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Werewolf (1995)
Bad Moon, Bad Movie
This is a jaw-droppingly, stunningly inept movie. I was amazed to find it was made in 1996! From the opening scene where a complete werewolf skeleton (!!!) is found by archaeologists who are digging in a quarry (!)WEREWOLF provides a full smorgasbord of really bad movie treats -- terrible dialogue, awful acting, talentless direction, amateurish make-up, poor lighting and very shoddy camera work -- the camera man's shadow can be seen in a few scenes. Not quite bad enough to deserve classic status, but may "improve" with age and a second viewing. See it and you'll never be afraid of the big bad wolf again.
Macbeth in Manhattan (1999)
Lite and trite tinkering with the Scottish play
This is a reasonably watchable and technically proficient exercise in the old life-imitating-art premiss. The writing and acting leave more to be desired. It features a host of all-too-familiar theatrical stereotypes, some of which have been around since 42nd Street. Thus we get the blustery, exasperated director, the egotistical leading man, the I-sacrificed-everything-for-my-art martyr, the swishy gays and the mother-hen stage manager. Watching actors play actors is often an excruciating experience and the revelation that their real lives often inform/ transform their performances is a very obvious platitude. The seeking of emotional parallels between the majesty of Macbeth and the trite little love triangle at the heart of this film is quite a dramatic stretch.Those with more than the writer/director's Cliff Notes understanding of the play will guess the ending well before it arrives. Given this troupe's dreadful delivery of Shakespeare's words in their rehearsals, their production of the play would have been uniquely lousy.