SPOILER ALERT: why "the wolfman" comes up short

The trailers got me.  First, his hotness Benecio Del Toro - *sigh*.  I will go to ANY movie with BDT in it.  Then, the goth scenery, the cinematography, the time period.  The makings of a deliciously frightening and to-drool-for big screen experience.  Then, mid-way into the pic, Benecio climbs atop a gargoyle and howls at the moon.  You may ask, "Sure, but isn't it a werewolf movie and don't werewolves do that?"  Well, yes, the werewolves I know do howl at the moon.  They lost me, however, with the over-the-top cheese factor.  Think "Teen Wolf" 2010.  Kudos to the special effects folks, but the makeup and the werewolf-factor were way over done.  I started chuckling to myself rather than being on the edge of my seat, shielding my eyes through opened fingers to catch Benecio.  The howling and the over-done "wolfiness" just became too much.  Don't get me wrong. I did plenty of real eye shielding, but then I'd hear a howl and it was all over - I was laughing.  I wanted to like it and it is entertaining, so I'm not discouraging anyone from the experience.  I just think it could have been so much more.  More like "American Werewolf in London" with the suspense and frightening metamorphosis.  Oh well.  Benecio's still got it and he makes it worth seeing.  ;)

Spring and Bunnymen

Spring is definitely in the air -- trees blooming, perennials blooming.  Heck, the birds are even singing.  As tribute to my pastoral frame of mind, here's an Echo & the Bunnymen 80s tune.  Especially love the third stanza.  ;)


Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen (1987)
The Game


A Sense Of Duty
Was My One Intention
And An Ugly Beauty
Was My Own Invention
Pride A Proud Refusal
And I Refuse
To Need Your Approval
Too Many Seekers
Too Few Beacons
But Through The Fog
We'll Keep On Beaming

Through The Crying Hours
Of Your Glitter Years
All The Living Out
Of Your Tinsel Tears
And The Midnight Trains
I Never Made
'Cos I'd Already
Played...The Game

Everybody's
Got Their Own Good Reason
Why Their Favorite Season
Is Their Favorite Season
Winter Winners
And Those Summers Sons
Aren't Good For Everyone
Aren't Good For Everyone
Spring Has Sprung
And Autumns Well Done
So Well Done

And It's A Better Thing
That We Do Now
Forgetting Everything
The Whys And Hows
While You Reminisce
About The Things You Miss
You Won't Be Ready
To Kiss...Goodbye

The Earth Is A World
The World Is A Ball
A Ball In A Game
With No Rules At All
And Just As I Wonder
At The Beauty Of It All
You Go And Drop It
And It Breaks And Falls

I'll Never Understand
Why You Thought I Would
Need To Be Reassured
And Be Understood
When I Always Knew
That Your Bad's My Good
And I Was Ready
Ready...To Be Loved

Born Under Mars
With Jupiter Rising
Fallen From Stars
That Lit My Horizon

I'll Never Understand
Why You Thought I Would
Need To Be Reassured
And Be Understood
When I Always Knew
That Your Bad's My Good
And I Was Ready
Ready...To Be

Through The Crying Hours
Of Your Glitter Years
All The Living Out
Of Your Tinsel Tears
And The Midnight Trains
I Never Made
'Cos I'd Already
Played

It's A Better Thing
That We Do Now
Forgetting Everything
The Whys And Hows
While You Reminisce
About The Things You Miss
You Won't Be Ready
To Kiss...Goodbye

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