloween prank.
A good point!
Indeed. At least werewolves shed *sometimes*.
Even a man
who is pure at heart
and says his prayers by night
Will become a wolf
when the wolfbane blooms
and the moon is full
and bright.
Lawrence Talbert walks again!
I'll take Lon Chaney, Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Claude Rains –and Bela Legosi!!– any day, thank you.
The little girl from Halloween 4 and 5 plays Annie in the remake. (she's grew up hot.)
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