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RobbieFTW
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| | Subject: Red Riding Hood Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:42 am | |
| This movie is getting SLAUGHTERED in review. It only received 5% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. . . 3 good 53 bad. Kinda wanted to see it but now i got doubts. | |
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Tony Marino
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| | Subject: Re: Red Riding Hood Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:51 pm | |
| I usually don't go by the reviews, I have seen some good movies when the reviews have slaughtered them. I have been wanting to see RRH since last year when I heard about it and I will go see it regardless. | |
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Shale
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| | Subject: Re: Red Riding Hood Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:26 pm | |
| I don't trust reviews to be honest. Although the trailers are what kind of told me to stay away.  | |
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JWF
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Shale
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| | Subject: Re: Red Riding Hood Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:44 am | |
| Red Riding Hood
Movie Blurb by Shale
March 12, 2011
This movie was pretty much trashed by critics (aggregate 12% liked it) but 65% of audiences liked it. It is the retelling of the ancient folk tale but with a not so little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf.
The setting is the Dark Ages in a small village where Valerie (Amanda Seyfried - Red Riding Hood) is betrothed to the blacksmith's son Henry (Max Irons).
Henry & Valerie
They make a cute couple, but Valerie has long been in love with Peter (Shiloh Fernandez) a lowly woodcutter.
Peter & Valerie
This village has been living with a wolf that strikes every full moon but has been placated by goats and pigs left out for it until one night it kills Valerie's sister. Then as the hunting party goes looking for it another man is killed. The truce has been broken and the local priest calls in Father Solomon (Gary Oldman).
Inquisitor/Witch Hunter/Werewolf Slayer
Father Solomon lets the village know that the werewolf could be any one of them by day and for the rest of the movie the villagers suspect everyone, as do we. It turns out to be a murder mystery as well as a teen love story with two male rivals for one girl. (Hmmm, where have we seen that theme before?)
The story has all the elements of the folk tale in it, including a grandmother who lives in the woods and gives Valerie a red hoodie.
Red Riding Hood & Grandma
The movie had lots of little things wrong with it, but it wasn't that bad. We had several suspects for the werewolf and it was interesting to see who it would not be. It is rated PG-13 and I suspect the target audience as with Twilight is teens who don't care about the liberties taken with Medieval customs, or even the dialogue. After all, it is the expansion of a simple folk tale that's been around for 700 years and dressed up to appeal to this demographic. Of which, very few are movie critics.
OH, I forgot to mention. Bella's daddy Charlie (Billy Burke) is in this movie as Valerie's daddy. | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: Red Riding Hood Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:21 am | |
| Could Max act? He has quite a pedigree. | |
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Tony Marino
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| | Subject: Re: Red Riding Hood Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:59 pm | |
| I saw it, yes he can act. The movie itself was o.k. I would wait for cable or DVD for this one. Its not a movie you would want to take the kids to see since there is some violence involved. | |
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Tony Marino
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| | Subject: Re: Red Riding Hood Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:00 pm | |
| - Shale wrote:
- Red Riding Hood
Movie Blurb by Shale
March 12, 2011
This movie was pretty much trashed by critics (aggregate 12% liked it) but 65% of audiences liked it. It is the retelling of the ancient folk tale but with a not so little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf.
The setting is the Dark Ages in a small village where Valerie (Amanda Seyfried - Red Riding Hood) is betrothed to the blacksmith's son Henry (Max Irons).
Henry & Valerie
They make a cute couple, but Valerie has long been in love with Peter (Shiloh Fernandez) a lowly woodcutter.
Peter & Valerie
This village has been living with a wolf that strikes every full moon but has been placated by goats and pigs left out for it until one night it kills Valerie's sister. Then as the hunting party goes looking for it another man is killed. The truce has been broken and the local priest calls in Father Solomon (Gary Oldman).
Inquisitor/Witch Hunter/Werewolf Slayer
Father Solomon lets the village know that the werewolf could be any one of them by day and for the rest of the movie the villagers suspect everyone, as do we. It turns out to be a murder mystery as well as a teen love story with two male rivals for one girl. (Hmmm, where have we seen that theme before?)
The story has all the elements of the folk tale in it, including a grandmother who lives in the woods and gives Valerie a red hoodie.
Red Riding Hood & Grandma
The movie had lots of little things wrong with it, but it wasn't that bad. We had several suspects for the werewolf and it was interesting to see who it would not be. It is rated PG-13 and I suspect the target audience as with Twilight is teens who don't care about the liberties taken with Medieval customs, or even the dialogue. After all, it is the expansion of a simple folk tale that's been around for 700 years and dressed up to appeal to this demographic. Of which, very few are movie critics.
OH, I forgot to mention. Bella's daddy Charlie (Billy Burke) is in this movie as Valerie's daddy.
At first I wasn't sure it was Charlie, Bella's Dad, wasn't used to seeing him looking so scruffy and without his moustache. | |
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