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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 22, 2017 14:50:57 GMT
"I LOVE Americans. You all have a good taste."Three american students on a wild adventure through europe and who now have their eyes set up for Paris city to be their latest destination, well, except maybe for Andy McDermott (Tom Everett Scott) who only have eyes for the beautiful but tragic Serafine Pigot (Julie Delpy). However, their blossoming romance is about to be cut short, the moment when Andy and his friends are attacked by a hairy, large animal.
Another impulse buy back in early 00s which I enjoyed very much. I had of course never seen the original, so I had not much to go by beside the fact that I really liked the goofy horror-comedy and Julie Delpy. After seeing the original, I was not very impressed by the special effects CGI used in the remake, which even back in 2000 looked very "cheap", but still I enjoyed this updated late 90s horror-comedy/romance flick, and I think I gave it a postive rating, not great but not as bad as the critics said it was.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 24, 2017 0:52:49 GMT
Fun sequel.
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Post by Nicko's Nose on Sept 24, 2017 1:23:30 GMT
I'm not sure if I would like it today, but I liked it and thought it was funny in the early 2000s.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Sept 27, 2017 21:14:39 GMT
Even when it first came out, I too was exceedingly disappointed with the CGI. The wonderful practical special effects of the original had been traded down for some quick cartoony computer graphics.
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Post by jonesjxd on Oct 14, 2017 21:58:42 GMT
It doesn't have a whole lot going for it, but I guess it's just a fun little 90's nostalgia movie to me. I used to listen to the soundtrack over and over again on my CD player walking to and from school.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 1, 2017 2:25:22 GMT
I just happened to watch this movie last night after having recorded it on TV the previous night (I’d watched it probably a couple times when it was on TV previously and had seen An American Werewolf in London prior to it). **somewhat spoilery below if you haven't seen the film** I always remember Tom Everett Scott for this movie (even *before* I’d actually seen the movie and just knew he was in it from the promos) and the movie That Thing You Do! (where, to me, he kind of resembled Matt Smith from Doctor Who...though I guess that should be the other way around, since I saw the movie long before Matt Smith was ever in Doctor Who). I have seen him as a guest star in a few shows I watch. Sorry, stefancrosscoe, but I can’t say there’s really much that ‘works’ for me in this movie. The acting, dialogue, effects, ‘comedy’ and pacing pretty much all feel ‘off’ to me most of the time – but that’s just my opinion, of course. I'm not sure if I would've felt any differently had I seen this film before the other one. There’s no real sense of ‘horror’ – I think the music tries to set that sort of mood in the beginning, but it doesn't last long. There’s maybe one or two blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shots of a werewolf lunging at the camera that are somewhat effective...and I think those are included on the posters for the movie (which look more freaky than anything in the actual movie, I find). If anything, I thought that the human characters looked freakier when they were mid-change. Like for example, I think Julie Delpy’s character, Serafine, with her voice altered and looking slightly ‘off’ as she’s yelling at Andy and hurling bricks at him, is a more effective moment than anytime one of those CGI werewolves are onscreen. And it’s not very often in werewolf movies/shows where I’ve seen female characters undergo the transformation (they usually don’t show much of it or there’s cutting around it - though the UK version of the TV series Being Human did an exceptional job of showing both male and female werewolf transformations using excellent practical effects), but this film doesn’t shy away from the not-very-pleasant effects of an attractive woman undergoing a very unattractive transformation. I guess if I had to find a ‘positive’ regarding the effects, it’s that I didn’t mind the bungee jump of the Eiffel Tower rescue scene. Sure, it’s not ‘great’, but it’s better than the majority of the effects in this movie in my opinion. Having said all that^, easily the best part of this film for me was Julie Delpy as Serafine. If she hadn't been in it, I probably wouldn't have watched the film more than once. Okay, I just thought of one other thing I kind of liked in the film – the scene/continuous shot of Andy running alongside Serafine on her bike. I thought that was neat.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Dec 4, 2017 15:21:29 GMT
If anything, I thought that the human characters looked freakier when they were mid-change. Like for example, I think Julie Delpy’s character, Serafine, with her voice altered and looking slightly ‘off’ as she’s yelling at Andy and hurling bricks at him, is a more effective moment than anytime one of those CGI werewolves are onscreen.
Once again, great post and I agree with you on that the non-CGI or less CGI effects/scenes are much more effective or successful in building up the whole "less is more" approach, sadly this remake/"sequel" along with so many other horror movies do not follow that and instead tries to hard or too much and fails when they could have done it for much cheaper and very likely come out with a better end result.
By the way, thanks so much for posting those beautiful images of Julie.
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Post by ravi02 on Dec 27, 2017 6:15:00 GMT
A very disappointing sequel to a classic horror film. It has none of the great characters, iconic scenes and nice blend of horror and comedy that the original did so well.
The CGI werewolves looked terrible even back in 1998.
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Post by rogerthat on Dec 28, 2017 0:06:33 GMT
It was stinky.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Dec 28, 2017 2:04:23 GMT
Outside of some dodgy effects, I rather enjoyed it.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Dec 28, 2017 2:09:01 GMT
I liked it.
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Post by simest on Dec 28, 2017 14:55:29 GMT
I almost left the theatre long before the closing credits during this one.
In making a follow-up to a wonderful and respected classic like it's predecessor, the makers of this had to realise that they had signed on to meet certain standards and expectations. Right from the unnecessary and absurd Eiffel Tower sequence early on, it was clear to me that the very mentality of this film was way, way off. Whilst I laughed at the humour in the original, here I cringed at the many embarrassing efforts of AWIP to generate laughs. Equally, I was left cold by it's failure to offer a single scare to speak of.
Equally mindless (and arguably tasteless) sequences by Jim Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaisse among others, seemed more pre-occupied showcasing some of Paris' famed locations than furthering the story in any meaningful way - a far cry from the Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square set-pieces in the original.
The lead characters for me, epitomised the very cliched definition of annoying American tourists seen through the eyes of the rest of the world and this misrepresentation made it difficult for me to take from them anything like the appeal found in David Naughton and Griffin Dunne in the 1981 original.
It might be unfair to measure this movie by comparison to the original but I have no doubts that I would still find the same complaints with AWIP even judged purely on it's own merits as they are so glaringly evident.
Enough has already been said about the awful CGI werewolf FX and this stands true - again - even without comparison to Rick Baker's extraordinary practical transformation wizardry 17 years earlier.
As I said, between the story, characters, performances, digital disasters and half-witted humour, within the first five minutes I felt a sinking sensation in my stomach that created a knot which sat there and left me numb with disbelief long after the merciful arrival of the end credits. Only Delpy's presence brought any kind of relief in the interim.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Dec 28, 2017 15:21:05 GMT
Dreadful movie.
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