Bad Movie Comments that don't warrant a thread

[Ellsworth Toohey]

Daybreakers may have been good, but The Wolfman was incredibly boring.

The main problem was lack of character depth. The original Wolf Man (sp?) did a great job of establishing Larry Talbot as a happy go lucky guy who's back in England on a lark when he's doomed by the werewolf's bite and you feel a lot of sympathy for him as he turns into this murderous monster that he has no control over.

Benicio Del Toro is barely back in England before he's bitten, and doesn't really show any real horror/angst at what's happened to himself. Actually, he doesn't show any real emotion at all, Del Toro showed more range of emotion in Licence to Kill than he does here.

Hugo Weaving is also wasted here. He has one great scene in a tavern where he bluntly explains to a barmaid why he's sitting in the bar instead of foolishly running around the moors trying to get himself killed by the werewolf, but otherwise just stands around and reacts to whatever chaos is erupting around him. Inexplicably, Weaving's character is the same real-life police inspector that Johnny Depp played in From Hell and Michael Caine played in 1988's Jack the Ripper, Frederick "Francis" Abberline. There is a throwaway line about Abberline's failure to catch Jack the Ripper, but othwerise there is literally no mention of The Ripper case or its role in the werewolf case or any reason why they would have Weaving play Abberline instead of some other police inspector.

Also showing up is the actor who played the bad guy in True Lies and played the leader of the Afghanistan resistance in The Living Daylights as Del Toro's Hindu manservant. As with Weaving, he is given literally nothing to do.

Anthony Hopkins steals the film, giving his best performance in years as Del Toro's father. Hopkins has been a really lazy actor over the last decade or so, phoning in his performance in Red Dragon and that movie he did where he is on trial for trying to kill his wife, but he really throws himself into the role here, more so than he did for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

As for Emily Blunt, my local newspaper reviewer put it best when he said that she plays a really good heaving bosom.

[Ellsworth Toohey]

MTI Home Video gets in on the rip-off box art.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...edigitalbit-20

[Doctor Ted Nelson]

MegaFault was pretty entertaining. Shockingly, I've liked every Asylum movie I've ever seen (which is a list consisting entirely of Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus-I'm not crazy ).

[Foywonder]

The Nightmare on Elm Street remake...

The one thing above all else I cannot get over is how they include the razor glove, the boiler room nightmare setting, and the "One.. Two... Freddy's coming for you" nursery rhyme yet given the new Freddy backstory there's no reason for the glove (he was a pedophile, not a killer) or the boiler room (neither where he lived, did his horrible crimes, or was burned alive took place in a boiler room) or the nursery rhyme (the public never knew about his crimes, the kids involved don't remember, and the official story after they killed him was that Freddy just left town). Only reason any of that is included is because it's iconic to Nightmare on Elm Street, but now it makes zero sense. Sheesh.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by Foywonder

The Nightmare on Elm Street remake...

The one thing above all else I cannot get over is how they include the razor glove, the boiler room nightmare setting, and the "One.. Two... Freddy's coming for you" nursery rhyme yet given the new Freddy backstory there's no reason for the glove (he was a pedophile, not a killer) or the boiler room (neither where he lived, did his horrible crimes, or was burned alive took place in a boiler room) or the nursery rhyme (the public never knew about his crimes, the kids involved don't remember, and the official story after they killed him was that Freddy just left town). Only reason any of that is included is because it's iconic to Nightmare on Elm Street, but now it makes zero sense. Sheesh.

Well with the glove, he was starting to make one from the looks of things when Nancy and Quentin got down to his lair, since there were some blades on the table and the one picture they showed a glimpse of you could see the cuts, plus cuts on Kris' back. And I seem to remember from interviews that it was supposed to be implied that he was escalating and was probably going to start killing had he not been caught. Though that looks like it got cut out. The boiler room I figured was just a 'hellish' version of the building he died in, and the rhyme the same thing, since you hear some kids saying the '1, 2' part, so maybe there was a rhyme but it wasn't the same thing and after dying Freddy just twisted it.

Just my theories, anyway. Maybe I'm putting too much thought into it.

[Son of Sunstealer]

unless there's a girl with perfect nipple placement in this one, I'm going to give it a pass (that was the only reason I saw F13)

[Slasherfan]

I was NOT happy with that Nightmare reamake, screaw a sequel, this already needs a reboot.

[Genrewriter]

Watched From Paris with Love last night along with Legion. I know, I know. sometimes you just need a bad movie and there isn't always a Cannon release available.

FPwL is almost an entertaining movie, if not for the rather baffling diversion into a serious plotline when most of the movie was an over the top action buddy comedy flick. John Travolta is...Well, I like his over the top acting but then again I also spent an entire week writing an article on the films of Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham, so I may not be entirely sane.

As for Legion, god. Foy, I honestly have to say you made the film sound more entertaining than it actually is. With a little more cheese it would have been a passable "So bad it's good" movie.

[Son of Sunstealer]

it's weird, on paper or by a trailer, it looks like legion would be a crazy, action-filled frenzy or at least a disaster like Van Helsing. instead, it was dreadfully boring. I DLed it andfound myself skipping ahead a lot.