The Wolfman
Di won tickets for a preview of “The Wolfman” this evening. This was, of course, quite exciting. Hurrah! Free movie tickets!
Having seen the movie, it’s still quite exciting. Hurrah! We did not have to pay to see that absolute stinker of a film!
Good grief! That was appallingly bad.
- It’s a movie about a werewolf on the rampage. To my mind, this conjures images of slaughter and mayhem. There were really only three scenes in the entire movie where you could watch people getting slaughtered. Arguably there was a fourth scene right at the start but it cuts away before the villager is killed so pffft - it does not count.
- Anthony Hopkins reprises his role of slightly loony old Bert from ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’. He doesn’t act so much as just babble on like some old codger on the bus, making little sense and making me wish he was elsewhere.
- When you’re bitten by a werewolf, the wounds heal within 3 weeks. Unless they hang around for 25 years so you can prove you were bitten a quarter of a century ago.
- It’s a film about Victorian England - everything was gloomy and dark back then. There is no need to take liberty with the lighting to improve the movie. It’s not a problem - the audience loves peering at the screen and trying to figure out what or who it is watching. Black on black on charcoal in shadow on black is a perfectly adequate lighting scheme. Especially when you then place the entire scene at night. In the fog.
I could go on and on, but I shall spare you all the boring bits (unlike the movie).
I’ll end by pointing that in 1983, Michael Jackson released the “Thriller” film clip and it featured this monster:
Werewolf in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" film clip
In all honesty, the makeup on this monster is more realistic than the CGI used almost three decades later in “The Wolfman”.
SPOTD =
- Director of this movie
- Actors in this movie
- People who pay to see this movie