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So, that happened.

The first thing I said when the movie was over was, "What the ever-loving fuck was that?"

Becka couldn't answer me. We talked about the movie for the next forty-five minutes, and we never came up with an answer. It was kind of awful and very very pretty, and completely inexplicable.

Any metaphor or symbolism that should have been there--and it's a werewolf movie, there should have been metaphor oozing out of its every frame--had been totally obliterated somewhere in passage from page to screen. It seemed a lot like the editor had never had a single conversation with the director, who had never seen the original script, and maybe had only gotten half the re-writes. Which were quite possibly done by a large number of people who had also never spoken to each other.

We think it might have been improved by taking out everything to do with Gary Oldman and his cohort, but we're not sure. We think it possibly had a point at some stage but we're not sure about that, either.

We are quite certain that Amanda Seyfried is STUNNINGLY gorgeous, and that Becka and I have very different taste in boys. And the red-fabric budget for that movie was HUGE.

We would more than welcome any opinions on what the hell was going on there.