Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning

[Sebiale]

Would you have watched the 3rd if you hadn't seen the first 2?

[Moonreaper]

I never really watch a sequal without having seen the original first.

[dedwyre]

Feb 11, 2010 4:20:19 GMT -5 Marcus said:

For me, it doesn't matter if an ending has good or evil winning, as long as the ending 'fits' with the rest of the film, making sense and feeling correct is much more important to me than if the villian or the hero wins.

Hmmm...yes, I'll agree with that. Now that I think about it, if Ginger Snaps Back would have had a "happy" ending, I still wouldn't have liked it much because it would have seemed cheap.

So, really, I just don't like the movies overall. I mean, the special effects were good, the acting was fine, the cinematography worked for the atmosphere, but all of the characters were scum. If I don't like any of the characters, odds are I won't like the movie.

I wished they'd emphasised the bond between the two girls more in the 3rd film. To me it felt like they automatically assumed you knew just how close they were to each other, based on watching, in effect the same characters, the 1st film.

I couldn't help but think that they seemed a bit incestuous in the third film.

[Werewolf]

I had not consider the possibility of an incestuous relationship between the two but now that you mention it, i think you've probably hit on the right discriptive word. I always found their closeness in the 1st movie a little unsettling on it's own without the added dimension of horror. But then i found the whole family unsettling! The mother in particular!

[mau]

I think I saw the DVD at Walmart, but I didn't get it...I'm poor. Haha. Well sometime I'll have to add more Werewolf movies to my...very small collection.
I didn't see the first movie at Walmart though, just the second and third. If I'm going to watch a series I like to start with the first movie, although I could start with a prequel so the story would probably make more sense that way. I read about it, the story sounds interesting though.

[Moonreaper]

Ginger Snaps: The Beginning is not really a equal its set in what i believe to be around the 18th century with the same main characters (the two girls). I doesn't have anything to do with the first one really so you could get that one and watch it. Which I suggest because its my favorite out of the three.

[Marcus]

I prefer the 1st one to the 3rd one.

I never thought about the girls relationship as being incestuous. For me the 1st movie made them feel like outcasts and co-dependants on each other. The 3rd film didn't give me the feeling of an unusual bond between them at all, just a sisterly one where they've escaped/fled from a bad situation.

[Moonreaper]

I like them both for different reasons, I even like the 2nd one.

[Marcus]

I like the second one, just think it was mean of them to make ginger's transformation cool looking in the 1st one and Bridget's change ugly - Though I guess you could say it went that way due to her using the poison to halt the transformation for as long as she did.

Like Moonreaper I like the 1st and 3rd films for different reasons. The 1st for the relationship and their attempts to deal with the situation. The 3rd one because it was Cowboys vs Killer Werewolves!! - well ok, it was French trappers vs Werewolves but it's close enough

[Sebiale]

Jan 14, 2010 22:36:08 GMT -5 Moonreaper said:

I like the second one though not many people do. You always see movies or shows where a character gets stuck in an asylum, but they are not crazy. Image that happening to you, but the twist is you have the power to kill everyone there. So you warn them, they dont listen (of course), and what happens? The beast is unleashed, awsome. Though she doesnt go on rampage in the asylum, which would have been great, she does prove them wrong in the end and i love underdogs.

I liked how the other werewolf was after Brigitte to mate with her, it just fits so great with how at the same time she's turning into the same thing.
So. Much. Puberty allegory.

Jan 22, 2010 20:35:57 GMT -5 dedwyre said:

I found the endings of the second and third ones to be depressing. Not so much the first one because the monster died. Then again, pretty much every character in every movie was a monster.

Which was kinda the message. I think the director/creator may have read Freud a few too many times.