The Wolfman
March 5, 2011
Teeth, claws, gore, and the director of "Honey, I shrunk the Kids".
The fact that Hollywood allows so many original classics like "Halloween" and " A Nightmare On Elm Street" to be remade is easily saying that nobody can come up with good ideas anymore.We had "Inception" and "Avatar", but it's rare nowadays that we get a movie that seems original.C'mon Hollywood, give us something new and refreshing instead of giving us the same old cliched crap.Director Joe Johnston seems to know how to do a remake right without going too over-the-top, unlike Rob Zombie's attempt to add never-ending F-bombs in "Halloween".While the violence is gory, there's something about this movie that seems different from an ordinary remake.I better stop right now before it sounds like I'm praising this movie.Here is a remake of a 1940's horror movie that I have yet not seen, such gores for "Dracula" and "The Karate Kid".Getting to the point, "The Wolfman" is an adequately made gore-fest, but it lacks imagination.It does good things that most remakes seem to miss, but the film seems just like an ordinary horror film with buckets of gushing blood.Not that I don't have a problem with that, I just wish that horror movies nowadays actually tried something different.
The special effects in "The Wolfman" are good at times, then seem cartoon-ish at others.The movie had a budget of (gasp!) $150 million, and the effects are only decent? The makeup is the best thing that can be said about this movie.Not surprisingly, the movie won the Oscar for best makeup.You can't go wrong with Rick Baker, the makeup designer for this movie and "An American Werewolf in London", which still remains as the werewolf movie with the best transformation scene than any other movie of it's kind.The dialogue in this movie, however, remains as my biggest complaint.Either cut out some of it or use more scenes involving the Wolfman and the movie would've been more entertaining.There really should be a limit to how much talking there can be in a movie such as this.The performances are rather good, including the sometimes sinister Anthony Hopkins.
Despite some whacky effects and constant chit chat, "The Wolfman" is a finely made remake that will most likely please gore-hounds than fans of the original movie.It's certainly not the best remake or werewolf movie out there among the dozens of other remakes and werewolf movies, but it's a decent movie that I wish could've been better.
Grade: B-
The fact that Hollywood allows so many original classics like "Halloween" and " A Nightmare On Elm Street" to be remade is easily saying that nobody can come up with good ideas anymore.We had "Inception" and "Avatar", but it's rare nowadays that we get a movie that seems original.C'mon Hollywood, give us something new and refreshing instead of giving us the same old cliched crap.Director Joe Johnston seems to know how to do a remake right without going too over-the-top, unlike Rob Zombie's attempt to add never-ending F-bombs in "Halloween".While the violence is gory, there's something about this movie that seems different from an ordinary remake.I better stop right now before it sounds like I'm praising this movie.Here is a remake of a 1940's horror movie that I have yet not seen, such gores for "Dracula" and "The Karate Kid".Getting to the point, "The Wolfman" is an adequately made gore-fest, but it lacks imagination.It does good things that most remakes seem to miss, but the film seems just like an ordinary horror film with buckets of gushing blood.Not that I don't have a problem with that, I just wish that horror movies nowadays actually tried something different.
The special effects in "The Wolfman" are good at times, then seem cartoon-ish at others.The movie had a budget of (gasp!) $150 million, and the effects are only decent? The makeup is the best thing that can be said about this movie.Not surprisingly, the movie won the Oscar for best makeup.You can't go wrong with Rick Baker, the makeup designer for this movie and "An American Werewolf in London", which still remains as the werewolf movie with the best transformation scene than any other movie of it's kind.The dialogue in this movie, however, remains as my biggest complaint.Either cut out some of it or use more scenes involving the Wolfman and the movie would've been more entertaining.There really should be a limit to how much talking there can be in a movie such as this.The performances are rather good, including the sometimes sinister Anthony Hopkins.
Despite some whacky effects and constant chit chat, "The Wolfman" is a finely made remake that will most likely please gore-hounds than fans of the original movie.It's certainly not the best remake or werewolf movie out there among the dozens of other remakes and werewolf movies, but it's a decent movie that I wish could've been better.
Grade: B-
Posted by Tyler Kirk.
