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Post by someoldguy on Feb 26, 2014 15:47:13 GMT -5
Works fine here in the US. A better solution than my PM.
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Feb 27, 2014 7:17:46 GMT -5
Works fine here. Thanks  |
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Post by Noel on Mar 2, 2014 7:04:46 GMT -5
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Post by someoldguy on Mar 3, 2014 7:33:59 GMT -5
AWIL is a genuine classic. One of my favorite parts: The shocking hair growing scene is both amazing and cleverly achieved.
Full Moon High is quite funny but skimps on werewolf scares.
As usual, I do not know the Spanish one but I at least heard of the one with Alice Kooper.
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Post by Noel on Mar 7, 2014 19:17:05 GMT -5
Episode 13 is here! Featuring Company of Wolves and Michael J Fox's Teenage Ape-Man.
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Post by someoldguy on Mar 7, 2014 20:02:12 GMT -5
The Company of Wolves, Ladyhawke and Teen Wolf are all really good movies, with three very different approaches. Company is one of my all time favorites in the genre. IMO Silver Bullet misses the mark. Just something wrong about this movie. The other two I have not seen, although the grandmother and werewolf scene seems familiar somehow. Some Youtube collection? The Italian one with German subtitles I know I have not seen.  |
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Post by Noel on Mar 8, 2014 6:18:26 GMT -5
Silver Bullet never did it for me, either. It was only while researching for this episode that I learned that the werewolf and non-werewolf scenes were shot by two different directors, one of whom resigned from the project halfway through after disagreeing with the producer over the werewolf design.
Daniel Attias, the guy who they brought in to finish the movie, is not an artist but a director-for-hire, as his very prolific career in television demonstrates. This probably goes some way towards explaining why, while the movie has some individually great scenes, it doesn't hang together and the pacing is all wrong. In the end, I doubt that anyone involved was happy with the final product.
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Post by Noel on Mar 21, 2014 10:57:56 GMT -5
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Post by someoldguy on Mar 21, 2014 13:33:51 GMT -5
The only ones that I have seen are The Monster Squad and My Mom's a Werewolf. Both are meant for a teenage audience but fun if you are in the mood. I would have said the first one is for even younger kids but they blithely throw around the notion of virginity ... and the lack thereof.
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Post by Noel on Mar 28, 2014 6:29:30 GMT -5
Just uploaded Episode 15! This one brings us up to the mid-nineties.
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Post by someoldguy on Mar 28, 2014 7:21:22 GMT -5
Just uploaded Episode 15! This one brings us up to the mid-nineties. Again my viewing history is lacking. The only ones I have seen are the offbeat Full Eclipse - not bad for a TV movie - and Wolf - a genuine classic. It combines references to old time werewolf movies, both overt and more subtle, with a fresh perspective, clever plot development and a perfect ending. And of course the terrific talents of Jack Nicholson. Contrast the ending of Wolf with that of House of Frankenstein, another werewolf love story. |
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Post by Noel on Mar 28, 2014 18:12:25 GMT -5
I've always been curious about what the original ending of "Wolf" was like, since they decided to go back and re-shoot the entire final act after test audiences didn't like it. After all, the fact that a test audience didn't like it could just as well mean it was brilliant. A good example is the mangled ending of "The Descent" which was added after US test audiences disapproved of the original.
Alas, as far as I know neither Mike Nichols or anyone else involved has revealed what the original ending of "Wolf" was. Personally I think it's fine as it is - almost perfect - but perhaps it could have been even better.
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Post by someoldguy on Mar 29, 2014 6:46:18 GMT -5
According to this it was not exactly providing a different ending but various alterations to the movie including "tightening the pace of the ending to make it more comprehensible to audiences". See top of column 3. It is interesting that much has been made in other threads about long snouts and ears, much hair etc. when this movie goes in the opposite direction. But a full Rick Baker treatment would have robbed us of Nicholson's substantial non-verbal acting talents. |
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Post by Noel on Mar 30, 2014 6:11:16 GMT -5
Very interesting, thanks for finding that! It does make sense, since that ending is pretty much perfectly set up by the preceding acts. It couldn't have been much different, plot-wise.
I agree that the sparse make-up was the right choice for this movie, although (without giving anything away for those who haven't seen it) I'm sure Rick Baker would have liked to have had more fun with the ending.
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Post by someoldguy on Mar 30, 2014 15:48:20 GMT -5
I agree that the sparse make-up was the right choice for this movie, although (without giving anything away for those who haven't seen it) I'm sure Rick Baker would have liked to have had more fun with the ending. That made me think of the ending of Curse of the Demon (1957). Restraint and subtlety throughout the whole movie and then.... |
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