The idea of this film sickens me a little bit- especially considering who directed it… but Gary Oldman is a light at the end of the tunnel… so is Amanda Seyfried, I like her. But…
Ya… so- the use of color is quite vibrant and eye catching… but… as I was watching it, I felt that something was wrong… that something was incredibly off about it… there was something incredibly fake about the piece (and I don’t mean in the sense that its about Little Red Riding Hood.) There was something false about the cohesiveness of the people on screen- something faux about what they were saying and the way they were acting… I couldn’t understand what was so askew about this whole thing… then…
…then it said the whole “From the director of…” bit. I turned it off. At THAT point- I reloaded the page and tried again- thinking I could look past the previous directorial works- it was impossible… the trailer immediately went from being “A movie that might not suck” into” “All I can see is sparkly vampires and terribly fake romantic connections.” All my previous questions were instantly answered.
Gary Oldman… can you carry the entire weight of a film just by being you… or is it actually possible for you to be involved in something as wrong as I expect this to be? I don’t know- I have hopes that a Riding Hood piece would come out… but this just seems convoluted with another bestiality love story…