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We watched this in Drama to prepare for our production...

posted 19 years ago by wwebrasil06
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and I swear we were all laguhing our heads off at how cheesy it was.
I didnt know it was even mass...watched!
the effects were so cheesy and the actors were all mediocre and the costumes. Oh. My. God. and what about that lucy? the girl playing lucy in my drama is this beautiful big eyed skinny thing and she thought it was hialrious.
I play Maulgrim ( Which for some reason my name is changed to Fenris Ulf for the play ) And people are scared of him on here?
I was supposed to be looking to get into my character but everytime He would change into a real wolf I would be on the floor.
I enjoyed this movie VERY much. I have never laughed so hard.
OH!
and Mr. beaver! he looked liek he was wrapped in brown astro-turf.
I seriosuly thought this was some cheapo film my drama director found that maybe 20 people on the planet had seen.
really.

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[–] angelfish81 18 years ago

i was about 7 when this first came on tv. i watched it and thought it was great

Ditto the above for me (born in 1981, saw the BBC version in 1988) - and I still do think it's great at the age of 24 (I have the 4 disc DVD set).

If you watch it when you're young enough, the lack of money for mind-blowing effects etc doesn't matter, your imagination can be flexible enough to accept the parts that are a bit patchy and just go along with it.

IMHO it doesn't really matter if the budget is tiny, and costumes look a bit questionable etc, as long as the story is still good enough to keep you interested. Maybe I'm just easy to please, lol. :\

[–] Anightowl 18 years ago

I feel lucky that I watched this first when I was little in the early 90's, so I got the full magic of it rather than concentrating on the graphics, but yes I can fully understand a "modern day" audience laughing their heads off at it.

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[–] DragonflyS6 18 years ago

What the hell do you expect? The movie was made in 1988. Besides, I think that this one had the supierior script/book adaptation when it comes down to it. I like the new one and enjoyed it but the writing wasn't as good. I think we have sacrificed dialouge in favor of lavish visuals.

[–] ceebeegee 18 years ago

The Wolf is called Fenris Ulf in the version that was published in America, whereas the British version called him Maugrim.

[–] fight_it_all 18 years ago

Wonder why they decided to throw in a Norse-mythology refrence in the american version?
(Fenris Ulf, or Ulven, was the gigantic Wolf-son of Loki in Norse mythology)

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[–] CoriSCapnSkip (1566) 4 months ago

If you think the film was bad how on earth did you get lions and things onstage?