I'm a big Amanda Seyfried fan and when i learned she had been casted in this movie I thought "oh my, her dear in headlight look will be perfect for this story!" However, this movie would have been good if it would have been directed by M. NightShamalan but it was not. It was directed by Catherine Hardwick, the woman who directed Twilight.
Now, I was aware of this information before entering the movie theatre. However, what I was not aware of is that Catherine Hardwick was going to direct Red Riding Hood like a Twilight knock off. The woman has no intention of differencing herself from the franchise or even trying to direct something that might gain her some respect form her peers.
The movie is overly dramatized, overly poetized and states the obvious, over and over again, as if the audience is too dumb to understand imagery. It is shot exactly like the Twilight movie, with big conifer trees in the background and dumb pretty people in the forefront. The werewolf is secondary storyline to the love triangle, which isn't much of a triangle as the heroine states her choice in mate in the first scene of the movie.
Just like the Bella/Edward/Jacob love triangle offers no true contradiction in Bella's choice; Valerie never shows any intention of choosing Henry over Peter.Catherine Hardwick obviously enjoys having a man pinning over her without having any intentions of ever giving him light of day.
All in all, this is not the horror/suspense I was expecting to see but a sappy love story entangled in a earie atmosphere. Even Amanda Seyfried and her pretty blonde hair couldn't save that one for me...
Now, I was aware of this information before entering the movie theatre. However, what I was not aware of is that Catherine Hardwick was going to direct Red Riding Hood like a Twilight knock off. The woman has no intention of differencing herself from the franchise or even trying to direct something that might gain her some respect form her peers.
The movie is overly dramatized, overly poetized and states the obvious, over and over again, as if the audience is too dumb to understand imagery. It is shot exactly like the Twilight movie, with big conifer trees in the background and dumb pretty people in the forefront. The werewolf is secondary storyline to the love triangle, which isn't much of a triangle as the heroine states her choice in mate in the first scene of the movie.
Just like the Bella/Edward/Jacob love triangle offers no true contradiction in Bella's choice; Valerie never shows any intention of choosing Henry over Peter.Catherine Hardwick obviously enjoys having a man pinning over her without having any intentions of ever giving him light of day.
All in all, this is not the horror/suspense I was expecting to see but a sappy love story entangled in a earie atmosphere. Even Amanda Seyfried and her pretty blonde hair couldn't save that one for me...
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