In the past 20 years, have any movie werewolves NOT been totally lame?

[Orrex]

Honestly, I can't think of one.

Van Helsing? Lame!
Underworld? Super-lame!
American Werewolf in Paris? Incredibly lame!
New Moon? Looks pretty darned lame, from what I've seen.
Cursed Pretty lame in spite of (?) Wes Craven and Christina Ricci.

I'd almost be willing to credit Wolf with not being too lame, but it was still pretty weak.

It seems like, with the advent of CGI, they just stopped trying. :wtf:

[Auggie]

1. The Wolfman remake with Benicio del Toro looks great

[Orrex]

3. I can't wait to see that one.

He's grossly underappreciated as an actor, despite the Oscar.

But have any others not been totally lame?

[Auggie]

6. Uhhh....

haven't seen them

:blush:

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Country's going to the dogs, I tell ya.

[Orrex]

5. It was very wrong of you to post that.

Shame.

Shame!

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Couldn't resist.....

:rofl: :rofl:

[Forkboy]

4. Like Jim Robinson, I'm stumped.

[Pab Sungenis]

7. Don't know about movies, but

George from "Being Human" is my favorite portrayal of a werewolf yet.

[Orrex]

8. Ooh! Missed that one!

That pic looks pretty cool. Old-school werewolf cool.

[Pab Sungenis]

25. It's a British TV series.

A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost all get a flat together. Brilliant stuff. Find it if you can.

[Forkboy]

26. You'll be thrilled to know that SyFy is making an American version of that.

:yoiks:

http://scifiwire.com/2009/10/syfy-plans-an-american-ve.php

[Oregone]

9. I saw an ok one

British spec ops team gets stuck out in the wilderness on a training mission. They get attacked and holed up into a little home. Totally forgot the name of it though. Was it "Dog Soldiers"?

[Orrex]

17. Oh, yeah! I heard that one was pretty good.

Didn't see it, though, and I have no idea how the werewolves looked.

[Oregone]

20. They barely showed em in the whole movie

A lot of suspense.

There is also the Ginger Snaps deal, if thats your cup of tea. Not really mine.

Wolf, and the one where the mom and son wolf got it on, Underworld had some wolfie stuff, but sucked in its own right.

[elocs]

10. You mean, "in your opinion" they are totally lame.

Or has there been a ruling from God on this, or Dennis Kucinich, which on DU is the same thing?

[Forkboy]

12. Why so serious?

[Orrex]

14. Duh. There was no werewolf in that movie.

Honestly!

[Orrex]

16. My opinion is fact.

Any other questions?

[elocs]

18. Yes, so many, but where would I start? n/t

[Orrex]

19. Alphabetize them

And it would help if you can ask them in the form of a limerick.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. As a practicing lycanthropist, I have to agree with you

none of them are any where near accurate

[Orrex]

15. See? This is the kind of expert commentary I was seeking.

[Walk away]

23. Is it true that if you practice lycanthropy you become a perfect..

lycanthropist?

[Orrex]

24. I thought that was when you donated a ton of money to pro-wolf causes

Because, you know, nobody wants to deal with an amateur wolf.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

32. Wrong...amateurs do it for the love of it, pros do it for pay

[ProgressiveProfessor]

31. Indeed, its sort of a spiritual thing

[ezgoingrl]

21. You've forgotten the ever popular and even more exciting:

Silver Bullet!!!!

[Orrex]

22. Is that Cornelius on the right?

Anyway, I isolated my rant to the last twenty years, and Silver Bullet was 1985!

[shadowknows69]

27. "Dog Soldiers" was a good movie.

[Orrex]

28. Oregone suggest that one upthread

Haven't seen it, but I'm intrigued!

[Iggo]

29. Ginger Snaps....not lame.

EDITED TO ADD: Oh! You meant the effects. Um yeah, Ginger Snaps is totally lame, then. I just thought the story was great.

[Echo In Light]

35. +1

[ZombieHorde]

30. I can't think of one. nt

[Broken_Hero]

33. Well, best ones I've seen

were from Underworld, :shrug:

Wolf wasn't bad either..

[Dr. Strange]

34. Clearly you've never seen Teen Wolf.

An amazing allegory of the human condition set amidst the backdrop of a basketball-playing lycanthrope.

[Echo In Light]

36. My favorite is still Rob Bottin's work in The Howling (1981)

Tepid film, but includes some great old horror actors camping it up











"Call it a gift...Bright Boy" (Kevin Smith later stole that line for his hilarious good vs evil send-up, Dogma)



Although some of you may be more familiar w/Rob Bottin's FX in John Carpenter's re-working of The Thing:





Bottin got his start by somehow getting in to see John Carpenter, and convincing him to let him do some FX work, along w/playing Blake, leader of the doomed ghost zombie's in The Fog:



http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j4twdnk8ZvI/SQkGGr9bkeI/AAAAAAAABsU/0PJLpLlNCSw/s800/the+fog.jpg

FX guru, Rob Bottin:




Also, as far as werewolf movies go, I'm partial to both of these:





"It's all in the head, Dewey."

... which has Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, and one of my all time favorite actors, the inimitable Tom Noonan (What Happened Was... The Wife, and a long list of others, including the recent Synecdoche, New York, Follow the Prophet, and The House of the Devil.



And of course...



"What's that star on the wall for?"

[mackerel]

37. I wish more threads on DU were like this one. Great read.

[4lbs]

38. Yup, 'The Howling' is still a classic. I'd say the 30 year old special effects still are quite good

compared to today's CGI.

[Tanuki]

39. Did you ever see the Dave Chapelle sketch

where he was a werewolf and his roommates were Frankenstein and the Mummy, and they all thought they were being discriminated against at their jobs? :rofl: