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Post by lordhowl on Nov 14, 2010 0:10:47 GMT -5
Loved: Emily Perkins' performance.
I saw a part of Unleashed before I knew about GS. It was, above all else, Emily Perkins' performance that turned me on to it. She brings a nobility to Brigitte in this movie not seen in the original.
Hated: The dialog
Emily Perkins also has to deliver some terrible lines, but does it in a way that you forget how bad they are, until you replay them. ("Your best case scenario" being the almost the most flagrant example. Especially the part about feces?? Is that in the werewolf legends?) Lesser actresses, though, are helpless. I thought the "drink her piss" line was the worst example. Good news, there's also not very much dialog. Emily Perkins spends a long time not answering people but reacting.
Loved: the opening.
The cold techno music and montage at the beginning really set the mood.
Hated: The makeup at the end. The cheesy, immobile mask Perkins is wearing as she's thrown in the trapdoor ruins the scene.
Continued tomorrow. Sorry, it's too near the time when I turn into a pumpkin.
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Post by lordhowl on Nov 14, 2010 16:21:38 GMT -5
Loved: The setting, that old building and its backstory.
They found such a creepy old setting, an old tuberculosis sanatorium. Oh, literally a toxic waste dump of woe. I bet a place like that has a few ghosts! Plenty of abandoned space for a werewolf to hide in between hunts, too.
Hated: "Yeah, the place this just awesome for a horror story, and we could shoot the whole movie here on a low budged. Let's leave!"
They did very little with it before abandoning it totally at the movies midpoint, all to give Ghost a bigger character and a background.
Loved: Ginger/Katharine Isabelle is back!
What's not to love here?
Hated: She's only back for fourteen lines or so. What a tease!
"Katy audiences will sue us if you're not in the movie, and we need you to deliver a few lines on camera so we can use you in the trailer. Our marketing team tells us that we need the horny male segment to turn a profit, here. No, they won't be disappointed if Ginger does nothing in the movie but comment and taunt. You don't think it will work? Ah, dearie, you're just too young to remember how Raymond Burr made Godzilla a hit in the US."
That's all for now.
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Post by sophielovessam on Dec 8, 2010 13:48:37 GMT -5
Well I liked the whole hospital thing but they could have done more with it. It was very 'Girl: Interrupted' I liked that movie but Unleashed reminded me of it. I would have liked if they did a bit more with the hospital.
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