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24 Jan 2011, 4:55 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM8V3cHdSC4[/youtube]

Once again, Hollywood, you ruined my childhood! :evil:



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24 Jan 2011, 5:33 pm

Catherine Hardwicke is an utterly worthless piece of s**t. That is all.



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24 Jan 2011, 6:24 pm

Since I enjoyed the darker Alice in Wonderland, I thought a darker Red Riding Hood sounded really good. But then when I watched the trailer, my reaction was "Urgh..." It's definitely too Twilight-esque for my tastes.



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24 Jan 2011, 6:36 pm

IdahoRose wrote:
Since I enjoyed the darker Alice in Wonderland, I thought a darker Red Riding Hood sounded really good. But then when I watched the trailer, my reaction was "Urgh..." It's definitely too Twilight-esque for my tastes.


I liked The Company of Wolves. It's not completely based around the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but it's clearly inspired by it, and has a very dark tone.



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24 Jan 2011, 6:55 pm

Everything's become too Teeny-Bopper-Gothic for my tastes. Look at what David Yates has done to the latest Harry Potter films and tell me I'm not crazy.



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24 Jan 2011, 7:20 pm

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Everything's become too Teeny-Bopper-Gothic for my tastes. Look at what David Yates has done to the latest Harry Potter films and tell me I'm not crazy.


Yes... I'll take the Mary Shelley/Bram Stoker gothic instead anyday. Dark, macabre, and grotesque; otherwise it defeats the purpose. I don't mind an element of romanticism, but when it makes up 99% of a movie, that's not horror. As for Harry Potter... personally, I could never stand it. Though I am very much a shameless LOTR geek.



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24 Jan 2011, 10:31 pm

The only good thing about that movie is that Fever Ray is doing a new song for the soundtrack.


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24 Jan 2011, 10:50 pm

Xeno wrote:
raisedbyignorance wrote:
Everything's become too Teeny-Bopper-Gothic for my tastes. Look at what David Yates has done to the latest Harry Potter films and tell me I'm not crazy.


Yes... I'll take the Mary Shelley/Bram Stoker gothic instead anyday. Dark, macabre, and grotesque; otherwise it defeats the purpose. I don't mind an element of romanticism, but when it makes up 99% of a movie, that's not horror. As for Harry Potter... personally, I could never stand it. Though I am very much a shameless LOTR geek.


At least the LOTR films stayed true to its work and focused on it's sweeping epicness and storytelling. Harry Potter use to be like that but it's disintegrated into dull jokes every 5 minutes and pace-dragging teenage drama. I've read the books and they were nowhere near as annoying as the films have become.



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28 Jan 2011, 6:23 pm

Xeno wrote:
IdahoRose wrote:
Since I enjoyed the darker Alice in Wonderland, I thought a darker Red Riding Hood sounded really good. But then when I watched the trailer, my reaction was "Urgh..." It's definitely too Twilight-esque for my tastes.


I liked The Company of Wolves. It's not completely based around the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but it's clearly inspired by it, and has a very dark tone.


The Company Of Wolves was a great film! I first saw it (I think) when I was still in high school at the local theater. My less than imaginative friends who I saw it with couldn't understand it and didn't like it... So, wanting to fit in so badly in those days, I pretended I didn't, either. :(

But I really did. 8)

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28 Jan 2011, 6:48 pm

You'd think Disney would have done Little Red Riding Hood by now. :roll:


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02 Apr 2011, 3:50 pm

***SPOILER ALERT!***

Well, I did went to see this movie today, and even though it was "Twilight"-ish at some parts, it was rather decent. Like some people that saw "Red Riding Hood", it kept me thinking who was the werewolf that kept killing and terrorizing people that lived in the village of Daggerhorn. One scene that actually shocked me was when Father Solomon, the witch hunter who thinks an frantic, autistic child is an accomplice the wolf, puts him inside a brazen bull and kills him.



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02 Apr 2011, 3:51 pm

*double post*



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02 Apr 2011, 4:07 pm

roygerdodger wrote:
***SPOILER ALERT!***

Well, I did went to see this movie today, and even though it was "Twilight"-ish at some parts, it was rather decent. Like some people that saw "Red Riding Hood", it kept me thinking who was the werewolf that kept killing and terrorizing people that lived in the village of Daggerhorn. One scene that actually shocked me was when Father Solomon, the witch hunter who thinks an frantic, autistic child is an accomplice the wolf, puts him inside a brazen bull and kills him.


I hope father Solomon died horribly.

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02 Apr 2011, 4:17 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
roygerdodger wrote:
***SPOILER ALERT!***

Well, I did went to see this movie today, and even though it was "Twilight"-ish at some parts, it was rather decent. Like some people that saw "Red Riding Hood", it kept me thinking who was the werewolf that kept killing and terrorizing people that lived in the village of Daggerhorn. One scene that actually shocked me was when Father Solomon, the witch hunter who thinks an frantic, autistic child is an accomplice the wolf, puts him inside a brazen bull and kills him.


I hope father Solomon died horribly.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


He did, by the wolf, too.



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10 Apr 2011, 7:58 pm

The idea of a gothic/macabre Riding Hood was so appealing to me... I paid good money to see that film. :cry: Total waste. Hardwicke should never be allowed to direct a film again. I'll even sign a petition to ensure it.


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