Post by lordhowl on Jan 21, 2011 7:58:29 GMT -5
A movie coming out in March called Red Riding Hood, staring Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman and Richard Haas. This looks interesting if for only one reason: after "Jennifer's Body" Amanda Seyfried continues on a track into horror movies that are in some way similar to GS:
www.imdb.com/title/tt1486185/news#ni7051192
That being said, I can't get too excited. The director's the same one who made "Twilight" and a lot of the lines in the trailers either sound as bad as that stinker or are delivered badly even by Seyfried. Now, I do like Amanda Seyfried, at least, she was good in "Jennifer's Body," but quite frankly, I can't look at this movie without thinking about how much better Katharine Isabelle might have been in the part. I know that's unfair, but after Jennifer's Body, Seyfried needs a vehicle that doesn't remind people of GS.
Over and above that, it looks like a twilighted version of Beauty and the Beast. Seyfried's character, Valerie, is promised against her will in marriage to a rich douchebag. Now, tell me, this being a Hollywood movie, are they going to set up a formulaic love-triangle plot with class antagonisms between the rich guy and the werewolf-guy? Of course. And am I to believe that the rich douchebag is actually going to marry her at the end? Oldman's part as the "werewolf hunter" sounds like the werewolf equivalent of Van Helsing to me. In other words, we've seen that before too.
I'd like to be proved wrong, but this sounds like a shake 'n' bake script with "Tarzan, Tanto & Frankenstein" stock characters. I won't go into the theater ready for a surprise, so maybe it will surprise me.
When you watch the trailers, keep in mind that they haven't had time to finish rendering the special effects. Those aren't in the trailer, and how well they're done might make or break this film.
I'm just waiting for another horror/werewolf movie that impressed me like GS did.
PS. I didn't see this on my first reading, but the director also made Thirteen, which was an excellent movie.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1486185/news#ni7051192
That being said, I can't get too excited. The director's the same one who made "Twilight" and a lot of the lines in the trailers either sound as bad as that stinker or are delivered badly even by Seyfried. Now, I do like Amanda Seyfried, at least, she was good in "Jennifer's Body," but quite frankly, I can't look at this movie without thinking about how much better Katharine Isabelle might have been in the part. I know that's unfair, but after Jennifer's Body, Seyfried needs a vehicle that doesn't remind people of GS.
Over and above that, it looks like a twilighted version of Beauty and the Beast. Seyfried's character, Valerie, is promised against her will in marriage to a rich douchebag. Now, tell me, this being a Hollywood movie, are they going to set up a formulaic love-triangle plot with class antagonisms between the rich guy and the werewolf-guy? Of course. And am I to believe that the rich douchebag is actually going to marry her at the end? Oldman's part as the "werewolf hunter" sounds like the werewolf equivalent of Van Helsing to me. In other words, we've seen that before too.
I'd like to be proved wrong, but this sounds like a shake 'n' bake script with "Tarzan, Tanto & Frankenstein" stock characters. I won't go into the theater ready for a surprise, so maybe it will surprise me.
When you watch the trailers, keep in mind that they haven't had time to finish rendering the special effects. Those aren't in the trailer, and how well they're done might make or break this film.
I'm just waiting for another horror/werewolf movie that impressed me like GS did.
PS. I didn't see this on my first reading, but the director also made Thirteen, which was an excellent movie.