The Wolfman
19 Feb 2010 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI think I forgot to mention here, though I did on Twitter, that I really really enjoyed The Wolfman.
I actually expected it to be kind of sucky. I'm a big lolfan of the gothic in general, but I'm not especially moved by horror. In fact, it was one of those movies that I saw because when a movie has Hugo Weaving, Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, and Anthony Hopkins, even if it sucks you'll always have something awesome to look at. WELL, it totally did not suck! It's a remake of an old-school film of the same name, and all the cheesiness is totally on purpose. I laughed almost as much as during I Love You Phillip Morris. In fact, at one point I laughed so hard (and so desperately not to be really loud about it!) that I briefly stopped breathing.
Also, this movie contains the funniest fight scene I have ever seen. (My dad asked if it was funnier than the Wesley-Inigo duel in The Princess Bride, but it's the wrong sort of question - TPB is a parodish high fantasy comedy and the fight scene there is a polished swordfight filled with witty banter. Obviously an Old Hollywood style werewolf movie is not working with the same box of tools. Also a deliberate send-up, but of a completely different sort of thing. That said, though, the slapstick ratio is higher.)
I actually expected it to be kind of sucky. I'm a big lolfan of the gothic in general, but I'm not especially moved by horror. In fact, it was one of those movies that I saw because when a movie has Hugo Weaving, Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, and Anthony Hopkins, even if it sucks you'll always have something awesome to look at. WELL, it totally did not suck! It's a remake of an old-school film of the same name, and all the cheesiness is totally on purpose. I laughed almost as much as during I Love You Phillip Morris. In fact, at one point I laughed so hard (and so desperately not to be really loud about it!) that I briefly stopped breathing.
Also, this movie contains the funniest fight scene I have ever seen. (My dad asked if it was funnier than the Wesley-Inigo duel in The Princess Bride, but it's the wrong sort of question - TPB is a parodish high fantasy comedy and the fight scene there is a polished swordfight filled with witty banter. Obviously an Old Hollywood style werewolf movie is not working with the same box of tools. Also a deliberate send-up, but of a completely different sort of thing. That said, though, the slapstick ratio is higher.)
