[SHUDDER] Is Red Riding Hood the next Twilight?

[Weaver]

I don't think it's right to hate on this movie because it's the same director. Twilight's problems were not in it's direction, but in it's writing and acting. Considering the source material, what could you do?

If it makes you feel better, the person who directed Twilight: Eclipse was David Slade, who made 30 days of night and Hard Candy.

At least Tim Burton won't be the only one re-envisioning classic tales anymore.

 

[Bobbovski]

It does LOOK like Twilight and it will probably be pretty similar in style and story... But I don't think that it will be nearly as popular.

 

[MassiveGeek]

No.

Just. No.

I refuse.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

If it is than God help us all...

 

[Blazing Steel]

At first I thought it was a shitty Twilight spoof. I wasn't far off.

 

[maiqtheliar]

Didn't embed right.

And when did Edward commit rape? Did I miss something?

According to fans and a reviewer, yes, Bella loses her virginity while unconscious. She wakes up naked and bruised...and comes back for more. Horrible.

How does he get it up, if he's dead, and has no blood flow to his penis?

This is Stephanie Meyer's truly ridiculous, rambling explanation to this question.

"Vampires are physically similar enough to their human origins to pass as humans under some circumstances (like cloudy days). There are many basic differences. They appear to have skin like ours, albeit very fair skin. The skin serves the same general purpose of protecting the body. However, the cells that make up their skin are not pliant like our cells, they are hard and reflective like crystal. A fluid similar to the venom in their mouths works as a lubricant between the cells, which makes movement possible (note: this fluid is very flammable). A fluid similar to the same venom lubricates their eyes so that their eyes can move easily in their sockets. (However, they don't produce tears because tears exist to protect the eye from damage, and nothing is going to be able to scratch a vampire's eye.) The lubricant-venom in the eyes and skin is not able to infect a human the way saliva-venom can. Similarly, throughout the vampire's body are many versions of venom-based fluids that retain a marked resemblance to the fluid that was replaced, and function in much the same way and toward the same purpose. Though there is no venom replacement that works precisely like blood, many of the functions of blood are carried on in some form. Also, the nervous system runs in a slightly different but heightened way. Some involuntary reactions, like breathing, continue (in that specific example because vampires use the scents in the air much more than we do, rather than out of a need for oxygen). Other involuntary reactions, like blinking, don't exist because there is no purpose for them. The normal reactions of arousal are still present in vampires, made possible by venom-related fluids that cause tissues to react similarly as they do to an influx of blood. Like with vampire skin?which looks similar to human skin and has the same basic function?fluids closely related to seminal fluids still exist in male vampires, which carry genetic information and are capable of bonding with a human ovum. This was not a known fact in the vampire world (outside of Joham's personal experimenting) before Nessie, because it's nearly impossible for a vampire to be that near a human and not kill her."


tl;dr -- MAGICAL FLUIDS.

 

[AssassinJoe]

OT: Everything is like everything else. I mean Tranformers is like Voltron. Matrix is like every other action movie. Avatar is like Dances with Wolves. Really if you want something original go back in time and create it yourself then it will be otherwise don't complain. I really didn't get a Twilight vibe from the trailer when I saw it I thought of a darker re-imagined version of Red Riding Hood and that was it.

Ok, ok. your entitled to your own opinion and I respect that. I'm not looking to say you're wrong.

Just a few things though.....
Transformers sucked.....
The Matrix sequels sucked.....
Avator was good.....
The only non-Twilight vibe I got from this trailer was the fact that instead of a vampire, the girl was in love with a werewolf, which basically the plot of the second Twilight movie.

Ya want a darker reimagined version of Red Riding Hood? Look for a version where Red Riding Hood gets eaten!

 

[BlumiereBleck]

How did they get a wolf eating a girl and her granny and some cats lead a hunts man to slice the wolf open, and get that!

 

[sheogoraththemad]

* The director of Twilight also directed the multiple-award-winning Thirteen, and the pretty-damn-good-as-well Lords Of Dogtown.

which thirteen do you mean? if i may ask,

 

[ramboondiea]

i hate it when people make these half-assed attempts using fairytales as a base, mainly because it shatters my hope that someone will take the fairy tale base and create a genuingly good film, red riding hood is a story built on fear, it would make a fantastic horror film, this wont happen for a while now because of this drivel grrrrr

 

[Krion_Vark]

OT: Everything is like everything else. I mean Tranformers is like Voltron. Matrix is like every other action movie. Avatar is like Dances with Wolves. Really if you want something original go back in time and create it yourself then it will be otherwise don't complain. I really didn't get a Twilight vibe from the trailer when I saw it I thought of a darker re-imagined version of Red Riding Hood and that was it.

Ok, ok. your entitled to your own opinion and I respect that. I'm not looking to say you're wrong.

Just a few things though.....
Transformers sucked.....
The Matrix sequels sucked.....
Avator was good.....
The only non-Twilight vibe I got from this trailer was the fact that instead of a vampire, the girl was in love with a werewolf, which basically the plot of the second Twilight movie.

Ya want a darker reimagined version of Red Riding Hood? Look for a version where Red Riding Hood gets eaten!

Those were the only ones I can think of at the time I mean you can draw comparisons to anything and everything and say something is just like something else. The entire trailer in my opinion did not give off a Twilight vibe it was a lot more dark and just because it makes it seem like a character is something doesn't make that character that thing.

 

[BonsaiK]

* The director of Twilight also directed the multiple-award-winning Thirteen, and the pretty-damn-good-as-well Lords Of Dogtown.

which thirteen do you mean? if i may ask,

This one (i.e the good one, the one that was critically acclaimed and won multiple awards):


She also made this film:


Looks like the director everyone is taking potshots at actually has a pretty good track record. Wake up people. "Red Riding Hood" actually stands a reasonable chance of being good. Of course it might suck, but I'd certainly give it a chance before I started bashing it, and I certainly wouldn't bash it based purely on a preview alone when the fucking thing's not even made yet. Anyone who judges a film only on a preview is a fool, because previews can make a film look like anything. Remember the egg on your face many of you folks got when you whined about "that Facebook movie" The Social Network before it was out and the forums got filled with multiple "lol this will suck" threads - only a few people bothered to research the director's history on that one, and if they did, they would have known that it was going to be one of the films of the year - and it was.

It should be more violent.

You don't know how violent it is. You are watching a preview. It's uncommon for previews to have the most violent parts in them because a violent preview can't be screened to as many audiences.

I really didn't get a Twilight vibe from the trailer when I saw it I thought of a darker re-imagined version of Red Riding Hood and that was it.

Ya want a darker reimagined version of Red Riding Hood? Look for a version where Red Riding Hood gets eaten!

You don't know that this isn't in fact how it ends. Maybe she does get eaten? I agree with Krion, it just looks like a darker, more gothed-out adaptation of the fairytale.

Where the fuck do you get any of this movie from the actual story?!
Apart from the girl having an insanely long red cloak and the presence of a wolf (kinda) I don't see any resemblence to the fairy tale.

The actual Red Riding Hood story is a story that everybody knows, and it's also quite short, it would be hard to stretch out into a feature film without boring people stupid. They're clearly going to flesh things out in different directions and take a fair bit of creative license. Obviously there's the romance angle and so forth, but that's nothing new - let's face it, what reimagined folk take in the entire history of Hollywood doesn't have that kind of content? However what the film doesn't have is a Stephanie Meyer book behind it. That's a key point which everybody is ignoring.

It's obvious that the preview is pushing the "Twilight" buttons - of course it is, Twilight was massively popular and they want people to see the fucking thing don't they. However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Twilight fans aren't being baited-and-switched by this film, and it actually turns out to be a hell of a lot darker than they bargained for. Twilight haters aren't the only people who would be stupid to judge this by a preview, Twilight fans would also be naive to assume that this film is "for them"... I suspect that the Big Bad Wolf metaphor is quite apt and it's been chosen knowingly, the Twilight fans are the "Red Riding Hood" who is being lured into this film's gingerbread house of romance, only to find that the Big Bad Wolf of gothic violence is going to sever their limbs once they think they're safely inside... I could of course be wrong, but if I'm right you heard it here first...

 

[Jegsimmons]

wait...Gary Oldman....

GARY OLDMAN!?!?

What are you doing in that film!
your a shakespearian trained actor! you have a career to lose man!

i can tell the whole story from that commercial, the boys the werewolf...
thats all you need to know.

also...who keeps rapeing these 100 year old legends? first vampires and werewolves, nor red riding hood?
geez.

 

[dcdude171]

one question ..... what does this have to do with riding hood .... theres no wolf , the girl is like 15 years older than what she is in the novel , and there is a love interest for red wtf ??? seems like they could of called it something different like " this movie is gonna suck but people are still gonna see it cause it was made by the people from twlight " now i wanna see them try and fit that on the box art

 

[Voodoo_Person]

I think Hoodwinked did a better job at Little Red Riding hood if you ask me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVqRm8G97U

 

[BonsaiK]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Twilight fans aren't being baited-and-switched by this film, and it actually turns out to be a hell of a lot darker than they bargained for.

You're optimistic. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this turned out to be just another bandwagon cash-in. You know, like 90% of movies out there.

I could be wrong and you could be right, but my point is that nobody knows yet and all this knee-jerk bashing people are doing based only on a preview is incredibly lame.