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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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"Should special effects only be used to service a film’s story, or is it perfectly fine for movies to feature extraneous spectacle? That’s a debate that comes up often among cineastes, but ultimately there’s room for both functions. Sometimes, in cases like Jurassic Park and The Matrix, both categories of effects may even faultlessly coexist in the same film. Yet there is one kind of effects employment that’s intolerable to all film-loving parties: the gratuitous exploitation for the sole purpose of brazen gimmickry. It’s this kind of effects work that goes beyond spectacle. It’s not so much a show as a show off. For one example of this cinematic sin check out Karina’s review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which she references a scene featuring an inessential and irrelevant rocket launch in the background of an otherwise intimate moment between "
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"Legendary six-time-Oscar-winning make-up artist Rick Baker joined stars Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt to bring us the first footage of Universal’s new version of The Wolfman. And it’s a period piece. Highlights: - The origins of the remake stem from Del Toro’s Lon Chaney Jr. fandom. - It looks like “Francis Ford Coppola’s The Wolfman” - Of course, Anthony Hopkins would be more welcome as Van Helsing again - At least it will likely be R-rated, as it looks quite bloody - Baker honors Stan Winston by labeling his death “the end of an era” - Blunt is apparently into two-headed dudes Check out the full liveblog transcript after the jump. 5:31 - Another look at the Wolfman clip: They’re rolling the "
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Still Great after all these Years
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"I hadn't watched an American Werewolf in London for quite a while and thought I'd revisit it. I just LOVE this movie and can't understand why people don't like it. For the early 1980s this film was considered a masterpiece in makeup and animatronics (NO CGI PEOPLE), it was pretty revolutionary and still looks pretty great. David Naughton is not the best actor in the world but he's cute and looks like the boy next door type, I remember when I first saw it at the theater, I think I was 14 or so, and seeing that love scene I thought was so hot...hee hee. Now I watch it and think Oh my God they had no chemistry and that love scene was really awkward and very lame. I just love it when his friend Jack keeps visiting him and then all the other people he has killed. The ending was sad, but it was pretty good, I really didn't like what the werewolf looked like in the end but it was a very worthwhile movie. "
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London NOT Paris
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"I am so horrid that I watched this movie because I saw the preview to "An American Werewolf in Paris" and thought it would be good. Yep, I thought this was the new movie. Everyone should totally message me to laugh and tell me how stupid I am. Seriously. But, yeah I thought this movie was okay. Although the ending was kinda weird. Actually, the entire move was pretty strange. lol "
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"After watching 'Rabid' last week, I thought I'd also check out another early Cronenberg film that was also available on our 'on demand' cable menu. Not nearly as interesting or as artfully done as the other film. The low production values and poor acting are even more glaring in this one, although there are a few effective scenes. 60s scream queen Barbara Steele makes an appearance, but her talents are mostly wasted on a cheesy bathtub scene and a few other short embarrasing sequences ("make love to me, make love to me, kiss me, make love to me"). The sanitized industrial high rise setting is almost more horrifying than the parasitic worm that wreaks havoc among its inhabitants.On the plus side, some interesting 'crawling skin' special effects are used years before they caused such a sensation on such films as 'Altered States' and 'An American Werewolf in London'. "
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