The only glimmer of joy I could wrangle from this hopeless toss was the hilarity of Anthony Hopkins reacting to absolutely everything that happened as so mundane he may as well have been reacting to the contents of his own fridge.
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I think he saved the contents of his fridge for his artwork:
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What a bunch of arse. Even Hopkins himself admits he can't actually paint. Not that I've got sour grapes or anything...
From reading this and other reviews, I must be the only person to have enjoyed this film. Loved the old school horror flavour (a bit Hammer as well as Universal?) Even liked Anthony Hopkins on valium. And I especially liked Del Toro's massive head. I heard they cut 17 minutes of exposition at the start, which was a great idea. Let the audience slowly figure out what was up with these two.
ReplyDeleteI found it confused. I'm guessing Mark Romanek wanted to make a tight little drama while the studio wanted more Wolfman killing. Romanek walked a month before shooting leaving them to rewrite it as they went. This showed. It started out well, but became progressively more messy as it got morphed into something more commercial.
ReplyDeleteIn the end it was neither the interesting, small drama it started as or a big dumb monster movie. But it did have a decent Del Toro performance and some very good gothic art direction.