[Drago]

I had it set to record, I even started watching it.
After about ten minutes I got bored and turned it to Cake Boss.

I thought it was something else. >_> It seemed really pretentious and annoying with the voiceover, and I was fairly certain it was just gonna degenerate from there.
Just those few minutes I saw really did make me think: "Lost Tapes: The Increased Budget Edition".

[667-Neighbor of the Beast]

Ebonykrow, on 27 October 2009 - 11:17 AM, said:

The Howling looks pretty good. I think I'll rent that one.

And that's the last thing we need. :x



Oh lord, good point. I can imagine UM would get swarmed with these kids in the same way it was attacked--is still attacked--when the Twilight books came out.

I just cannot understand what makes kids want to do that kind of thing, though. It's completely beyond my ability to comprehend their motive for that kind of attention.

Mommy or daddy didn't show them enough attention, they had the older brother/sister who was the star quarterback/prom queen. They don't feel they measure up to others standards, so they create standards of their own, to try and make themselves feel superior to others, even if it is in a make believe world, and only temporarily until reality sets back in. Then, they usually replace that feeling of inferiority with drugs of some type.

[HerNibs]

I saw bits and pieces of the show. It just reminded me of a show about the Italian Mob who also happened to be werewolves. I lost interest quickly.



Oh, EK!!!! Don't use the T word! Some one will show up and sparkle or turn into a shitzu.

Nibs

[Ebonykrow]

Drago, on 27 October 2009 - 11:18 AM, said:

I had it set to record, I even started watching it.
After about ten minutes I got bored and turned it to Cake Boss.

I thought it was something else. >_> It seemed really pretentious and annoying with the voiceover, and I was fairly certain it was just gonna degenerate from there.
Just those few minutes I saw really did make me think: "Lost Tapes: The Increased Budget Edition".

Pretentious, that's a good way of putting it. That's exactly the feeling I got from it, and it would have been so much easier to watch without the narration.

[Ebonykrow]

HerNibs, on 27 October 2009 - 11:29 AM, said:

I saw bits and pieces of the show. It just reminded me of a show about the Italian Mob who also happened to be werewolves. I lost interest quickly.

Oh, EK!!!! Don't use the T word! Some one will show up and sparkle or turn into a shitzu.

Nibs

Don't give bad authors ideas!

How about: Sparkle and then turn into a shitzu?

This post has been edited by Ebonykrow: 27 October 2009 - 03:31 PM

[Drago]

Ebonykrow, on 27 October 2009 - 10:29 AM, said:

Pretentious, that's a good way of putting it. That's exactly the feeling I got from it, and it would have been so much easier to watch without the narration.

The problem was the narration was in-character, and he was talking down to the audience. If you try that, you have to do it /right/. Hannibal Lecter talks down to the audience - he gets it right. It's incredibly awesome. Werewolf Guy talked down to the audience and did it wrong. It was incredibly annoying.

[Ebonykrow]

Drago, on 27 October 2009 - 11:27 PM, said:

The problem was the narration was in-character, and he was talking down to the audience. If you try that, you have to do it /right/. Hannibal Lecter talks down to the audience - he gets it right. It's incredibly awesome. Werewolf Guy talked down to the audience and did it wrong. It was incredibly annoying.

I think the difference between the two, to me, was that a person like Hannibal could actually exist. People can, and sometimes do, do the things he did. But the show tried to hard to make the rabies virus believable. Too much explaining, too much treating the audience like children to rightfully illustrate the virus's processes, so it didn't seem real at all (and in some cases, didn't make sense at all). What turned me off most was he kept calling himself a werewolf. Kept on and kept on, like we didn't hear him the first time. So I kept on thinking, "No, you're not a werewolf, you just have a virus." It killed me to continuously hear the scientists explain the virus' effects on a human, only to have Werewolf Guy tell us he wasn't human.

AND THEN. Did you get to the part where they were showing surveillance tapes from an attack? If not, it basically showed a person leaping an impossible distance and then running off at 50mph. I don't care what kind of illness a person has, it does not do that kind of stuff to the body. It can't reconfigure our systems to make us do something we weren't built to do. In a second tape, a person leaps over a 20-30ft wall. No. Just no. If they wanted to make the show believable in anyway, they could have used believable stunts--even for a "superior" virus.

[Drago]

No, I didn't make it that far in. I turned it about the time the cop was introduced. Five or ten minutes in, I think. But HAD I weathered the stupidity long enough to see that, I probably woulda turned it then. I've got no problem with superhuman werewolves in my movies, just don't try to realistically explain it. It will always backfire and be dumb.

This post has been edited by Drago: 28 October 2009 - 05:39 PM

[NightMoon]

There aren't enough werewolf movies but I love the Howling series and Gingersnaps.

[Paranormalcy]

Sounds utterly entertaining in its awfulness. And I'd like to note for the record I dissent from the assertion there aren't enough werewolf (nor vampire, if I may add) movies - there are beyond "more than enough", taken historically.

When "shows" like this are made, produced, do people actually expect them to be seriously accepted, considered valid, even a little, or do they realize it's total entertainment, and just "do it up" for the heck of it, you know, "we've gone this far, might as well go all the way, over the top"? I know they're less entertaining and exciting, but it sure would be nice if there were more FACTUAL documentaries on myths like this, where they came from, etc. or even on the new subcultures that claim to be some variation of these things, the psychology and sociology of "vampire" cliques and such.

[Fell]

I was watching the first 5 mins. of it and lost interest quickly. The narrating was so annoying. I thought it was going to be about people who had seen a "werewolf" and they were going to tell their story.

This post has been edited by Fell: 01 November 2009 - 01:26 AM

[Drago]

Paranormalcy, on 28 October 2009 - 07:03 PM, said:

Sounds utterly entertaining in its awfulness. And I'd like to note for the record I dissent from the assertion there aren't enough werewolf (nor vampire, if I may add) movies - there are beyond "more than enough", taken historically.

I agree and disagree. See, I've had more than enough Ricepires. Anne Rice is to the vampire genre what Uwe Boll is to the Video-Game-Movie genre. She took it, and she totally wrecked it. (Your Mileage May Vary.)

My problem isn't even that she made them handsome/pretty. My problem is that she gutted the concept. She took what should have been complete monsters and turned them into neurotic OCD-ridden parasites. She made them human - so what was the effing point?!

I don't even mind a good-guy vampire with a sunny side, as long as it's remembered that they should still be axe-crazy undead murdermachines hellbent on death and destruction. Pissing off a vampire should not get you a slap to the face and a snarky insult. It should get you gutted, hung by your own entrails, and THEN a snarky insult as your life slowly fades away giving you just enough time to properly meditate on your idiocy.

>_> Sorry. Halloween I saw WAY TOO MANY FRIKKIN' RICEPIRES AND TWILIGHT LAMERS.

[Ebonykrow]

i lav you

[theGhost_and_theDarkness]

Ebonykrow, on 27 October 2009 - 07:28 AM, said:

I'm not aware of any good werewolf movies, but then again, I'm not big on mythological movies because so many things get ruined or it winds up having to be a love story.

My favorite werewolf movie of all time will have to be Silver Bullet. Filmed in my hometown of Wilmington, NC. *proud* I had to go get pictures of myself standing on the bridge that was part of one of the important scenes. Yeah, I'm a dork. . .*cough* ANYWAYS. . .

You've GOT to check it out. It was great. . .of course I can't say whether it was really TRULY great or if it was great because it was one of those movies that I grew up with. . .that and I went through a REALLY bad Lost Boys phase, and Silver Bullet had Corey Haim in it. I was fascinated by the fact that he had actually stood on that stupid bridge. Well. . he didn't actually stand on it, I guess, because he was in a wheelchair in that movie. . .And there were no love scenes either, just as an extra little bonus.

I really liked The Company of Wolves as well. It was a different spin of little red riding hood with werewolves. . .only the whole theme of the movie had nothing to do with werewolves. . .it was just a metaphor for sex and growing up (but there's no sex in it at all. . .which is great because that gets annoying these days). . .it was a really surreal and weird movie. One of those that sort of leave you messed up in the head for a few days because its so strange. But still, VERY good if you like the dark versions of fairy tales.

Sorry I don't have any info on the movie you saw. . .I just had to throw in my little two cents about some werewolf movies.

Here's some links to some "trailers" of the two. . .

The Company of Wolves

Silver Bullet

Both of these movies were filmed in the 80's. . .if you're a special effects junkie you might not like them. . .I'm not really. I go more for the storyline and suspense.

If you're interested in werewolf theories, maybe you'd be interested in berserkers as well. They were Norse warriors sometimes confused with shapeshifters because they were supposed to wear animal skins and fought so fiercely and animal like. They were able to work themselves into such a fury that they "gained" phenomenal strength and regular weapons didn't seem to bother them. They're very easy to explain scientifically. I don't know about other people, but when I get mad I get stronger and nothing seems to hurt me at all until after my anger has died down a bit. I can only imagine how scary a giant Nordic dude would be in a state 100 times worse than that running around in animal skins and acting like a mad man. They were eventually "banned" from their own land because they were so dangerous and unable to control their bloodlust. . .when they got into a fit of rage they killed friend and foe alike. After their rage wore off, they would get extremely weak for anywhere from a few days to a month or so. A few think that they could be one of many sources of werewolf stories. And, who knows, maybe they didn't use drugs like a lot of scholars think they did. Maybe it was just some genetic condition that made them prone to extreme anger and violence. . .That would mean that people like that could have been all over the world, and could still be around today.

Berserkers are really very fascinating to learn about. After studying about them, it made me feel better about my own anger management problems.

[fenris1011]

VIKINGS DON'T NEED WEREWOLF POWERS. Come on ebonykrow...YOU KNOW THIS.