From what I've heard this was another failure at the screen as Underworld was.  Guess we'll have to wait for Wolf Man 2008.

You're not kidding, brother!

I can only speak for myself obviously but I don't count Underworld in a discussion about good werewolf movies.  IMO that movie missed on all accounts, but I won't get into that here.  I've only ever re-watched two werewolf movies; Universal's The Wolfman and An American Werewolf in London.  I know people like Wolfen and The Howling but I wouldn't re-watch those two if I can watch AWiL again.

Now, I haven't seen Skinwalkers but the accounts of the story (what little there was), the editing required for the last minute PG-13 rating and the "Underworld-esque" use of gun play instead of werewolf combat (to save on money) make we not want to spend valueable time away from my kids to watch another "lame" werewolf flick.

Just my opinion.

If some liked Underworld, fine.  My brother-in-law likes it too.  But notice after you say it was a good movie you go right into talking about box office results.  Freakin' Forrest Gump made a ton of money and I hate that flick.  Money made is no guarantee of quality achieved.  No matter what money it made IMO it was a bad movie and a worse werewolf movie.  But this opinion is only of the first, I never saw the second and will never see any others they make.

Agree. I thought Underworld, and the sequel, sucked, though the vampires were handled well. Bill Nighy made one freaky recuperating elder.

OK, this pretty much sums how Skinwalkers is doing.

It didn't register in the top 10 movies this past weekend. Not even close.

There was no screening for critics to review. (That happens sometimes, but always a telling sign that it's a bad flick)

But where I live, this is the most significant sign. When the movie opened last weekend, it played at a few theatres near me. Now, it's not playing ANYWHERE in my area. In fact, it's not playing at any theatre in my movie listings, except one: A drive in.

I think it's safe to assume that Skinwalkers was a complete and total bust.

Dude, just because a movie brought in a ton of money at box office doesn't mean it's a smart movie. Or even, a good movie. These days it often means it was a BIG movie, and that an incredibly rabid marketing machine was in play.

Transformers was not a smart movie. I could run off a ton of examples as to why. But, I had a great time watching it, because I loved them as a kid, and they didn't screw up the transformers themselves (though geez Jazz, could you get anymore stereotypical?), and there was alot of action.

Serenity, based on the series Firefly, got just over $10 million on it's first weekend I believe, and that movie was, I betcha, a hell of a lot better than Skinwalkers. Personally, I think it was alot smarter than Transformers too.

The numbers shouldn't tell you the quality of the film. Some critics are nitpickers, because they want to distinguish themselves from their peers, and take being contrary to an annoying extreme. Some however, know a piece of shite when they see one. I haven't seen Skinwalkers, so I've no idea, outside of what I've read here, what it's like. But I won't be basing my opinion on it's box office numbers.

(PS, here's some transformers trivia! Did you know that the voice of Optimus Prime was also the voice of the evil car KARR in Knight Rider? *gasp* )

Okay...not many people had a chance to see it, and those that did didn't seem too impressed (raises hand) but I figured I'd point this out -

"Skinwalkers" props for sale:

http://www.premiereprops.com/index.php/ … /2a/page/1


So....if you've got a ton of spare cash burning a hole in your pocket, send it to me then use the rest to buy some movie stuff.

WereWolfH wrote:

yeah, i knew that trivia. Never heard of Serenity. Is that the new one with Michelle Pheifer and Robert Dinero?

Naw.  Serenity was basically Joss Whedon's (creator of Buffy and Angel AND Firefly, the series this movie is based off) way of making sure there was some kind of closure to the Firefly series and/or possible get Firefly back up and running if it did well and got great response by fans (so far no, but the series itself I here still receives well...I'm one of them, I WANT FIREFLY BACK LOL)  The movie and series started Nathan Fillion (Slither/ scenes in last season of Buffy/Drive) Gina Torres (can only think of fourth series of Angel and bit role in The Matrix series), Adam Baldwin (last season of Angel and Independence Day) and a slew of other interesting cast members that made the show and film pretty damn good...

*clears throat*

But, I'd probably should get back on topic ^^;

I haven't seen Skinwalkers yet, though just from the commercials and previews it looked exciting...but considering how most werewolf movies are made nowadays by big shot companies...they never really turn out well, hence why i haven't trusted this one yet.  I'll wait till its on tv or something.

I agree that you can't base a movies success on box office sales and critics reviews on its own, or AT ALL for that matter.  Some directors actually movies to please the fans, not the corporate bosses, though that's rare nowadays.  The only way a movie is to be good is if YOU like it.  People will love or hate it, but its up to you.  Something that looks bad from commercials or publicity may actually turn out to be good (but, not all the time).  Other times something that looks sweet may stink in your eyes (too much publicity).  Transformers...sorry, but they needed to work on their acting, robots AND Humans (The racist cop didn't need to be in there and the dialog with the guy and his parents was just WAY too much and horrible.  Like a friend of mine said, he felt sick of it half way in the movie.  I actually only liked the army guys more than the kid in it.)

You can listen to what others have to say but don't completely knock it unless you personally know this is not your cup of tea...am I going any where with this motifs and jks here, huh, huh!?

"Skin Walkers" will be available on DVD on November 27th, 2007. 
Link at amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Kim-C … amp;sr=1-1

The Busboy wrote:

"Skin Walkers" will be available on DVD on November 27th, 2007. 
Link at amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Kim-C … amp;sr=1-1

Just a reminder for those that care.....

Yes, it's out on DVD today, I'm definitely gettting a copy of it.