The Wolfman

[ciro22]

On a different note, did anybody here attend the Enfield screening and get completely *** off by all of the ridiculous security measures that the clueless staff were trying to put into place?!

There were supposed to be 300 people there for the screening but they wouldn't even let you into the building if you didn't show them a ticket (which caused problems if you were meeting someone there).

They then made everybody wait in a huge queue in the foyer until about 5 mins before the film was about to start (with a security guard patrolling up and down the line) - that's not so bad in itself, only the problem was that when they did start letting people through they insisted on checking everybody's ID. Now if they're going to do all that business then they could and should have started much earlier and cleared the queue. (I won't even go into the fact that it looked like they eventually let all the people they did stop for not having matching ID's into the screening anyway thereby rendering the whole process totally pointless!) As it happens, this delayed the screening by about 15-20 mins (I don't mind late screenings but I know that other people on here already thought that 10:30pm was too late to begin with) but things were still ridiculous even after you made it through the checkpoint.

My girfriend went off to the toilet before the film started (a bit annoying perhaps but not ridiculous... ) and when she tried to get into the screen she was told that she couldn't do so unless she had a ticket with her. Luckily she pointed out just how stupid they were all being (you go girl! ) because they took away our ticket as we went through and you have to show a valid ticket to make it through in the first place! Eventually the staff accepted the situation but insisted that she still be escorted by them into the screen...

As for me, I was told that I had to show them I was switching off my mobile phone in order to go through the screen, and when I explained that people would just switch their phones back on once inside (which they did) I was told that they would be monitoring the audience with infra-red cameras and anybody with their phone on would be ejected...

All of this nonsense... for The Wolfman?!

Anyway, the moral of the story is that you should probably avoid screenings in Enfield if you can...

[Sydney_Bristow]

love the critique, Ethan! A runt you ain't!

Having said that, no thanks for making me feel like giving it a miss!

Grrr...still gonna watch it!!!

[tonethestone]

oh dear, that doesnt sound good. still its all about personal opinion. some people like district 9, which i thought was rubbish, it cant be as bad as that surely.

[EthanRunt]

It's a matter of opinion I guess.
I wasn't gonna see it after the reviews popped up, but I decided to anyway.
Maybe most people will enjoy the elements in the film, I'm not one of them.

[alythonian]

I saw this in Edinburgh last night. There were only 2 empty seats I could see from where I was sitting. We were in the screening room, so big comfy seats which was nice.

The film was certainly true to the original; infact I'm not really sure why exactly they bothered with a remake? It wasn't full of CGI so I am slightly confused at the remake as surely CGI was an opportunity to be taken not largely ignored? Still, it was considerably less scary with hairy masks and make up rather than full CGI werewlves, so than probably suited me as I'm not a big horror fan.

the story was lame and the cating was pretty lame too. i enjoyed Anthony Hopkins whilst he tripped through Welsh, English and at one point, Irish accents. Emily Blunt was underused and generally looked pretty bored throughout.

It's not a bad film, it's just not a good one either, but if you love old horror films with "he's behind you" action and stick on fangs and nails then you'll love this.

I enjoyed it in a silly sort of way!

[RioBravo]

You are pretty dismissive about a lot of films people liked! Most people here really liked Invictus, there are mixed reviews on The Lovely Bones, but I happen to see it a second time tonight so I guess we are all different!

I guess so, but its from people who I genuinely trust on film. I don't agree with them on every film, but I still know that The Lovely Bones is almost certainly a waste of time for me. Invictus might be decent, but it cannot realistically be great. Both would presumably be a lot better than that Credit Crunch garbage. I stayed in and watched Modern Times, Brief Encounter, Ivan's Childhood, all of which turned out to be masterpieces.

I found yourself and many other rather dismissive of A Serious Man, which I consider to be a definite 10/10 classic. Many of the complaints about it had to do with the fact that the beginning and end did not provide the answers that people were looking for, which is a bit like criticizing I'm Alan Partridge for having a central character who's a bit of a knobhead.

I find the tendency for multiplexes to supply a constant stream of mediocrity to be quite boring.

[AYBG]

Came down to Southampton with a couple of friends for this, sadly the cinema didn't have the film. Managed to get vouchers as compensation, but still...

At least it doesn't look like we missed out on a great film...

[opas]

West India Quay was packed, was very surprised. I thought there would be about 17 people there. Not many seats available and security was very tight although not as bad as Enfield.

I missed any trailers as we had a bit of a drama crossing the river (the blackwall tunnel closed) but got there by 10.30pm.

Not my type of film at all and I really disliked it. Del Toro was disappointing (I normally like his films) and it was very violent and gory (to be expected). I was wondering if I had made the right decision to go an see it at such an inconvenient time (it says something that I was relieved when it finished just after midnight - I half expected it to go on for another 30 mins). Not something I would have pa*d to see anyway but I was expecting a bit more. 4/10.

[pcRock]

Anyway, the moral of the story is that you should probably avoid screenings in Enfield if you can...

That's weird. I've been to two screenings there and didn't have any of those problems.

[ciro22]

Ucakpam -

It may be that it was something to do with the specific screening then (perhaps direct orders from Universal to act like paranoid power-crazed maniacs?!) but it's good to know that Enfield isn't always like that for free screenings!

Although having said that, I actually happened to go there the day before too and encountered problems in trying to get into a normal pa*d screening because the guy working the queue didn't seem to understand the concept that you can book tickets online and then print them out at the cinema! (This was all despite the fact that we took him through what was written on the ticket and showed him the booking confirmation email) We eventually ended up having to get the manager to come over and bark at him to let us through...