Give it up "Willard"!!!
Mar. 9th, 2003 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimon66Where ever I turn, I encounter an ad of some sort for that movie - this wouldn't be a bad thing except it looks anything but good.
Hollywood, has once again succumbed to laziness - "Why think up something new and hurt ourselves straining our unsed flabby brains when we can remake a past movie and stuff it full of CGI effects?"
From what I've seen so far in the TV comercials, the effects are bad - they look cheap in some scenes and way overdone in others. Crispan Glover's mugging doesn't help any either.
The original "Willard" used real rats that acted like real rats. There wasn't any over-the-top rat scenes like what the new "Willard" has in it (Glover standing up and being covered in a pile of painfully obivious badly done CGI created rats - orginal "Willard" the a large number of real rats running around close to and in and out of the feet of Bruce Davidson).
Bruce Davidson made Willard a likeable character - here was a basically nice guy getting unfairly dumped on by pretty much everybody and not having any real way of standing up for himself, until he happened to take pity on a rat he was supposed to drown (Mom order him to do something about the rats in the house so Willard made-up a water trap) and winds-up making friends with the rodents who stuck with him until he decided to get rid of them in a nasty way (why he just didn't explain things to them and ask to part ways with him - I bet the rats would have done it).
Crispen Glover - sorry, this guy is not anyway sympathic. Everytime I see his face in the Willard ads, want to punch him once, twice, several times.
Of course, it'll probably be #1 at the box-office on its opening weekend.
Hollywood, has once again succumbed to laziness - "Why think up something new and hurt ourselves straining our unsed flabby brains when we can remake a past movie and stuff it full of CGI effects?"
From what I've seen so far in the TV comercials, the effects are bad - they look cheap in some scenes and way overdone in others. Crispan Glover's mugging doesn't help any either.
The original "Willard" used real rats that acted like real rats. There wasn't any over-the-top rat scenes like what the new "Willard" has in it (Glover standing up and being covered in a pile of painfully obivious badly done CGI created rats - orginal "Willard" the a large number of real rats running around close to and in and out of the feet of Bruce Davidson).
Bruce Davidson made Willard a likeable character - here was a basically nice guy getting unfairly dumped on by pretty much everybody and not having any real way of standing up for himself, until he happened to take pity on a rat he was supposed to drown (Mom order him to do something about the rats in the house so Willard made-up a water trap) and winds-up making friends with the rodents who stuck with him until he decided to get rid of them in a nasty way (why he just didn't explain things to them and ask to part ways with him - I bet the rats would have done it).
Crispen Glover - sorry, this guy is not anyway sympathic. Everytime I see his face in the Willard ads, want to punch him once, twice, several times.
Of course, it'll probably be #1 at the box-office on its opening weekend.
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Date: Mar. 10th, 2003 09:26 am (UTC)