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How are these werewolves?

posted 15 years ago by wolvesfan23
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Does anyone else think they did a horrible job in designing the werewolves for this film? One scene I feel proves my point. When Serafine's werewolf is battling another werewolf, we see her look up right before Andy shoots her. Just simply pause the movie when the werewolf looks up and ask yourself, "Where is there any resemblence to a wolf?"

Another scene is when Andy's werewolf is going after the cop in the graveyard. Again pause it when you see the werewolf racing towards him and you can't see anything close to a wolf. It looks and sounds more like a werehog or something.

[–] germite 15 years ago

Yeah, definitely - I thought the CGI werewolves were really lacking. I understand that this was over 10 years ago, but I see the werehog resemblance (that might make a fascinating movie) and thought they looked similar to primates at times too (weremonkeys?). Their design was pretty strange.

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[–] anak-7 15 years ago

they look similar to primates because humans look similar to primates. they look similar to humans because they aren't wolves, they are...

WERE-WOLVES

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English werwulf (akin to Old High German werwolf werewolf), from wer man + wulf wolf

See for yourself: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/werewolf

You people are just looking for something to criticize.

[–] speedolitec 15 years ago

While I understand, both that werewolves, since they're fictional monsters that aren't exactly supposed to be wolves per se, it's up to the interpretaion of the artists, and even though the movie is 12 years old, the effects are awful. It makes the ones from the first AWIL or even the Howling look 10x more realistic.

[–] ShifterGSWTSF 15 years ago

I think they looked more like female lions.

[–] FourKay 14 years ago

They are pretty scary but nothing compares to the werewolf in Bad Moon.

[–] MickyMac (2950) 5 years ago

Bad Moon werewolf is one of the coolest.

[–] Stacehoney72 14 years ago

and thought they looked similar to primates at times too (weremonkeys?).

i thought the same thing too! they looked more like gorillas than werewolves. :)

[–] Monknificent 10 years ago

Hmmm... We may look at it now and excuse it by saying "Weeeeell, it was 1997" but then I checked when Jurassic Park was made, and what do you know? It was 1993!!! Then I look at Godzilla (the Matthew Broderick one), which, although pretty poor as a film, had some superb creature CGI, and that came in 1998, a mere year later! So no excuses as far as the technology goes - it had long "gotten there"; it was just a lack of talented animators / the money to splash on them.

Fast forward another 17 years and today, one single good animator could model the creatures and animate all their sequences in a few months (and do a great, CONVINCING job, WORLDS APART from what we have in the film) using just a top-end home computer! (For the CPU-intensive final renderings, he/she could speed up that process by way of a cpu-farm.)

[–] YanderePrime 15 years ago

They looked like the ancestors of the werewolf in the third Harry Potter movie.

Werewolves shouldn't be hairless....they're supposed to be covered in hair.

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[–] JupiterStorm 14 years ago

I completely agree. The design team did a horrible job. They looked NOTHING like wolves.
Someone tried to use a counter-argument that they should resemble primates. Ridiculous. They should look more like wolves than anything else. More wolves than human, for the full moon is a time where the wolf part of them has completely taken over.

The werewolf in Harry Potter was almost as bad.

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[–] glynis23-282-577521 10 years ago

Probably didn't them to look like a wolf's head on a man's body.

[–] RavenFilmsAndReviews 14 years ago

Their problem is that they made them CGI before anyone was good at making CGI fur. That's where it lacks for me

Harry Potter is overrated anyway...

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[–] glynis23-282-577521 10 years ago

Think they tried to make them look like mutated humans on all fours with the lighter fur and human like ears

http://www.werewolf-movies.com/screens/movie_21-3.jpg

[–] glynis23-282-577521 10 years ago

Perhaps it would work if they were mutants or science based like the vampires in blade.

Probably didn't want them to be design like a man with a wolf head, they look partly influence by the mid transformation in London.

[–] glynis23-282-577521 10 years ago

The prosthetic werewolves in this films looked better than the CG ones.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a87/mvpgs/awwp/americanwip03.jpg
http://br.web.img3.acsta.net/medias/nmedia/18/87/12/86/19893035.jpg

[–] glynis23-282-577521 10 years ago

They look more like the mid transformation from the first film

http://www.propstore.com/content/propstorecollection/animatronic/dvd2. jpg
http://geekshizzle.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/American-werewolf-in -london.jpg

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