Red Riding hood, Really?

[godfist88]

it's the crap theory, if something stupid becomes popular, then a ton of other crap shall come that imitates it. it happened before with pokemon. and it's happening again.

as sullivan from dead rising 2 would put it.
"you're child hood memories were a small price to pay, this wasn't the first time and certainly wont be the last."

 

[Mr.Mattress]

I reacently saw a commercial for a new horror movie and it looked okay (but i dont like horror so whatever) so i was wondering what it was and i saw it was red riding hood... REALLY i feal like media is just rying to murder my child hood anyone else?

Wikipedia reveals...

Yes you did see it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Riding_Hood_%282011_film%29]

Bonus points because its not actually about Little Red Riding Hood.

... REALLY?! WERE WOLVES?! Well, it's at least better then what I originally thought it was gonna be... (I thought it was gonna be a Human with the name "Big Bad Wolf" instead of being a wolf)... But this looks like crap. I mean, seriously! Gosh darn it! Sometimes, Darker and Edgier don't, WORK!!

 

[OldGus]

I reacently saw a commercial for a new horror movie and it looked okay (but i dont like horror so whatever) so i was wondering what it was and i saw it was red riding hood... REALLY i feal like media is just rying to murder my child hood anyone else?

Wikipedia reveals...

Yes you did see it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Riding_Hood_%282011_film%29]

Bonus points because its not actually about Little Red Riding Hood.

Took one read of the premise.
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And I'm pretty darn sure the werewolf is Peter. Now I think the only question is whether or not (insert any character here) will die.

Odd... im sure the original story had something to do with a little girl taking food to her sick granny. Not something that vaugely resembes a Twilight clone thats directed by the same guy who did Twilight just after Twilight finished its run of movies.

I may be a fast reader, but im often a thorough one too.

Sir, the measure of how much of a Twilight clone this is will be determined by the amount of unnecessary and unrelated sexual tension in a story that on the whole is about a werewolf hunt.
And now that I've seen the trailer, and the rating, I realize there might be the possibility that the werewolf is someone completely different and that we are supposed to suspect Peter. Damn you ratings. I still think its either Peter or one of her family members though.
Its either that or a Disney-esque twist, where one werewolf saves her from a more dangerous one. But I still think its this twist.
"My, what big eyes you have."
"All the better to see you with."
"My, what big paws you have."
"All the better to hold you with."
"My, what a big tongue you have."
"Yes, well... yes."
"My, what a big--"
"Yes, I know."
"Its as big as--"
"Yes, I know. There is a reason."

 

[Zechnophobe]

Directed by the same guy who directed Twilight indeed.
Also, Brothers Grim.

I oddly liked Brothers Grimm. It was one of the few primarily horror movies that appealed to me.

Also, and this is important... what the HECK is going on in your avatar? Is that some like, smoke no-jitzu shit being done there? How I make bubble go away?

 

[octafish]

Ahh it won't be as good as Angela Carter's "In the Company of Wolves" or Freeway. Freeway was great BTW, Freeway 2 was not. If you think this is ruining your childhood don't read Neil Gaiman's take on Snow White "Snow, Apples, Glass"... creepy... or again Angela Carter's "Snow Child"...

 

[Astoria]

Many childhood stories and movies are actually quite violent and disturbing when you really think about it. Take a closer look at pretty much every Disney movie ever and they suddenly don't seem so innocent. I mean they killed Mufasa! I'm still scared because of that. This actually sound quite interesting, I might check it out.

 

[DevilWolf47]

Haven't there already been Red Riding Hood themed horrors?
...and pornos?

At this stage we're so low on ideas we're recycling the old ideas of drawing horror from old childhood tales? And the Twilight people?

I for one am predicting total disaster. If Dead Space 2 was any indication, people have completely forgotten how to make horror. No one goes for atmosphere or proper psychological elements, it's all slasher bullshit and some allusions to serial killers. The most recent good horror flick i've seen was made in the 90s for fucks sake. What ever happened to the Team Silent people? Or maybe Frictional Games could loan Hollywood a few writers. I'm just sick of crappy horrors.

But to those with the balls to check it out, i should also bring up The Fighter, RED, and District 9. People are beginning to remember how to make good sports flicks, action flicks, and sci-fi flicks. Maybe one aspect of Red Riding Hood will lead to a good horror flick in the future.
...and maybe a monkey will fly out of my ass and snap my dogs neck...

 

[Ashsaver]

In the original version:Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother are dead and the wolf got away.

What even more disturbing was that the Wolf tricked Red into unknowingly eating her own gradmother's flesh and blood.

The Grimm Brothers,and Charles Perrault converted M rated gorefest into an E rated fairy tale.

 

[archvile93]

You ought to reread Little Red Riding Hood as an adult. It's kind of fucked up.

Yes. Yes it is. Red Riding hood is a good girl. Shit, she's here to help her grandma. I guess the lesson was, good intentions are no shield from harm. Or maybe don't trust strangers. Or maybe "watch your ass in the woods." Heck there's a lot of good lessons there.

The moral I always got out of that story was, "always pack heat." Did the original really end with her getting eaten? I knew the grandmother did, but not the kid too.

 

[hudsonzero]

Directed by the same guy who directed Twilight indeed.
Also, Brothers Grim.

beaten to the punch again
OT: the original brothers grim is in actuality very violent and if i remember correctly contains a strip tease.

 

[SilverUchiha]

I reacently saw a commercial for a new horror movie and it looked okay (but i dont like horror so whatever) so i was wondering what it was and i saw it was red riding hood... REALLY i feal like media is just rying to murder my child hood anyone else?

Michael Bay already ruined my childhood nothing can make me forget those horrible Transformer movies.

Just watch the first Transformers movie (and by that, I mean the ONLY transformers movie from the 80's). that should make you feel a bit better about the world. (but only a bit).

OT: (offtopic, sorta): Imagine if Michael Bay directed Red Riding Hood... I can only imagine how immensely fucked up that would be... but I bet it would also be funny at the same time out of sheer stupidity.

 

[SilverStuddedSquirre]

Get ready for it, Hollywood has no good writers! Yes, Hollywood is going to spend the next 20 years BUTCHERING THE LIVING BE-JESUS out of whatever they can license.

To be honest, the writers aren't really the ones to blame. From what I understand, movies are like this, it doesn't involve some writer just sitting at his desk and deciding that the worlds needs another "Transformers" movie, most movie ideas come from the producers as long as they can agree that the film can attract two of the four key audiences (Young Men, Young Women, Older Men, Older Women) then they'd be willing to make it, the writers are just the one hired on to fill in the gaps in the plot so it can get from Point A to Point B, it doesn't really matter if you wrote Citizen Kane, if a producer sees fit you can be stuck on writing the Smurfs remake.

Ok but answer me this: Why, when a producer decides to say do a TRANSFORMERS movie, does he not hire a writer who has maybe, i don't know, seen 1 episode? My problem is that in these remakes, the story is often sub, sub, sub par. There was no reason to have the central plot to the movies be so brain-boilingly gawdaful. Essentially, i want to know why the plot must be re-written if it came from a tv show or comic, but is more frequently lovingly done tribute in the case of a BOOK. See, LotR, Narnia, Jurrassic Park, DaVinci Code.

Although in defense of Michael Bay, he really would not know a good story if it kicked him in the junk.

 

[mireko]

I really want to hate this movie on principle, but it has Gary Oldman in it, so I can't bring myself to do so.

Tho GO wouldn't let me down!

-m

The Book of Eli

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[Ghengis John]

You ought to reread Little Red Riding Hood as an adult. It's kind of fucked up.

Yes. Yes it is. Red Riding hood is a good girl. Shit, she's here to help her grandma. I guess the lesson was, good intentions are no shield from harm. Or maybe don't trust strangers. Or maybe "watch your ass in the woods." Heck there's a lot of good lessons there.

The moral I always got out of that story was, "always pack heat." Did the original really end with her getting eaten? I knew the grandmother did, but not the kid too.

It is debatable. The trend among internet kiddies is to assume everything that exists has been watered down and pasteurized for modern audiences. That the old stories were all "darker" and "cooler" and that any differences are the result of pc tampering. The truth is however that the tale was told differently in all kinds of places. The girl wasn't always saved by a woodsman, some stories have her eaten up, others have her escaping. I read an old version where she was "eaten all up" and assumed this was the oldest version, but turns out the french never told it that way. And some folks had her tied to the wolf by a string and then she escapes. So again, "original" is a hard thing to peg down for a story this old.

 

[The_Echo]

It's "loosely based" on the story.

That is to say, it'll have nothing in common except a wolf and a girl with a red cloak, and potentially a grandmother of some sort. How they even manage to write that very simple story skeleton into a full fledged horror film is beyond me.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Still waiting for a live-action Hellsing movie...

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...Still disappointed...

 

[Trivun]

I reacently saw a commercial for a new horror movie and it looked okay (but i dont like horror so whatever) so i was wondering what it was and i saw it was red riding hood... REALLY i feal like media is just rying to murder my child hood anyone else?

You do realise this is much, much closer to the sex/blood/guts original version of the story, right? Something I personally applaud, by the way.

I reacently saw a commercial for a new horror movie and it looked okay (but i dont like horror so whatever) so i was wondering what it was and i saw it was red riding hood... REALLY i feal like media is just rying to murder my child hood anyone else?

Michael Bay already ruined my childhood nothing can make me forget those horrible Transformer movies.

Also isnt Red Riding Hood directed by the same guy who directed Twilight?

I think I have said enough.

Catherine Hardwicke (the FEMALE director of the first Twilight film), like everyone else involved in said film, had previously been attached to plenty of GOOD projects too, that were critical and commercial successes. If this was written by Stephanie Meyer, then we'd havecause for concern, but it isn't, and thus your hatred is severely misplaced.

 

[Dr_Horrible]

meh, I would love to see a red riding hood movie that goes for the character-based, mystery/suspense piece that the trailer seemed to want to be up until the twilight-mania kicked in (at least in the trailer I saw). Actually, a movie like what I just described would be frickin' awesome...

As it is, this is just another insubstantial piece of teen drama that's not worth bothering about except for mocking purposes.

 

[Risingblade]

Directed by the same guy who directed Twilight indeed.
Also, Brothers Grim.

I did not know that

 

[lacktheknack]

I reacently saw a commercial for a new horror movie and it looked okay (but i dont like horror so whatever) so i was wondering what it was and i saw it was red riding hood... REALLY i feal like media is just rying to murder my child hood anyone else?

Wanna hear the oral tradition, ie. the ORIGINAL Red Riding Hood?

No, you don't. It involves wolf-rape.